So the very first class of the day is physical education. And at Naperville, exercise isn't confined to the gym. There are bikes and balls right in the classroom. Even in reading class ...

Gone are the days when they had to sit still until gym class or recess. Enter some K-12 classrooms across the country and you’ll find exercise balls instead of chairs, standing desks instead of ...

For the past four and a half years, Rerucha's students have used balls designed to exercise the body's "core" or trunk muscles as classroom chairs. Rerucha said school nurse Betty Critel ...

Instead, she is providing an outlet for their energy— replacing many classroom chairs with exercise balls, standing desks, yoga mats, and plastic stools that wobble in all directions.

Also, "you can exercise and learn at the same time." All the children in Kimberly Vondran's second grade class sit on bouncy balls, or "learning balls" as she prefers to call them, as an ...

This exercise ball has a strange texture ... tradition and her classes are for all levels and abilities. The class structure is; chanting, pranayama (breathing exercises), flowing sequence ...

Dacia Gaul, a third-grade teacher at Logan, brought the "learning in motion" concept into her classroom three years ago. "I heard on the news how some people were using exercise balls as chairs in ...

As in any other group fitness class, an instructor offers direction, telling people when to pound on their exercise balls, when to click their sticks and when to drum on a neighbor’s ball as up ...

There are so many exercises you can use a stability ball for, especially when it comes to targeting your core. Why? Because this fitness tool, otherwise known as an exercise or Swiss ball ...

No Barriers USA “This class isn’t just about fitness ... She began drumming on cardboard boxes, tables and then exercise balls, which lifted her mood, increased her heart rate and formed ...