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Thank You

June 22-June 25

Keep active all summer. Make yourself a fitness goal for the summer. Write your goal on a piece of paper and put it up on your fridge. Review it regularly.
ideas:
-ride your bike 3 times a week
-ask to go for a hike on the weekend
-weed the garden
-vacuum your house
-wash the car
-play hopscotch
-be creative
-keep active

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Mixing It Up

June 15-June 19

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity

Click ***HERE*** to do Go Noodle Own Your Power: This is a mindfulness activity that will help you bring power back in to yourself with your breath and your body. 

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challenge 2: Get moving

Click ***HERE***to learn a dance tutorial  with Go Noodle. Can you Do the moves with the Blazer Fresh Dance Team? This isn't just a dance song, it also listening, repeating and then adding your own twist at the end. Just keep moving. Don't sit down until the lesson is over.

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challenge 3: Join our team

get up and do some fitness training Click ***HERE*** to do a fun fitness activity as part of TEAM

Mme Koughan's Class / Lac Des Bois

Be part of the Everybody Move Now Fitness Challenge!!!!! 

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Challenge 4: Technology Free: 

Do you have any sidewalk chalk? Can you draw a hopscotch on your sidewalk. Can you draw some squares big and some squares small? Change it up? Why don't you make 10 squares one day, and 20 squares the next? The keep is to get outside and keep moving.

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Wolves

June 8-June 12

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity

Click ***HERE*** to do Zen Den Yoga: This is a mindfulness activity that will help you relax this week. Find a nice quiet spot to listen, lay down and breathe deeply. 

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challenge 2: Get moving

Click ***HERE***to dance with Go Noodle. Can you Do the Yeti Smallfoot dance? Remember there was a Yeti in our French story this week. Can you do the Yeti too? Just keep moving. Don't sit down until the song is over.

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challenge 3: Join our team

get up and do some fitness training Click ***HERE*** to do a fun fitness activity as part of TEAM

Mme Koughan's Class / Lac Des Bois

Be part of the Everybody Move Now Fitness Challenge!!!!! 

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Challenge 4: Technology Free: 

Can you play a tag game of What Time is it Mr. Wolf with some members of your family? Don't forget to play with only members of your family if you are going to get close and tag people. If not get creative. Maybe you can make some new rules for this very old game.

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Tree Frog

Frogs

June 1-June 25

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity

Frog Yoga: click ***HERE***

This is a mindfulness activity that will help you get ready to work before you start a lesson, or it can help you burn off the last bit of energy at the end of a lesson. You can do this with members of your family. 

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challenge 2: Get moving

Click ***HERE***to dance with the Crazy Frogs. Can you hop, jump, skip or dance for the length of the entire song? Just keep moving. Don't sit down until the song is over.

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challenge 3: Join our team

get up and do some fitness training Click ***HERE*** to do a fun fitness activity as part of TEAM

Mme Koughan's Class / Lac Des Bois

Be part of the Everybody Move Now Fitness Challenge!!!!! 

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Challenge 4: Technology Free: 

How far can you jump? Stand behind a line and jump one giant jump. Measure how far you jumped. Keep practicing all week. Keep track of your jumps. Did you improve throughout the week?

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Paris

Paris

May 25-May29

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity

Mindful Walking: click ***HERE***

This is a mindfulness activity that will help you relax while taking a walk. If you are like me, you probably are going for lots of walks right now, why not practice a mindful walk the next time.

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challenge 2: Get moving

Click ***HERE***to participate in a zumbatonic lesson with some kids. Can you keep up and follow along with the music?

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challenge 3: Join our team

get up and do some fitness training Click ***HERE*** to do a fun fitness activity as part of TEAM

Mme Koughan's Class / Lac Des Bois

Be part of the Everybody Move Now Fitness Challenge!!!!! 

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Challenge 4: Technology Free: 

The Eiffel tower is 324m tall.  Can you walk 324 meters? or jump 324 times? Maybe you can walk 324 giant steps?Can you do 324 squats this week?  Lets celebrate the Eiffel tower and do 324 movements this week. Keep a tally, and tell me what you did this week.

Have fun.

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Crafts Supplies

Arts and Crafts

May 19-May 22

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity

Superpower Listening: click ***HERE***

This is a mindfulness activity that will help you relax and become a better listener.

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challenge 2: Get moving

Click ***HERE***to participate in Go Noodle "Jumping up and Down". Can you Jump up and down for the length of this entire song without stopping? What is your favourite colour that you see jumping?

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challenge 3: Join our team

get up and do some fitness training Click ***HERE*** to do a fun fitness activity as part of TEAM

Mme Koughan's Class / Lac Des Bois

Be part of the Everybody Move Now Fitness Challenge!!!!! 

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Challenge 4: Technology Free:

Run around your yard and gather nature related items like rocks, sticks, pine cones, dandelions, leaves...bring them back to one area. Try and create a picture using all your found items. Send me a photo of your creative creation.

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Have fun.

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The Savanna

May 11-May 15

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity

Elephant Breath: click ***HERE***  Feeling Sluggish after a long day? Elephant Breaths can help perk you up.

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challenge 2: Get moving

Click ***HERE***to participate in Just Dance Kids Dance. Can you dance to "I like to move it move it?"

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challenge 3: Join our team

get up and do some fitness training Click ***HERE*** to do a fun fitness activity as part of TEAM

Mme Koughan's Class / Lac Des Bois

Be part of the Everybody Move Now Fitness Challenge!!!!! 

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Challenge 4: Technology Free:

The next time you go outside in your yard, or go for a walk around your block, how many different ways can you move like an animal that lives in the savanna?

Can you run like a cheetah?

Stomp like an elephant?

Walk tall like a giraffe?

Swing like an ape?

Pounce like a lion?

What does a zebra do? What about a hippopotomus? How many other animals can you think of?

Have fun.

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Gardening

Gardening

May 4-May 8

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity Building Patience: click ***HERE*** Relax, breathe and build patience this week. Just like Monsieur Louis needed patience this week,in the reading activity, maybe you need patience too?

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challenge 2: Get moving

Click ***HERE***to participate in the indoor recess Dance with the GONOODLE. Which section did you like the best? (Make weird noises? Kitty high 5? Zumba? or Hang in there?)

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challenge 3: Join our team

get up and do some fitness training Click ***HERE*** to do a fun fitness activity as part of TEAM Mme Koughan's Class / Lac Des Bois

Be part of the Every Move Now Fitness Challenge!!!!! 

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Challenge 4: Technology Free:

Fill a box or a laundry basket with 20 small items. Imagine you are going to plant the items in the ground across your living room. As fast as you can reach in the basket, squat down, plant your item in your pretend garden, stand up, and repeat until your basket is empty. Count the items you are planting in French while you squat down.

Once your basket is empty, do your relay in reverse. Count backwards in French as you "unplant" your garden. 

Was it faster to plant your garden, or unplant your garden? 

Have fun.

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Water

Water

April 27-May 1

challenge 1: Relaxation Activity Melting Away: click ***HERE*** Relax, breathe and melt your worries away 

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challenge 2: Click ***HERE***to participate in the water cycle dance. Dance with the GONOODLE guys and learn all about the water cycle.

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challenge 3: get up and do some fitness training GONOODLE style Click ***HERE*** to workout to  the"digging for water" workout

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Challenge 4: Set pillows and other obstacles on the floor of your living room.  Imagine you are a penguin (just like the penguin from our multiplication game we played a few weeks ago). Now hop from pillow to pillow. Count by 5's in French to 50 or 100, When you get to the last number stop and take away one pillow. Some of the gaps between icebergs will get really far. If you can't hop that far to the icebergs, you will need to bear crawl on all 4's to get to the nearest pillow. The do 5 burpees to get back onto the iceberg. Start again. Counting by 5's and hopping on the icebergs. Go until there are no pillows left. Have fun little penguins.

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 Movement Assignments

Butterfly

Butterflies

April 20-23

challenge 1: Butterfly YOGA: click ***HERE*** to watch le yoga du papillon. Relax, breathe and have fun.It's less than 4 minutes of fun.

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challenge 2: Click ***HERE***to participate in Le Papillon dans la Savane. Its a 20 minute stretch and YOGA around the theme of Butterflies.

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challenge 3: get up and GONOODLE with the Trolls. Click ***HERE*** to dance and move to "Can't stop the Feeling"

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Challenge 4: Set pillows and other obstacles on the floor of your living room. Then set a timer for 30 seconds. (If you don't have a timer, you can count to 30 in French). Next, lay on the floor and pretend you are a caterpillar. Wiggle your body across the room, around and over all the obtacles. When the timer beeps hold your position, and imagine you are a caterpillar waiting to become a butterfly. While you wait, count backwards in French from 20 to 0.When you get to 0, times up and you are now a Butterfly. Flap your arms to the other side of the room.

Movement: Tests & Assignments

Pancakes

April 14-17

challenge 1: Cut 10 pancakes out of paper. Ask a member of your house to hide them around your house. Run/walk/ hop through your house and find the entire stack of 10 pancakes.

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challenge 2: Cut out 2 pancakes and place them on the floor. Step on one pancake, then balance on one foot and reach down and move the other pancake. Can you get from one side of the room to the other?

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Challenge 3: Place your stack of paper pancakes on your head. Can you walk across the room without the pancakes falling off? As you cross the room how many objects (nouns) can you list in French? Say them out loud as you cross the room. Teach these words to a family member if you can.

Pancakes
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May 11-15

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May 25- 29

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May 18-22

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June 1-5

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