Our Very Own Healthy Choices

Healthy choices?  Wow!  The Grade Three students had to make a lot of choices to create a "Healthy Choice Yoga Sequence."

Learning Objectives:
The goal of this unit was to explore a variety of movements that promote personal health.

Explanation of Learning Engagement:
Students learned some basics about yoga, including calming the body during yoga, names of yoga poses, and connecting poses. 

Students choosing poses for their yoga sequence.

To do these yoga poses, students looked at the different types of poses and how each pose helped them in a different way.

We do poses that are:

Standing

Balancing

Twisting

Bending forward

Bending backward

With a partner

Breathing

Time in

Here are two examples of partner poses.

 

They learned how to do a simple "Sun Salutation" which uses a variety of poses and connecting movements. Then they applied what they knew about collaborating with a partner and creating dances to make a new type of yoga sequence.

Here is an example of a partner yoga sequence.  Click to play.

Do you feel relaxed after watching this?

Ask your daughter to teach you some of the poses she learned. Yoga poses can improve your health while you have fun doing something together.

Ms. Kampa