Tree P.E.: A Nature-Inspired Story and Movement Session
In this one-time class, students will move and pose like various animals and plants while following along with an interactive read-aloud.
Miss Brittany, M.S.Ed
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:(127)
What's included
1 live meeting
50 mins in-class hoursClass 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 well as pause frequently to practice some basic yoga-inspired poses designed to help students strengthen and stretch their bodies as they pretend to be the animals found in the story! We will spend some time at the end of the session sharing what we have learned, as well as our general thoughts about the day's class, before capping things off with a goodbye song. I value an emergent teaching style, in which I respond to student interests and preferences as much as possible during the course of each session. As such, the order and content of each activity may be modified to ensure that each young learner is as developmentally supported and intrinsically motivated as possible.
Learning Goals
-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.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
***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!
Supply List
-Optional paper and drawing implements (if students choose to draw instead of participate in the movement portions of our class)
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined August, 2021
5.0
127reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Massachusetts Teaching Certificate
Master's Degree in Education from Wheelock College
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)Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$18
per classMeets once
50 min
Completed by 9 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 4-9
1-5 learners per class
