Movement means Not Sitting!  Just be standing we learn 10% better.

Memory is retrieved better when learned through movement.

Movement with intention increases retention.
      semantic - 5% (talk to me about it)
      episodic - 68% retention (memory of where we are in space or relation to your body)
       procedural or body memory - 90% retention

Heading: pat head and say heading
Greeting: say "greeting" and wave your hand
Body:  point to your body trunk and say it's the largest part of you and your letter
Closing: hug yourself by pulling arms together till they close
Signature: sign your name in the air

Right angle: form L shape with fingers and say "Right on!"
Acute: form a V shape with fingers and say "Cute little angle."
Obtuse: show the surfing sign for hang loose and say "Hang loose, obtuse!"

Plant Chant (army)
We eat seeds and we eat roots
Stems and flowers, leaves and fruits
We eat plant parts every day
So that healthy we will stay
Sound off - 1, 2   Sound off 3, 4
5, 6 plant parts in all.

Electricity:
Have you ever seen a circuit, a circuit, a circuit?
Have you ever seen a circuit - battery, wire and bulb?
When the circuit is closed, the tight bulb will glow.
Have you ever seen a circuit, where current will flow?
(Repeat chorus)
When the circuit is open, the current is broken?
Have you ever seen a circuit where current won't flow?

Make a large sun with your hands in the air.  Go from there to show the order of the planets.
Mercury - draw "M" on eyebrows
Venus - Make a "V" by pointing to two eyes
Earth - touch nose to smell the good earth
Asteroid Belt - touch waist where belt would be
Jupiter - hips
Saturn - bottom where you "sat"
Uranus - (as it sounds or make one up!)
Neptune - knees
Pluto - toes

Continents and oceans - sing to "Yankee Doodle"
North America (left hand) Europe (Nose up)  Asia (right hand)
Africa in the middle (waist)
South America (left knee)  and Australia (right knee)
and last Antarctica  (cold feet)
7 continents in our world, surrounded by 5 oceans, 7 continents in our world surrounded by 5 oceans.   (Note:  books are now including a 5th ocean - the Southern Sea)

Six Messages to the King (1776) (sing to "Sing a Song of Sixpence)

We won't pay your taxes
We don't want a king
We don't want your soldiers here
Don't tell us where to live
We want to trade with whom we want
And most importantly
We will fight you for freedom and gain our liberties.

Weather tools:

Weather vane - make a "t" with hands or arms
rain gauge - move fingers down like rain and form a bowl
anemometer -  fan self easy and then hard to feel the wind speed
thermometer - stand tall (say hot head, cold feet to show the range)

Clouds (When the Saints go Marching In)
O when the clouds go floating by
O when the clouds go floating by
I classify three types in families
Cirrus, stratus, cumulus.
 

Oh cirrus clouds are high and thin
Oh cirrus clouds are high and thin
They look like commas or a feather
Often meaning some good weather.
 

Oh stratus clouds are low and layered
Oh stratus clouds are low and layered
They seem to be a blanket of grey
To say it just might storm today.

O cumulus, are white and fluffy,
O cumulus are white and fluffy
They look like heaps of cotton candy
Outside the sun is oh so dandy.