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 Socio dramatic play is an aspect, which can have a significant aspect on a child’s early learning literacy and numeracy.

Social relationships and context can perform several environments:

·      Child care- interacting with children of different age groups

·      Kind garden- forming a relationship with young children of there age

·      Home- creating a relationship with family members and friends of the family members.

·      Group play- Provides development for the children to explore experiences and development with as a group. It can also allow the children to adapt early learning strategies for their development of numeracy and literacy.

·      Individual play- enhances the children to explore them and to learn numeracy and literacy learning. Which may include; playing with toys, dividing the blocks into groups, how things work and how to put something inside something, and to discover that things have a front and a back and many more aspects.

·      Free play- free play allows the children to have access to a variety of resources, which will enhance the learning of the child’s numeracy and literacy. I believe free play is an important socio dramatic play aspect as it allows us as educators to critique the child’s learning and how they are going about things and as to how advanced there learning is. I as a future educator believe that play is an important aspect for a young child’s early learning as I feel that children need to have a relationship with themselves along with forming relationships with peers.

·      Structured play- Play structured and guided by their elders will have a positive effect on the young child’s social relationships. As an educator I can guide the young children to an environment structured with numeracy and literacy activities, which they can be performed with other children. Block play, or reading a story or watching a television show could be some early learning activities which can develop social relationships as it can encourage the children to work with other children.

These environments can provide the young children with the development of social relationships and context.