A grizzly bear, a grizzly bear was sleeping in a cave.
A grizzly bear, a grizzly bear was sleeping in a cave.
Please be very quiet.
Very, very quiet.
If you shake them, if you wake them, they’ll be very mad. Grrrrr!
Teacher Amy: When we feel shaking at New School-West, we are going to make our bodies into sleeping bears.
Remy: Can we do it at home? If there is shaking at my house, maybe I could go in the closet.
Madeleine: I could go under my bunk bed.
Amy: You can talk to your mommies or daddies about what you can do at home when you feel shaking.
By introducing the duck and cover technique through a song, we create a game rather than associating the drill with fear. Starting on our knees, we stretch our hands in the air. Next, we lock our fingers and squeeze our neck. Bending over, we curl up in a ball and become sleeping grizzly bears. The song lasts the average length of an earthquake and then we all get to growl! At the end, we usually hear, “Again!” Eventually we will add a key word, “Drop”, to be the signal that says we are going to practice the pose.
-Teacher Amy
