This morning, older Wee Friends enjoyed a literacy rich game of Junior Scrabble identifying letters on the board and matching corresponding letter tiles.

Yoga also offers cross curricular learning opportunities. Literacy is in action as we explore letters of the alphabet (ex: C for caterpillar pose). Friends are excited when they recognize ‘their’ letter! Gross motor muscles are being stretched and balanced. When we arrive on poses like S, the seal pose, we lay on our backs, clapping our two hands and two feet together. Implementing math, we ask “How old are you? Three? Everybody clap three times!” Today, when ending our exercise, we sang “I am you, you are me, we are part of all we see…namaste, namaste, namaste..” and enjoyed bowing to one another!

After collecting many circular shaped objects, we brought our shadow puppet screen out and explored which round object looked most like a real race car steering wheel. We added race track environmental music and friends enjoyed driving a steering wheel of their choice.

When the race car interest waned we set out foam shapes. Our preschool/kindergarten aged kids discovered they could create patterns with the shapes.

For lunch we served whole wheat tortillas with melted cheese, carrots and fresh strawberries!

Have a great day.