Brain Breaks and Exercising in Education

 Brain Breaks and Exercising in Education:

One of the most important things that I try to express to my parents at the beginning of the school year is that my goal as their teacher to not only educate them academically, but I strive to teach the whole-child.

Beginning at Meet the Teacher night, I communicate with our parents that we will cover all of the necessary academic standards, but along the way we will also make sure that we are exercising, discussing healthy life choices, social-emotional learning, and effective communication.

Here is one of my favorite websites that we use in our classroom:

GoNoodle

I used this website for different things at different parts of our day and for a variety of different reasons:

• Morning exercises to help wake up our students!
• Helps students work on their coordination.
• Left side/ride side and crossing their mid-line.
• Better conditioning.
• Brain Breaks help to refocus our students:
• After recess, gym, or another exciting activity a brain break can help to calm students down and refocus.
• Allow students to get out of their seats to stretch, dance, sing, etc.