{"id":634,"date":"2020-04-20T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/?p=634"},"modified":"2020-04-20T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T04:02:15","slug":"movement-monday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/2020\/04\/20\/movement-monday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement  Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is very important for our children to participate in movement activities or exercises every day.&nbsp; During occupational therapy sessions, we use movement to increase coordination, body awareness, core strength, endurance, self-regulation, and motor planning.&nbsp; It helps with our overall health and wellness, not just physical health, but also mental health.&nbsp; That would include anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. This week I want to introduce you to <strong><em>Alphabet Exercise by The OT Toolbox<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; From arm rolls to zigzag run, the exercises are a great way for children to get active.&nbsp; You can be creative with the ABC exercises from randomly selecting a letter\/exercise to spelling their name or other words.&nbsp; Get your child really engaged in learning and getting active at the same time by practicing spelling words by using the exercise for the corresponding letter.&nbsp;&nbsp; Follow the link to see the specific exercises and their description.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theottoolbox.com\/alphabet-exercises-for-kids\/\">https:\/\/www.theottoolbox.com\/alphabet-exercises-for-kids\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/Alphabet-Exercise.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/Alphabet-Exercise.png 683w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2020\/04\/Alphabet-Exercise-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very important for our children to participate in movement activities or exercises every day.&nbsp; During occupational therapy sessions, we use movement to increase coordination, body awareness, core strength, endurance, self-regulation, and motor planning.&nbsp; It helps with our overall health and wellness, not just physical health, but also mental health.&nbsp; That would include anxiety,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/2020\/04\/20\/movement-monday-2\/\">&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}