BLOOM where you're planted!

Spring has SPRUNG!

Spring has SPRUNG!  I did NOT wear a coat for morning duty!!  It's a GIFT!  We are saying goodbye to the colder weather.

Soar Your Butterfly

Butterfly

Soaring Butterfly -- -- Spread your WINGS and FLY!

BEE a Flower

BEE a flower and BLOOM where you're planted!

Some Bunnies

Some Bunnies are HOPPING into Spring!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Monday

Furry and Fabulous Friday

We're finding GOLD at the end of the RAINBOW on the day after St. Patrick's!

Watch D.O.G.S. on Friday

It's ALL GREEN!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

See Green? Sea Green!

Today we were sea turtles at the beach!!  Don't forget to wear GREEN on Thursday, 3/17, for St. Patrick's Day fun!

Forest Green and Shaded Green

Be a tree on Tuesday!  Laura Vaccaro Seeger's Green has several pages dedicated to trees!  When you pretend to be a tree,  you grow roots deep into the ground and you can stretch your branches high in the sky.  When the wind blows you bend and are flexible and do not break!  Pretending to be a tree helps you to feel stable in your body, steady in your mind and balanced in your moods and emotions.

Forever Green

"I guess you can't fight nature.  We are what we are."  Be proud if you are a "wet, slimy, bug-eating, very lucky frog!"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHlZg0Ks3Mw&index=2&list=PL3gvk3jvCEl-jNgTd5ft82mMTiix3dpFh

Watch D.O.G.S. on Monday

Green is for "GO!"

Laura Vaccaro Seeger's Green has a page for "never green."  Have fun on Friday considering the places you should NEVER go .  .  . I should NEVER get so angry I wop somebody or something .  .  . I should NEVER eat the FAMILY SIZE bag of potato chips .  .  .  HALT is another way to STOP:  NEVER let yourself get too _H_ungry, _A_ngry, _L_onely, or _T_ired .  .  .

Go GREEN!

What colors are you eating?  Laura Vaccaro Seeger's book Green (http://www.amazon.com/Green-Laura-Vaccaro-Seeger/dp/1596433973) reminds us about limes and peas!  Leafy green vegetables have vitamins, minerals, and fiber.  These choices provide healthy fuel for you to think and do all that you do in a day!  Go GREEN!

Sittin' Still Like a Frog

This is a great book by Eline Snel!  http://www.amazon.com/Sitting-Still-Like-Frog-Mindfulness/dp/1611800587  It contains stories for kiddos to practice sitting still, noticing all that's happening around, conserving energy so they can HOP TO IT!  Kermit the Frog once said, "It's not EASY being green!"  When's it is a "challenge," it is usually an OPPORTUNITY to GROW!

ShamROCK ON!

I'm having fun with GREEN a little early!  Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger explores many "flavors" of this color.  I'm guessing it's no surprise that my favorite would be "wacky green?!"

Watch D.O.G.S. on Tuesday

Feelin' DOGGONE "Lucky" on Friday!

I'm a believer in makin' your own luck.  The "T" in GRIT is for tenacity!  Be the dog with the bone! If it's appropriate, don't give up or give in, hang on and hang tough.  The more GRIT you have, the more successful you are.  It IS in your circle of control to choose grittiness!

Picture Day

Sporting a special hairdo for picture day!  I was going for a "Cinderella" look for the "I" in "GRIT" which stands for integrity!   Cinderella didn't complain or whine.  She got her work done in a quality way despite her circumstances.  She was honest and kind.  The thoughts she thought, the words she spoke, the choices she chose were morally upright.  She may be a storybook character but we all could have a little more happily ever after by incorporating more integrity!

Career Day

I enjoyed the opportunity to share about "my job" at Career Day!  

It was Collaborative Day, so we LEARNED LIKE OUR HAIR WAS ON FIRE!

I shared props and tools I use when teaching yoga:

Hoberman Sphere

singing bowl

I shared some BIG

half moon pose

and small ways to breathe, s-t-r-e-t-c-h, strengthen, and balance!

turtle mudra

We're practicing RESILIENCE!

When you demonstrate GRIT, you are resilient! When you get knocked down, you get back up again! If you step in mud, you celebrate your brown shoes because it's all good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks17GI4hFVQ