Yoga?

We're on day forty-something of school, and I still haven't figured out how to get the kids settled down and ready to learn in less than a couple of hours. We've given up on mornings for the time being. Right now, we're doing school from noon - 4, with free reading and reading aloud in the morning. Strangely, they were very calm by afternoon when we started in the morning, but when we start in the afternoon, they're still wound up. I tried yoga for a couple of days on the Wii with them, but I think the poses were too difficult - and the living room is too small. I've been looking at sites on yoga for kids, and some of them are pretty cool. I think that 10 - 20 minutes of yoga in the morning, even for kids who are going off to a regular school, sounds like a great (easy? quick?) way to get focused and energized for the day. If you're really brave, you could even email some of these links to your kids' teachers to see if they're open to trying it. Here are some of the links I've found that show different yoga poses (some specifically for kids, some for all ages):

http://www.susankramer.com/Yoga.html#Moving (yoga poses for kids)

http://www.yogasite.com/postures.html (yoga poses for all ages)

http://www.musicalyogaadventures.com/?p=routines_for_cd (neat! you can play songs that go along with each pose!)

http://yogainmyschool.com/yoga-101/poses/alphabetical-list-of-poses/ (yoga poses for kids)

http://yogakids.com/about-pose-of-the-week.htm (get a pose each week by email or Facebook)

Surely there are a bunch of videos on You Tube too, but I haven't got time to check it today. Let me know if you find any other good resources, and I'll keep you posted on how yoga works for us.