Animal Walks ~ Yoga Cards: Self-Reg, Brain Breaks, Gross Motor, Core Strength #2

Animal Walks for Increasing Energy & Focus While Moving Through Space.  Are you interested in increasing the focus, concentration, working memory, body awareness, executive function, and self-regulation of your students?  Would you like a quick and easy, no-plan, grab-and-go gross motor activity? Do you need to lead gross motor groups within a small space? You can use Animal movement posters hung on the wall of a classroom or sensory room.  Hand-held cards can be pulled out for a quick brain break.

Includes:

• Illustrated poses of elementary age boys and girls from diverse backgrounds with the associated animal
• 11 Cards (4”x 5.5”) and 11 Posters (8” x 11”)
• Simple descriptions of movements
• Movements: crab walk, jumping, leaping, running, trotting, & walking on all fours
• Color-coded cards to help keep you organized when using multiple sets
• 2-page Teachers Guide that provides many tips for teaching movements, managing classrooms, and using these cards in positive and productive ways.

For: classroom teachers, physical education teachers, special education teachers, occupational and physical therapists, social workers, psychologists or parents. Use these activities as part of your behavior programming, social skills teaching, self-regulation curriculum, or school-wide positive behavior support. Use with regular education students as well as with students with special needs, including students with autism, ADHD, or sensory processing difficulties.

Animal movement cards are easy to implement into your existing curriculum or can simply be incorporated as brain breaks!  When you integrate movement routines into your teaching, students have fun! Furthermore, research tells us that movement breaks increase blood flow and bring more oxygen to the brain, significantly improving learning.

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You can print unlimited copies for yourself and your students. However, you may not distribute copies to friends or fellow teachers.