The mighty kick!

Part of my focus with home schooling is to make sure I get the kids intentionally moving each and every day. Motion IS life, after all! And regular motion has been proven time and time again to build healthy brains. Kinda’ important in the whole educational process.

Plus, incorporating movement into the kids’ routine is my time to play phys-ed teacher and coach… my secret career passions, truth be known!!

Looking back on our first week of home school, we managed to do a pretty good job of this.

Each day, I had the kids get outside to jump on the trampoline, ride their bikes, play a game of tag, race, swim, or do something creative that was high intensity. We also fit in a couple endurance-type activities, like a long nature walk, a very long afternoon of bike riding, and even a bit of “endurance-type” running. (It doesn’t last long at this age!)

They also have their regular sports, like gymnastics and soccer, to keep them moving and entertained. Also, they seem to be quite infatuated with tree climbing right now. I looked over at them playing in the tree one day while I was weeding our vegetable garden and they clearly reminded me of the Von Trapp children from Sound of Music! Today, they decorated our tree with little buckets from their sand box.

As usual, we keep our neighbors amused and intrigued!

Of course, you know from previous posts, that anytime I work out they tend to join me as well with some wild and crazy shenanigans of their own! Little goobers! They’re completely loopy when I work out (making these high intensity work outs of late all the more challenging! I need to keep an eye out for a flying short person at all times!)

I’m totally surprised this week by how quickly they’ve “gotten into” their school lessons, which meant that I actually had to force them to take a break and MOVE a couple times! Silly kids. Guess we’ll have to have a lesson on proprioceptive-producing movement and how it stimulates the neurological pathways for learning, balanced emotions & moods, attention, memory and a feeling of well being. I’ll add it to the list of things to do for the upcoming week.

Maybe I need a whistle, if I’m going to play this gym teacher role!

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