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• Barney - "Play for Exercise"
  Whitney, Beth and Scott enjoy playing catch with the ball, as well as leapfrog, but they're surprised to learn from Barney that they are exercising while they play. Soon more children join them for a game of rope. Baby Bop loves dancing and skipping - and thinks she will like hang gliding when she grows up, and BJ loves basketball. But everyone loves giggling and wiggling as they sing "The Giggle, Gaggle, Wiggle Dance." A rain shower moves the fun and games indoors, and the kids learn that you can have fun while you exercise indoors as well.

Do in Class

• Arthur: Be a Cat, Be a Tree - Explore creative movement in exercises based on yoga. Pretend you are a cat or a tree as you stretch, bend and twist your body.
• Barney: Chase Bubbles - Mix up some bubbles for fun and exercise!
• Boohbah: Follow the Leader - Encourage movement as classmates take turns playing follow the leader.
• Dragonfly TV: Exercise and Memory - Test how exercise affects your memory.
• It's My Life: Benefits of Exercise - Explore the benefits of exercise.
• Jay Jay the Jet Plane: Health and Fitness - Get everybody standing up as a group and lead them in these exercises.
• Teletubbies: Moving, Moving, Moving - Discover all the ways you can move.
• Teletubbies: Dancing Fun - Dance fast and slow or just stop the music and freeze.

Read

• Babar's Yoga for Elephants
  By Laurent de Brunhoff
  Published September 2002 by Harry N. Abrams
  Babar presents fifteen yoga positions and stretches as well as breathing exercises with step-by-step instructions and illustrations. Young and old students will enjoy the humor of Brunhoff's narrative and pictures. He mirrors landmark buildings and natural formations with elephants in yoga postures. They will benefit from the exercise too.
• Toddlerobics: Animal Fun
  By Zita Newcome
  Published August 1999 by Candlewick Press
  Set in rhyming couplets, this picture book encourages children to waddle, scuttle, bend, squat, jump, hop, stomp, gallop, flutter, swoop, and more as they imitate a menagerie of animals. A fun way for preschoolers to exercise and develop coordination.

*As most PBS children's programs offer one year extended taping rights for teachers, please feel free to tape them now and save them for use in your classroom during the school year.