Move with Me offers video classes and materials to promote physical fitness, emotional stability, and learning in young children. Their programs integrate active play, self-regulation techniques, and curriculum activities to address rising obesity and developmental needs. Videos and lessons build motor skills, literacy, focus, and impulse control through story-driven movement. Evaluations show benefits for fitness, learning, behavior, and social-emotional skills.

1. www.move-with-me.com
(818) 667-3689

2. Active Play &
SEL Resources
Move with Me ™ Programs offer teacher developed
and tested video classes and support materials that
support young children in being:
 Physically fit
 Emotionally stable
 Learning able
.

3. Our Mission
• To lower the rising rates of obesity
• To enhance fitness, learning, behavior
and social-emotional skills
• To provide parents, teachers & care-givers of with affordable,
play-based resources for optimal development
• To make sure every child gets the 90 – 120 minutes of
supervised vigorous play /exercise they need to maintain a
healthy weight and be physically fit
• To teach children to embody the self-regulation tools they
need to be emotionally stable and learning able

4. Our Awards
• Top 10 in Partnership for a Healthier
America’s End Childhood Obesity Challenge
• NAPPA Gold
• Creative Child Magazine
• Moms' Choice Gold
• Parents' Choice
• Telly – for excellence in video production

5. Health Issues
• 22% of pre-k children are overweight 10% are obese. (1)
• Children, overweight as preschoolers, are 5 times more
at risk to be overweight at age 12. (2)
• Early childhood poverty can significantly damage the
development of self-regulation skills. Self-regulation –
the ability to monitor and manage one’s thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors – is recognized
as integral to all students’ academic
and social success. (3)

6. Barriers to
Play
Many factors prevent active play at home & school:
• environmental safety and lack of resources
• inclement weather and parent work schedules
• time, space and curricular constraints
•inadequate knowledge or training in how to lead
movement education or integrate it into the routine
•lack of experience in self-care
and self-regulation practices. (4)

7. Benefits of
Play
• Promotes creative problem solving and conflict resolution.
• Facilitates better language skills and communication.
• Improves memory and learning.
• Enhances focus, attention and sustained concentration.
• Develops self-awareness and impulse control.
• Builds balance, coordination and confidence.
• Regulates body weight and enhances well-being.
• Calms, sooths and reduces anxiety.

8. Aligned with
Standards
• CA Preschool Learning Foundations
• Head Start Performance Standards
Provide curriculum activities for:
• Physical Development & Health
• Social-Emotional Learning
• Self-Regulation & Impulse Control
• Creative Arts Expression & Early Literacy

9. Why We Are
Unique
• Video Classes - means kids get movement
enrichment taught by an expert
• Story – Driven – children follow-along “being”
everything in the story – the lion, the rocket,
the tree, the flower and the bumble-bee –
which is SO FUN, they sustain focus and
concentration for longer periods, build
stamina and coordination and improve early
literacy and direction following.

10. Why We Are
Unique
• Include Aerobic & Intentional Movement –
one elevates the heart rate, stimulating
neurotropic growth factors; the other
improves focus and control as well as long and
short term memory.

11. Why We Are
Unique
• Integrates Self-Care & Self-Regulation –
In the movement stories, characters face &
overcome challenges with “adventure skills”,
which are simple exercises kids can use to
calm and center themselves when feeling
fear, anger, frustration, excitement, etc. These
self-regulation techniques give children a way
to support & redirect themselves in
productive and emotionally intelligent ways –
building self-control and self-confidence.

12. Adventure
Skills
Kids learn a set of
self-regulation techniques
that will serve them
for a lifetime.

13. Feedback
Mike Russo, Director - Early Childhood Center, Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base:
The Move with Me™ Program is a terrific enhancement to our
curriculum, supporting all developmental tasks & standards in:
•PE and motor skills
•Early literacy and creative thinking
•Direction following and concentration
•Social-emotional learning and impulse control
Teachers use the “Adventure Skills” throughout the day. Now,
kids are not just controlling their impulses, they are learning
how to redirect their thoughts and choices in a positive way,
which really shifts and empowers them.

14. Story &
Movement
Scooter & Me: $139.95
•9 Movement Story DVDs
•Teacher Guide
•Adventure Skills Poster
•Adventure Skill Cards
•Activity Pages

15. Yoga
Yoga Playgrounds: $ 49.95
Pizza Party DVD & Yoga Power Curriculum
16-week introduction to yoga
Lessons Plans & Handouts
Songs, Games, Sequences
Breathing + Affirmations
Relaxation + Visualization

16. Special Needs
Creative Play Manual & DVD for Working with
Children with Special Needs $49.95
75-min. instructional DVD + 120-page manual
Songs, Games, Yoga Poses, Breathing & Self-Regulation
improves posture, sensory integration, focus & more.

17. Staff Training
Optional training available for all programs to:
•Optimize implementation of program.
•Understand how to improve fitness, focus and learning
with movement & simple exercises.
•Use self-regulation throughout the day to reduce
stress & improve emotional stability and learning.
•Support children in self-care and impulse control.
•Build on movement stories for cross-curricular
explorations.

18. To Summarize
Supervised active play and the ability to self-regulate
are essential for children to be physically fit,
emotionally stable and learning able.
Our resources build on current movement programs in
use and introduce additional components that enhance
motor skills, learning readiness and self-regulation.

19. Our Solution
Move with Me ™ Programs offer immediately
implementable, cost-effective, best practices
solutions to early education curriculum activities for
PE and SEL….
At day-care, preschool, Head Start, home visits,
library, after-school, community centers, and
enrichment programs.

20. Contact Us
We look forward to working with you to
improve the lives of children and families.
We are open to customizing programs to fit your
needs and to collaborating on new
programming to serve your community.
For more information, contact:
Leah Kalish, MA
leah@move-with-me.com
818-667-3689

21. References
1. http://lvntobsn.org/2010/33-mind-boggling-stats-about-childhood-obesity/
2. http
://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends_2011_07_01_ECH_HealthyEating.pdf
3. http://cfchildren.org/Portals/0/SS_Multi/SS_DOC/Income-
Based_Achievement_Gap_SS.pdf
4. http://www.letsmove.gov/sites/letsmove.gov/files/TFCO_Challenge_We_Face.pdf