When you walk into Emilie Mena's classroom, you may think it's a yoga studio at first. But it's not. It’s a typical elementary school classroom with desks, a white board and books. However, instead of ...

Fourth-graders don’t sit on tiny desk chairs in Liberty Looney’s class. Instead, they hop onto pink, blue and green stability balls. The thick, plastic contraptions, also known as exercise or yoga ...

ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP -- Talk about being on the ball. Grand Valley State University student Trish Blake thought her professor was nuts when he told students they could sit on exercise balls instead of ...

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NEW HARTFORD --- Dike-New Hartford Junior High fifth- and sixth-grade teacher Susan Parker has incorporated exercise balls in her classroom, not for physical education, but to replace desk chairs. A ...

Every once in a while they solve equations by tossing around a beach ball - covered not by sand but with basic addition problems - and the kids do the math based on where the ball bounces, thumbs ...