Yoga in the classroom? While student teaching, my mentor teacher had a time each week when the 4th graders would push the desks to one side of the room and get out yoga mats for a yoga session. I loved it and the kids loved it. At home, I do yoga pretty regularly and I have loved the benefits of feeling better, more relaxed and less stressed. Why not share this with students? It has benefits for them! Kids need to be taught ways to calm themselves down and yoga is one way they can do that. When I began teaching Kindergarten, I wanted to include yoga in my classroom but I do it a little differently from my mentor teacher since Kindergarteners are quite different from 4th graders. Here are some things that I have done in my own classroom to share yoga with students. 1. Yoga sessions. I don't do full on yoga sessions very often - maybe once a month or close to a holiday when I know students can get hyped up easily. I find different kids yoga videos on youtube. You can find grea...
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