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Goal

The Village Oaks Elementary School Related Arts Team is constantly striving to better serve all types of young learners and creating a variety of classroom settings that help students become Wild About Learning! The 2024-25 Village Oaks Related Arts Team wishes to further incorporate math, sight-word literacy, and movement into our four areas of discipline. (Music, Physical Education, Art, and Technology). The Related Arts Team goal is to help improve, and or maintain our commitment to supporting the Village Oaks A+ achievement status. The Math & Movement Training Manual for K-5 Educators is exactly what the Related Arts team is looking for to further professionally promote our team’s multi-sensory approach to teaching and practicing math, and literacy skills. Both math and reading require right and left cross-brain functioning. What better way than an all in synergistic Related Arts Team effort to do just that! Our team approach system would incorporate and further design music, physical movement, art, and the use of technology lessons to create a multi-sensory approach to promote learning math, reading, and social positivity! 

 

Category

Learning Aids - Sunshine state book sets, robotics kits, puzzle boards, science models, engineering supplies, etc. 

 

What will be done with my students

Material and mathematical activities provided in this digital manual would help expand our current Related Arts program/lessons and increase the variety of movement, song, and art activities we can offer to our students that will seamlessly support the traditional classroom setting activities set for each learning quarter. Below you will find an activity list by grade level and activity title we are planning for. All math and literacy concepts and activities will be guided using visual, verbal, auditory, and movement skills (a variety of manipulative/equipment will also be used).
• Kindergarten – 2nd Grade:
• Hooked On Classics: ABCs & 1,2, 3s (Music & Movement Math)
• You Can Count On Me 1, 2, 3! Addition and Subtraction
• Counting By Two’s Me & You is What we Do!
• Hearty Heart Art & Place Value
• Tell Me More (money, honey, and sunny time)
• Third - 5th Grade:
• Three, Six, Nine, is Fine vertical & horizontal lines
• Fifty Nifty (alphabetical order)
• Singing Civics (chronological order)
• Flexible Branches (stretching mind a body cross brain training)
• Hurray for Arrays (Hopping using a Mature Pattern, jumping in a Vertical Plane, Jumping in a Horizontal Plane, (parallel & perpendicular lines)
• Area & perimeter (game zones)
• Two, Four, Six, Eight, is Great & Fractions
All lessons will begin and conclude with an informal assessment whole group strategy known as “KWL” (Know, Want to know, Learned) and “Exit Questions” (questions asked by teacher and or fellow students at the end of a lesson as an informal assessment to help positively reinforce learning goals and appropriately deliver upcoming lesson objectives. Students may also artistically demonstrate their learning through dancing, a singing and or create artwork to display and demonstrate mastery.
 

 

Benefits to my students

Picture an imaginary line from your nose to the floor. Crossing over that line with your arms or legs I called a cross-lateral movement. Whan learning new information your brain is like a blender! Crossing over the mid-line engages both hemispheres of the brain resulting in increased learning and retention!
Incorporating Math, Movement and Music, technology, art, and social activity games, is the perfect “fit” to blend both math and reading foundational concepts. The cross-training mind and body activities approach can ultimately increase students’ self-confidence, boost problem solving skills, enhance critical thinking skills, promote verbal skills for English Language Learners and better solidify performance in math and reading later in life. Children who have early math and reading exposure given in a wide variety of settings and activities tend to perform better in reading and math later in life. Studies have shown that early reading and math exposure delivered through a multi-sensory approach is a strong predictor of reading and math achievement in middle and high school and can even predict success in college and beyond
The e-manual has over 50 lessons and activities, each designed to meet at least one of the National Standards and Grade Level Requirements released by SHAPE America. Each lesson also reinforces Florida State Standards, Additionally, there are over 90 Active Math Movements designed to help teach various locomotor, non-locomotor, manipulative, and jump rope movements, while simultaneously allowing students to practice counting, multiplication facts and learning how to tell time activities too!
Finally, ever heard of BDNF? I know you asked us to avoid teacher language, but this acronym is one that I must share (: It stands for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), a bundle of proteins, is produced in the brain during exercise and plays a key role in combating anxiety, depression, and stress. BDNF is found in the “hippocampus” (I love that word too I teach our students our “campus” is a “So Hip so Cool so Wild) the area of the brain responsible for learning and memory. Knowing that these powerful, wonderful bundles of proteins are produced during exercise and play catapults our Related Arts Team desire to strive to better serve our students and create an outstanding research based kinesthetic-academic setting which has Village Oaks Elementary School students know they attend a school atmosphere that is WILD ABOUT LEARNING!
 

 

Budget Narrative

This electronic Movement & Math manual actually saves our school money and is the ideal way to allow ALL of our Village Oaks Elementary School teacher’s to implement math & movement activities to help support individual lessons per grade levels K-5. Additionally, activities provided/suggested in this resource will be used for student achievement celebrations and family events. 

 

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