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CYNTHIA ARMSTRONG

Body Movement To Help Children Learn

By Cynthia Armstrong

Using our body and all the senses that come with our body can really accelerate learning in ourselves and in our children. So today I want to talk about how we can use that, not just for academic learning, but for emotional learning and social learning.

I have overcome so many personal obstacles and teaching obstacles that I really want to help you to avoid some of the pitfalls I've made and make your own.

So today we're talking about physical movement and physical senses. In helping us to learn, and hopefully in school you've had an opportunity to experience some of that. Hopefully they might have done songs when they went to school, they learned the Macarena, and they were doing all the motions and adding the voice to it so that we're hearing it, we're feeling it and we have motions to it. Physical activities can help us learn things academically, but having physical things in our discussion, in our safety rules, in all parts of learning in the home, it can be just as beneficial.

So if we want our children to clean the kitchen a certain way, we could have things like that all on our fingers. We could say first, we wipe the counter. Next, we do the dishes. Third, we do the floor. Whenever it is, we could put our words to it out loud making it in an order helps our brain so we can pop up our fingers. to help us remember. that there are things I need to remember. Did I get all of those? And if we can put action on it, first, wipe the counter. Second, I wash the dishes. Third, I sweep the floor. We can put actions to the numbers so that we're learning the things we need to remember.

The physical motions help us to add to its another layer of learning and if we do our song, our words and kind of enchanting sing songy way, those are all things that help us to learn and embed deeper.

So when it comes to social things, physical activity can help children who might be struggling with that and if you've heard of power poses where you kind of pull your shoulders back and you can do many different kinds of motions.

You do a Superman pose, you can put your hands on your fist, you can do whatever feels powerful to you can really help for children who've been afraid to talk in my class. They can hear them because of our children before they get up. I might have them choose a power pose that the whole class does. Sometimes we don't want single children out. So we're going to have you do it.

But here's the thing. If it helps one child, it can help us and it can help other children. So if you have multiple children and we're trying to get courage up for one to do a new job, or to speak in public or to do something in school that's hard for them, we can all do a power pose and we can hold it, hold it for those 30 seconds.

I've noticed that the children's voices become louder. Their faces start smiling. And they're ready to learn, they're ready to do and try, and it can be really amazing. So we can use our physical bodies to help us learn things academically, to help us learn routines in our home we could put actions to things like going on an outing with children, especially when they're younger. Add what we're going to do, you know we're gonna hold hands to cross the street. We're going to go down the slide. You have your backpack. Do you need some water? We add actions and it develops a capillary quicker because whenever we put the vocal to the physical, it increases the right tension and understanding of what's going to happen is what they need to do. It becomes an amazing tool. So I can bring this current age and can help things go deeper in our brain and we can just feel better so our eyes are part of our physical body.

Our eyes actually grew in our brain and then kind of moved out externally. So they're a great connection to our brain. And in the modern world, in many societies, our movement of the eyes has become limited because of the screens we're looking at TV, computers, phones, tablets. It limits the motion that our eyes do, and so it's kind of limited the growth in our brain when playing sports or being out in nature we see farther away, our eyes are moving in a larger range and that can really help our brain strengthen and develop.

One of the things doctors look for when people get concussions, Any stuck places in the eyes? Do our eyes move so smoothly, or are there times they go jitter and they know where the trauma may have been in our brain because of what our eyes show them?

And so it's really important that we take time to move our eyes, even if we're gonna watch TV, even if we're studying on the computer to take those breaks to stare off into the distance to keep our eyes, not just turn her head, but allow our eyes to move and all the directions of really excites the brain and waken the brain, makes it ready to take in more material more quickly.

How are poses adding actions? And we think maybe that's just for the little children, but even in high schools where they put motions to the things, they're learning. It really helps children retain. So do it for yourself. Do it for your children. Move your eyes. Have those poses of use actions to what we're learning or want to remember even if it's a grocery shopping list, if you can attach it to your body part. It excites our brain and opens our brain to learning and we retain and our children retain more.

So remember, children are great by their very natures and we have that privilege and that opportunity.