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Children will participate in activities that will focus on physical movement through
yoga exercise with support from the teacher.
The objective is for children to attempt new activities and participate in forms of
exercises. Children will perform basic creative movements with the assistance and
guidance of the teacher through the form of yoga exercise.
Learning Activity Plan for Infants and Toddlers
Connection to Standards (if applicable) (Be sure to specify which set of standards
you are working with to construct your learning activity)
Relevance/Rationale (Why are the objectives of this lesson important with regard
to supporting the development, growth and learning of infants and toddlers?)
Time Needed
Approximately 5-10 minutes.
The children will be engaged with the teacher to perform basic creative
movements in a large group activity.
Learning Activity Plan for Infants and Toddlers
This activity will be done as part of our morning circle routine. The teacher will
engage the students by having them pretend that they are on a farm through the
movement of yoga positions. The teacher will model a variety of farm animal like
yoga poses for the children to follow. This activity will be led by the lead teacher.
The assistant teacher will support children in the large groups by positioning the
childrens bodies to accompany the correct movement. This will be a fun, easy
going and relaxing activity where children learn about animals through yoga-like
poses. While the children perform yoga poses like the cow pose, the children can
role play and imitate sounds that the animals make. This will continue with other
varieties of farm animals through yoga poses.
The children will pretend to take a trip to the farm and practice all the yoga poses
of the animals they see on the farm.
Resources/Materials Needed
This will take place on the rug used for morning circle for ample space for children
to perform the creative movements.
Room modiJications (what changes, if any, will you need to make to the physical
environment to enrich this experience?)
Children with special needs will have hands on assistance. Adaption of yoga poses
with props. Children will work together in partner poses, because peer
interaction is important and group yoga facilitates development of social skills.
Method of assessing childrens growth and learning (What methods will you
employ to document, or provide evidence of childrens growth and learning? Specify
the assessment tools that will be used to provide you with evidence of childrens
learning, or that objectives have been met)
A third teacher will observe and document the skills in performing gross motor
abilities such as balancing, hand eye coordination, and interaction skills.
Follow-up/Extension Activities (How can I provide an opportunity to remediate,
reinforce, or expand on students learning today in class?)
This activity can be brought outside and we can continue by including other types
of animals and yoga poses. We can add a book and yoga animal sounds to enhance
the yoga experience. We want them to experience movement and dance in a
physical and spiritual manner. The purpose of yoga is to calm the body and
become one with themselves.
Any additional information that would be helpful for the observer to know:
Observer feedback on the lesson plan, including commendations and
recommendations for improving aspects of the learning activity