BIrd's Eye View

My uncle and dad flew over PHES today to capture a picture of the tulip garden from the air!  Thank you, Cougars, for planting the promise in the fall.  Our Healthy Choices are BLOOMING this spring!

Out Like a Lamb?!

It was a BEAUTIFUL day in our neighborhood!  All day I was thinking March is going out like a lamb.   But when I was walking this afternoon, the wind picked up a bit .  .  .  hmmm, out like a lion or lamb?  Watch out for April Fools' Fun on Wednesday?!

ROAR

Is March leaving like a Lamb or Lion?  It was blustery this morning!  As we say goodbye to March, try a "lion's breath!"  Breathe IN through your nose and ROAR out through your mouth.  This breath relaxes a tense or tight jaw.  It also helps your voice to be strong and loud!

HOPPY Spring!

HOPPY Spring!  HOPPY School Spirit Day!  I reckon a frog on your head is better than one in your throat .  .  . HOPPY Friday!

"Oh, Who Can Make a Flower?"

"Oh, Who Can Make a Flower?"  Maybe we can't "make" one but we can pretend to be one!  This movement is great for the core.  Keep back straight, tighten tummy, spread fingers wide.  Strengthen your core and your brain and body will be strong!  Have you read The Sunflower Sword by Mark Spelling?  It's a great reminder to "be kind" and "listen to your mama!"  BLOOM on Thursday!

Butterfly Effect

Here's a way to move your body to help you inside and out!  Sit like a butterfly, with your back straight and tall and soles of the feet together to create wings.  This movement can help your heart feel happy, reduce fatigue and anxiety, and stretch your inner thighs and knees.  It's a twist on the "butterfly effect" for you on Wednesday!

BEE Balanced

We read The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman on Tuesday and discussed overdoing a good thing.  We pretended to be the flowers, stream, boat, and bugs in the story!  We breathed like the hummingbee.  Take a deep breath and "hum" it out.  When you run out of "hum," repeat.  Repeat a third time and then let the breath go.  This way of breathing can help when you have a headache.  You can put your fingers on your head if you need "antennas."  BEEing balanced is the BUZZ for today!

Breathe like a flower!

Breathe like a flower to help your prefrontal cortex, the "wise leader" in your brain, do its best work!  Ball your fist loosely and breathe in as you open your fingers like the petals of a flower blooming.  Exhale and close the petals.  Breathe in, Breath Out.

Happy Spring!

Spring has SPRUNG!  We have one tulip blooming in the Red Ribbon Week garden.  The sun in shining this afternoon and so am I!

"POETRY BREAK!"  Here's a spring poem Mrs. Stewart shared with me last year:

A Daffodil

There's a golden cup

With a golden frill

And golden wings,

Makes a Daffodil.

Keep your eyes peeled for daffodils, tulips, and other spring flowers!  Happy Spring!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Friday

World's Tallest Leprechaun

Have you always wanted to try yoga but didn't know when, where or how to go about it?  Family Yoga with the World's Tallest Leprechaun might be the GO for GREEN choice for you and yours!  On Tuesday, March 24 @ Pisgah Lutheran, I will teach a family yoga class, 5:15-6:15.  Need more details?  Click on http://zipadeeyoga.blogspot.com/

Watch D.O.G.S. on Thursday

ShamROCK ON!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Wednesday

Lucky?

Is it GOOD LUCK or GOOD CHOICES?  Luck you're not in charge of but choices you are!  You are also in charge of what you think .  .  . what do you think?!

Get Your GREEN On!

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day.  Don't forget to wear GREEN!  

Great Day for UP

This Dr. Seuss book was the very first book I read on my own as a child!  With the time change, it's been difficult to get up and at 'em in the mornings at the Broam Home.  Maybe the l-o-n-g weekend will make Monday a GREAT DAY for UP!  Rest and enjoy your holiday tomorrow, PHES Cougars.

Watch D.O.G.S. on Thursday

Think GREEN!

My husband served up a spinach and egg sandwich for breakfast today!  It is "mindful" to taste a new food, especially when it looks different from anything you eaten [The MindUP Curriculum, Grades Pre-K-2, p. 153].

We also read Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger today to strengthen "inner resource."  When you need to calm your mind and body, close your eyes, take a breath, and Think GREEN.  What do YOU think of when you Think GREEN?  How do you feel when you Think GREEN?

Hurray for Horton!

Horton is a Dr. Seuss character EVERYONE should know, no matter how small!  When he hatches the egg, we're encouraged to persevere and hang in there when the going gets tough.  When he hears a Who, we're reminded that all folks are important.  The rhyming words in Dr. Seuss' books, tickle your ears.  The meaning of his stories, strengthens your heart.  Thank you, Dr. Seuss, for sharing your amazing talent with the world!  The world is better place because of you.

5th Grade Fun

A PHES 5th Grader wore this shirt today:

What is the distance between "imaginative" and "delusional?"

Use Your Imagination on Monday

 I'm still celebrating the work of Dr. Seuss.  Bartholomew Cubbins had 500 Hats!  How many does Mrs. Broam have?

And I have PINK UNICORN tights to match my PINK UNICORN hat!  How are you using your imagination on Monday?

Are you ready to go places?

Thank you to my PHES friends who visited Germany and brought me back this hat!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Friday

Speaking for the Trees and Children on Thursday

"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."  We moved and breathed like trees this morning and discovered it's easier to be a forest than a tree hanging out on your own.  If a whole bunch of people cared, what a positive difference it could make in our world?!!

Thinking INSIDE and OUTSIDE the Box

In Boxville, I could be a school counselor!  We're exploring careers at our annual "Career Day" today.  Thank you to all the volunteers for sharing what you do each day with us.  Thinking INSIDE and OUTSIDE the box on Wednesday!

"Don't Take That Cat to Your Address!"

In Tom Chapin's "The Library Song," he croons, "Don't take that cat to your address, he always makes a mess!"  I keep making messes, and messes are okay to make, but you do have to stop and clean up the fun .  .  . The Cat in the Hat cleans up HIS messes?!  Take 15 minutes, then another 15 minutes and before you know it, you'll be able to find the table again!

Read Across America

 Let's read some Dr. Seuss!

 Mrs. Burritt wears her "Star Belly" today!

What do you learn when you read this story?