Movement Activities | Brain Breaks | Fitness Stations for Primary Grades

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Can you walk like a careful crocodile? Twist like a wild monkey? or walk backwards like a crab?

This teaching resource provides your students with a unique opportunity in movement in the classroom, at recess or in gym class. 

This is more than a “brain break”...

students listen to and engage in poetry and rhyme as they learn the movement of these animal characters.

Display these posters in your classroom for colorful and inviting decor and refer to them often to provide movement for your students.

Also, make your “brain break” circles and keep them on your desk to use whenever you need to move around a bit.

Physical Education Teachers :   Set up your Mother Nature’s Adventure Trail indoors or out. These can easily become your parcours for fitness. Ideal for PreK- 1.

Improve students' listening skills and fitness and at the same time

engage them in poetry and reading.

There are a total of 15 posters ready to download and print. Each poster measures 8.5" x 11" and shows a bird or an animal. The title names the movement and the poem describes how to do it. 

It's fun! It's educational! It's fitness!

Make a colorful bulletin board and refer to it often for movement activities. You can also make a 'brain break' jar with the included circle sticks. 

Mother Nature's Fitness Adventure was created by

Dr. Tom Quimby, Ed.D. Adventure and Physical Education. This is a unique curriculum for movement for small children. It provides an opportunity for fitness and fun and is proven to be effective in teaching basic movement skills for balance, agility, strength and endurance with repetition. ​Mother Nature's Fitness Adventure can be set up as a parcours in a recreational park, in a school gym as fitness stations, in the classroom for ready and accessible movement activities, and as brain breaks when children need movement.  The teacher's ability to recite the poem with a fun and enthusiastic expectation of the movement to follow will help enhance the spontaneity of the children's experience.

You can create your 'brain break' box for 

Mother Nature's Adventure In Movement.  

Everything you need to be ready for Movement!

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Summer Writing Journal for Beginning Writers

Summer Writing Pages and Graphic Organizers

Before leaving for summer vacation, ink into your plan book some summer writing activities.  Write about upcoming summer goals and activities using these writing prompts that promote thinking and reflection before writing.  A valid writing experience in your classroom for the end of the school year! which can lead into a worthwhile summer writing assignment, Keeping a Summer Journal.  
During the last few weeks of school, students and teachers talk about keeping a summer writing journal using a composition notebook or using a teacher created summer writing journal booklet.  NO PREP for you... just download, print and handout!  Talking about your expectations for the summer writing journal is all you need to do after handing out the summer journal pages. 
Students will engage in authentic writing experiences all summer long.  They are encouraged to write in their journal each day but it is important to remember that this is a self-directed activity and some students might even write in their journals twice a day!!  Writing Ideas and topics are provided to initiate the first spark in writing about their summer days. 



Summer Writing Journal

Finding and creating personal topics and ideas is encouraged.  Teachers can collaborate with colleagues who teach one grade below or above; in this way the summer journals can become one of those first week activities when starting in a new grade and classroom.  Be sure to tell students that you are excited and look forward to seeing their journals after summer.  Encourage children to add drawings and photos, ticket stubs, book lists, and any other summer 'clips' that will fit in their journal.  Students will share more readily when they have completed pages before them to talk with new friends.  These writing pages include: organization of the page, writing about specific topics, using illustrations to explain, remembering facts, writing in sequential order, and finding noteworthy topics to write about.  Sharing their summer-long writing project can be a positive way to meet new classmates and build friendships for the upcoming school year.  
If you and teacher friends think keeping a 'summer writing journal' will keep your students growing in literacy then start now... preview the summer writing journal for beginning writers.  Talk with teacher friends and include this writing assignment in your summer assignment packet.  And be sure to get your students excited about writing this summer by sharing their summer journal assignment before leaving for summer fun!