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303 Tween-Approved Exercises and Active Games
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303 Tween-Approved Exercises and Active Games

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This book is not just for classrooms or families with overweight or unhealthy kids--every family that has children with televisions, computers, and/or video games under one roof should take care to exercise regularly. 'Tweens spend as much time sitting down watching TV, playing video games, or using computers as they spend in school each week. According to statistics from the U.S. Health and Human Resources Department, one third of American children are overweight or obese due to our lifestyle choices. The number one concern that parents bring up to pediatricians is keeping kids fit, and half of all children are not physically active enough for the development of a healthy cardiovascular system. In this age of electronic media, where we become watchers instead of doers, we are simply forgetting the many wonderful ways of playing and exercising together.
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Release dateJun 12, 2012
ISBN9780897936330
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book has a lot of wonderful ideas that I've been able to incorporate into my work at the library and at home with my son. The exercises and games are all age appropriate, challenging and fun to do on a sunny day outdoors.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a fantastic collection of activities for a rainy day!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I have looked through this book several times and done some of the fun exercises with my 4/5 year old. He really enjoyed them. There are a lot of good ideas in here, I just need to remember that I have this resource and use it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I am a homeschooling mom with children ages 2, 4 and 6. This book was a great way for us to stay active indoors this winter with so much snow. The activities were very well suited to the ages of my children, but my 4 year old was most appreciative to have a way to productively use her body. It is so easy to open this book and choose an activity that suits a specific sized group and also determine how much space is needed. More than anything, it's a great reminder of all those fun activities we all need to incorporate into our daily lives.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a perfect resource book for any pre-school/pre-K classroom or program. It contains hundreds of exercises and games designed to develop endurance, strength, balance and flexibility in children three to five years old. The games are categorized by the type of exercise (stretching, building muscle, teaching balance, etc.) and the size of group the activity is appropriate for (pair, small group, any size, entire group). They are further broken down into levels, starting with more basic exercises that will help young children develop the skills necessary for more complex physical activity.Here are just a few of my favorites:Mimicking the body movements of different animals, such as lizards, crocodiles, and inchworms.The Overhead: having the children pretend to reach for something overhead that is just a little out of their reach.The Baseball Swing & the Airplane Soar!This is a great book. It has dozens of ideas for activities that will help young children be more active, while allowing them to use their imaginations. As a primary school teacher myself, I am sure it will be a wonderful addition to our classroom. It is chock-full of fun, SIMPLE ideas to get kids moving!I received this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As a parent and a teacher I found this book a great resource!! Full of activities that are approved by both me and my students. This is great for any mom on a rainy day or any teacher that needs to fill some time in class!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    As a Preschool teacher, I really appreciate this book. It's a good resource when I'm looking for a gross motor activity (and my students need gross motor every day), and the usual spaces I use may be booked up by other classes, so tag or the playground are not an option. It's especially useful in this horribly cold weather we've been having, when I can't take my students outside at all.While I already knew about many of the activities (I have taught Yoga to preschoolers before), there were some I hadn't ever thought of, and its great to have the book as a resource to grab when I need to think of a gross motor activity quickly.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I received this book as an EarlyReader for LibraryThing.As a grandmother of a 3 year old, I was excited to receive a copy of this book and I am not disappointed! In an age where children can find so many things to sit in front of or hold in their hands, it is smart to have a game plan to promote activity. This book is a primer for parents, teachers, group leaders and grandparents to use in promoting fun fitness activities for pre-schoolers. It is divided into exercises and games on different levels. It can be used with groups and solo. The exercises are basic ones we all know, with a name or idea to make it fun for a little one to do. Exercises are categorized by the skills they promote; balance, fine motor, jumping, running, heart strength, etc. If equipment is needed it is minimal and noted. There are music and rhythm games that be used at parties. Stringing a group of activities together in a block of time to do a workout (without calling it one) is a nice addition. I can see teachers using that. Also, it is going to be good for the teacher or parent or grandparent who does these activities with their little one! Healthy at all ages. The author is a fitness and dance instructor who has tested these activities.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A compilation of exercises for young children , grouped according to the specific target areas as well as a section explaining the importance of exercise and another which groups the exercises into simple workouts. I have found the book helpful when with my toddler grandchildren, giving us physical activities to do when I babysit them. It is a guide to answer the "What can we do now?" question that comes up when watching children. would be useful in a daycare or preschool center.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    I received this book from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I guess I am not really the intended audience for this book. I have two kids, one of whom is a tween (age 11) and the other not yet (age 8). Both of my kids are very active, and this book seems to have been written for a parent whose tween is not active and who wants to get their tween interested in exercise. For that purpose I think it's probably a great book if that is your situation. There is a wide variety of exercises presented here, so even if your kid hated a particular exercise or even a whole category (e.g. anything situp-like) there would probably still be something here that he/she might enjoy.I did read out a few of the descriptions to my 11-year-old son and he tried them. I chose at random, but for most of them, he said "I already know that one" or similar. Most of them resembled exercises that he has done in his various athletic pursuits. He enjoyed trying them out, but it wasn't like there was anything life-changing going on.The book starts out with a chapter about the benefits and challenges of getting your tween to be more active: why they need it, what are the factors affecting tween health, how much exercise they should get, and a bit about tween psychology in terms of how parents can motivate them. I personally found that just about the entire chapter was in the "I already know that / that's obvious" category, for me. I suppose some of it might be helpful information for some parents.Nitpicky: At the beginning of the book it lists all of the exercises in a sort of table, with columns labeled "Whole group" "Any size" "Small group" "Pairs" -- I guess this is meant to show you which exercises are good for what kind of group. The problem is that for the first eight pages of this table, EVERY exercise except one has a dot in the "any size" column. That really makes the table feel pointless. Only on the last two and a half pages are there finally a few items that have dots in the other columns. I feel like this 11-page table is pretty useless and could have been replaced by a single page saying "here's the list of exercises that are for small groups or pairs -- all the others can be done in any size group." Additionally, the table columns have little icons as well as words for their labels -- so the first column says "Whole group" and then has an icon which looks like 6 people standing in a line and the words "whole group" inside the icon. The next icon has the words "Any size" and then an icon with the words "any size" in it. And so forth. The problem is that all four of the icons are the exact same picture! It seems like if these icons are supposed to be a visual indicator, the picture should depict a different number of people for each column. Otherwise the icons are pointless and duplicate the column label unnecessarily. I know this is a minor detail but it bothered me.Bottom line -- this book might be good for you if you need ideas for getting your tween more active, and/or new exercises for your tween to do. That's not my situation so it isn't the book for me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I received this book through the early reviewers program. I think it is a helpful resource for adults who are looking for ideas of activities and exercises to do with kids or tweens. Overall I think the book is well organized and it does contain alot of ideas for different activities, I do think it could have been done better. There are very few illustrations and not many games included. I think the book would be more appealing if the exercises were incorporated into games more so they seemed less like work and more like fun. I also think more illustrations or perhaps photos of the correct way to do some of the exercises would be helpful and make the book more appealing. As it stands I think this would be an acceptable reference book for an adult planning activities for children but I do not think it would appealing enough to kids for them to pick it up on their own.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I was very disappointed with this book. When I requested this book, I was expecting something that I could use to find some great activities for the children that I work with as a teacher. The book claims to be "tween-approved" but it does not explain how these activities were chosen and what group of "tweens" were used to choose them. Most of the exercises and activities are normal everyday exercises such as yoga poses and core-building exercises. I didn't see how they were special for young children. I was expecting more game type activities that children would enjoy doing, but these were hardly present in the book. I was also appalled at the fact that one of the exercises in the book is called "suicides" (and although, I realize that this is the normal name for this exercise, it is not appropriate for something that you are having children do). There are very few pictures in the book, and it would be better if there were more illustrations of how to do the exercises. The book is well organized, and does offer a lot of different activities, but the title of "tween-approved...games" seems to be quite misleading.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I received "303 tween-approved exercises and active games" for early review. I thought the book was well-organized and laid out nicely. I think it would be a great compliment for after school programmers, gym teachers, scout leaders, church youth groups, etc. My only wish is that the book included a section on getting exercise through apps. I know it seems crazy to use an iPad, iPod, or Android device to get exercise, but I think a lot of kids would find the interactive apps, or apps that track your progress, fun. Really enjoyed the section on yoga, and will utilize that section in programming with my Girl Scout troop.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Lots of good exercises, even for adults. But I would have like to see more games included in the book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book is great for parents and even teachers that do not know how to get their children active. It provides many activities and exercises that are fun for the whole family. Overall helpful.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Before writing this review, I’ve been doing some of the exercises every time I’m with my preschooler grandson … and just like the titled indicates, he approves!Not only does he approve, I do too. The book is nicely arranged, with warm-ups and stretches followed by strengthening and balance activities, and finally a variety of performance skills such as ball handling , throwing and kicking. Most of the activities are identified by cute names -- the Popcorn Game is a warm-up, and Smell Your Stinky Toes is a stretching game. By selecting from a game or two from several of the categories, we enjoy some physical play together. If I select wisely, I find the activities to be as beneficial for this 60-year-old grandmother, as it is enjoyable for my favorite 3-year-old. It’s been fun for us to increase our agility and perk up our vim and vigor when we spend time together.