Creating Yoga stories in PE

In kindergarten student follow a unit of inquiry in the classroom all about expressing their imagination. In PE students integrated with this unit through dance, but mainly yoga.

The yoga section started with the students watching and participating in yoga stories from Cosmic Kids yoga. Each episode tells a different story, which is told through different yoga poses. After the story finished, we would try to remember and practice the different yoga moves used in the story, as some times in the story they went a little fast.

The next stage was for the students to use their imagination to create a yoga story. First up was deciding where to go on the imagination journey and record it on their storyboard, either by drawing or writing. Students then had to choose a form of transport to get there. The middle of the story involved what they saw, before having to come home.

 

Once the story was completed the students then started to use yoga to represent the different parts of the story. Students practiced telling the story to each other before we videoed the story in front of a green screen. Then the students got to choose a background to match their story, before the story and background were put together using a green screen app and we had our own yoga stories videos - just like cosmic kids!