Activities and Free Time

They point out that free-time activities play an important role in childhood development and that large amounts of homework reduce children's free time, hindering their development.

他们指出，业余活动在儿童发展中发挥着重要作用，大量的家庭作业减少了孩子的业余时间，阻碍了他们的发展。

Research shows that given 15 minutes of free play, four- and five-year-olds will spend a third of this time engaged in spatial, mathematical, and architectural activities.

研究表明，如果给定15分钟的自由玩耍时间，四到五岁的孩子会将其中三分之一的时间花在有关空间、数学和建筑的活动上。

In such settings, children moved frequently between activities, were given relatively little time for free play, and spent long periods of time in structured activities led by the providers.

在这些托儿所，孩子们的活动被安排的很紧凑，而且主要是看护老师安排的活动，相应的留给孩子们自由玩耍的时间很少。