Puppy meets Kitty

Today puppy is going to explore the great outdoors
Imagine yourself a puppy taking in the outdoor
wonder. You sniff the air smelling a mixture of the surrounding greenery. You sniff the ground smelling the dirt. Hmm... what's this? The ground smells strange, you follow the smell with great curiosity. It leads you to some bushes, you bend low and peer in the bushes and see two yellow eyes and hear a strange "hisssss" (like a cat). Then a frightened furry ball flashes past you, you spring after it in excitement thinking "oh! A new toy!". After chasing the cat in a few circles it then runs up a tree. You likewise attempt to climb the tree standing as high as you can and scratching at the tree..but alas to no avail. So you bark at the kitty trying to tell it to me down. At that moment a whiff of bacon comes to you from the kitchen window.. You suddenly forget the cat and trot back to the house to get a snack..
The End

A Day In The Life of a Band Member

You are all very good singers. Today we are going to imagine you are all excellent instrumentalists as well! You are going to audition to be in the marching band. To relax yourself, you take a deep breath, long and slow. Then you exhale just as slowly so you feel calm. You band instructor points to the drums. You hold your drumsticks at waist height and tap out a perfect rhythm using your wrists and arms. It is important that you be able to march while you play, so you start marching and continue throughout the rest of your audition. Next you take the huge cymbols and crash them together several times. Now the band director points to the wind section. You pick up a piccilo, expand your lungs, and blow out just enough air to play the perfect pitch for your director. (Don't stop marching!) You go to the brass section and find a trombone. You take a deep breath again and let out all your air by buzzing your lips on the mouthpiece. You move the slide out as far as it will go and then back in again several times to play different pitches. Finally, your band director says you are done. Your audition is over so you touch your toes to stretch out your legs from all that marching. You stand up slowly because you are a little hesitant to hear what your band director says. As you stand, you are given the thumbs up sign! You throw your hands in the air, cry "Oh Yes!" and then sigh in relief. Your audition is over, and you are happy!

What a mess!!

Imagine that you are laying in your bed at 8 o’clock one morning sleeping, when the phone rings. (IMITATE THE PHONE) "Who could that be?" you ask. Your room mate, who is awakened as well, answers the phone and tells you that it is Dr. Kauffman asking for you. You take the phone and say, "Hello?" You hear him respond saying, "Do you know you have a class with me right now?" Bewildered by this realization, you exclaim, "OH NO! I will be right there." You hang up the phone and scurry around the room to get ready. You raise your arms to see if you need to shower. (SNIFF EACH ARMPIT) You decide that you are good for today, and get dressed, putting on a pair of pants, a shirt and shoes. You then look around your room and realize that it is a mess that, if not altered, will result in a point from your RA. In a desperate attempt to order the room, you gather up large quantities of clothing and other various artifacts in your arms and stuff them inside of your closet. You run and get the vacuum cleaner to cleanse your floor of the filth that had long lain beneath your belongings. (IMITATE THE VACUUM CLEANER WITH A "VVVV" SOUND) You decide that it is clean enough, and you grab your things as you bolt out the door and on to class.

Let's go fly a kite!

You wake up from a good night's rest (nice and late in the morning), sit up, stretch, and yawn. You open your window and discover that all the snow has melted. You stick your head out, and feel a warm spring wind. "It's lovely out!" you call. You close your window, jump down from your bunk bed, and slip on your shoes. You decide you will fly a kite today! You open your closet door, lean over and stretch into the back corner of your messy pile, and pull out your kite. You put it under your arm and run outside. Outside, you take a deep breath and smell the new flowers sprouting up. Exhale on a sigh. You trudge up to the top of a hill behind your house. When you finally reach the top, you raise your arms in victory- you have conquered the slope! "Hooray!" You shake out your hands and arms in preparation. You hold the reel on your kite, let out a length of string, and run to get your kite flying. The wind is fairly strong now, and a good blow takes your kite high into the sky- you let out more string and hold on to the reel as the whind takes your kite faaaar to the right, then faaaaar to the left. Suddenly, an unexpected, strong gust sweeps your kite- and your reel- right out of your hands! Your kite is now stuck in a tree! "Oh no!" You cry. You jog over to the tree and climb up, limb by limb, to find that your kite now has a hole ripped in it. You sit in a limb and shrug. "Oh well!" You say. You untangle your wounded kite and jump down from the tree to make your way back home where brunch is waiting for you. (Mmmm.)

Rain, rain, go away!

Imagine that you are a drop of rain that is falling from the sky! Stretch as high as you can (standing on your tippy toes and wiggling your fingers!!) and make a siren sound, making sure your sound is well placed in the mask! As your body is falling very slowly into a sqwatting, you allow your sound to fall as well, going all the way down to a low voice-frying sound. As you join the other drops in the stream on the ground, you stand up slowly, and spread your arms and legs as far apart from each other as possible. You sigh, because it feels so good to stretch and flow with the water. You bring your arms and legs bck together again, and allow your head to fall gently to the right side, and then roll it getnly to the left side. You take a deep breath and hold it deep inside of you. You make a bubbly noise (bu bu bu bu) to relax your face and lips. You sigh again, as you trickle down the side walk. You look around just in time to see a young boy come and jump in the stream! (Jump up and down!) "OH NO!" you cry, and shake your entire body as the boy has caused many ripples in the water. You then laugh a deep laugh (being sure to engage your diaphragm) because you have brought a little joy to this boy.

I suppose the rain can stay for a while!

Hot chocolate and the 4th of July

It is cold snowy day in July, and you have just finished digging out your car. You take the last bit of snow you have on your shovel and hurl it as far as you can. You stretch your arms and sigh, for that was hard work. You walk back inside your house, take off your boots and coat, and put on your slippers. It is very cold outside, so you decide to make some hot chocolate. The mugs are on the top shelf, so you stretch as high as you can to reach one. "Oh no!" you say, "they are missing!" Thinking hard about where the mugs could be, you remember that you put them on the bottom shelf instead. So you squat down, and retrieve a mug. While the hot chocolate is warming up, you realize that you would like to read the paper while enjoying your beverage. The paper is outside at the end of your driveway, so you make a quick run for it, still in your slippers. You get back inside the house and shiver. "Brrrrrrr" you say. Your hot chocolate is now finished, so you settle in your most comfortable chair and read about what is going on this weekend for the 4th of July celebrations.

Tuesday Morning

It is the day after a snowstorm and you know you need to go to work. You bend down to put on your winter boots and tie them tightly. Then you put on your heavy winter coat and zip it snugly. You put on your toasty gloves and walk out the door. Maintenance has thoughtfully provided a shovel, which you grab as you walk down the road to your car. As you get to your car you have to step quite high because there is a foot and a half of snow on the ground. “Yay for winter boots!” you say because your feet stay dry. You take the shovel and clear a path in back of your car. Three, two, one more shovelful should do it. Now you get in the car to start it. “Oh no!” you say, you can’t see out the windows! You grab your trusty snow brush and go outside. You reach up high to brush the snow off the top of the windshield down. Then you walk to the other side of the car and use your other arm to wipe off the other side of the windshield. You sigh, now you, and your car, are ready for work.

Fire! Or Not...

It is nighttime and you are snuggled up in your warm bed. You're very relaxed, your whole body feeling limp. You can feel your stomach rising and falling as you take slow, deep breaths. You gradually drift into a deep sleep when suddenly the fire alarm goes off! You jump out of bed and exclaim, "Oh no!" You frantically feel around for your shoes (it is very dark) until you locate both of them. You put them on and run out of your room. Remembering that all doors and windows must be shut, you run back to your room, quickly shut your window (which was slightly open because yesterday an extension cord was running into it from the softball game), shut your door, and then head for the outside. You forgot your coat, so you shiver as you walk outside and say, "Brrrrr....." You are concerned that your dorm is going to burn down until you see a mighty handsome security guard approaching. You call to him, "Help us!" He comes nearer, checks the dorm, and then announces that there is no fire. Someone had just burnt some toast. You throw your hands up in the air and exclaim, "Not again!" You head back inside, take your shoes off, and get back in bed. You yawn, let out a sigh, and once again drift back into a deep sleep.

Puppy in new home

Today you are a puppy who has just been adopted into a new home. You have just awoken from your nap and you stretch your front paws and your back paws and give a great big yawn. Then you smell something yummy “sniff sniff, sniff sniff sniff”. It is time to explore and find out where this smell is coming from, so you trot out the nearest room and sniff “sniff sniff sniff”, but to your dismay it is the laundry room and you get a nose full of the smell of dirty clothes. You give a disgusted sneeze. Then you trot off once again in search of food. Finally you find your way into the kitchen where the cook is cooking bacon on the stove. You lift your nose up and take deep breaths. Then you try to look like a very good dog, (chin up, good posture, attentive and caring eyes). But the cook pays you no heed, so... you let out some pitiful whimpers. ...Still no response. Finally you stand up as tall as you can, front paws in the air and whimper and maybe even jump a little if you don't loose your balance. This time she sees you and has compassion tossing you a piece of bacon which you gladly catch before it hits the ground. You think “I think this puppy is going to like it's new home...”
The End.

A New Creation

Imagine that you are a long, wriggly caterpiller. You wiggle happily along, munching bits of leaf. When you exhaust one leaf, you stretch out your front legs to make your way to the next one. "Mmmm, tasty..." You start feeling sleepy, so you slip into your homemade cocoon, relax, and sigh contentedly. You hang your head and fall asleep. After some time (you don't know how long), you wake up to the bright sun. You raise your arms and head out to feel the warmth, and realize- oh my!- that you are now equipped with a beautiful pair of colorful wings! You roll your shoulders backwards and forwards a few times to get a sense of your new wings. You tentatively hold them out, floating at your sides, and with a bold step, you begin to flap! You soar now, not from leaf to leaf, but from flower to flower. A caterpillar on a nearby leaf calls to you, "Don't you miss being one of us?" You call back, "Oh no! I most certainly do not!" You happily fly on, knowing that you are a new creation.

Rock Climbing!

It is a beautiful day outside, and you have decided to go rock climbing to exert some of your energy! You get to the face of the clift you are going to climb, and you stretch your torso from side to side. You then stretch your neck slowly, because the last thing you want is to get a cramp 50 feet in the air! You reach down and take your harness out of your bag. You put it on, pulling your legs up high and putting them through the leg holes. You tighten the harness around your waist, and you shake out your hands. You are now ready to climb! You reach as high as you can with your right arm. You then reach as high as you can with your left arm. "That feels so good!" You call and laugh heartily, feeling your diaphragm working hard. You climb for a while, and finally you reach the top. You get up and over the ledge. As you do, you realize you had so much fun that you call to the mountains "Oh No! I am addicted!" You lift your face to the sky, stretch your arms out wide, take a deep breath of mountain fresh air, and sigh a very happy, very energized sigh.

Unwind

Imagine you are a business man just getting home from work. You open the door to your house and call out “Hi honey! I’m home!” Then you take off your tie and toss it away. You roll your neck and sign. Then you pad into the kitchen and take a big whiff of dinner. MMMMMMMmmmmmmm. You walk into the living room and bend down to pick up the newspaper off the floor and stick it under your arm. Then you look to the left and the right. “Honey, where’s the remote?” She answers that it is in the kitchen. You walk back to the kitchen and, unable to resist, open the oven just to see what is for dinner. “MMMMMeatloaf. MMMMMy favorite!” Then you walk back into the living room, turn on the TV and settle into your favorite recliner (Have students imagine as they stand) open the paper and promptly fall asleep. ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Longing for sleep and a short post

Is is late at night and you are exhausted, you yawn...you suddenly remember that you must blog for your class! "Oh No!" you say, conscious of the core vowel, the drossless, golden "ah"... You lament, heaping over in your chair as if you saw a hole in the floor leading to a peaceful land over Jordan. But, you don't see any hole in the floor, you are just tired, and you must pound out a short post so you gently and raise your torso and then your head, unwilling to tax your rest-ready muscles. You stretch, and sigh, then stick out your tongue because the coolness of the air in your room is a relief to the hot stickiness within your tired mouth.
You quickly pound out a short post, saunter into the bathroom, brush your teeth, then return to your room and climb into bed to sleep all night. Ahhh...
goodnight!

It is a very busy Thursday on campus and you have just rushed into your room after a long day of classes. You have an hour or so before work tonight, so you flop into your chair at your desk in a slouched position. Your roommate, who has already been done with classes for 3 hours, says "That is not very good posture." You are too tired to argue so you raise yourself to where your back is straight and your diaphragm is not being crunched. You open up your itunes and start listening to your favorite band. You raise your arms in the air, for you are very excited to be finished with classes. "Alleluia!" you yell. Putting your arms down, you take a deep breath in to begin singing along with your band, and your roommate says "Don't you dare." Disappointed, you let out your breath with a hiss. You realize then that you are very tired, sighing and putting your head down on your desk. An hour later you are awakened by your roommate. "Don't you have to be at work?" she asks. "O no!" you yell, and you pull on your shoes and run out of the door.

Fishy!!

Imagine you are a fish in the Lackawanna State Park lake. Today is a sunny day, so you swim to the top of water to warm yourself up. Once you reach the top of the water, you kick your tail fins to make a few splashes. The sun is so warm and relaxing that you to close your eyes and just float for a few moments. You sway in the current as the water moves around you. A motor-boat splutters by interrupting your peace and quiet. You mimic the motor boat sound with your lips. The motor boat stops and you hear a plop in the water. You look and see a wiggly worm near where you are swimming. You wiggle like the worm and then think maybe you could eat it! You make your signature fishy lips at that thought and swim towards the worm! Still with your fish lips read to go, you drop your jaw to take a big bite! But just before you chomp down, you realize something is not right! This worm is attached to a string and a hook! "Oh No!" You cry in your fishy voice and you start to swim away. You are a little disappointed not to have a snack. But you feel the warm sun again and sigh because you are relaxed, and safe!

Easter Egg Hunt

It is Easter morning and you are an excited child because you get to go on an Easter Egg Hunt with your brother and sisters! This has been a long-standing tradition in your family and a competition of who can get the most eggs. You know that the eggs have already been hidden, so you open your window, stick your head out, first to the right, and then to the left, frantically searching for any that may be in plain view that you can get before your brother beats you to it. Unfortunately, your mom is a clever Easter Egg hider, and you do not see any eggs. You sigh and close the window. Just then your mom calls from downstairs, "Time to hunt for eggs!" You run down the stairs, grab your easter basket and stare your brother and 2 sisters down. You slip your shoes on and bend down to tie them because you don't want anything to slow you down. You stretch, reaching high to the sky and then down to your toes, getting ready for the intense race. After everyone is ready, your mom says, "Good Luck!" and gives you the signal to begin. You bolt out the door and run toward the doghouse where you are sure an egg has to be hiding. You squat down once you reach the doghouse to peer inside. "Ah Ha!" you say as you reach in and pull out a blue and pink-striped egg. You put the egg in your basket as you spot another egg in a nearby tree. You skip over to it, stand on your tip-toes, and reach high for the egg, being just tall enough to grab it with your fingers. You put that one in your basket too and continue running around the yard, searching for more precious eggs. After 45 minutes, you can find no more eggs, so you run inside, in fearful anticipation as to how many eggs your siblings found. You are panting as you begin counting their eggs. You have 9 and the most they have is...8! You throw your hands up in the air and exclaim, "Oh Yes! I won!" What a grand victory for you on this year's Easter Egg Hunt!

Pillow Fight!

You are getting ready for a movie night with your friends. You put on your warm sweatshirt and your flannel pajama pants. You slide your fuzzy slippers onto your feet. Ahhhh...you feel so warm and comfortable. You friends call from the other room "Come on! Hurry up!" You reach up to your bunk bed and grab two of your softest pillows to take to the movie. You carry your pillows into the lounge. As you near your group of friends you get hit with a pillow! You throw your hands up in alarm and then get ready to do battle! You hold one pillow in each hand. You're getting attacked with pillows from every side! You throw your arms open wide and spin around in a circle, thrashing everyone who gets too close. A pillow comes hurtling through the air and lands on your head. You take your pillows one at a time and throw them at your friends. Just then you realize that throwing your pillow means you have no pillows left! You cry,"Oh no!" Then you realize that you just feel so comfortable and relaxed in your warm pajamas and fuzzy slippers that you don't want to pillow fight anymore. You sigh, Ahhhh. Getting hit with another pillow you throw up your hands and call to everyone, "I surrender!" Besides it is time to start the movie. You pick up your pillows and sit down to enjoy the show!
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Stop Monkeying Around... (haha!)

Today, you are a monkey in the zoo. You bend and bounce at the knees, letting your arms hang loosely. You swing from side to side as you bounce and let you head hang down, feeling very relaxed. You stretch up high above you to grab hold of a branch in your cage. You pull yourself up and swing energetically from branch to branch. You land next to a friend in your tree, and you comb through his/her back to see if you can find any good munchies, giving your fellow monkey a little bit of a back scratch while you're at it. "Oh no!" You sigh. There are no good munchies. But there is hope for your hungry tummy! You see the zookeeper coming with food, and you excitedly make little monkey noises! (Oo-oo-oo! with flexes) You jump down from your tree to get near the bearer of yummy eats. He places the bowl on the ground in front of you, and you reach down to scoop out handfuls and eagerly chew big mouthfuls of your scrumptious lunch. When it's all gone, you stretch down, pick up the bowl, and lick out the inside. Now you are sleepy from such an active day, and you stretch, sigh, and take a lovely afternoon nap.

Family Time!

Imagine you are at home and your extended family has come to visit. They pull in the driveway. You quickly run outside to wave. "Hello! It is good to see you!" Being the helpful person you are, you bend over to pick up some things from their car and bring them inside. After opening the door, you yell when you get in the house "Mom, Dad, they're here!" Set down your load and sigh. Your parents hurry downstairs to leave with your Aunt and Uncle. "Goodbye!" you say.
Your six year old cousin is very excited to be with you, but he is a handful! You decide to run upstairs and shut your bedroom door so nothing important gets broken. You sigh in relief because you got there before he did! Then you hear a crash downstairs. You carefully walk down the stairs, no use falling you know. "Oh no!" You see one of the glasses on the floor in pieces. You bend over to pick up the larger pieces and throw them away. Then you sweep up the rest. Your cousin is now jumping on the couch in the living room. "Don't be a monkey!" You say. He laughs and sits down. You open the door to the closet and reach up high for those kid movies your mom never got rid of and choose one. "Would you like to watch a movie?" you ask. Your cousin giggles. You mimic his high pitched HEHEHE. Then you squat down and put in the video. While you're squatting, you let out a sigh of relief, at least he'll be sitting for a while. Then you stand up and walk into the other room. All your mother's picture frames on the chest high cabinet are knocked over. You straighten them. "How did he..." you trail off. "Nevermind, I don't want to know." You look in the living room and notice that he's asleep. Then you go upstairs and sit in the comfortable chair and breathe a sigh of relief. Ahh.... Peace and quiet!

April fools!!

Find a seat. Sit down, lean back, and relax. Take several deep breaths. Now, pretend that you are just waking up from a long and peaceful night's sleep. You slowly sit up, and you reach your hands above your head and stretch as far as you can. Not wanting to get up quite yet, you lean foward and lean your elbows on your knees and let your head fall slowly. Take several slow and relaxing breaths, feeling the muscles of your back expand with each breath. You stand up slowly, and you turn your torso gently from side to side, stretching far, but not hurting yourself. You take a deep breath and you sigh deeply. You go to the window and open the curtains, spreading your arms out wide. To your great surprise (GASP!!) it has snowed!! God must be playing a late April Fool's joke!! You decide it would be best to warm your car up before you start getting ready for the day. You lean down and put on your slippers, and you step outside. It is FREEZING!! You throw your arms around yourself and shiver, taking a few very fast breaths! You get to your car, and you hear a hissing noise (make the hissing noise as intensely as you can). You squat down next to your tire and listen, taking deep breaths (notice where you feel the air going). Your tire is making the hissing noise and you realize it is very flat. You stand up slowly and cry "OH NO! How will I get to work?" You ponder this predicament for a moment, and then you give up. You decide to call work and let them know that you will not be in today. You sigh a deep sigh of contentment, and you go back to your warm bed to sleep a few more hours.

Forest fire!

Imagine you are a dragon. You are walking through the woods, and since you are a big creature, your walk demands that your feet are lifted higher, and come down hard onto the soft earth. You approach a tree that is in front of you and seems to be in your way. Instead of walking around the tree, you muster up all the air you have, and blow on the tree to knock it over. However, you have forgotten that you are a fire breathing dragon, and have just started a fire! "O no! A forest fire!" you yell. You quickly stomp on the flames to extinguish the fire and cover up your mistake. Continuing on your walk, you come across a creature you have never seen before. You squat down slowly to ask what it is, but it yells and runs away from you. You are a curious dragon, and take off running after it. Before too long, you are out of breath, because you are out of shape. "O well," you say, and take a few long, deep breaths. You look around you, and see that there is a very tall apple tree next to you. You look all the way up to the top, shielding your eyes from the sun. You realize that you are hungry after your run. The apples are very high up, so you have to stretch to reach them. You take a big bite out of the apple you have just plucked, for the apples seem to be giant dragon sized apples. After eating the delicious apple, you decide to take a nap. You sigh and stretch, curling up for some peace and quiet.

The wonder-filled world of Mullet...

You are a louse, roaming freely atop the head of your Mullet sporting host... You have, for quite some time now, lived primarily in the town of Middlehead in the land of Mullet, and you are bored, you sigh, allowing your appendages to hang loosely at your sides, making gentle pendulum-like swings with them. You resolve to explore this head of hair in it's entirety, and in the spirit of this resolve, you raise up your hands and call adventurously, "I will explore the unknown!" You set out, creeping boldly to the south, finding, after some length of time, that the southern inhabitants are quite a bit different than those in Middlehead...they are party animals (Oh My!)! they live wildly, loosely, (wiggle loosely) on the edge, in a region where to head south (bend down as you wiggle, like crawling down an incline) means to wander into the unpredictable, where wavy strands of hair end abruptly, without consistency or warning, and to head north (slowly stretch upward, as if climbing) means an ever upward climb, exhausting and long (pant... sigh) Such a precarious station in life has driven them mad! (Oh No!) They shimmy the days away in endless reverie! After shuffling around for a short time, you quickly become tired of the party life, and climb up the long strands (pant), then hop across the flat midlands, waving to Middlehead as you pass (hello!). You soon find however, that the trek northward was quite a bit shorter than the one southward, and that the inhabitants if the north are much the opposite of the south, all business amongst the predictable evenness of the short north hairs (stand stiffly, like strict buisenessman). "Too stiff for me!" you exclaim, and hop on back to Middlehead, where you feel content to never again recall the stupefying lands to the north and south (sigh) "It is good to be home!".

Successful Fishing Day

It was a beautiful warm day at your cabin in Minnesota. You have come here on a whim to get away from the piling homework and stresses of school. You arise from your cozy bed and sigh "AHhhh! What a beautiful day!" and decide "I think I will go fishing". So you bend down and pick up your pole and tackle box, open the door and step out on your porch. After baiting the hook you cast the line into the water. Almost immediately a great big Rainbow Trout snatches your bait. This fish is much bigger than you expected nearly pulls you in. You pull your hands up holding the pole tightly to re-balance yourself. After regaining your balance the fish madly pulls you far to your right and then switches its course and pulls you to your far left. You are not a quitter though and you stubbornly clinging tightly to the pole, and eventually it pays off and you win reeling your prize catch in. You then lift the fish up using both hands and say "mmmm! Breakfast!" and trot in side happily with your catch in hand.