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Teacher’s Perspective: How Elementary Students Actually Respond to Active Classrooms
Teachers often fall along a continuum of integrating movement in their classrooms, ranging from fully comfortable to extremely hesitant, for a variety of reasons. It’s my goal, as a teacher [...]
4 Types of Classroom Spaces
Creating different spaces in your classroom is a great way for students to unwind and collect their emotions throughout the day. Calming corners, mindfulness zones, and sensory spaces are just [...]
April Daily Brain Breaks
Use this calendar as an easy and fun way to incorporate movement and brain breaks into your class! Below are the instructions to each brain break idea. Download Calendar Animal [...]
Use Creative Brain Breaks for Easy Transitions
Miss Docheff gives her students the 2-minute countdown to let them know they will move to the next activity soon. She rings her bell three times, so they know to [...]
Incorporating Students with Special Needs into Movement Breaks
All students are special in their own ways. Some have more difficulty listening and following directions while others may struggle to move their bodies the way they want to. When [...]
Fighting the Winter Blues with Classroom Physical Activity
Are “winter blues” really a thing? According to the NIH, it is a general term and not a medical diagnosis, however, winter blues may be connected to something specific such as the stress [...]
3 Tips for an Active Indoor Recess
Cold weather is approaching, which means planning for indoor recess when temps reach low numbers. Indoor recess can become sedentary day after day, but it doesn't have to be with [...]
Create a Flexible Learning Space with Classroom Planner
Have you been dreaming about adding a flexible learning space in your classroom or school? Or maybe redesigning or upgrading an existing space? Let us help make your dreams come true [...]
Teaching Students How to Self-Start Movement Breaks
In a previous blog, I suggested that teachers give students the autonomy to decide when they need a break and to allow them to take one, as long as they [...]
