Get the Wiggles Out!

Funded Aug 13, 2016

Dear Donors,

Thank you so much for contributing to our school project. We unpacked the yoga seats as a class and started blowing them up the minute they arrived. Everyone was very excited. It takes two days to fully fill the balls to their correct capacity and it was a difficult wait. They may be teenagers but high school students are still kids when it comes to patience! When we finally had them all correctly inflated, everyone tried out all of the sizes to see what was their best fit. Then they got settled in and started to bounce. I worried that the bouncing would be distracting to them but the exact opposite proved to be true. They tend to bounce while they are thinking and then settle to write. It has been a huge hit! Everyone enjoys them but I see the most improvement with my high energy kids. Now that they have a little bit of an outlet for some of the pent up energy, they are so much more focused, engaged, and on-task. The seats are easily mobile and we make different seating and table arrangements depending on our activity. Some of the pictures show the students engaged in a Socratic Seminar. It was so funny watching them bounce harder as they got more emphatic in their oral defenses! We really appreciate every donation, and we know that without each one of you we would not have been able to have this chance. Thank you so much!”

With gratitude,

Ms. McInnis