Summer Activity Workbook bridging Kindergarten to Grade 1 for kids ages 5-6Help prevent learning loss year-round and prepare your kindergartener for back-to-school success in just 15 minutes a day with engaging activities, exercises, and fun games―all in one workbook!Summer Learning Kindergarten Workbooks & 1st Grade Workbooks are a great way for your child to learn essential reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and fitness skills during the schoolyear or summer break that is both fun AND educational! Why You’ll Love This Summer Kindergarten Activity BookEngaging and educational learning activities. “Tracing and writing numbers”, “Writing upper- and lowercase alphabet letters”, and “hands-on science experiments” are a few of the fun activities in this kindergarten workbook to help inspire learning and prevent summer slide.Testing progress along the way. Track student progress before moving on to new and exciting lessons with the Skills Matrix and answer key.Practically sized for every activity. The 160-page summer workbook for kids is sized at 8” x 10 ½”―giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.About Summer Bridge ActivitiesAward-winning Summer Bridge Activities® engage children's creativity and learning potential and keep kids mentally and physically active to prevent summer learning loss and pave the way for a successful new school year ahead.The Summer Learning Kindergarten Workbook Contains:Over 60 days of activities with step-by-step instructionsFlash cards, stickers, and a completion certificatePerfectly sized at 8" x 10 ½” Read more

Big emotions can be overwhelming! Children need help to understand and express what they feel.Listening to My Body is an engaging and interactive book that guides children through the process of naming their emotions and the physical sensations accompanying them. Teaching kids to tune into their bodies and name their feelings is a foundation for emotional regulation.From wiggly and squirmy to rested and still, Listening to My Body helps children develop a sensations vocabulary to help them express what they are experiencing. It includes kid-friendly "Let's Practice" activities throughout the book so children can practice what they're learning.Listening to My Body is a wonderful social-emotional tool for parents, counselors, and teachers!(Available in Spanish as Escuchando a Mi Cuerpo.) Read more

Breathe Like a Bear is a beautifully illustrated collection of mindfulness exercises designed to teach kids techniques for managing their bodies, breath, and emotions. Best of all, these 30 simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car to the grocery store, during heavy homework nights at home, or even at a child’s desk at school. Based on Kira Willey’s Parents’ Choice GOLD Award-winning CD, Mindful Moments for Kids, this one-of-a-kind book is sure to help kids find calm, gain focus, and feel energized during the day, and encourage families to establish a fun and consistent mindfulness practice, whether at home or on the go. Read more

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Stretch your way to a fun and healthy lifestyle with each of the 50 yoga poses in this colorful activity deck for kids. These sturdy cards include forward bends, back bends, partner poses, balance poses, mindfulness, visualizations and breathing. Clear step-by-step instructions with illustrations make yoga easy for children from preschool to high school and beyond. Discover why parents, teachers, therapists and kids love this bestselling wellness tool! Read more

Grow Up and Love Your Body!The Complete Girls’ Guide to Growing Up Age 8-12⊂ incl. Body-Care and Self-Esteem Special ⊃As a young girl in today’s modern world, it can be difficult to love yourself and your body with so many outside influences telling you how you should look and feel. It is really important to learn to love yourself and appreciate the way you look so that you can have the self-esteem and self-confidence to feel good about yourself.In this book, we will explore some of the challenges that you might face in your daily life, at home and at school that can impact on your body image and your self-esteem. Additionally, we will provide some really helpful tips on how to overcome these challenges so that you can feel really good about yourself.At this time in your life, your body is starting to change and it can be really confusing for every young girl. From this book, you will learn about:• Puberty and the different ways that it will change your body.• How your emotions affect your self-confidence and moods.• The various experiences you will have with friends and at school.• How to maintain a good diet and exercise.• Coping with new experiences like starting your period and buying your first bra.• How celebrity culture and the internet can impact your life and self-esteem.• Getting through family conflicts. • Boys and new relationships.As you grow up, you can use the things that you learn in this book to help you feel good about yourself, love your body and get through harder times. So, if you are aged between eight and twelve or you have a daughter in this age group, buy this essential guide to growing up today! Read more

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Color Me Stronger invites children aged 3 and up on an exciting journey where fitness meets fun!This vibrant coloring book is not just about filling pages with colors but also about embracing the joy of physical activity. Through playful illustrations and engaging activities, children will discover various ways to strengthen their bodies while unleashing their creativity. From jumping jacks to yoga poses, every page encourages young readers to explore different exercises and enjoy the benefits of an active lifestyle.Get ready to color your way to strength and vitality with Color Me Stronger! Read more

A very simple introduction to the sport of gymnastics along with descriptions of some of the basic skills and equipment. Read more

Let your toddler discover the joys of yoga through the simple poses in this yoga book for kids.With a range of gentle poses carefully selected in an order that will engage, energize, and then relax, this book can be accessed by all abilities. Sweet illustrations of yoga positions are brought to life with real photographs of young children practicing the moves. From downward dog, to cat stretch, to sleepy sloth, this board book includes a variety of yoga moves that are made fun for little ones.Babies and toddlers will love looking at the beautiful pictures in this illustrated children's book and turning the pages by themselves. There are a range of easy poses for toddlers to copy. Can they stand up tall like a tree and try to balance on one leg or breathe out fiercely like a lion?My First Yoga helps preschoolers to develop their early learning skills as they name the animals and objects that go with each pose, broadening their vocabulary. The sturdy board book is made for kids to get hands-on with and is perfect for little children to hold by themselves. Yoga has many health benefits as it helps with balance, coordination and mindfulness -- it's never too early to start! Read more

//*\\ Nautilus Book Award - Silver Medalist for Middle-Grade Nonfiction //*\\Attention all grown-ups! Kids have questions! Now they’ll have answers. Kids of all ages have some important questions about how their bodies work—and why their parents and other adults have some strong ideas on what needs to get done every day in order to stay healthy. Children often hear: “No more screen time!” “Eat your vegetables!” "You can't have cookies for dinner!" “You need to take your medicine!” “Wash your hands! With soap!” “It’s getting late! Get ready for bed!!” In this book, Dr. Nina L. Shapiro embarks on an amazing journey through the body as it gets fed, protected, exercised, cleaned, energized, and rested. Each chapter provides kids with age-appropriate explanations and illustrations that address their very good questions about their bodies and health with solid (and fun!) science-based answers. By receiving an in-depth understanding of what it means to be healthy, strong, clean, rested, and energized, kids will soon be able to make smart decisions on their own. The human body is incredible, and the science behind how our bodies work, how the world affects our bodies, and how our bodies affect the world around us is pretty cool, too. Read more

Flutter, wiggle, jiggle―it’s never too early to introduce children to the fun and healthy joys of yogaFlutter like a butterfly.Twist and turn like a grasshopper.Wiggle, jiggle, and giggle like a beetle. Kids love bugs―and what better way to get them excited about yoga than with the help of our multi-legged friends? This delightfully illustrated board book brings the fun and benefits of authentic yoga practice to infants and toddlers.Yoga Bug guides children through ten authentic yoga poses named after insects that unfold in an irresistibly whimsical flow of play, imagination, and movement. Kids will want to return to them again and again. Learning to love and accept our bodies, building lifelong attention, and self-soothing when distressed―when it comes to the benefits of yoga, you can’t get started too early. Now, with Yoga Bug, parents, teachers, and caregivers have a perfect way to help children do just that. Includes a parents’ guide to the source yoga poses and helpful tips. Read more

A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move!Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move.Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and tumble through these pages with such exuberance that even sprouting couch potatoes will want to get up and bounce around—and that’s the ultimate goal. Studies show that American kids are becoming more sedentary and more overweight and that they carry these tendencies with them into adolescence and adulthood. Experts agree that we need to help kids make physical activity a life-long habit. Through education, information, and encouragement, this book aims to inspire a new generation of busy bodies! Read more

With simple instructions and bright, clear illustrations, award-winning artist Taeeun Yoo invites children to enjoy yoga by assuming playful animal poses. And she sparks their imagination further by encouraging them to pretend to be the animal - to flutter like a butterfly, hiss like a snake, roar like a lion and more. Yoga is great for kids because it promotes flexibility and focus - and it's relaxing good fun! The charming pictures of children and animals and the lyrical text make this gentle introduction to yoga a book to be treasured. Read more

My First Yoga ABC is a sturdy board book for infants to help them learn not only the alphabet, but some simple yoga poses as well. Each page has block letters of the alphabet, with a corresponding yoga pose. For instance, Aa is for Airplane posture. Young children will delight in practicing yoga while reciting their ABCs! Read more

Kids love yoga―and it’s great for them, so much so that the President’s Council has added the practice to the fitness activities in the annual President’s Challenge. For parents and caregivers looking for a fun and effective new routine for bedtime, innovative educator Mariam Gates presents Good Night Yoga, a playful yet wholly practical book for preparing for sleep. This beautifully illustrated, full-color book tells the story of the natural world as it closes down for the night, while teaching children a simple flow of yoga postures inspired by their favorite characters from nature. Moving from "Sun Breath" to "Cloud Gathering" to "Ladybug & Butterfly" and more, readers learn techniques for self-soothing, relaxing the body and mind, focusing attention, and other skills that will support restful sleep and improve overall confidence and well-being. Read more

Big emotions can be overwhelming! Children need help to better understand and express what they feel.Listening to My Body is an engaging and interactive book that guides children through the process of naming their emotions and the physical sensations accompanying them. Teaching kids to tune into their bodies and name their feelings is a foundation for emotional regulation.From wiggly and squirmy to rested and still, Listening to My Body helps children develop a sensations vocabulary to help them express what they are experiencing. It includes kid-friendly "Let's Practice" activities throughout the book so children can practice what they're learning.Listening to My Body is a wonderful social-emotional tool for parents, counselors, and teachers!(Available in Spanish as Escuchando a Mi Cuerpo.) Read more

It's almost Field Day! But Natalie's team isn't ready for the big race. Their muscles get tired easily. Ms. Starr teaches them about aerobic and anaerobic exercise. They learn some stretching exercises too. Now they're full of energy. Can they win the beach ball relay? Read more

The healing, restorative power of yoga has been known for centuries, and more people than ever are active practitioners. Now even the youngest of readers can learn this mind and body exercise, helping them set up a lifetime of healthy habits. Through clear, easy-to-follow instructions, a unicorn yogi, along with two energetic students, leads children through a ten-pose class. Kid-friendly back matter provides additional information on yoga, as well as tips on mindfulness, encouraging readers to develop their own daily practice. Read more

¿Sabías que todos tenemos superpoderes? Uno de ellos es nuestra capacidad para controlar nuestra respiración.La Respiración es Mi Superpoder enseña a los niños a controlar sus sentimientos, especialmente si se sienten molestos, enfadados o estresados.Sofía enseña a los niños a controlar su respiración en diferentes situaciones, ya sea en la escuela, en casa o en el patio de recreo. Las Cinco Técnicas de Respiración que se incluyen en el libro son estrategias de relajación para niños que muestran una manera divertida y eficiente sobre la gestión del cuerpo, la respiración y las emociones.El mindfulness para niños les ayuda a controlar sus sentimientos de muchas maneras diferentes:Sirve de relajación cuando los niños piensan que los adultos no los entienden.Para afrontar miedos y preocupaciones.Para hacer frente al rechazo en la escuela.Para recuperar la confianza en uno mismo.Como alivio de la ansiedad para niños que les enseña los conceptos básicos del yoga para niños.Tus hijos se sentirán identificados con nuestra heroína, Sofía, y estarán encantados con las atractivas ilustraciones y las encantadoras rimas de este cuento antes de acostarse.La Respiración es Mi Superpoder es el segundo libro de la Serie Mis Superpoderes, los libros mindfulness de crecimiento para niños adecuados para todas las edades, así como para cualquier persona que trabaje con niños. Read more