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Why Learning is Better Outdoors
Citizens of Minnesota, where Moving Minds is headquartered, have been spending a lot more time in indoors than usual. School is canceled. Gymnastics is suspended. Dance classes are scrapped. Music [...]
Daily Brain Breaks You Can Do At Home – Week 4
We’ve created a resource of daily brain breaks that you can do at home! Feel free to switch around the days to best suit your schedule, or put your own [...]
Learning Can Happen Anywhere
I live in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and 4-6 months of winter. But in the last couple of weeks, spring has been sneaking around. Our cars are warmer, [...]
Daily Brain Breaks You Can Do At Home – Week 3
We've created a resource of daily brain breaks that you can do at home! Feel free to switch around the days to best suit your schedule, or put your own [...]
Importance of Physical Activity While Working from Home
Working from home presents many challenges for teachers and parents. We are in unchartered waters of trying to continue to work while helping our kids continue to learn and complete [...]
Daily Brain Breaks You Can Do At Home – Week 2
Monday Last week we went over some beginner yoga movements such as the cat pose and the upward dog pose. Multiple research studies have demonstrated positive outcomes of yoga on [...]
Daily Brain Breaks You Can Do At Home – Week 1
Monday Start with learning and teaching some beginner yoga poses. Here are a few to start with: Cat and Cow Pose • Begin on hands and knees --Hands beneath shoulders [...]
5 Steps to Facilitate Our Students’ Growth During Challenging Times
Well, here we are. It is 8:30am on a Wednesday morning and I am sitting in my home “office” looking out a window listening to my kids racing through our [...]
Social Distancing and Physical Activity: How to Keep Students Active at Home
COVID-19. Social distancing. Outbreak. R-naught. These buzzwords and phrases are new to all and scary to many in 2020. “Flatten the curve” is another phrase that you might be familiar [...]