{"id":277,"date":"2020-03-17T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/?p=277"},"modified":"2020-03-17T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:34:26","slug":"its-p-e-movement-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/2020\/03\/17\/its-p-e-movement-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s P.E. \/ Movement Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our 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!!\u00a0 We hope that you are staying healthy by 1) eating well, 2) washing your hands properly and 3) exercising!<\/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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tooty Ta | Fun Dance Song for Kids | Brain Breaks | Tooty Ta | Jack Hartmann\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ea4TVg0_8Dk?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;\">I hope the children are enjoying dancing and exercise at home. While we are also at home, we would like to continue helping children building their muscle strength through activities and different moves and learn to calm their bodies after their exercises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>(1)Dynamic Warm-Up exercise:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We start with warm-ups. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please make sure they are aware of their surroundings and make their own <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;bubble.&#8221; (Space) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have been warming up by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">doing jumping jacks, arm circles, walking knee-hug, leg swings (both left and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">right), and hopping ten times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If visuals help, here is a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 minute video of how they could warm up as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"9 Min Exercise For Kids - Home Workout\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oc4QS2USKmk?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><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><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;\">Today, the kids will go to the <\/span><b>jungle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and meet a few creatures that they can pose like. Please watch the video entirely first so that you can pause at strategic moments so that you and your child can have enough time to copy the poses and breathe properly. We breathe in and out of our noses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Differentiation: Take note of the child&#8217;s balance and form. If they are performing well, extending the pose for a few more breaths\/seconds would help with their muscle strength and endurance. If they are struggling to copy the poses exactly, they could either take a few quick rests\/resets within the same pose and then try again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yoga for kids with animals - Smile and Learn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5XCQfYsFa3Q?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>We hope you enjoyed your P.E.\/Movement class for today.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see you on Thursday for another P.E.\/Movement class.\u00a0 Stay fit and healthy!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our 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!!\u00a0 We hope that you are staying healthy by 1) eating well, 2) washing your hands properly and 3) exercising! &nbsp; 3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. [&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-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}