Kids Yoga Lesson Plans: Respect

On September 8, 2010   /   Character Development, Kids Yoga, Lesson Plans, Yoga Games  
A teacher and student play together in a parnter yoga pose doing cobra pose and Cat Cow

Respect is the Character Development theme for the month of September in our School Board. Respect means thoughtfulness, consideration, honor, admiration, regard, esteem.  All these words show what happens when there is respect.  But with kids you need to give them more than words, you need to give them an experience of Respect for them to understand it. The Roots of Respect: Start a class about respect discussing the roots of the word: “Re:” when “re” is in a word

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How to Build Rapport with Kids in Class

On September 5, 2007   /   Classroom Management  

Another funny story happened recently in a class of kindergarden’s this summer at a daycare. It shows a couple of important points for teaching children’s yoga: 1. Don’t swear in front of kids I’m sure this sounds obvious, but I’ve found out that each daycare has their own version of swear words. Once when I was telling a story about how we talk to each other – I used an example of someone saying “Shut Up.” The kids were mortified,

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