Brain Building Blogs

Using Building Brains Together Curriculum in the Preschool-Aged Classroom
Building Brains Together (BBT) has developed some specific activities to enhance executive function in three and four-year old children attending preschool-aged programs.

Developing Fine Motor Skills
There are many activities that help build a strong foundation for future fine motor skills. Take a look at this week’s blog offering several practical suggestions.

6 Stages of Social Play
In this post we will dig deeper to explore how social play develops within the first five years of a child’s life.

Engaging in Early Language and Literacy Activities: Infancy
Starting at infancy, parents and caregivers model the pleasure that reading and writing bring by making time to read with their child, engaging in conversations about the text and the illustrations, providing materials and opportunities to write and in celebrating the joy that each literacy encounter brings. In today’s blog, Dr. Noella Piquette shares several early language and literacy activities to engage in with your child during infancy.

How to Build a Strong Brain
The construction of a house always begins with the laying of a foundation. The same is true when building a strong brain.

Importance of Positive Experiences
Children’s early experiences – the bonds they form with their parents and their first experiences – deeply affect their future physical, cognitive, emotional and social development.

Building Core Capabilities
Research shows that there is a set of underlying core capabilities that adults use in order to work and parent effectively.