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Have you tried Minds in Bloom Unlimited? Sign up for a free trial and choose 3 Brain Break Activities of your choice!īe sure and check out our new blog post: Brain Breaks for the Online Classroom TAG: Brain Breaks You can click here for a digital dice you can project! Here’s another way to roll a brain break! Continue until only a few students are left. Students that are left go to a new spot, and the die is rolled again. All the students at the number rolled must go back to their seats. Choose a student to roll a die (if you can make a big one out of foam, it adds to the fun). Have students each go to a spot of their choice. Six Spots Number six spots around your room from 1-6.Examples: “Everyone with curly hair.” “Everyone who ate cereal for breakfast.” “Everyone who is wearing stripes.” Call out a trait, and everyone who has that trait must change places with someone else (students who do not have the trait stay where they are). Trading Places Have students stand behind their pushed-in chairs.5-4-3-2-1 In this simple game, students stand up and the teacher (or leader) has them do five different movements in descending order.įor example the teacher would say: “Do five jumping jacks, spin around four times, hop on one foot three times, walk all the way around the classroom two times, give your neighbor one high-five (pausing in between each task for students to do it).Check out all our Games! 20 Brain Breaks You Can Use Today!

Most of these will only take a few minutes, and then you can get back to the lesson with your students ready to focus on the lesson at hand. Do you use Brain Breaks with your students? You should! This amazing guest post about why kids need to move from pediatric occupational therapist Loren Shlaes was so popular that I decided to follow it up with a list of Brain Breaks for kids! These are great to use anytime your students are feeling restless and are struggling to pay attention, and easy to slip into your lesson plan.
