Sesame Workshop Webinar: Move & Learn Together

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Sesame Workshop offer a webinar on Move & Learn Together: Movement for Healthy Bodies

The webinar, available at https://sesameworkshop.org/resources/move-and-learn-together-movement-healthy-bodies/ encourages parents and caregivers to learn together with the young children in their care by ‘moving and shaking for healthy bodies and minds’.

Noting that children are meant to be active for at least 60 minutes a day, Rebecca Honig explores strategies for building body awareness and movement skills, whilst explaining the importance of activity to children’s learning and development.

The learning goals of the webinar are:

1. Learn about why physical and aerobic activity is important to building kids’ muscles and minds.

2. Practise enjoyable aerobic activities that can easily be incorporated into your daily routines.

3. Understand the developmental skills that can be built with each activity.

The webinar offers a quiz and certificate option. The site also offers two supporting downloadable resources to accompany the webinar:

  • Movement for Healthy Bodies Handout

  • Movement for Healthy Bodies Alignment Standards

Activities explored during the session include:

  • “Paint the Ceiling” pretend painting and stretching exercise

  • “Celebrate Our Bodies” musical body parts exercise

  • “Animal Movements” animal movement mimicking exercise

  • “Finger Play” story acting out exercise

  • “Cardio Dance Party” dance movement exercise

  • Cool down stretches

Healthy Lifestyles, ResourcesJessica Campbell