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Brain Gym®
Created by Paul and Gail Dennison, Brain Gym (or Educational Kinesiology or Edu-K) is a sensor motor program based on research by educational therapists, developmental optometrists, and other specialists in the fields of movement, education, and child development.
Brain Gym consists of twenty-six targeted activities similar to those performed naturally by young children as part of the process of brain development.
Brain Gym prepares learners with the physical skills they need to read, write, concentrate, organize, and otherwise function effectively in the classroom or the adult workplace.
Yoga:
Is a healing system of theory and practice. It is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation that has been practiced for more than 5,000 years.
Yoga for Children:
- Yoga increases physical strength of the body
- Yoga stretches muscles so they become long and lean
- Yoga increases flexibility and mobility in the joints
- Yoga calms extra energy & boosts lethargy
- Yoga strengthens hypo tonic (low muscle tone) muscles and joints
- Yoga nourishes, stimulates and massages internal organs & glands
- Yoga fine tunes motor coordination; (including fine & gross motor skills, visual & auditory processing.)
- Yoga promotes proper structural development, elongates the spine and improves posture
- Yoga improves circulation, energy flow, digestion and elimination
- Yoga develops strong hearts & lungs
- Yoga betters physical & emotional balance
- Yoga relaxes & maintains the nervous system
- Yoga promotes sound sleep
- Yoga encourages a positive sense of self
- Yoga teaches body awareness
- Yoga cultivates mindfulness
- Yoga teaches coping skills
- Yoga modifies the urge to compete
- Yoga shows kids how to love their whole selves, body, mind & spirit
Excerpted from the Teacher Training by Jodi B Komitor
All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002
Multiple Intelligences: It's Not How Smart You Are, It's How You're Smart!
Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory has asked educators to take a fresh look at our assumptions about children and learning.
Teachers around the world are rethinking lessons and units -- and their entire approaches to teaching -- based on his research.
Almost eighty years after the first intelligence tests were developed; a Harvard psychologist named Howard Gardner challenged the belief that there is a single kind of intelligence that can be measured.
Saying that our culture had defined intelligence too narrowly, he proposed in the book Frames of Mind (Gardner 1983) the existence of at least seven basic intelligences.
Howard Gardner claims that all human beings have multiple intelligences. These multiple intelligences can be nurtured and strengthened, or ignored and weakened.
He believes each individual has nine intelligences:
- Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence -- well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words
- Mathematical-Logical Intelligence -- ability to think conceptually and abstractly, and capacity to discern logical or numerical patterns
- Musical Intelligence -- ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timber
- Visual-Spatial Intelligence -- capacity to think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly
- Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence -- ability to control one's body movements and to handle objects skillfully
- Interpersonal Intelligence -- capacity to detect and respond appropriately to the moods, motivations and desires of others.
- Intrapersonal Intelligence -- capacity to be self-aware and in tune with inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking processes
- Naturalist Intelligence -- ability to recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature
- Existential Intelligence -- sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why do we die, and how did we get here.
Dor Hadash Preschool
11-05 Saddle River rd, Fair Lawn,NJ,07410
201 254 0727 - 201 417 6777
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