CHESS CLASS:
At Islander’s Kids Learning Daycare Center, our chess teacher is a mastered champion when it comes to teaching the students chess skills and strategies. Some of the important aspects of playing chess is that it improves your memory, critical thinking and logical skills. Being a good player means remembering how your opponent has operated in the past and recalling moves that have helped you win before. A chess match is like one big puzzle that needs solving. Numerous studies of students in the U.S., Russia, China, and elsewhere have proven time and again that young people’s ability to focus is sharpened with chess. Playing chess greatly improves the ability to develop certain strategies and plans. A good strategic mind is much more productive, because it creates the best plan of action for every daily task. Also, strategic thinking is a life savior in academic and work environments, because everything is planned one step ahead and there’s always a plan B. This results in a better performance in schools.

ART CLASS:
Many of the motions involved in making art, such as holding a paintbrush or scribbling with a crayon, are essential to the growth of fine motor skills in young children. For very young children, making art—or just talking about it—provides opportunities to learn words for colors, shapes and actions. According to a report by Americans for the Arts, art education strengthens problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. The experience of making decisions and choices in the course of creating art carries over into other parts of life. Drawing, sculpting with clay and threading beads on a string all develop visual-spatial skills, which are more important than ever. When kids are encouraged to express themselves and take risks in creating art, they develop a sense of innovation that will be important in their adult lives.

DANCE CLASS:
When it comes to teaching dancing, our dance teacher has realized that children overall move naturally. They move to achieve mobility, they move to express a thought or feeling, and they move because it is joyful and feels wonderful. When their movement becomes consciously structured and is performed with awareness for its own sake, it becomes the dance. Dance is a natural method for learning and a basic form of cultural expression. Children learn movement patterns as readily as they learn language. It is essential that dance education can provide our children with the developmental benefits and unique learning opportunities that come from organizing movement into the aesthetic experience of dance.

PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS:
Those who participate in piano lessons tend to be highly intelligent in the classroom. In a 2009 study published in the journal Psychology in Music, an in-depth experiment found that students that had music in their academic curriculum had significantly better vocabulary sequencing than those who did not. When playing the piano majority of times students have to read as they play. This trains child’s eyes and hands to work closely together (multitasking). Student’s hands also develop independent coordination. Each hand performs entirely different movements and has to learn to work together stimulating multiple parts of the brain. Hand/eye coordination is a very beneficial skill to acquire for it can improve one’s reaction time and productivity.

RUSSIAN CLASS:
Physiological studies have found that speaking two or more languages is a great asset to the cognitive process. The brains of bilingual people operate differently than single language speakers, and these differences offer several mental benefits. Speaking a foreign language improves the functionality of child’s brain by challenging it to recognize, negotiate meaning, and communicate in different language systems. This skill boosts child’s ability to negotiate meaning in other problem-solving tasks as well.