I Am Yoga
Written by Susan Verde, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
AD490L
Winner of the Parents Choice Silver Honor 2015
This is a pre-k to kindergartener instructional book on different yoga poses. The dialog starts with how hectic and busy the world can be but with yoga, you can clear your mind and calm your body. The illustrations of the poses are complimented by a background reflecting the name of the pose, Tree pose in a forest or flower pose among a bunch of flowers. The end of the book has a write up on the simplified names, like tree and flower, and contains the technical names for each pose. I write up of proper stance is written below each entry, to guide the reader on how to actually do the pose correctly.
Learning
Activity:
After finishing reading the book, discuss what poses/imagery the student liked. Take whatever their favorite was and guide them through the pose. In a group setting, combine poses together based on the students’ suggestions. After trying out the selected poses, have the student draw what they felt like when they were in that pose. Was it like the book or was it different?
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-L.RI.K.7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
CCSS.ELA-L.SL.K.5 - Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
After finishing reading the book, discuss what poses/imagery the student liked. Take whatever their favorite was and guide them through the pose. In a group setting, combine poses together based on the students’ suggestions. After trying out the selected poses, have the student draw what they felt like when they were in that pose. Was it like the book or was it different?
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-L.RI.K.7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).
CCSS.ELA-L.SL.K.5 - Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
Goal:
After listening to the text and with help from the teacher, the student will follow the book’s instructions on how to perform poses from the text, and afterward the student will draw how they felt as they performed the movements.
Objective:
Psychomotor -
The student will listen and follow instruction on how to physically perform selected yoga poses.
Affective -
The student will reflect on their experience and draw how they felt during the movement of yoga.
Outcome:
The student will produce artwork reflecting their feelings while they performed yoga poses and have experienced at least one pose position.
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