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Physical Release: Reviving the Room

Lesson Objective: Energize and refocus your students with 5-second mid-lesson breaks

All Grades / All Subjects / Class Breaks

1 MIN

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How can quick breaks help students get refocused?
Notice Ms. Dwyer keeps the drum roll just long enough to add excitement and then ends it with a hand signal Consider what other types of physical releases and mental breaks you could do in less than 5 seconds?

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justin pasley Apr 17, 2024 1:05pm

1. Quick breaks serve as a valuable tool for maintaining student productivity and well-being by preventing mental fatigue, reducing stress, and promoting physical movement and creativity.

2. Deep breathing, stretching, quick laughter, visualization, and positive affirmations can be seamlessly incorporated into students' routines to provide immediate relief and promote well-being, even in the midst of busy schedules.

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Diane Battaglia Feb 15, 2024 11:54am

1. It allows them to recenter themselves and sometimes we need it too especially if the lesson wasn't stimulating enough.

2. Some other options could be stretching, copying the same hand patterns (ie. clapping), stomping movement.

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Danielle Adler Jan 14, 2024 4:39pm

A quick break can help students to reset and refocus for the next lesson.

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Linda White Nov 20, 2023 11:56am

students need a break

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Ian Burney Nov 9, 2023 9:42pm

The better the work the better the break they can experience. That is comprimising they put the work together so they can refocus.
Yelling like a bee making the bzzz sound. Then turn the sound off right away with the hand gesture.

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03:08: MARY DWYER: Not every lesson we teach is a lesson that they’re extremely interested in, so we have to

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03:08: MARY DWYER: Not every lesson we teach is a lesson that they’re extremely interested in, so we have to get a hook in there, we have to have little breaks for them as well, and that’s just the physical release. Something that adds a little bit of excitement.
03:22: MARY DWYER [in class]: Give me a drumroll.
STUDENTS: [Drumroll]
MARY DWYER: And cut.
03:29: MARY DWYER: The physical release is good for them. I mean just being able to do that [claps hands], or the, uh, [breathes], the breathing, that helps them, and helps to refocus them, get them, you know, back to where we want them to be, so they’re open again to learning. It’s very difficult to sit in a desk all day.
03:44: MARY DWYER [in class]: In. [breathes] And out. [breathes]. In. [breathes] And out. [breathes].
03:53: MARY DWYER: I remember as, being a student, we were in rows. That was it, you didn’t move, you didn’t speak. What we know now, so much about education, and how we want children to remember what they learn, not just to sit there and learn it for today, but to remember these things for, for the rest of their lives.

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