Brain and Body Breaks

With all of the test prep madness we survived last week, my students definitely needed to MOVE!  I decided to try some of the Just Dance videos on YouTube for a brain break.  They LOVED it!

Our favorite was Who Let The Dogs Out.  We are a little biased since this is our mascot's theme song whenever he comes out during assemblies.  The kids went crazy when I played it.







A Little Kung Fu Fighting
 

A Playlist for you:

1. I Like To Move It

2. Despicable Me

3. Shake It Up

4. I'm A Gummy Bear

5. We're All In This Together

6. What Does The Fox Say?

7. Gangnam Style

8. The Sid Shuffle

9. Hey Jessie

10. Footloose

I also have some more Brain Break Ideas Pinned to my Brain Breaks Pinterest Board.


 I am linking up  this week with Fourth Grade Flipper for Tried It Tuesday.

Head over for some more great ideas!

Rock, Paper, Math

I have a group of wiggly third graders this year - my class is mostly boys with a few girls.  My principal has suggested using some brain breaks.  I would love to implement a few brain breaks that also involve some content review.  That is why I love this video with a version of rock, paper, scizzors that reviews multiplication facts (if you teach younger students I'm sure you could substitute with addition or subtraction instead).

This comes from a book entitled Energizing Brain Breaks.  You can find a few more free videos at the website here.

What brain breaks do you use?