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- 1. Movement Activities &Mindfulness Skills for Healthier Kids Leah Kalish, MA: leah@move-with-me.com www.move-with-me.com 818-667-3689 1
- 2. Leah Kalish, MA Educationand Experience •NYU in 70’s and Pacific Oaks College 90’s •Teaching & developing resources/curriculum since mid-90’s Successful Curriculum and Resources •Move With Me Action Adventures – Pizza Party and Scooter & Me •Barefoot Books - Yoga Pretzels and Yoga Planet Decks •Every Kid’s Yoga – Teaching Yoga to Children with Special Needs •School Specialty and Yoga Ed – Pre-K through High School Curricula •Imaginazium - Yoga Kit and Empowerment Pack for Kids •Gaiam - Yoga Fitness Videos for Kids, ages 3 – 6 and 7 – 12 Dr. J.C. Pearce: Play is nature’s biological plan for learning. 2
- 3. Objectives • Understand whyare movement & mindfulness essential to well-being, learning and social - emotional development. • Learn how to integrate more movement & mindfulness easily and immediately. • Be inspired to use story books for movement and to model self-awareness /self-care daily. • Discover new resources for bringing movement & mindfulness to your classroom. 3
- 4. Overview • Pre-Activity • AdventureSkills • Post-Activity • Easy Ways to Move More • Fun Games for Building Skills • Movement Stories • Integrating Self-Regulation • Implementation Chart 4
- 5. Pre-Activity • Turn headto left. – Notice how it feels. – Notice range of peripheral vision. • Turn head to right. – Notice sensation and vision. • Fold from hips into forward bend – Notice sensation and range of motion, touch your fingers lightly on your knees or shins to mark ROM • Snap Test – Notice ease or difficulty. 5
- 6. A B CD E F G l r t r l r t H I J K L M N l l r l r r t O P Q R S T U l t r l t r r V W X Y Z l t t l r 6
- 7. • Adventure Skilll# 1 • Adventure Skill # 2 • Adventure Skill # 3 • Adventure Skill # 4 *Ordered to coincide with Brain Gym®’s PACE 7
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- 9. Post-Activity • Turn headto left. – Notice how it feels. – Notice range of peripheral vision. • Turn head to right. – Notice sensation and vision. • Fold from hips into forward bend – Notice sensation and range of motion, touch your fingers lightly on your knees or shins to mark ROM • Snap Test – Notice ease or difficulty. 9
- 10. Results After those simpleactivities, most experience: • Greater range of motion • Greater ease with cognitive tasks • Greater enjoyment, confidence, relaxation Notice what’s true for you. Why? • When you play more, you stress less. • When you move more, you learn more! Playful mind-body activities support an emotionally stable and learning-able state. Your “state” dictates what is possible for you and your children. 10
- 11. Adventure Skill #1 Drinkwater regularly to sustain feeling well, thinking clearly and being friendly. Enhances: • Electro-chemical activity in Central Nervous System • Processing speed • Stress release Drink Water 11
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- 13. Adventure Skill #2 Rubspots under collarbone with thumb and one finger while holding other hand over navel and tracking eyes horizontally. Deep breath and HUMMMMMMM to calm and focus. Stimulates: • Flow of oxygen to the brain • Hemispheric integration • Binocular vision - eye teaming • Reticular Activating System –filter sensory info *Similar to Brain Buttons in Brain Gym® Humming Breath* 13
- 14. Humming Breath Chant Onehand on my belly, I let it rest The other, I bring up to my chest I find a pair of buttons beneath the shelf And Huuuuuummmmmm To calm myself I move my eyes slowly From the left to the right Heart calm, mind clear Body strong, eyes bright! 14 Humming Breath Video http://vimeo.com/68339890
- 15. Adventure Skill #3 Marchin place, alternately touching hands to opposite knees to energize body and wake up brain. Enhances: • Crossing the visual/auditory/ kinesthetic/tactile midlines • Hemispheric integration • Binocular vision • Binaural hearing • Left right coordination • Stability in the walking gait *Cross Crawl in Brain Gym® Monkey Wisdom* 15
- 16. Monkey Wisdom Chant Iam healthy I play every day I drink lots of water I don’t float away I rest when I’m tired I breathe when I’m mad I eat fruits & veggies ‘Cause they are rad Red, orange, yellow, green At every meal and in between! 16 Monkey Wisdom Video http://vimeo.com/68339892
- 17. Adventure Skill #4 1.Cross your ankles and wrists. Clasp hands and rest them at your sternum. 2. Breathe and think of something or someone you love. Supports: • Emotional centering • Grounding • Respiration • Self-control and boundaries *Hook ups in Brain Gym® Deep Down Wisdom* 17
- 18. 18 Deep Down WisdomVideo http://vimeo.com/68339891
- 19. The Head StartChild Development / Early Learning Framework and Common Core Standards • Outline domains of learning to guide your choices of curriculum, implementation, and assessment • Domains are intended to be developed in an integrated way to support whole child • Ideal learning activities are purposeful, play-based, engaged explorations that we, teachers, support through intentional scaffolded instruction. • Activities you learn today integrate all learning domains, engage children in purposeful play, and give you specific tools to re- engage them when there is conflict, emotional distress, or confusion. 19
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- 21. Early Learning Framework •Physical Development & Health (PDH) • Social & Emotional Development (SED) • Approaches to Learning (AtL) • Logic and Reasoning (LR) • Language Development (LD) • Literacy Knowledge & Skills (LKS) • Mathematics Knowledge & Skills (MKS) • Science Knowledge & Skills (SKS) • Creative Arts Expression (CAE) • Social Studies Knowledge and Skills (SSKS) • English Language Development (ELD) 21
- 22. Executive Function • Kidsneed access to frontal cortex for higher levels of learning • Stress blocks that access: o Dehydration o Poor nutrition o Inability to self-soothe or regulate o Developmentally inappropriate activities / expectations o Your stress about assessment or behavior management 22
- 23. 3 Ways toSupport Executive Function • Embodied Self-Care and Regulation • Play, Games, Yoga Poses • Movement Stories 23
- 24. Games Inner Mountain –embody how to feel strong and stable by grounding oneself. Stand like a soldier – tense, stiff, straight. Test for stability. Stand like a MT – test for stability. What the difference? When trying hard or tense – energy moves up. When relaxed or “well-being” – energy moves down. Once the distinction is embodied, invite kids to practice dropping into Mt quickly, solidly. Play upbeat music and have kids dance around the space. When music stops, kids stand immediately in MT (not freeze!). Test them and help kids who need coaching. Play several rounds, and revisit regularly. Inner Mountain Video https://vimeo.com/35411794 24
- 25. Play/Movement support Being Well& Doing Well • Over-rides the body’s physiological response to stress. • Invites whole child participation. Organizes whole-brain function for optimal learning. (Dennison and Hannaford). • Fuels the brain and body with oxygen and glucose. • Raises chemical messengers levels that balance mind/ body. • Triggers BDNF, a neuro-tropic factor required for thinking. BDNF decreases after 20 minutes of sitting and is triggered again with movement. • Strengthens key areas of the brain – basal ganglia, cerebellum and corpus callosum by building brain cells and connections. Improves mental focus and concentration (Caterino and Polk, 1999) 25
- 26. Play/Movement support Being Well& Doing Well • Enhances memory, creativity and academic achievement. (Michund and Wild 1991), (Brink, 1995), (Vanves and Blanchard). • Develops eye muscle fitness and helps with reading. • Helps 85% of students who are kinesthetic learners (Hannaford). Learning through body is more powerful than learning through listening and recalling facts (Jensen). If it’s not in your body, you really haven’t learned it. • Creates a fun, harmonious and safe environment for learning and developing social skills. • Develops self-awareness and the ability to self-regulate. • Builds self-confidence and strengthens the connection to inner resources and healthy choices. 26
- 27. Games Nature Kids –embody & express various aspects of nature found in weather such as rain, wind, storms, snow, sun, rainbows – as a way to move, play, energize, and integrate body and mind. Be a Rainbow – embody the colors and qualities of a rainbow in order to connect with “coherence” = feeling balanced, alert, clear, kind, caring, open, and creative. (“Incoherence”= stressed, out of sorts, angry, sad, shut down, scattered, tired, etc.) 27
- 28. Rainbow Poem Red –I’m strong Orange – I’m happy Yellow – I know I can Green – I’m caring Blue – I tell the truth Indigo – I’m smart Violet – Understanding and loving of …. All my parts! 28 Rainbow Body Video https://vimeo.com/33815681 How to make an origami rainbow http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fzF8jqik8FE
- 29. • Active playpromotes creative problem solving - apply to conflicts. • Active play facilitates better language skills and communication. • Active play improves memory and learning – apply thru-out the day. • Active play improves focus, attention and sustained concentration. • Active play improves impulse control – I can re-direct my self! • Active play improves balance & coordination = confidence • Active play regulates body weight = well-being • Active play calms, sooths and reduces self-reported anxiety SEL Benefits of Play (PDH, SED, AtL, LR, LD, CAE) 29
- 30. Movement Stories Storybook +Playful Movement = Ideal Recipe for well-being, learning, harmony, productivity •Healthy Activity that supports standards •Story Time is already built into your schedule 30
- 31. Veggie Story Prep •Bring in a basket of LOTS of different fresh vegetable • Let children touch, smell. Discuss colors, qualities, nutrients. • Invite children to “BE” each one of the veggies with their bodies. This is a great warm up for the movement story. • Tell Veggie Story on next slide … • Be dramatic. Have fun with it. Play music. • CAPITALS indicate where a pose or movements go. • Pause as needed to make space for poses / movement. • Encourage children to explore different qualities, levels, speeds in their movement while being a bird, cricket, etc. • Invite children to make expressive sounds. 31
- 32. Veggie Story Once upona time, a TINY SEED SNUGGLED DOWN into the earth. There, it SIPPED WATER from the RAIN and ATE MINERALS from the SOIL and made friends with the WORMS that WIGGLED through the dirt so seed could BREATHE and have room to GROW. First, it SPROUTS and SHOOTS a stem up toward the SUN. Then, leaves UNFOLD. A BUTTERFLY flits and a LADYBUG visits… BIRDS fly by and BEES and CRICKETS play nearby. Seed GROWS into a BIG, BEAUTIFUL PLANT, just the one it came from … Show us which yummy, nutritious VEGGIE YOU ARE. (Encourage each child to BECOME one of the vegetables while you guess, such as: are you a bushy broccoli and leafy kale, and are you long, thin green beans or asparagus?) Now let’s all be each veggie. (Coach children to copy each other’s pose and/or movement one at a time) Now show me a way YOU LIKE TO MOVE when you eat veggies and feel HAPPY & STRONG. Do you JUMP, HOP, KICK, SKIP, PRANCE, SHAKE, FLAP, STOMP, TWIST, BEND, SLIDE, or BOP? (Demo and invite movements.) And now, let’s all SIT, then LIE on our BACKS and REST. Put your HANDS on your BELLY & FEEL your BREATH come in & go out. Ahhhhh 32
- 33. Movement Story Demo 33 VeggieStory Video http://vimeo.com/68337532
- 34. Movement Story Review •Choose storybook – Choreograph poses and movements first – Invite Kids to act out the story as you read – Read a section, then encourage creative movement: • Can you be a worm, mouse, cat? How do you move? • If you were a turtle/beetle, stuck on your back, show what would you do to get unstuck? • Choose a Movement and Story Based Curriculum – Move with Me Movement & Mindfulness Curriculum – Yoga Ed. Preschool Curriculum & Tools for Teachers • Choose Yoga Cards – Build pose/movement vocabulary – Invite Kids to make up their own story 34
- 35. Ideal Books for MovementStories • Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle • Panda Bear, Panda Bear by Eric Carle • The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle • The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle • The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown • Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman • My Daddy is a Pretzel by Baron Baptiste • Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 35
- 36. Drink Water every20-30 min throughout the day Humming Breath – to calm and focus at circle time, after outside time, before or after transitions Monkey Wisdom – to energize as well as prepare for gross and fine motor skill activities and reading Deep Down Wisdom – to ground and center when upset, angry, frightened Self-Care Review 36
- 37. TIME to PlayMore, Stress Less Adventure Skills Promotes Drop Off Offer Water Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Oh No! Ah Yes! Deep Down Wisdom Ability to think, learn, calm and interact Center, relax body, calm mind Attention, focus and awareness Invites calm, dissipates fear and anger, promotes focus Transition to Circle Monkey Wisdom Infinity 8’s Oh No! Ah Yes! Deep Down Wisdom Whole brain learning, gross and fine motor skills Eye-teaming, binocular vision, stress relief Attention, focus and awareness Invites calm, dissipates fear and anger, promotes focus Transition to Active Time Monkey Wisdom Variations Full Sensing Mode/Elephant Wisdom Full Scanning Mode Whole brain learning, gross and fine motor skills Relaxation, auditory clarity, balance Center, relax body, calm mind Transition to Clean-up Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Full Sensing Mode/Elephant Wisdom Full Scanning Mode Center, relax body, calm mind Relaxation, auditory clarity, balance Center, relax body, calm mind Transition to Quiet Time Drink Water Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Deep Down Wisdom Breathe/Fish Breath Ability to think, learn, calm and interact Center, relax body, calm mind Invites calm, dissipates fear and anger, promotes focus Intentional conscious self-regulation, calm Academic/Detail Work Monkey Wisdom Infinity 8’s Rock the Boat Whole brain learning, gross and fine motor skills Eye-teaming, binocular vision, stress relief Relaxation, attentiveness, memory Conflict Rock the Boat Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Cat Wisdom Deep Down Wisdom Relaxation, attentiveness, memory Center, relax body, calm mind Stress relief, relaxation of the Tendon Guard Reflex Invites calm, dissipates fear and anger, promotes focus Emotionally Triggered Drink Water Fish Breath Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Ability to think, learn, calm and interact Oxygenation, restoration Center, relax body, calm mind
- 38. TIME TO PLAYMORE, STRESS LESS ADVENTURE SKILLS Drop Off Offer Water Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Oh No! Ah Yes! Deep Down Wisdom Transition to Circle Monkey Wisdom Infinity 8’s Oh No! Ah Yes! Deep Down Wisdom Transition to Active Time Monkey Wisdom Variations Full Sensing Mode/Elephant Wisdom Full Scanning Mode Transition to Clean-up Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Full Sensing Mode/Elephant Wisdom Full Scanning Mode Transition to Quiet Time Drink Water Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Deep Down Wisdom Breathe/Fish Breath Academic/Detail Work Monkey Wisdom Infinity 8’s Rock the Boat Conflict Rock the Boat Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Cat Wisdom Deep Down Wisdom Emotionally Triggered Drink Water Fish Breath Humming Breath/Ocean Wisdom Breathe/Fish Breath Confusion Monkey Wisdom Full Sensing Mode/Elephant Wisdom
- 39. Resources • Move-with-Me.com • Imaginazium.com:Yoga Kit for Kids: • Barefootbooks.com: Yoga Pretzel/Planet Decks • Yogaed.com: Yoga Tools for Preschool Teachers • Omazingkids.com • Braingym.org • LearningStationMusic.com • EveKodiak.com 39
- 40. • Brain Gym®101: Balance for Daily Life, Paul Dennison, Ph.D. & Gail Dennison, Brain Gym® and Me: Reclaiming the Pleasure of Learning. Ventura, CA: Edu-Kinesthetics, Inc, 2006. Teacher’s Edition Revised. Ventura, CA: Edu-Kinesthetics, Inc, 1994 www.braingym.com • Ratey, John. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. http://sparkinglife.org/ • Healy, Jane. The Growing Mind. http://education.jhu.edu/newhorizons/future/creating_the_future/crfut_healy.cfm • Goldberg, Elkhonon. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc. 2001. • Hannaford, Carla. The Dominance Factor: How Knowing Your Dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand & Foot Can Improve Your Learning. Salt Lake City, Utah: Great River Books, 1997, Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head. Salt Lake City, Utah: Great River Books, 2005. http://www.greatriverbooks.com/PlayingInTheUnifiedFieldPage.htm • Pearce, Joseph C. Evolution’s End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992. http://ttfuture.org/jcp/front • Sally Goddard Blythe - http://www.sallygoddardblythe.co.uk/index.php • Dr. John Medina - http://www.brainrules.net/ Bibliography www.move-with-me.com 40
Editor's Notes
- #4 Why is stress so bad? What happens to us?
- #7 After… how do you feel now? Easy to focus? Feeling centered? Thinking clearly?
- #8 No explanation or talking, just say the move, demo and do. No more than 2 minutes to complete all 4. Time the evolution silently (without telling the audience) from the moment you say AS #1 till completion of AS #4
- #12 Energy Ball Demo -
- #13 Now we are going to walk back through the AS we completed in under 2 minutes. How did they make such a difference in so short a time? Let’s drink up again, but this time kindergarten style.
- #16 Speak to brain growth and age appropriate activity. Never push or correct, just demo correctly and encourage
- #18 Show AS cards, use for the rymes and ditties
- #20 Now let’s address what your
- #21 Notice – learning requires executive function – which requires safety and is supported by movement and play
- #22 Through the previous three modalities do we address HSELF and CC curriculum guidance. You betcha. Take a moment to drive the point home with examples.
- #23 Many of the domains in the Framework are closely associated with Executive Function – cognitive processes that support a child’s ability to regulate attention and behavior and in turn develop greater social, emotional and cognitive competencies: inhibitory control of behavior, working memory, cognitive fexibility
- #24 Knowing standards are being addressed in an integrated whole brain fashion and in the context of play allows teachers to step back and enjoy the process and children to naturally engage in ALL domains outlined in the Framework
- #25 Send your rainbow, your color, loving looks, feel what it feels like, and tell me what you feel. Little kids understand this right away. When my friend is sad, or someone is sick, you can send them a rainbow. Reinforce this positive power that is cohereant, confident, grounded, harness and share.
- #27 Declarative memory – facts, requires immediate repetition (10-30 seconds as only appx 7 pieces of info can be held in working memory), again in 1-2 hours and then repeatedly for active recall Episodic memory – body based, story based, brain classifies it as possibly survival related and places a greater importance and robust wiring
- #30 And also clearly address the Framework for Early Learning Success Domains
- #35 Add our curriculum as an option
- #37 No explanation or talking, just say the move, demo and do. No more than 2 minutes to complete all 4. Time the evolution silently (without telling the audience) from the moment you say AS #1 till completion of AS #4
- #38 When a child is distressed or for transition times which AS and for how long? Ideally help children take control of their own problems and it’s solution by asking them to take a moment and look into their “tool box” either a physical one (box or poster) or their mental inventory that you will be modeling and helping them internalize. What are they drawn to in the moment? Let him/her do the skill for as long as they like. Given time limitations or a full class situation the chart is provided for ease and inspiration. Pick one, mix and match, have fun.
- #41 Recap. Attention. Tasks. BG. Conceptual basis. More BG. Repeat task. How to deliver. Results. Demonstration.