PENGARUH SENAM OTAK (BRAIN GYM) TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN MOTORIK HALUS ANAK PRASEKOLAH DI TK KARTIKA IV-8 KECAMATAN SUMBERSARI KABUPATEN JEMBER

Abstract

Brain gym is a series of exercises from simple body movements. The move was made to stimulate the left brain and right (laterality dimension), the brain relaxes the back and front of the brain (focusing dimension), stimulates the system related to the feelings / emotional, namely the midbrain (limbic) and cerebrum (the dimensions of concentration). Brain gym to balance the potential of the brain throughout the brain, so that ultimately there a correlation or cooperation between the part. Brain gym done regularly twelve time in one month. The study goal to identification the effect of brain gym towards fine motor skills of children. The design of this study was pre experimental research with one group pretest and posttest. The population and samples in this study were 28 respondents. Respondents of this study were preschoolers 4-6 years old. Data analysis with wilcoxon sign rank test. Data analysis with wilcoxon sign rank test. Result shows there is significant influence of the fine motor skills between before and after intervention with p value=0.001. The study suggestion is the application of brain gym to fine motor skills children.