This document describes a curriculum and resources for early childhood education that integrates storytelling, exercise, and self-regulation. It includes DVDs or MP4s with creative movement, yoga, and brain gym activities to enhance physical fitness, emotional stability, and learning readiness. Accompanying printed materials reinforce health lessons and self-care techniques. Research highlights cognitive and academic benefits of integrated movement programs, including improved attention, behavioral regulation, executive function, stress response, and memory. The goal is to provide a comprehensive whole-child program for physical education, social-emotional learning, and expressive arts.
4. DVD or MP4 format
• Story-driven & Instructional Active Play
• Combines Creative Movement, Yoga &
Brain Gym® based activites
• Aerobic & Anaerobic Exercise
• Designed & Taught by Experts
• Affordable PE & SEL Curriculum activity
5. Health - Nutrition - Self-Regulation
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Set of 16 – hard copy & printable pdf
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Reinforce health lessons & techniques in videos
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Build self-care into daily routine
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Support well-being, harmony & learning
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Enhance SEL & executive function
6. Fulfills Head Start Early Learning Framework
& Common Core Standards
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Builds on the video class & cards
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Comprehensive 30-week program
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Themed lesson plans with 200+ activities:
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Cooperative Games
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Take it Outside
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Mindfulness
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Movement to Music
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Stories in Motion
7. OUR UNIQUE INTEGRATION OF
1. Developed and tested with children
2. Distinct from anything currently on the market
3. Validated by scientific research
8. Research Highlights
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Focus attention and engage participant
in an empathic response, creating a
significant physiological effect on the
body and on behavioral choices. (Paul Zak,
2013)
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Activate episodic memory and light up
the whole brain for learning (Dr. John Medina,
Brain Rules, 2010)
using Bilateral and Cross-lateral Intentional Movement
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Decrease off-task behavior in preschool age
children (Dr. Jennifer Dustow, Autism Project, 2009)
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Improve creative problem solving, language
skills, and memory (Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., The Cognitive
Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain, 2008)
9. Research Highlights
• Increases attention span and ability to ignore distractions and
concentrate effectively
• Enhances behavioral regulation, metacognition, and overall global
executive function (Flook, Smalley, Kitil, Galla, Kaiser-Greenland, Locke, Ishijima,
Kasari, 2010, Napoli, Krech, & Holley, 2005)
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Over-rides the body’s physiological response to stress
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Stimulates the release of BDNF, which grows the brain (Ratey, 2008)
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Improves the cognitive control of attention
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Enhances academic performance (Hillman, CH, Pontifex, MB, Raine, LB,
Castelli, DM, Hall, EE, Kramer, AF, 2009)
10. Research Highlights
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Unifies and integrates mind/body
experience (Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
2009)
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Organizes whole-brain function for
optimal learning (Dennison and Hannaford, 1999)
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Improves executive functions
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Concentrates BDNF in the hippocampus,
enhances long term memory retention
(Ratey, 2008)
(Science 2011)
11. See it in action!
Ordered to coincide with Brain Gym® PACE: www.braingym.org
13. Build movement skills
Reinforce health & self-regulation
Comprehensive & integrated whole child
program for PE, SEL, Expressive Arts
For Staff & Parents in-person & online
14. Stories/Literature:
Lin, P-Y., Grewal, N.S., Morin, C., Johnson, W.D., Zak, P.J. 2013. Oxytocin increases the
influence of public service advertisements. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56934. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0056934. [Link]
Medina, John. Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five.
Seattle: Pear Press, 2010. Print http://brainrules.net/pdf/references_longterm.pdf
Embodied Self-Regulation Skills:
Dennison, Paul and Dennison, Gail. Brain Gym® 101: Balance for Daily Life.
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EduKinesthetics, 2007. Print
Dennision, Paul & Dennison, Gail. Brain Gym Teacher’s Manual. EduKinesthetics, Inc.,
2010. Print
Dustow, Dr. Jennifer. Autism Project of Dr. Jennifer Dustow: Do Bilateral Exercises Decrease
Off Task Behavior with Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Koln, Germany: Lambert
Academic Publishing, 2009. Print LINK http://www.amazon.com/Autism-Project-Dr-Jennifer-Dustow/dp/3838316614/ref=la_B0056OC1HU_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid
Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., (2008) The Cognitive Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain,
Retrieved from http://www.parentingscience.com/benefits-of-play.html
Hannaford, Carla. Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head. Great Ocean
Publishers 1995. Print
16. move-with-me.com
Leah Kalish, MA: CEO / Founder
15718 Milbank Street
Encino, CA, 91436
Phone: 818-667-3689
Email: leah @ move-with-me.com
Notes de l'éditeur
Added a “s” at the end of Resource (Resources). Change Arial Black to Dark Blue Scale down on yoga kid images and kept the trianglar 3-D focal point. Didn’t move icons along curve -- the same. Move title to the left, and scaled “Resources and Curriculum,” and “Pre-K -- Grade 1” down. GEH
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