THE BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
The first three years of life are a period of incredible
growth in all areas of a baby’s. By age 2, the brain is almost 75 percent of
adult brain weight, the brain communication system begins with nerve cells
called neurons.
During the first months and years, rapid growth and refinement in axons, dendrites and synapses ocour, especially in the cortex for 4 months infants are able to her and listen.
The infant brain development depends on sensory experiences and early movements, every sense functions at birth : they listen, smell, taste, and touch.
Hearing : develops the last trimester of pregnancy (infants turns their heads toward the source of a sound).Seeing: vision is the least mature sense at birth, newborns focus objects between 4 and 30 inches. Smelling: tasting, and touching.
From the first moments of life infants show a preference for human faces and voices and can even imitate adult facial expressions ”emotion sharing” infants experience the quality of their relationships whit others that will has a tremendous impact on how development unfolds.
http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/brain-development/baby-brain-map.html
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COGNITION
AND LEARNING
The importance of talking, reading,
and interacting with their toodlers to support development in all brain areas: motor,
cognitive, social, emotional and language.Nurturing relationships and the daily interactions around care giving and free play that exercise a toddler’s brain,
Provide play experiences that allow toddlers to problem solve converse, develop self care skills, engage in gross and fine motor activities, Interact with peers.
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LANGUAGE
Young children’s brain are very open to the sounds and language patterns, Toodler are indeed capable of learning to languages, they begin life with the ability to hear the differences among the sounds of many languages.
A key requirement for learning language is that it occurs in the context of a nurturing relationship.
Music, sing, dance, promote healthy emotional, social, physical, motor, cognitive, and language development, and offer positives experiences for brain development.
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MOVEMENT
From 2-3 years is importance that todders practice some skills like: jumping, hopping, climbing ,zipping ,manipulating puzzles pieces, buttoning, using spoon and fork.
As toddlers practice this skills, their movement reinforces the growth of brain cells and the developing connections between them. You can foster toodlers motor development by providing lots of space, and opportunity for them to engage in fine and gross motor activities, doing this you are supporting the developing of this skills and also the brain development.
Maria, thanks for sharing so much information about the brain and the many functions. I like the commercial that comes on television that says the brain is a terrible thing to waste. I never realize the importance of the brain until I started this class and all the research in the class, and reading all of the articles. Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts.
ResponderEliminarHello Maria:
ResponderEliminarExcellent post! I absolutely love reading about the human brain, neuroscience is an excellent study for us ECE professionals to learn from. The visual illustration you've posted helped me understand the various sizes/shapes the human brain goes through. Understanding how the brain functions/grows/develops helps us meet the needs of children in a more age appropriate manner, specifically, children who have experienced trauma. It can/might surface when it is triggered by an event. Zero To Three is an excellent reliable web resource for us to read and learn. I often print articles and share them with our staff members. Thanks for a great blog!
Marijan
I also enjoy reading on brain development. It also helps me understand so much more about child development. The skills children learn are so crucial which makes one think. In an age of technology are the children benefiting from using apps in ipads, iphones? This is a topic of discussion we had at one of our meetings. How do you feel about this? One parent remarked that her daughter plays, on the ipad.
ResponderEliminarI love learning about children's brain development! I find it so fascinating! Isn't it amazing how children's brain's are literally like little sponges and can just absorb all this new information? I am constantly amazed by my niece's development, as well as my kindergarteners throughout the year. I believe this is also a reason why early childhood is so important because children can learn so much at this age and ENJOY coming to school- so why not get them an early start and have them prepared for Kindergarten! =)
ResponderEliminarThank you for sharing what you've learned!
Jessica Gleadall
Linda,marijan,ivellise,jessica!Thanks for your comments,I Think is important to know that children absorb all like sponges and how important is to learn more about the brain development. Ivelisse answer to your question, I think now we need to work more with children becouse the tecnology is good in some ways, but they need to have rules and make parents establish schedues for playing in ipads,or ipods.
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