Play Builds Childrens Brains

BASIC Play Moves Can Develop Skills During Childrens Activities - Teach the RIGHT MOVES!

Every day basic play moves can bring your child not only exercise but enhance of their brain. When your child can PLAY, try to use these ideas to make free play yield GREAT PLAY! To ensure that the youngster in your life can be steered towards good movement during play, by a caring adult in the their house, on a playground, in a day care facility, your reading on this web site will give you the fundamentals for effective encouragement of good play moves for your child.

As you visit this web site, read along and find the keys to getting good movement skills for you child. The linking of body moves with the brain develops strong routes along the nerves into the brain.

Solid routes between the muscles and the brain build the circuitry of the brain for good motion, for fun in playtime, and for success in acquiring information. Read that as the development of academic skills.

Read about these important Teaching Tools

Teach Play Moves ~Blending Simple Hints With Encouragement of Skills Children Can DO!

Find out how to teach children which way to go by using consistent words that aid directions. With the use of the same word each time you want to direct motion to a certain side of the body, select the exact word and use it every time. the child will link that word with the action! Success will be built into their body and brain. They will feel that I Can Do That feeling!

There are EIGHT BASIC Moves that that you from here to there! These are called locomotor skills. You mastered these skills, one by one as a kid, too! You managed to roll and crawl and pull up to a stand. Then in aging from infancy to toddlerhood, you walk. The more complex skills of locomotion are: jumping, hopping, sliding, galloping, leaping and running, Then comes the BIG SKILLto master: skipping.

When working with children, it is very important to use your voice as a tool for encouraging and evoking good movements. By using verbal clues the child attempts are enhanced by the carefully timed speaking of your request for an action: JUMP! Said with an explosive quality, you can assist the early trials at jumping by an intense pronuncation that emphasizes the getting off the ground idea.

For another great teaching tool, use rhythmic cues. Remember to simply use your hands and clap a beat! The command: Ready! Set! Go! is a perfect example of using the beat of a handclap to get focus and to signal the start of a movement.

Add this teaching aid, too. It is the use of a visual cue. The dropping of an arm is commonly used to indicate the START of a race. Try to think of ways to make a gesture that amplifies a verbal cue, like pointing the fingers to indicate the direction for a move.

To use specific words to describe the body. With your careful consistency in selection the words to describe and identify the various parts of the body, your child will learn HOW to respond effectively to your commands. They will gain their own communication skills in knowing their body and be able to express themselves. Soon they will be doing ALL the basic moves WELL.



BRAINS and BODY

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the gal or guy who'll decide where to go. -Dr. Seuss


Children Learn SKills


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Practice Makes Perfect

The University of Leeds(UK) research shows that children who develop basic motor skills in a nursery or at home can long long term positive effects on academic achievement, emotional and social behavior. Coordination skills improved with practice of 20 minutes 3 or 4 times a week.

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LEARN how to teach the 8 locomotor steps:

  • walk
  • jump
  • hop
  • slide
  • gallop
  • leap
  • run
  • skip

READ about LOCOMOTOR SKILLS and give your CHILD a movement vocabulary of good moves. These basic skills will allow them to build a movement skills bank. They will love to respond to your request to, "Show me your hop!" There are teaching hints on the mastering each of these skills.

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