Back-to-school season is in full swing. Here are six icebreakers to help your secondary music students get to know each other better, learn names, dust off their music brains, and start off the new year by building community!
Perfect for re-charging and re-focusing, these 10 great Youtube videos will get your kids moving and grooving as they cross that all important midline. Great for brain breaks at school or at home.
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Students love to draw! This Drawing Challenge resource allows for students to take a brain break from learning and draw. If your students need a little boost, play upbeat music in the background, or if they need to calm down, play relaxing music. Timers are included for you to choose how long students have to draw. If there is time at the end, give students a chance to quickly share with classmates what they drew! Socially Distanced Students can do this brain break from their desk space. Hybrid Classes Your face to face and virtual students can do this brain break at the same time. Everyone can participate! Virtual Classes Share your screen and display the slides on Zoom™ or Google Meet™. How to Use: Choose timer: Choose how long you want to the Drawing Challenge to be and choose the corresponding timer by coping it. Linked Slides: Go to the Table of Contents. Each thumbnail is linked to the corresponding slide. By clicking the thumbnail, you can jump directly to where you want to go; simply press the Slide number that pops up. This works when you are in Present mode and when you are not in Present mode. Select Slides: Select which Drawing Challenge you want your students to participate in. Paste Timer onto Slide: The first thing you need to do is paste the timer from Step 1. To do this, select the the thumbnail for the Drawing Challenge you want to use that has “ Beat the Clock” on the bottom. Click the link and jump to the slide. Paste the timer on the “Beat the Clock” Slide. Start Timer(s): If you want to use the Think Time timer, you can use your left or up arrow key to go to that slide. If not, you can begin the Drawing Challenge! What is Included? 5 timers (1-5 minutes long) 30 Think Time Slides with 30-second timers 30 Drawing Challenge Prompts 6 blank, editable slides *You will save a copy of the Google Slides™ to your Google Drive™.
These occupational therapy midline crossing activities are quick and easy to use. They're great for all young brains, bodies and eyes!
Scarf Movement Song Activity for young children, "Rainbows in the Sky" is an easy to learn scarf routine for children with video and music materials.
The multi sensory nature of music training and neuroplasticity included brain changes related to perception, sensation, performance and abstract reasoning.
Learn how to implement and use brain breaks for kindergarten and first grade learners in the classroom to boost learning and engage students.
This post is an introduction for Montessori inspired music for young children that includes hand bells, guitar, piano, and more.
An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.
Miss Carole of Macaroni Soup beating the bongo here! Let's talk about drumming with Pre-K and K children! You don't have to be a...
Tired of the same GoNoodle videos? Break out of your brain break rut with these 6 new ideas that your students are sure to love.
These Google Slides provide a quick resource for FREE to get you started with a daily brain break in Spanish class! Check them out!
Back to School Brain 28 comments Back to School, Behavior Management, Classroom Management, Classroom Rules School is still a month away for me, but I can't lie, I've got back to school brain. Big time back to school brain. I keep tackling things on my to do list to make sure I'm all set and ready to go for next month. Most of what I've been working on is super boring like cutting reward coupons. Some things have been a little more exciting, like gluing bows to a few storage containers. Yes, that is fun to me. Some of what I've been working on is so dang exciting, that I'm sharing them with you today! I made some new class rules posters. And, I think that's pretty exciting! I have used the Whole Brain Teaching rules for the past several years, and I really can't imagine using any other set of rules. These five rules cover it all! My previous set had a polka dot background, but I was kind of tired of that and wanted a cleaner look. If you like these and can use them, I'd love for you to grab them {here} for FREE! I'm also pretty excited about my newly updated Editable Back to School Power Point freebie on TPT. I was working on the content for my presentation this year, and realized that my old slide set up was just too much. The old slides were cluttered with polka dots, and let's be honest, when you're trying to give a presentation, that can be a little distracting. But, I'm loving the cleaned up version and this year's presentation is ready to go! Are you loving it too? Great! Then head on over to TPT by clicking {HERE} and grab a FREE copy for yourself! Alrighty friends, I'm off to tackle more of those little projects on my to do list, but I do hope that you are able to use one, or both, of the freebies! DON'T FORGET IT, PIN IT! Toodles! Share It:
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Looking for resources for language teachers? Find fun lessons, ideas, and activities for teaching preschool and elementary Spanish.
