Children learn best through engaging in meaningful experiences. By incorporating thoughtful play into our day, we can target specific goals and objectives while collecting data in a more natural way instead of the traditional one to one table setting. Child-led play creates opportunities for langauge develo;pment as well as development of self-awareness and self regulation through sharing and problem solving. This type of learning also allows you to determine if skills have been generalized to other settings. In our presentation, we will share ideas on how we incorporate joyful, meaningful, socially interactive and engaging play into our day through centers, and whole group time and how we plan those activites to target individual goals and objectives.