This is an interesting read, I wonder if anyone is doing studies about increasing movement breaks in schools? Would love to see some results!
http://www.balancedandbarefoot.com/blog/the-real-reason-why-children-fidget
Author: j0turner
Optimizing Early Brain and Motor Development Through Movement
Here is a fantastic article which pretty much sums up what we are up to at Little BIG fitness, and what my focus is with including literacy and learning into a movement session.
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=360
Pirate month at little BIG fitness!
Well May has been pirate month for the littles, and what fun we have been having.
Here are the activities that we have been up to. Pics to come.
Dog Finds A Tiny Kitten, Risks Everything To Save Her
Naw
Animal control officers in Anderson, S.C., thought that a barking shih tzu was stuck in a ravine. Turns out, she was there nursing and protecting a tiny abandoned kitten she had found.
Photos/caption via BuzzFeed (via lyannastarkling)
Story cards cont…
A couple more story card drawings.
Random Acts of Kindness List
Lovely
Nathan wrote: This video is about a list I made of seven good deeds and I spent the past week doing all of them. I then passed the list to every person I did a good deed for so they could do the next one on the list for another person. Thanks for watching.
Please help share this video on Facebook or Twitter to spread the list across the internet.
Print off the list here: https://nathan-mcmasters.squarespace.com/random-acts-of-kindness-list
(If the list doesn’t show up for you check back later, I’m working on getting a website where it will be easier, but for now this is what I’m using. It should work though.)
Also check out this website to see another version of our idea: http://www.haveidoneanygood.org/sketchandprank
Follow me on Twitter: Nathan: https://twitter.com/Nmcmasters
New story cards are on the cards at LBF
Some story card drawings for the little BIGs.
I’m quite excited by the concept- the kids will each pick a card, & collectively make up a story by combining them. We will write the story & the kids will illustrate ‘their’ page themselves. Put it all together & a copy for each of the kids. Perfect!
The drawings are Unfinished and there are more to come, but here are some tasters.
Testing our Easter Craft
better try it out before we try it on our littles! Lots of fun, easy and doable. And not too messy! Will post some pics after our session tomorrow.
Some new books to sink my brain into!
I’m pretty excited. Spark is specifically about exercise & the brain, and brain rules should be a FANTASTIC read, Dr Medina is simply great, not many people can give such and interesting and succinct account of how we are wired and how to maximize or at least understand the potential of our brains.
Y is for YOUR response
be ready to provide timely and appropriate responses to your childs attempts and achievements. Remember, we learn much more readily with positive feedback than negative, and your responses are vital to your child, after all, you are their most influential role model.
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