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By Lara Hocheiser
Are you a parent, caretaker, or classroom teacher who is trying to find ways to integrate self care into your students and your day? In this self care toolkit, you will receive
- 3 different breaths to practice: Star Tracing Breath, Gratitude Breath, and Power of the Sun Breath
- A Kid-Friendly Sun Salutation sequence with a poem
- 2 Daily Practice Journals (Healthy Habits Tracker and Morning Routine Tracker)
- A Mindful Hand Wash Meditation
- 5 Breath Space Maker Transition activity (Helpful for classroom teachers!)
These self care toolkit worksheets have directions, fill-in-the-blank areas, and coloring areas!
Let’s Make Shapes! Yoga & Mindfulness
By Lara Hocheiser
Make shapes fun with yoga. Enjoy this fun activity our founder has been doing in classes since 2009! Shapes are all around us, and we can even make shapes with our bodies.
Use this activity packet to inspire littles ones to explore the world around us with math and shapes.
For years I’ve taught this class to toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. It’s perfect for early childhood or group where big kids support younger kids. If you have mixed ages, or are working with first or second graders, you can make it interesting by focusing on the number of sides in a shape and placing the poses in order based on the number of sides in the shape. Remember to have fun, allow for mistakes, review the shapes and poses in a light hearted way, and make the children feel like shapes, math, and yoga are their friends.
Let’s Make Shapes! is a 17-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.
This activity packet includes:
“When Spring Comes” Literacy Integration Lesson Plan
By Lara Hocheiser
The story, When Spring Comes by Kevin Hikes, illustrated by Laura Dronzek, is my daughter’s favorite book year round. It's the perfect story to explore the transition from Winter to Spring. When reading this story to children, they become overjoyed to see the nature and animals related to the springtime. They love to pretend and act out the meaning of the story.
Use this lesson plan while reading When Spring Comes. This is the perfect way to integrate physical activity and mindfulness into storytime. Each page can be brought to life with our yoga sequence and our beautifully-illustrated yoga cards teach children how to do each yoga pose.
When Spring Comes is filled with imagery, alliteration, and repetition. Through this book, we can teach children these valuable literary devices through facilitated discussions, group activities and extension exercises included in this lesson plan. Also included are coloring pages, crafts, breathing exercises, mindfulness activities and more!
When Spring Comes Literacy Integration is a 24-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.
When Spring Comes Lesson Plan is designed for kids ages 4-10 and includes:
Let’s Make Shapes! Yoga Poster
By Lara Hocheiser
Shapes are all around us, and we can even make shapes with our bodies.
For years I’ve taught this class to toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. It’s perfect for early childhood or group where big kids support younger kids. If you have mixed ages, or are working with first or second graders, you can make it interesting by focusing on the number of sides in a shape and placing the poses in order based on the number of sides in the shape.
Remember to have fun, allow for mistakes, review the shapes and poses in a light hearted way, and make the children feel like shapes, math, and yoga are their friends.
Let’s Make Shapes! is a 6-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print to paper.
This activity packet includes:
For the full lesson plan with mindfulness activities, breathing exercises and our popular yoga cards, get the full version here.
Leap Year 2024 | Leap Day Activity | 29 Second Challenge Printable
By KJ Inspired Resources
Celebrate February Leap Day of School with a 29 second challenge! Students will love completing each activity as many times as they can in 29 seconds. Use these challenges as a no-prep Leap Day party game, brain break, math activity, icebreaker or morning meeting activity. This is great for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade students.
➡Get the Digital Version HERE ⬅
Leap Year Bundle
Directions:
Students will make an estimate to see determine how many times they think they can do each activity in 29 seconds. The teacher will set a timer for 29 seconds and let the students complete the activity. Then students will record the actual amount of times they were able to complete the themed activity. Students will repeat this process throughout the worksheet.
What do you get?
Some themed activity ideas you will see:
How many jumping jacks can you do in 29 seconds?
How many times can you write your name backwards in 29 seconds?
How many times can you sing the birthday song in 29 seconds?
More Leap Year Resources
Leap Year Would You Rather
29 Second Challenge
Leap Year Finish the Story
LEAP YEAR RESOURCES
*Note this product may be used in brick an mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool.
Where Do You Feel Pain? | Feelings Chart & Check-In Checklist for Kids
By The Student Worksheets
Feelings, Feelings Chart, Feelings Check-In, Checklist – This interactive resource is perfect for helping children express their emotions and identify areas of discomfort. "Where Do You Feel Pain?" is designed for teachers, counselors, and parents to support kids in understanding their physical and emotional well-being.
This resource includes:
Perfect for:
Support children in identifying their feelings and needs with this easy-to-use, kid-friendly tool!