Grade Level: Kindergarten Goal: Provide a holistic learning opportunity

Big Ideas:
Health and Physical Activity:
2. participate willingly in a variety of activities that require the use of both large and small muscles
3. develop control of large muscles (gross-motor control) in a variety of contets
!. develop control of small muscles (fine-motor control) in a variety of contets
Lesson Description Materials
1 Have the students fnd a quite space
away from their peers on the carpet.
Turn of the lights, put on
quiet/relaxing music and hold up
pictures of diferent stretches. Have
the students perform the stretch to
the music, holding each stretch for
approximately one minute.
hile this is happening, guide them
through a slow !reathing pattern, in
through your nose, out through your
mouth. Tell them positive messages
a!out the great things they have done
that day, and the positive experiences
to come that afternoon.
"fter ffteen minutes, as# the students
to lay down on their !ac#s, close their
eyes and listen to your voice. $uide
them through their quiet !reathing
again reminding them to relax their
!odies and their minds.
"fter a few minutes in this position,
#eep the music playing and softly/
slowly as# them to sit up and meet
you in a circle or in front of your chair.
%usic &layer
'alm/(elaxing music
&rinted out pictures of
a variety of diferent
stretches
'arpet space
Holistic Qualities
)ntellectual*
prepares them for new
learning in the afternoon
&hysical*
promotes healthy living
warms up and stretches muscles
relaxes the !ody

+motional*
allows them time to thin#
a!out their morning/ lunch
self, regulation of current
feelings or frustrations
-piritual*
calms their minds