Yoga-A Child's Way

With the bustling pace of life, we are all filled with the issues on dealing with stress.  We often think of these as "adult stresses", when in fact, these so-called pressures of life trickle down to our children.   Yoga is a way to provide tranquility, plus physical and spiritual discipline. What a wonderful opportunity to share yoga with the children.  Coming together peacefully and learning to channel their energy in a supportive group atmosphere.  Check out our group in the true form of:

Yoga-A Child's Way.

 Beginning on our mats

 Standing up tall

 Shaking our sillies out

 Criss-Cross Apple Sauce

 In touch with our breathing 

with the "Child's Pose"

  Lion pose, just before the pounce 

(aka, Table Top)

 Dog pose

 The real dog is instructing on 

how to "look like a dog"

 Return to lion pose

 Reach down and touch your toes, don't forget to breath

Neck and shoulder relaxation techniques

 Stretch those arms out 

(watch out for the dog LOL)

 Now stretch the arms towards the back

 Feet on sides of mats

 One hand on mat, now look up 

to the sky and balance

 Great job on the balancing

 Now, one leg up and one leg back

 On belly just before 

we connect hands to back

 Here's how it looks from the side

The group reaches their hands in the back

Great pose

 Stretch to the right and breath.  Muscles are stretching along your ribs

 Now stretch to the left, again breathing

 That left pose can be a bit confusing for some, but we eventually get it

 Pointing feet forward and finding peace

 Bridging ourselves

 Namaste-May peace, peace and more peace follow.

Now, as we wrap up, clean up the mats and I go off into the kitchen to cook some nummy lunch, the kids decide to play "yoga" on their own.  Here are the results:

 Froggy jumps

 Practice Namaste

 Finding peace within

 The Dance Pose

Resulting in another Dance Pose

This will become a natural part of our program here at PattyKakesKidz.

Yoga, providing peace and harmony, one with nature and honoring your children.

Namaste 

(to honor true-self in each of us)

Pearly Whites

Just look at those pearly whites.  Well, at least that's what was said by the end of this week's unit on teeth.  
Check out some of the fun things we did here at PattyKakesKidz.  




SMILE made from marshmallows 
and paper plates.  

 CAVITY Puzzle made from a tooth shape and some markers, then cut out and put together like a puzzle.












A group POSTER of smiles.

 A MATCHING number game that was laminated for future use.  See the little teeth above the character's heads? 
This was a great way to incorporate learning numbers and our unit study.

TRACING of numbers, on a laminated paper so we could use dry erase markers to trace and erase again and a again.








Brushing our teeth after eating healthy is fun, but it is more fun when you can brush your teeth with friends. 

Now, just how shiny are those teeth? Come on, lets see those pearly whites!

Maybe we should have cleaned our faces before we took pictures? ha ha, gotta love those cutie patooties!

After we brushed our teeth, we made a laminated chart to take home and track our teeth brushing for the  month.  The parents loved the idea and so did the kids.  This should help to remind them to brush their teeth twice daily.  

♫♪Brush, brush, brush your teeth, brush them till their white♪♫

(sung to music by row, row, row your boat)