We know that when an infant is born, it is born with one hundred billion brain neurons and that between the ages of 3 and 8 a child's brain has twice as many neurons and twice as many connections between them as the adult brain. This overproduction of neural matter insures that the brain can adapt to any set of conditions. The brain hits the peak of activity at age 5. By the teen years, neurons are being pruned at a rate of thousands per second. Only those reinforced through experience survive.
Experience is the food that feeds brain connections.
In a remarkable cycle of stimulus and response, the budding brain builds itself, using the electricity generated by vision, smell, touch, hearing and taste to activate and organize the neural cells that make up its tissues. We know through the research that there are windows for development of particular skills, periods of time during which the development of skills will be easier than at any other time of life. Indeed, if these skills do not develop during this time, they may never develop to their full potential. Movement and Learning Hemispheres of the brain that do not begin working together in a coordinated fashion until around age 8, can be stimulated to work more efficiently together through movement. When children are able to move as they learn or practice new tasks, it makes the learning more efficient.