Dance along with a few of these videos or dance to three of your favorite songs.

Don't Sit Down A Very Simply Dance MILK A Moose-Ta-Cha Pop See Ko Poppin' Bubbles

• • Demonstration Video

  • Have student place small plastic cones or plastic cups in a line in front of him or her.

  • Have student stand on one foot and tap the cones or cups with the other foot.

  • Have student try their right foot and their left foot.

  • Repeat several times.

  • Spread cone or cups further apart to make it more challenging.

  • Here is another video showing this and other movements.

Demonstration Video

• Have student place small plastic cones or plastic cups in a line in front of him or her.

• Have student stand behind the row of cups with toes pointing to the cups

• Have student jump forward over the cups

  • Great time to teach and reinforce the words forward and over

• Have student jump backwards over the cups

  • Great time to teach and reinforce the words forward and over

  • Repeat several times. Keep jumping until music stops or for a certain time.

• Have student hop over on one foot

  • Repeat several times. Keep jumping until music stops or for a certain time.

• Have student stand beside the row of cups

  • Have student jump sideways over the cones or cups

• Here is another video showing this and other movements.

Demonstration Video

• Have student place small plastic cones or plastic cups upside down in a line in front of him or her.

• Have student place balls, sock balls, small stuffed animals, ... on the cups

• Have student stand behind the row of cups with toes pointing to the cups

• Have student carefully balance on one leg and tap the balls off with their toes

• Repeat several times.

• Here is another video showing this and other movements.

Demonstration Video

• Have student place small plastic cones or plastic cups in a line in front of him or her.

• Have student stand one step behind the row of cups with toes pointing to the cups

• Have student balance on one foot and carefully bend over to place a ball on top of a cup

• Do one at a time until all cups have balls on top

• Then remove one ball at a time

• Can you do it without falling over?

• Repeat several times.

Demonstration Video

• Have student place small plastic cones or plastic cups upside down in a line in front of him or her.

• Have student place balls, sock balls, small stuffed animals, ... on the cups

• Have student stand a few steps behind the cups.

• Have student try and knock off the balls one at a time using another ball

• Use cones to set up a goal. Kick the ball through the goal.

• Be creative - What other activities can you create with balls and cups? Submit a quick video of your family creating new activities or trying some of the activities from today. Add them to our Flipgrid here.

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  • These are ideas to get you and your family moving.

  • How many can you check off before the end of the month?

Materials:

• Sponge and a bowl of water

• Optional Yoga Practice Video

Focus Step:

Show students a dry sponge and ask students how sponges are useful? Drop some water on the table or on the board and soak it up with the sponge demonstrating the sponge is working as it was designed to work.

Explain that you are going to demonstrate how stress can affect our bodies with this sponge.

Ask students what things they think might cause stress. As students offer responses or the parent gives examples of stressors, dip a dry sponge into a bowl of water. After multiple examples and dips in the bowl, the sponge will be full of water. Ask the students if this very wet sponge will soak up water on the table or the board again? Try to soak up or clean up water on the table or the board and show students that it will not work. The sponge is not useful because it is full. This is very similar to how our bodies respond to stress. If we experience stress and don’t manage it or release it, it can hurt our bodies and our bodies are not as useful or effective as they could be. Ask students if they have heard people talk about how to release stress and after each example is offered from students or the teacher – squeeze a little water from the sponge until the sponge is nearly empty. Now ask students if the sponge can be useful again.

Explain to students that our bodies will experience stress as we get older and we have to learn how to recognize stress and manage it so that we can keep our bodies healthy and strong.

By the end of this lesson, your child will be able to identify stressors and describe how stress affects your body. You will also be able to describe strategies that you can use to help you deal with stress.

Parental Input:

Ask the child if they have ever heard someone say, “I am stressed or I am stressed out.” Ask the child if they know what this means. Stress is a situation or a thought that makes someone feel worried or afraid and affects your body. People might worry about a test at school, starting a new camp, playing a new sport for the first time, or riding a new bus; however, you don’t have to be afraid of these things. It is normal for everyone to feel a little worried sometimes, especially

when they are facing something new or different. Sometimes worries in your mind can make your body feel different. Experiencing stress might make your heart beat a little faster, make you feel hot, make you breath faster, or make you feel like you have little butterflies in your stomach. Sometimes this can be a good thing because it helps us focus or get things done.

However, sometimes stress can make our bodies feel badly for example stress can cause a headache or a stomachache. When some people are stressed, they might not feel like eating or might have trouble sleeping. This kind of stress is not helpful and can actually make us sick. We can work to manage our stress by planning ahead, making good choices, and taking care of ourselves. If you realize you are feeling stress and it is making your body feel badly, you can use strategies to relax like taking a walk, taking a slow, deep breath, or talking to a friend or adult about what is worrying or bothering us. Some people go to the park, exercise or practice yoga, listen to music, sing, or draw to feel better when they feel stressed. These strategies can help our bodies calm down and avoid letting the worries or stress make us fearful or sick.

Ask your child to brainstorm examples of causes of stress:

Your child riding a new bus for the first time, playing in your first soccer game, and attending a new school.

Ask the child to describe how stress might make them feel : fast heartbeat, worried, hot or sweaty, stomachache, or headache.

Optional - Practice some yoga techniques with students.

Cosmic Kids Yoga’s YouTube channel is a great video for leading yoga for your kindergarten child.

Closure:

Today we learned what causes stress, how our bodies respond to stress, and how we can manage stress in healthy ways.