“ “The more closely we consider the elaborate interplay of brain and body, the more clearly one compelling theme emerges: Movement is essential to learning. Movement awakens and activates many of our mental capacities. Movement integrates and anchors new information and experience into our neural networks. And movement is vital to all the actions by which we embody and express our learning, our understanding and ourselves.” ”
We know that young children must move.
Our indoor and outdoor play spaces are designed with the child’s tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive senses in mind.
Children can swing, spin, rock, and bounce in multiple directions.
They can haul around heavy things (and each other) in a number of conveyances.
Children can cross the monkey bars hand over hand and build big with the wooden A frames and balance boards.
Along with soccer and games of their own devising, children jump rope, hula hoop, hopscotch, play clapping games, string games, dance, etc, etc.
We are very hardy at Ziji. We’re outside everyday, in all kinds of weather for an hour or so every morning and, often, at other times of the day as well.