Health & Wellness
Health and Wellness:
It is long held that movement facilitates cognition. We use movement in the classroom with a ball toss and many brain breaks. Additionally, we talk about financial “health” as part of the equation. Physical health, mental health and financial health. Discussing finances can be stressful for kids, especially in a classroom environment that is of mixed economic backgrounds. I integrate tools from https://extension.psu.edu/bouncing-back-when-your-income-drops-2-working-together-as-a-family that detail how to develop a supportive environment for kids to deal with financial stress.
Body/Movement
People who are strong in the body movement intelligence like to move, dance, wiggle, walk, and swim. They are often good at sports. They have good fine motor skills. They like to take things apart and put them back together.
Here are ways to work with this intelligence in your lessons:
It is long held that movement facilitates cognition. We use movement in the classroom with a ball toss and many brain breaks. Additionally, we talk about financial “health” as part of the equation. Physical health, mental health and financial health. Discussing finances can be stressful for kids, especially in a classroom environment that is of mixed economic backgrounds. I integrate tools from https://extension.psu.edu/bouncing-back-when-your-income-drops-2-working-together-as-a-family that detail how to develop a supportive environment for kids to deal with financial stress.
Body/Movement
People who are strong in the body movement intelligence like to move, dance, wiggle, walk, and swim. They are often good at sports. They have good fine motor skills. They like to take things apart and put them back together.
Here are ways to work with this intelligence in your lessons:
- Go through your wallet and pull out three things to talk about.
- Trace letters and words on each other's back.
- Use magnetic letters, letter blocks, or letters on index cards to spell words.
- Take a walk while discussing a story or gathering ideas for a story.
- Make pipe cleaner letters. Form letters out of bread dough. After you shape your letters, bake them and eat them!
- Use your whole arm (extend without bending your elbow) to write letters and words in the air.
- Change the place where you write and use different kinds of tools to write, ie., typewriter, computer, blackboard, or large pieces of paper.