IMAGINE THAT! Hello Weather Week 13

FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING

Balance: Balance ability improves as children learn to use internal and external cues to help them remain upright. The internal cues come from muscles and joints. The external cues are primarily visual.

Play: Human play fulfills several biological needs: expression of emotions, for enhanced communication and stress reduction; social contact and bonding, exploratory learning with challenges, feedback, and joyful satisfactions of success which activate the brains reward system; playful expression, the link from the inner worlds to the real world. Play is the foundation for creativity.

Laughter: This activity is bound to bring bundles of laughter from both parents and children. Laughter increases while blood cell activity and changes the chemical balance of the blood. This is believed to boost the body’s production of chemicals needed for alertness and memory. Laughter reduces stress, and low stress enhances the brains receptivity to learning. According to researchers, laughing also boosts the body’s immune system for three days – the day of the fun and the next two!