In Case you Missed It: Friday, June 15

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Well The end of the week is finally here. It was a productive one for me, and an enlightening one as well. It was the last week of school for many  and the start of some summer adventures for others!

This week marked a few milestones as well: my daughter successfully finished the 6th grade; my sons and my brother all turned a year older; I am on the verge of publishing my first two S.M.Art Story™ expanded curricula on Amazon; AND my blog has reached over 100,000 views!  I want to thank my readers and community partners for your inspiration, feedback and support of adaptive movement programming for kids. Without you, this program and these books would not exist.!

As a Thank You and to celebrate these exciting events, I will be giving away six copies (3 of each title) of my soon to be published S.M.Art Story™ books to six lucky winners! (Why six you ask? Well, June is the 6th month!)

Dragonfly's Adventure and Ocean Surf-ari:
2 of our S.M.Art Story™ Series books

What is a S.M.Art Story™?  Its a BodyLogique® Exclusive! Themed, yoga-based adaptive curriculum series for educators, therapists, yoga teachers & families to use as supplemental materials for children ages five to ten. They are fun, educational, therapeutic and completely user friendly. (You do not need to have yoga experience to use them.) They have been used (e-book version) in classrooms, camps, sensory rooms and home school programs all over the country.

Each curriculum aligns with core educational standards, national standards for PE, and supports health, well being, inclusion, sensory integration, social development & whole child learning. In addition, 10% of all sales help support our community yoga scholarship and helps to support our non-profit community partners.


Both of these expanded editions contain 3 complete lesson plans, photos, adaptive activities, games and dozens of classroom friendly yoga-based techniques for keeping kids of all abilities engaged, focused and calm. Both are in the final edit stages and will be available June 30 on Amazon, to educators, therapists and others who want to learn and use these effective practices. (The limited edition digital version is available here.)  We currently have plans for 12 - 15 books in the series and the next books in the series, "Sun Stretch" and "Star Quest" are due to be released over the summer.

If you would like to enter to win one of our S.M.Art Story™ books, you have two choices:

1)  leave a comment below (along with your current e-mail address so we can get in touch with you when you win!)
2) 'Like' us on Facebook or Twitter and leave a comment. (If you like us on both, your name will be entered 2 times!)

Winners will be selected by random drawing on Monday, June 25, 2012.

We invite you to   Subscribe to S.M.Art Kids / Healthy Kids by Email so you can receive up-to date release information, informative blog articles, workshop schedule and giveaway information right to your inbox, and we love connecting with other educators therapists and parents on Facebook and Twitter  if that is more your speed.

I also want to take a moment and wish my dad, and all of our dads a very restful & Happy Father's Day!

Here are this week's In Case You Missed It posts. Enjoy!


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A Bit of Fatherly Advice  (Stuart Duncan)

The ABC's of Assistive Technology (Valley Forge Educational Services)

Disability and Hate Crime (Autism Mumma Jeanette)

Playwork, Play Deprivation, and Play (The Journal of Play)

Constructive Fidgeting for Self Regulation (BodyLogique)

Opinion: Children Need Nature, not Facebook (Rich Louv via Children and Nature Network)






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