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15 Interesting Ways To Start Class Tomorrow

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Engage students right from the beginning of class tomorrow through quick debates, team-building games, and compelling videos and music.

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

1. How could you use an object to pique students' interest?

2. How could you start your lessons in different ways for different purposes?

3. How does Ms. Alcala use her warm-up as both an assessment and a teaching opportunity?

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Written by Holly (Teach Starter)

Gone are the days of making your students sit still for hours at a time. We now know, thanks to extensive research, that kids need to move and take brain breaks to improve their concentration and brain activity.
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Theimage below shows two brain scans.The first is of a student who has been sitting quietly doing a test, the other is that of a student who has just been for a 20-minute walk. The brain is much more active after some form of a brain break.

This blog will outline some quick and easy ways to get your students to take a brain break, even if it is for 10 minutes, it is sure to limit distractions and improve attention. Make it part of your classroom routine...

As teachers, we know the research, we know that brain breaks are an essential part of the classroom routine. However, sometimes it get's hard coming up with fun ways to incorporate brain breaks into the classroom. Here are some fun and easy resources that are the perfect solution to this problem.

Use our brain breaks activity cards and signs to create a 'Brain Break Board'.

Included in this resource are colored circles that can be stuck on the end of craft sticks. Use these signs to indicate to your students what activity they will be doing. I used our Letter, Number and Punctuation set - Cartoon Green for the heading.

Examples of Activities

Dance Off

Choose an age appropriate song for your class. Play the music and have the students dance. When the music stops, students have to freeze. Whoever moves, is out. Keep playing until there is one person left. Those students who are out, help spot students who move when the music is off.

Hot Potato

Classmates gather in a circle and toss a beanbag or tennis ball to each other while music plays. The player who is holding the 'hot potato' when the music stops is out.

The winner is announced when one player is left.

Scissors Paper Rock

This is a 2-player game, but the whole class can play in a knock-out round tournament. On the count of three, players pick their position:

rock - hand in a fist

paper - hand flat, palm down

scissors - extending the first two fingers and holding them apart.

The winner of that round depends on the items formed. If the same item is formed, it's a tie.

rock crushes scissors

scissors cuts paper

paper covers rock

Silent Ball

Find an area where you can safely toss a ball around. No one can talk or make a sound - being silent is the aim of the game.

The ball is tossed between classmates. Students cannot throw the ball back to the person who threw it to them. If a player misses the ball, talks or makes a bad pass, that student is out. The last two players are the champions.

Heads and Tails

Students stand in a group or at their desks. The teacher calls out true or false statements.

True - hands on your head. If a student thinks the statement is true, then they put their hands on their heads.

False - hands on your bottom. If a student thinks the statement is false, then they put their hands on their bottoms.

If your guess is incorrect, you must sit down. The last person standing wins.

Other Brain Break Ideas

Fitness Bingo

Use our different fitness bingo cards. Kids love playing BINGO so why not incorporate a little bit of a brain break with some fitness bingo!

Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and Spades

Using each of the suits in the deck of cards, place one in each corner of the classroom.From the remaining deck of cards, remove the Aces and then shuffle, pull out a card and show it to the students, they must yell out 'hearts, diamonds, clubs or spades' and run to the correct corner. Students who go to to the incorrect corner or the last few students to the correct corner are out.

Shuffle, Shuffle, Group!

In this game, students shuffle around the classroom untilthe teacher says, Groups of 5, at which point the students must quickly group themselves into groups with the correct number of people. Students who are left over must do three jumping jacks before the next round starts. The teacher can call out any number for the group size.

The Bean Game

This is a favorite here at the Teach Starter office, The Bean Game.

This active game encourages the development of listening skills, cognitive processing skills, physical activity and social skills. Students move carefully and silently around a safe, open space. As soon as they hear the 'bean call' ask the students to make the shape or movement of the corresponding bean as quickly as they can. This will become a class favorite.

Timed Chatter

Allow the students to do what they are desperate to do. Set a 3-minute timer and allow the students to get up and talk to their friends.

FitnessLucky Dip

Place our 24 fitness exercise cards in a bucket and have students randomly select an activity to perform.

Do you use Brain Breaks in the classroom?

We'd love to hear your ideas, share in the comments section of this blog.
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26 Brain Break Ideas for the Classroom | Teach Starter

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Written by Holly (Teach Starter) Gone are the days of making your students sit still for hours at a time. We now know, thanks to extensive research, that kids need to move and take brain breaks to improve their concentration and brain activity. Make your classroom buzz!

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Why Brain Breakes are so important in classroom?

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Why Brain Breakes are so important in classroom?

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Brain breakes are short activities that does students relax, leaves the blood flew, the brain has oxygen, kids has better retention of information and also helps a lot with behavior.

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https://www.actionforhealthykids.org/classroom-energizers-brain-breaks/

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In this video this person explain and gives some adivices about how to make our students move. Also some things that our students can get to do if they move. Our brain needs a pause to relax and see other perspective before continue working. This can be useful for our students because they can develop new ideas, thoughts and they would like continue working and learning.

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Learn Any Language | Scott Young & Vat Jaiswal

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The magic that makes the brain learn: Kim Bevill at TEDxCrestmoorParkED

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Watch this amazing talk by Kim Bevill as she explains how getting kids moving helps their ability to think, process, and focus; that if we get kids physically fit they will get higher scores. With research behind her Kim shows us that the magic is simply to get them moving.

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Are quick activities during classes. Students can have a pause to move, interact, have fun and concentrate in lessons.
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https://www.weareteachers.com/get-students-moving-2017-five-minute-per-hour-challenge/