Tree P.E.: A Nature-Inspired Story and Movement Session
Miss Brittany, M.S.Ed
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Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(120)
In this one-time class, students will move and pose like various animals and plants while following along with an interactive read-aloud.
Class experience
In this one-time class, students will engage in group discussion, an interactive read-aloud, and a movement activity to explore how trees interact with and benefit other living things in their environment. Our class will begin with a quick song to greet each student by name before moving on to an opportunity for everyone to share what they know and what they would like to learn about trees. We will explore excerpts from the book The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry to support our learning, as...
-Students will develop their understanding of trees and their function within a given ecosystem. -Students will practice active listening and group participation during a read-aloud. -Students will strengthen and stretch their bodies via a series of yoga-inspired animal poses.
I hold my MS in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College at Boston University, and I am professionally certified in Early Childhood, Moderate Disabilities, English as a Second Language, and Sheltered English Immersion in the state of Massachusetts. I have ten years of teaching experience at the early childhood level in a wide variety of racially, ethnically, linguistically, and neurologically diverse settings--lab, private, public, home-based, non-profit, co-op, and virtual--throughout the Greater Boston area. As co-founder of the National SEED Project Emily Style so adeptly summarized in her 1988 essay "Curriculum as Window and Mirror", curriculum should function "both as window and as mirror, in order to reflect and reveal most accurately both a multicultural world and the student herself or himself". This means that it is intrinsically important for ALL educators--including those who may not be members of a marginalized group themselves--to expose every student, regardless of their personal identity markers, to a multiplicity of cultures and ways of being in the world. To ensure that I am up to this crucial task, I have continuously pursued and successfully completed the following graduate-level coursework related to multicultural, multilingual, inclusive, and antiracist instruction over the past seven years: * Racial and Cultural Identities-Wheelock College at Boston University * Introduction to Inclusive Early Childhood Education Settings-Wheelock College at Boston University * Effective Sheltered English Instruction: Second Language Acquisition-Wheelock College at Boston University * Impact of Special Needs: Early Childhood-Wheelock College at Boston University * Mathematical Learning for Diverse Learners-Wheelock College at Boston University * Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
-Optional paper and drawing implements (if students choose to draw instead of participate in the movement portions of our class)
***Please note: For optimal safety during the movement portions of our class, families should ensure students are prepared with the following: -an open space, free of obstacles, for movement -closed toe shoes, socks, or bare feet (no sandals or flip flops, please!) -a water bottle -family supervision, if family feels it is necessary There will be opportunities for moving our bodies like the animals in our story throughout our class session. Students are also welcome to draw the animals from the story during these portions of the class, if they prefer!
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Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(120)
I'm so excited to meet you! My name is Miss Brittany, and I am a facilitator of early learning experiences for children between the ages of 3 and 5 years old. I have been teaching at the preschool level for 10 years now, and I am very lucky to...
Group Class
$18
per classMeets once
50 min
Completed by 9 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 4-9
1-5 learners per class
