S.M.A.R.T rooms proving to be a smart idea

You’ve undoubtedly heard of smart phones and Smart Boards, but what about S.M.A.R.T rooms? It’s not a place where you go to study and learn more by using today’s latest technology. It’s quite the opposite. It’s getting back to the basics of just being a kid - learning to crawl, balance, jump, and stimulate your senses. It’s a place Eagle Grove Elementary Transitional Kindergarten through third graders go to activate their physical and gross motor activities. It’s been proven that stimulating and developing a child’s vestibular (maintaining equilibrium) and propioceptive systems (understanding where your body is in the world) will help them with little tasks such as sitting still longer and staying focused, to eventually improved testing techniques.

Teachers Jen Conaway, Jennifer Lenane, and Principal Joe Erickson went to Spirit Lake to see their S.M.A.R.T Room in action last year. Lenane had done this while student-teaching in Spirit Lake.

Read the full article in the September 29 edition of the Eagle.