Del Norte Public Library

This Action Guide is intended to help local public health agencies and community partners identify strategies and action steps that will assist them in collaborating with schools as partners to increase physical activity, improve nutrition and implement comprehensive health education for students.

Describes the benefits of exercise, the importance of building up stamina, and the different ways to exercise.

Designed for children ages three and up, offers sixty-eight exercises and games based on traditional yoga exercises to help improve flexibility and motor skills and develop confidence and awareness.

Introduces yoga to young children, using rhyming word play, photos and illustrations to teach twenty-two poses, which strengthen muscles, increse flexibility and improve coordination and posture.

"In Exercising, emergent readers see and read about the many fun ways we can be active and exercise each day. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers and ensure reading success. Exercising includes tools for teachers and caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, and an index. A Let's Review!...

Explains the benefits of physical activity and presents a series of exercises that can be done by individuals or in a group.

"Story time is on the move with this multilayered concept book. Preschoolers will enjoy learning fun baby animal names from echidna “puggles” to whale “calves,” and they’ll revel in using their bodies to mimic the movements each animal makes. Bright photographs give a close-up look at every kitten, cygnet, and foal, as well as young children who are pouncing, snuggling, and racing alongside them. The rhyming text teaches young minds pattern...

"The ABCs of Yoga for Kids" uses the alphabet, rhyming vignettes, and colorful illustrations to introduce children to yoga in a kid-friendly way. Features fifty-six different poses.