{"id":182,"date":"2020-03-09T02:14:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T02:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/?p=182"},"modified":"2020-03-09T02:14:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T02:14:14","slug":"its-p-e-movement-day-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/2020\/03\/09\/its-p-e-movement-day-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s P.E. \/ Movement Day Today! (#2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Week 1 and Monday is P.E.\/Movement Day!\u00a0 We hope you will enjoy the activities which were sent in by the teachers of the 3 age groups for you to do!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula&#8217;s group)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The three-year olds work hard on following directions and refining their coordination.\u00a0 Here is a simple song\/dance you can do!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1) Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zv6ybv3YfeM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/zv6ybv3YfeM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2) Gummy Bear<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2605 Just Dance Kids 2 - I&#039;m a Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song) (HD) \u2605\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Q7-tzCCh3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi&#8217;s group)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The children have been working on refining their coordination, movement manipulation, and balance. They will further develop their dance and gymnastics skills as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>(1) Animal Walk:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The animal walk is a very simple exercise that the children enjoy. Also, this helps us see how their muscles strengths to support their weight while doing this exercise. During our lessons, we have covered, crab walk, bear walk, frog jumps, snake slither, duck walks, penguin walks, seal slide, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lemonlimeadventures.com\/animal-walks-sensory-diet\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/lemonlimeadventures.com\/animal-walks-sensory-diet\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crab walk and seal slide require arm strength.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please assist them if they are having difficulty holding their weight up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>(2) Calming Down Exercise:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The children could sit criss-cross apple sauce (crossed leg) and try to calm down their bodies through this breathing and stretching exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Calming Exercises for Kids: Breathing and Stretching\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cyvuaL_2avY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk&#8217;s group)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoga is a great way to move your body independently, even in your own living room!\u00a0 This is a link to the poses we practiced in January. All students have experimented with these and should be quite familiar with them.\u00a0 Challenge your child to take you on a trip to the Arctic as we did in class with this interactive yoga adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can remind children to control their breath through their noses and to try to hold each pose for three slow breaths before changing to the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1j25NOM9QUZ265P1wAFzwiJzH9ocGtwXr\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Arctic Yoga Poses &#8211; Click here to view<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we will do some yoga with an adventurous story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoyed your P.e.\/Movement class for today.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see you again tomorrow as it will be our second class for the week!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Week 1 and Monday is P.E.\/Movement Day!\u00a0 We hope you will enjoy the activities which were sent in by the teachers of the 3 age groups for you to do!! &nbsp; 3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula&#8217;s group) The three-year olds work hard on following directions and refining their coordination.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}