Using games to become more familiar and comfortable with a subject

Here, the children are playing "The Shower Curtain Game". This is used as a wonderful way to practice reading.
This is were a shower curtain is laid down on the floor and spelling words are spread all over it. Each student gets to take a turn by tossing a bean bag onto one of the words, then picking it up and reading it. It is used as a way to practice reading the spelling words in a fun way, rather than simply writing them out on paper over and over again. It is important to encorporate all different types of learning into the classroom. All students do not learn in the same way, therefore, in best interest of the students it is essential to use as many ways of learning as possible.
I learned from watching the students do this that it is vital to establish new and exciting ways of learning in the classroom. This is especially true whenever you have younger children in the class who may get bored or easily unfocused when doing the same things over and over again. To develop a true understanding of something can not be done only through lecture and instruction, but there must be expirinece involved in the subject, in order to be able to comprehend it to the best of our abilities.
I feel this goes under the elements of authentic learning section because the teacher of the classroom must understand this idea, givent that she was able to come up with such a wonderful new way to help her students practice reading.