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(Unit 7) Topic 6: Ready Set Go: Playing Games in the Classroom ​

2 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Executive Function

​Topic 6 Page 9

Some suggested activities include:

Matching and Sorting Games
These activities will help children with organization of like objects and cognitive flexibility

​Songs with Movements and Rhymes
Working memory and inhibitory skills are practiced in songs such as Freeze Dance or Five Green and Speckled Frogs.

Puzzles
Playing with puzzles will help with flexible reasoning and puzzles that involve numbers develops a flexible approach to numbers that may be beneficial later on in school. 

Imaginary Play
During imaginary play children need to use complex thinking and inhibit behaviors that don’t fit in the role they are playing. 

• Executive Function Activities for 18- to 36-month-olds, Center on the Development Child, Harvard
• Executive Function Activities for 3- to 5-year-olds, Center on the Development Child, Harvard
• Executive Function 101, Prepared by the National Center for Learning Disabilities