[Jennifer Villaryo]

I would do the scarves sitting in a circle on the rug. That way everyone is in the same space and easy to access.

[Magaly Cruz]

This activity would work best as a small group activity. During my center time, we usually have 3 students per group. Having a small group will allow them to move around more and extra room to move the scarf up and down.

[Susana Morales]

I would have students sitting on chairs in a circle. This set-up will allow my student who is in wheelchair to  be at the same level as the other students during the activity.

[Sandra Delgado]

I would do the scarfs activity in a circle sitting in chairs with my assistants in between students needing more support for redirecting and increased participation.

[Leticia Martinez]

In my classroom, I would prefer to do this activity with my students sitting on chairs.  Chairs will need to be set up in a circle so that all students can see each other at all times.  My students are able to sit better in chairs versus them sitting on the carpet.  I find that when students sit on a chair, they are more engaged and less tempted to want to lay down on carpet.

[Mary Harris]

We explored the scarves first to music putting them over our heads but in order to explore more of the options we would first sit in our seats and talk about the rules . Then we would proceed with waving scarves up and down and passing them all tied together to the left and the right as we are seated in a circle.

[Alyson Todd]

I will incorporate scarves into my yoga in the classroom practice. It will be fun and supportive for my students that have trouble mimicking physical movements to see and use the scarf to draw attention to which body part is moving where, or to pick up and place down to get into the correct pose.

[Liann Williams]

Scarves are a great way to incorporate P.E.  or other curricular areas that are meaningful to the students in my classroom.  They just like to be able to play, so being able to make learning fun is important.

[Ramona Robles]

Scarves are wonderful speech therapy tools. They elicit and target many language skills. They target pragmatic and social language skills when students pair up to hold the scarves or share the scarves and when the students requests them from an adult or a peer. They target the learning of new words when students label and describe the scarves and how they can use them in different ways. Scarves make an excellent and fun therapy tool.

[Erika Franco]

We did this activity in small groups. This was modified in order to provide the appropriate support for our students. During this activity there was a 4-2 student-adult ratio. It made for a very good balance during the exploration part as well as bouncing objects on the scarves.

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