YOGA IN THE 3 YEAR OLD CLASSROOM

We are loving some Yoga to relax ourselves and cope with our feelings.

Since we discovered the book I AM YOGA we read it almost every day, and listen to the song after playground time to calm ourselves down and get ready for other  activities.

The song is great and you can find it here:

http://www.reynoldstlc.org/blog1/2015/9/22/bringing-verdereynolds-book-i-am-yoga-to-life-through-music

We also used this one to relax and meditate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9kRdkCtuc

LITTLE YOGA: Is another of our favorite Yoga books, kiddos love copying the poses 

 

HANDS ARE NOT FOR HITTING: AN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY

After the winter break we continued working on building classroom community.

This time we used the book "hands are not for hitting" the great thing about this collection is that they are also bilingual so the spanish teachers can help reinforce the concepts we work.

check out the collection:  http://www.freespirit.com/series/best-behavior/  and some of the activities we did using the book: http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/booknook/hands/hands_new.pdf

After talking and discussing a lot about what are hands for, we made a board that we displayed on our halway walls with pictures of us doing good things with our hands.