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The Best Way to Help Children Remember Things? Not “Memorable Experiences”
Brain Breaks and Focused Attention Practices Prime the Brain for Learning
**Exercises for strengthening executive function**
Good Thinking: Fostering Children's Reasoning and Problem Solving Skills
Heavily Decorated Classrooms Disrupt Attention and Learning in Young Children
Helping Students Develop Executive Function Skills
Higher Order Thinking in the Pre-K Classroom
How do Books Affect Your Child's Brain? 8 Questions We Asked the CEO of Literati
How do Brain Breaks Benefit Learning?
How Movement and Exercise Help Kid Learn
Minneapolis Teacher Uses Brain Games to Hone Students' Focus
Moving More to Center with Visual Learners
MRIs show screen time linked to lower brain development in preschoolers
New Research Shows Link Between Kindergarten Cut-off Dates and ADHD Diagnosis
Preschool Activities That Support Brain Development: Simple, everyday activities in preschool contribute to young kids’ brain growth at a critical period in their development
Preschool and kindergarten students can benefit from naps
The Right Brain Develops First ~ Why Play is the Foundation for Academic Learning
Scientific America: Boosting Kids' Executive Function and Oral Language
Surprise! Exam scores benefit from months of regular sleep: And night-to-night consistency is at least as important as how long you snooze
Teacher Think Alouds Work in Every Subject (4 ways to teach through think alouds)
Texas School Beats ADHD by Tripling Recess Time
Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning (STUDY)
Why Crossing the Midline Activities Helped this Child Listen to his Teacher
VERTICAL ALIGNMENT-WHAT I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN: Well established Executive Functioning skills are vital! As reported by the Harvard University Center for the Developing Child, “Adults can facilitate the development of a child's executive function skills by establishing routines, modeling social behavior, and creating and maintaining supportive, reliable relationships.”
During a busy school day, have you ever felt pulled between social-emotional routines and academic instruction? You are not alone, especially during these unpredictable times! If your goal is long-term retention in Kindergarten and beyond, utilize your PPM and RECAP practices every day- they build executive functioning skills!
Executive Function
Executive Function
"Executive functioning skills include organizing and prioritizing, staying focused on tasks, and regulating emotions. Children begin developing executive functioning skills rapidly between the ages of 3 and 5."
Executive Function and Kindergarten Readiness ~2021
Executive functioning skills include self-regulation, cognitive flexibility, focused attention, memory, inhibitory control, and more (LETRS EC p. 22).
"Executive functioning skills in preschool are predictive of learning in kindergarten to 3rd grade and beyond in the areas of math, reading, social competence, academic functioning, and aggression" (Sasser at al., 2015).
Brain Facts -
Here is some interesting information about the human brain, as reported in Karen Ravn’s May 18, 2017 Los Angeles Times article "Some Amazing Facts About Your Unbelievable Brian":
Your brain has "2,500,000 gigabytes of storage space...The top-of-the-line iPhone 7 has 256."
There are "86 billion interconnected neurons in your brain that send information to one another at speeds of up to 268 mph."
"The amount of energy supply your brain gobbles up" is 20%. "If your brain cells ever get too hungry, they may actually start eating one another."
"You only feel pain if your brain tells you that you do. And it only tells you that you do when it receives a message from a pain receptor somewhere in your body."
Memory Game - Organizing cards in rows for a memory game helps players visually track and remember the locations of different cards. It makes it easier to compare and recall card positions, enhancing cognitive processes like memory, attention, and concentration during game play.
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