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You need to eat healthful food to grow up strong. Most of all, you need to eat fruits and vegetables. This book in the Move and Get Healthy! Series will take readers through the basics of nutrition and growing food. Clear instructions, applicable suggestions, and quick tips for making building, planting, and caring for a garden and making healthy food choices will get your students to Move and Get Healthy!
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Get moving! Get thinking! Exercise your body and brain. What things do you do to exercise your body and brain? Engaging photographs paired with simple sentences make it fun to learn about all of the activities children can do to exercise their brain and body. Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards, this book focuses on basic activities that help keep children healthy and strong.
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Being active is a healthy habit. Run! Jump! Play!: Healthy Active Habits will teach readers all about how being active makes them feel good and helps their muscles grow. Running with the dog, sledding down a hill, riding bikes with friends are some of the ways they can stay active. Simple sentences and charming photos engage young children. A comprehensive and critical thinking quiz will make learning fun and effective.
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There are so many reasons to exercise. One of the most important is that exercise helps you lose weight. That helps you feel better about yourself. Exercise also firms up your muscles. You breathe easier. You relax and reduce stress. Exercise takes many forms. Some forms are outdoors, like walking in a park. Other forms are indoors, such as taking a martial arts class. And exercise doesn't just give you a healthier body. It also gives you a better...
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The My Healthy Habits series provides the earliest of readers a foundation in developing healthy habits. Get Your Exercise explores the importance of being active in a simple, engaging way that will help readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Each book in this series includes a table of contents, glossary, index, and an author biography. The My Healthy Habits series provides the earliest of readers a foundation in developing healthy...
7) Exercise
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In Exercise, young readers will learn about the role of exercise in a healthy lifestyle while exploring different ways to have fun while moving. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they explore the world of hiking and biking.
A labeled diagram helps introduce readers to a variety of healthy fitness practices, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about exercise...
8) Tai Chi
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This lavishly illustrated guidebook is the perfect way to introduce readers to the time-honored art of tai chi. The first chapter offers an account of tai chi's history and philosophical underpinnings, including descriptions of the major schools of tai chi. Subsequent chapters present a series of positions that flow into each other to create several tai chi routines. Each spread of these chapters features a photograph of a tai chi practitioner doing...
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A hike is an adventure. You never know what interesting noises you'll hear, awesome animals you'll spy, or amazing plants you'll come upon. This delightful volume encourages kids to grab an adult and head outdoors for a walk in the woods. Readers will be motivated by the inviting low-ATOS text and cheerful photographs featured throughout this well-designed book.
10) Exercising
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It's easy to exercise when we make it a habit! We can ride our bikes to school, find a fun new sport, and even take a walk with friends. Approachable text paired with engaging photos makes developing healthy exercise habits fun and approachable for young readers learning early life skills.
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Yoga provides not only an excellent, low-impact workout, it also helps young people in key areas such as body awareness, flexibility, concentration, stress reduction, and self-expression. The exercises and games in this easy-to-follow guide are specifically designed to fit the needs of teenagers and to show teens how to work out and train their bodies in a relaxed way. It requires no advance knowledge or preparation and can be used by anyone working...
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Mindful movement is a helpful skill for kids who deal with hard feelings. By connecting the mind and body through movement, kids can decrease stress and find their calm. This book introduces early readers to ideas for dealing with hard feelings through movements, such as yoga poses and mindful walking. Accessible language and bright photographs allow early readers to grasp an important coping concept they can use whenever they feel overwhelmed.
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Inspiration is easily found through this unique training manual for long distance runners of all abilities, with special focus on the beginning runner. Readers get prepared for anything, from a typical 5K run to a full marathon. Each level of progression includes a fitness schedule and one or more race schedules (5K, 10K, half-marathon, marathon). This guide also includes assessment programs, diet and nutrition guides, strategies for avoiding and...
14) Yoga Games for Kids: 30 Fun Activities to Encourage Mindfulness, Build Strength, and Create Calm
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Introduce children to the benefits of yoga through play
Yoga is loved the world over for how it can build physical strength, promote mindfulness, and inspire calm. With a variety of engaging exercises, guided poses, and stimulating games, this yoga book for kids teaches young yogis the virtues of yoga through play while helping them build physical strength, flexibility, and balance.
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Soccer is played on a big field. For midfielders, this means lots of running all over the pitch. A professional midfielder runs many miles over the course of a game, playing on offense and defense. This book takes readers onto the pitch, patrolling the midfield with the game's best as they learn how to play one of the soccer's most challenging positions. From battling for free balls in the air to settling passes and looking for open teammates, this...
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There are many major health crises facing our world today. Preventable physical diseases persist globally, although our understanding of disease and medicine has advanced with innovations in science and technology. Your readers will learn about health topics such as communicable diseases, environmental threats, and the challenges of providing effective health care. Readers will understand that healthy citizens are essential to thriving communities...
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This contemporary title explores line dances around the world in today s health-oriented world. The young reader is exposed to the health and fitness perspective of line dancing, and is encouraged to draw conclusions as to the appropriateness of the activity in his or her life. A variety of line dances, including the Electric Slide, the Cupid Shuffle, the Macarena, and the Wobble are presented, along with the history and origin of line dancing. Safety...
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Readers will enter the action-packed and fascinating world of kickboxing. This book provides a history of the discipline as well as information on necessary equipment, warm-up exercises to prevent injury, and details on the different categories. Charts and tables organize information in a visually appealing and easy-to-grasp way. Detailed step-by-step instructions and accompanying photographs help readers learn the fundamental techniques and movements,...
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This contemporary title explores video workout trends in today s health-oriented world. The young reader is exposed to the universe of the most popular DVD and video game workouts, like P90X, Insanity, Zumba Fitness, Wii Fit Plus, Kinect Sports, and Just Dance, and is encouraged to draw conclusions as to the appropriateness of the activity in his or her life. Safety issues are presented where appropriate. Get Fit With Video Workouts has been developed...
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This book provides a history of the Japanese martial art of ju jitsu as well as details on the different styles. Detailed step-by-step instructions and accompanying photographs help readers learn the positions and fundamental techniques to properly throw, pin, and joint-lock their opponents. As the book progresses, the moves become more and more complex. Formal exercises encourage students to practice what they have learned, keep track of personal...
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