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Welcome to Nursery of the Week, where each week we’ll be sharing with you details of one fantastic nursery in Abu Dhabi. You’ll find out about the style of teaching and curriculum, the facilities at the nursery, and a little bit about the teaching staff too, meaning that when it is time to choose the best nursery in Abu Dhabi for your child, the decision should be just that bit easier!
This week, we’re featuring MindChamps Nursery, a nursery that believes in the many benefits of laughter to children’s learning process.
The Many Benefits of Laughter
Before they can begin to read, children need to develop four basic abilities, which are dependent on a strong command of language. This involves having a good vocabulary, being able to tell a story and understanding how sounds make up words.
Everybody loves to laugh – it is, without question, one of the great gifts that life has to offer us in an often-much-too-serious world.
Laughter generally has the stigma of being appropriate only in relaxed social situations. There is a general unstated consensus that the activities of work and learning should be more serious endeavours.
It may surprise you to learn that, in fact, laughter promotes thinking and problem-solving at a higher level. It makes you healthier and happier, and it grows connections within your brain.
Research conducted over the past 30 years or so demonstrates that, for human beings, the mere act of laughing benefits a child’s learning process and developmental milestones
Studies have shown that laughter can be a very powerful ingredient in the learning process. In formal learning situations, it may appear that laughter is just children being silly. But laughter actually enables better connectivity between the brain’s neurons – which helps children learn more quickly and store information more permanently. From a psycho-behavioural perspective, this phenomenon is related to neural patterning and how the brain lays down information.
All learning passes through the limbic system (the emotions) before it is distributed to the rest of the brain. This means that the emotion we are experiencing at the time we learn something is stored, along with the learning, when we lay down long-term memories – and when, at some later stage, we recall that piece of learning, the emotional resonance stored with it also resurfaces.
Associating laughter with learning encourages a ‘positive learning cycle’ and a positive long-term relationship with learning. Take babies and young children sharing an activity which makes them laugh as an example. They are quite capable of repeating the same action or pattern of behaviour for as long as it elicits a laugh. Laughter makes learning more enjoyable – and if learning is enjoyable, children are more likely to want to learn.
About MindChamps
MindChamps is a leading global early learning childhood education provider. With an internationally recognised and science-backed curriculum supported by a passionate team of dedicated and qualified teachers, MindChamps offers your little champ the right start to a successful future.
MindChamps is founded on the DNA of Success – proven datum that the ability to learn and grow is encoded in our DNA. The nursery believes that every individual child has virtually infinite potential that is waiting to be unlocked. MindChamps know that the first 15 years of our life experiences are the most significant in turning potential into reality, and its curriculum is built around this understanding.
Developed for the 21st century, the nursery’s curriculum is multi-disciplinary, combining breakthrough research in the areas of Neuroscience, Child Psychology and Theatre blended with Education.
To learn more or to book an appointment to visit MindChamps, kindly call 02 610 9666 or email [email protected]
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