Canny Minds Blog

Learning to play a new Instrument

Posted on11. Mar, 2010 by Jenny.

Learning to play a musical instrument can help children to learn languages

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Playing a musical instrument makes you brainier

Posted on28. Oct, 2009 by Jenny.

New research suggests that regularly playing an instrument changes the shape and power of the brain…

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Understand and Improve your Memory

Posted on26. Oct, 2009 by Jenny.

Need to improve your memory? Reading this article could be a great way to start!

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BBC gives nursery rhymes a fairytale ending

Posted on20. Oct, 2009 by Jenny.

The BBC has been accused of tinkering with traditional nursery rhymes to give them happy endings to avoid upsetting children.

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The Brilliant Brain

Posted on08. Oct, 2009 by Jenny.

Eight-year-old Fidelia Chan is playing a computer game at a ‘brain training’ class for kids…

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Humpty could be heading for his final fall

Posted on08. Oct, 2009 by Jenny.

Nursery rhymes could be left on the shelf after a survey suggested that nearly a quarter of parents had never recited one to their children.

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Classic Children’s Books of the Future

Posted on14. May, 2009 by Jenny.

See the books that might become the children’s classics of the future.

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Made-up words in Winnie the Pooh and Harry Potter ‘help children learn English’

Posted on13. May, 2009 by Jenny.

Nonsense terms used in books such as Winnie the Pooh and Harry Potter can help children to learn English.

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Children who eat porridge for breakfast ‘get better exam results

Posted on11. May, 2009 by Mark.

Feeding children high energy breakfast foods such as porridge at a young age boosts their exams results at school, new research suggests.

Children who followed such a diet before their third birthday had improved scores in reading and problem-solving tests compared to their peers, it was revealed.

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