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8. Annenberg Learner: Here teachers can find information about workshops and courses, distance learning opportunities, personal development resources, or just pick up some new resources to use in the classroom.

Courses & Workshops

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16. TeachThought University: TeachThought University is a social learning platform for teachers.

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39. ASCD: ASCD is an industry leader in professional development for school districts.

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46. NCTE: The National Council for Teachers of English has both frameworks, policies, and resources for the modern literature teacher.

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It can be pretty overwhelming for children to learn about feelings. They don't understand why they are acting a certain way when something happens, so they tend to throw a tantrum or act out physically. These books will be a useful tool for you to teach them the words and actions associated with their feeling so that they can handle them effectively.

Each of these books uses simple terminology so that toddlers and children starting school will be able to understand and learn about how they are feeling. They will also give them techniques to use to calm down, so they can react appropriately to any given situation. There are many emotions, and it's ok to feel them if you know how to deal with them in a healthy way.

10. When Sophie Gets Angry

Anger is a natural emotion for everyone to feel, but it can be especially hard for toddlers to handle. They might throw a temper tantrum or act out physically. This book shows your kids how Sophie deals with her anger. She goes outside and feels the cool breeze or climbs on her favorite tree. She feels comfort when she removes herself from the situation that is making her angry, and then she feels much better.

9. The Feelings Book

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8. Tough Guys Have Feelings Too

Tough Guys Have Feelings Too is a fun way to open up a meaningful conversation with your children about feelings. The author uses characters like ninjas, wrestlers, and superheroes to explain that even people that might seem tough on the outside have feelings. This book will help you teach your kids that it's ok to share how they are feeling because keeping it inside is not healthy. It also teaches them the important message that even dads have feelings despite what society might make them think.

7. Calm Down Time

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6. How Do You Feel?

This book is perfect for young children that are just starting to learn about feelings. There are not very many words on each page, and the art is simple. The main character is a little monkey, and each page shows different situations and how his mood changes over time. This book will teach your kids the words that identify the emotion. They will be able to see facial expressions and body language change according to each emotion.

5. Llama Llama Mad At Mama

This book will feel all too familiar for parents that take their kid's grocery shopping. Llama doesn't want to go to the store with his mama, so he starts to complain. Suddenly his legs are too tired to stand up, he hates the music, and the list goes on. This book is an excellent tool to help prepare your kids to go shopping with you. It's full of ideas to make shopping more fun for both you and your kids. You can do things to involve them and offer a reward for good behavior at the end. Your kids will learn that the shopping trip will go quicker if they listen to what you are telling them and don't throw a fit.

4. In My Heart

In My Heart explains what it means to feel happy, sad, angry, and many other emotions. The author uses similes and metaphors to tell how the main character feels to make it easier for young kids to understand. The pictures do a fantastic job of helping illustrate exactly what each page is describing. The whole book is centered around a rainbow heart, and it gets a little bit smaller each time the page is turned until there is only one tiny heart left. This helps move the story along and keep your kids interested at the same time.

3. Glad Monster, Sad Monster

This book shows monsters doing all kinds of activities that make them feel different emotions. The main lesson that your kids will learn from this book is that everyone has different feelings in different situations. Activities that make your children happy might not make someone else happy, and that's ok. All monsters are different. This book is very interactive and colorful, so younger children will really enjoy looking at each page.

2. I'm Sad

This is such a silly book full of entertaining characters. Flamingo is sad at the start of the book, and his friends help cheer him up. Nothing seems to be working, but they spend the day together, trying all sorts of crazy activities to make him happy. They eat ice cream, play hockey, go on all kinds of adventures to try to make Flamingo happy. At the end of the book, flamingo realizes that he had fun spending the day with his friends, and he still feels a little bit sad, and that's ok. This book will teach your children that they don't have to be happy all the time. They are allowed to feel sad sometimes too.

1. The Way I Feel

The Way I Feel is an excellent tool for parents to use to open up the conversation about how their child is feeling. It will help your child understand the words that are associated with how they are feeling. The art style on each page corresponds to the different emotions that are covered on each page. The page about happiness is bright and cheerful shades of yellow while the page about sadness is various shades of blue. This will help kids relate the emotion to different colors to help them better understand what is going on with their mood. Overall this is a beautiful book, and your children will learn all about the way that they are feeling.

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Brain breaks are a powerful and effective way to address self-regulation needs, help with attention, and impact learning in the classroom. Brain breaks are movement breaks! They are movement opportunities that enable all of us to re-group and re-focus. Learning can be exhaustive to our kids. They are struggling through the day's activities while sometimes striving to pay attention through sensory processing issues or executive functioning needs.

Brain break activities, or movement breaks can be used as part of a sensory diet or in a whole-classroom activity between classroom tasks. Here are all of the brain break resources here on The OT Toolbox. Whether you need a quick brain break, ideas to add movement to the classroom, or a scheduled sensory diet of regulating tools on hand, you'll find many brain breaks here!

Movement Breaks or Brain Breaks?

Maybe we should consider the term movement breaks.

There have been studies done on the effectiveness of movement breaks. Specifically, one study showed that increasing movement in students increases engagement in learning. It's thought that then information retention improves as well Marzano (2012).

What happens during a brain break?

Traditionally, movement breaks are a short (3-4 minute) movement opportunity or a break from seated learning, that is incorporated into the classroom. Students may stop work on the task at hand, or perform the movement activities as part of a transition activity.

As a result of the movement break, students are able to "shift gears" and relax, breathe, and refocus after expending attention or concentration on a task or problem.

A short brain/movement break, especially those which get the whole body moving in a rapid, cardiovascular activity increases breathing rate and the oxygen in a child's bloodstream. This may increase concentration and capability to focus on a learning task.

Brain and body breaks that are effective are typically those which stimulate the entire body.

Movement breaks occupational therapy professionals use integrate the body's sensory systems with intentional movements, or motor plans. Brain-movement activities utilize the important basis of the sensory system:

Movement breaks and proprioception

Brain breaks often incorporate heavy work activities, or proprioception.

The proprioceptive system receives input from the muscles and joints about body position, weight, pressure, stretch, movement and changes in position in space during movement, at rest, and during activity.

When we move, the body is able to grade and coordinate movements based on the way muscles move, stretch, and contract during activity.

Proprioception refers to the amount of less pressure and force the muscles and joints exert in a task. In a movement activity, we are able to coordinate our movements effectively to follow a movement pattern.

Examples of heavy work brain and movement activities include:

Animal walks

Wall Push-ups

Chair push-ups

Traditional push-ups

Carrying a heavy load like a stack of books or laundry basket

Proprioception breaks occurs with Simon Says activities, when following a brain break YouTube video, or when following a movement exercise card.

Along with these examples, you can get tons of ideas for proprioception activities here. These are great ways to add heavy work to the classroom, home, or therapy clinic.

Movement Breaks and Vestibular Sensory System

The brain also must coordinate input about gravity, movement, and balance involving the vestibular system. Vestibular activities or movement activities are those that offer movement through various planes.

Movement that stimulates the vestibular system utilizes receptors in the inner ear when changes occur in position in space. With the addition of input from the eyes, and feedback from muscle and joint receptors (proprioception), we are able to move through space.

Vestibular sensory input is a huge component of brain breaks.

Movement can be calming or alerting and when it comes to brain break activity, these are the key goals. We may want to calm an unfocused classroom so they can attend and focus in learning. Or we may want to "wake up" a class of fatigued and drowsy students.

Adding a few vestibular activities can have a big impact on attention and focus.

Movement activates the vestibular system and the vestibular system allows movement and participation in tasks.

Vestibular brain and body activity can include breaks such as:

Dance

Simon Says

Spinning

Kneeling on your knees

Crawling

Walking on your tiptoes

Doing somersaults

Navigating monkey bars

Bouncing on a trampoline

Vision and Brain Movement Activity

A final piece of the brain break puzzle is the vision system. To motor plan and complete a movement, in most cases, we need to move in our space. Activities like moving heavy items, completing jumping jacks, following a dance movement, or navigating our space requires some aspect of the visual system.

Specifically is visual motor integration.

Visual Motor Integration- This combination of movement and visual information refers to several areas: including visual perception, visual processing skills, and eye-hand coordination.

The integration of these areas enables the eyes to perceive information through the vision functions so that one can process visual information information in order to perform coordinated hand (and body) motor actions. This integration results with motor task completion.

Visual motor integration includes a perceptual component that allows one to move through space and offer the necessary amount of force to complete movements in the area we are in.

Types of Brain Breaks

Weslake and Christian describes three types of break activities in their paper, "Brain breaks: Help or hindrance?" Those types of brain breaks include:

Each of these activity breaks are ones that you've probably subconsciously incorporated into your day to day activities.

A quick stretch of the arms...a walk to the water fountain during a hectic work day...a phone call to a friend when stressed about a big decision. Kids can incorporate mental and physical gear shifts too!

Physical Brain Breaks- include physical and sometimes vigorous movement activity. These activities might include Yoga, jumping jacks, running in place, dancing, or other motor tasks. These types of physical breaks can promote increased cardiovascular capabilities and increased oxygen like described above, making them a great tool in learning.

Breathing Brain Breaks- These exercises include deep breathing and visualization. These types of breathing breaks can be great for mental health, including as a mental break that allows for the student to 're-group" and re-center themselves in the task at hand. Breathing activities might include gentle stretches, rolling the neck, or raising the arms above the head, or shaking out the hands when standing.

Mental Brain Breaks- These mental breaks involve a break from a task requiring a lot of concentration and "switching gears" to a low concentration type of task, such as playing a game, answering trivia questions, or telling jokes.

All of these types of breaks add to learning by way of providing a quick focus change and a means to address needed breaks during periods of high concentration.

Using a variety of brain break activities may be the most beneficial, however, it depends on the make-up of the class as a whole when it comes to classroom breaks between activities.

Brain Break Activities for Kids

Try some of these brain break activities to inspire movement, regulation, attention, and concentration, listed below. Some of the printable pages are available as free downloads that you can add to your therapy toolbox.

List of Brain Break Ideas

First, check out this list of movement breaks in the classroom for school-based brain breaks. Remember that adding propriceptive input or vestibular input, and visual input, as well as a combination of these sensory systems.

Seated Brain Break Ideas

Remember also that postural changes adds sensory input to all three of these sensory systems. Changing postures can offer a brain break opportunity even without equipment. You'll find more ideas listed in our resource on flexible seating ideas and our resource on DIY flexible seating.

Many board games offer a seated movement activity to help kids refocus. Use some of these brain break games to get you started (you'll find standing and heavy work games listed, too!)
Other seated brain break ideas include:

Laying on the floor on belly

Sitting cross legged (crisscross apple sauce)

Using a sensory cushion

Kneeling at a table

Sitting on a stool

Straddle sitting (with back of chair turned around, child rests chest on chair

back)

Add foot support- Add a book or block under feet to be grounded.

Sit on a therapy ball sitting

Working on a vertical surface (easel, chalk board, Smartboard, bulletin board, wall)

Sitting on a partially inflated beach ball

Asymmetrical sitting position

Crossword puzzles

Reading while wrapped up tightly in a blanket- Read our blog post on a burrito blanket to get started.

Watching a movie under a weighted blanket (appropriately fitted to the individual)

Standing brain break ideas

These ideas can be integrated into the classroom or at home while completing tasks in a standing position.

Standing breaks- use a timer or an app for reminders (Apple watches offer this reminder option)

Use a standing desk that raises and lowers

Or add something under a laptop or writing space to raise the surface for standing

Take a break and go for a walk

Do a wall sit for a short time

Cross crawl exercises

Can routines be adjusted to impact and prevent this period of difficulty? Perhaps a granola bar or apple could be offered just prior to that period. Can you add a short walk around the classroom to gather materials or a walk through the home to pick up clutter that adds movement before a difficult time. It may be something as simple as stretching or getting a cool glass of water.

Consider self-regulation.

Self-regulation needs are greatly impacted by movement breaks. Taking a look at some of the strategies listed in that blog post, you'll see that most are centered on movement!

To finish out this resource, let's get you a huge list of brain breaks!

Animal walks

Yoga

Nature walk

Movement

Heavy work (Try these themed heavy work activity cards)

Running, walking

Deep breaths (try these themed deep breathing cards)

Listening to music

Talking to someone

Activities listed under the other areas

Stretching

List out accomplishments

Help someone

Reach out to a friend

Activities listed under the other areas

Talk to someone

Rest

Build a puzzle

Read a book

Color or draw

Think about positive mindset strategies

Enjoy nature

Drink a glass of water

Listen to music

Write in a journal

Activities listed under the other areas

PUSHING Brain Breaks

Chair push ups

Wall push ups

Push a large therapy ball or medicine ball along the floor and up the wall as high as you can go

Pushing a box across the room - fill a box with books or toys and kneel in front of it. Push the box across the room.

Push a cart full of books

Fill a laundry basket with laundry and ask your child to push it through the house.

Push a wheelbarrow or trolley

PULLING Brain Breaks

Take laundry out of the washer or dryer

Pull a wagon

Pulling on a rope - tie a rope to a tree, pole or secure door handle. Hold the rope and see how far you can lean back while pulling on the rope. You only need one person for this tug-of-war game!

Tug of war - if two or more children are available have a game of tug of war

Pull up bar - it may be tricky for children to perform pull ups but just hanging from a bar is great work for muscles.

Pulling and stretching a piece of theraband or stretchy material.

JUMPING Brain Breaks

Trampoline - this provides endless hours of heavy work activity. Wonderful proprioceptive input while children enjoy the pleasure of jumping.

Jumping on a mattress on the floor or couch cushions placed on the floor.

Rocket jumps - crouch down and place your hands on the floor next to you. Count down from ten and leap into the air raising both hands up to the sky. Repeat the rocket launch a few times.

Star jumps / jumping jacks are great for co-ordination and heavy work.

Sitting on a small therapy ball and bouncing up and down.

Hopper balls with handles are also a fun way to bounce around.

LIFTING Brain Breaks

Carry a stack of books

Lift and move chairs to sweep

Lift laundry baskets

Carrying bags - allow children opportunities to carry bags of groceries or laundry at home

Weighted backpack - place a few magazines in a backpack and encourage your child to walk around with the backpack for a few minutes.

A message could be placed in the backpack and your child could deliver this message to a family member at home or to another teacher at school.

Carry a stack of books

Carry a full tote bag

Weighted stuffed animal

CHEWING AND SUCKING Brain Breaks

Fruit leather

Sports water bottle

Chew gum, dried mango, or other dry fruit

Drink think liquids through a straw e.g. yogurt, thick milkshake

Specially designed necklaces, bracelets and toys are available for chewing.

Chew on a straw

Blow through a straw

Eat crunchy snacks

Drink a smoothie through a sippy cup with a straw-type top

Use a "crazy straw" in a cup. The smaller opening is great for oral motor input.

Play "Simon Says" with mouth exercises: Suck cheeks in/puff cheeks out/Make a big "O" shape/Stretch out the tongue

Chew gum

Use a straw to suck and pick up pieces of paper. Transfer them carefully to a cup using only the straw.

Movement Breaks

Movement breaks look different at different stages of development.

For age-specific brain breaks ideas, try these middle school brain breaks for older students and our resource on brain breaks for high school.

After school is a common time for movement needs. After a long day sitting at a desk, children come home and often decompress. This can look like anger, frustration, and behaviors. While the behavior may seem inappropriate, the actions are often times a needed response to self-regulate based on the long day of holding it together while at school.

Some students may benefit from an after school brain break in the form of regulating snacks or decompression for a short period. Others may require fidget tools during homework. Each individual will be different!

Even as busy therapy providers, we need the power of self-care strategies. Something as simples as simple as taking a quick walk between clients, using relaxation breathing, or stretching can be a huge help

These are resources for self-reflection, mindfulness, self-care strategies, and easy ways to include movement breaks.

Many research studies have discussed the use of both brain breaks and movement breaks in an integrated manner in our daily routines as a tool for attention, mental health, cognitive function, stress management, and well-being.

For example, a study (Maher, et.al, 2006) found that the use of a brain break program in the classroom led to increased on-task behavior and academic achievement These findings suggest that "brain breaks," can be an effective way to enhance physical activity and cognitive performance in children.

Final thoughts on Movement breaks

Any child (and adult) benefits from an activity break during periods of high concentration and learning. Use these strategies along with your child, or use one of the three types of movement breaks we talked about today!

Think about the time of day that is typically the most difficult. Is there some way that brain breaks can be added to this time? Schedule it in!

References:

Marzano, R. J. (2012). A Moving Proposal. Educational Leadership, 69(7), 88.

Mahar MT, Murphy SK, Rowe DA, et al. Effects of a classroom-based program on physical activity and on-task behavior. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006;38(12):2086-2094. doi:10.1249/01.mss.0000235359.16685.a6

Weslake, Alyssa and Christian, Beverly J. (2015) "Brain Breaks: Help or Hindrance?," TEACH COLLECTION of Christian Education: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: http://research.avondale.edu.au/teachcollection/vol1/iss1/4

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At a glance

A sensory diet is a treatment that can help kids with sensory processing issues.

It includes a series of physical activities that are tailored to sensory needs.

An occupational therapist can create a sensory diet.

A sensory diet is a tailored plan of physical activities and accommodations designed to meet a child's sensory needs. This type of treatment has nothing to do with food. The goal is to get kids in a "just right" state.

What does that mean? For kids who tend to get overstimulated, a sensory diet will include activities that help them come down from an overloaded state and feel calm. Kids who feel or seem sluggish will do activities to help them feel more alert.

Having the right sensory input helps kids pay attention in school, learn new skills, and socialize with other kids. But not all kids are able to recognize when they're not in a "just right" state. Using a sensory diet regularly can help kids build that self-awareness.

Usually, an occupational therapist designs a child's sensory diet and uses it during therapy sessions. The more kids practice, the better. So parents and caregivers should use the diet at home, too. Teachers can also do some of the activities in school.

Adults with sensory processing issues may benefit from the types of activities in a sensory diet, too. But typically a sensory diet is a plan used to help kids who are struggling.

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