Thanksgiving

Although we have already had our Thanksgiving, I know that American Thanksgiving is coming up soon. I have been working on making brain breaks for each holiday and have completed my Thanksgiving ones.. Check them out.

Thanksgiving Brain Breaks

 Once I complete Brain Breaks for all of the holidays I will Bundle them all together along with my Yoga to make a package for the whole entire year!
Mrs. Dunn

Pinterest inspired!

I have recently made a few pinterest inspired things for the classroom and I thought I would share my spin on them.

Focus Sticks

You can find the link here. I love this idea, so I changed the format, printed on labels and made different versions. Here is what mine look like:

Student name call sticks

I got this idea from Kindertastic, so cute!

I got my paint sticks from a very nice lady at Benjamin Moore. I went in and said " I was wondering if you had any paint sticks."

She replied "Oh yes, here" and gave me two.

CHEEKS RED... um can I have about 25?

OOOO KKK..

Indeed the things we do as teachers.

Anyways, the students names are on one colour and when they have been picked I flip it over. The jar says, Children are painted in the image of God.

AND my yoga on a stick resource that I created. I have now fallen in love with gluing things to coloured popsicle sticks. Who woulda thought? It all started with Cara Carroll and her awesome reading strategy cards. Again, you can get these yoga cards on my Teachers Pay Teachers site.

Have fun pinteresting!!

Mrs. Dunn

Yoga For Kids

First graders need a LOT of movement breaks, especially at the beginning of the year. It often feels like I have them up moving every 32 seconds so that they are ready to focus. I know it is longer, but sometimes it feels that way! After we move around, the students are ready to focus and work. But every once in a while, we get up and move and they become noisier and sillier than they were before!

That is when I get out my yoga cards. I get a student leader to pick 3-4 of the exercises and we quietly do them as a class. After doing the poses, the kiddos lay down and I turn off the lights. Sometimes I play music, sometimes I do a guided relaxation and sometimes THERE IS ABSOLUTE SILENCE!!! I find that once we have completed these cards, we are ready for the learning to begin again.

 Sometimes I let the leader make up their own actions to go with the cards, and other times I have them follow these direction cards to show the class.

I love using doing these activities for our daily physical activity time. It doesn't need much space, it calms the students down and they love it! If you want to do Yoga in your class, click the picture below to get your own Yoga cards!

Mrs. Dunn

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