#6 - GoNoodle
Six and half hours or so is a long time for students, especially young students, to be in school. Research shows that movement and brain-breaks help students learn, focus, and retain information. GoNoodle is a classroom must have for teachers of young students! It is an amazing website that offers all different kinds of brain breaks!
Students LOVE to choose their "class champ". The champs are adorable little monsters and the more brain-breaks a class takes the stronger their champs become! There are 25 champs to choose from:
(the ones with green backgrounds are the ones my class used and maxed out)
When you open up your class GoNoodle webpage you open to a screen showing your class champ, his/her progress bar, and often silly things for your class to read that your class champ is saying:
There are lots of amazing and fun channels to choose from for different kinds of brain-breaks/activities (favorites of my class include: Koo Koo Kangaroo and MooseTube):
Another way to choose a brain-break/activity for your class is through the different categories of brain-breaks. You can choose based duration, energy level, and the different types of activities. Your class may need to calm themselves or maybe they need to move around for a bit - choosing by category allows you to choose what your class needs!
The best part about GoNoodle is that is is FREE! There is a premium version that you can pay for which I have not checked out yet - but the features in this blog post are all FREE!
Some of my classes favorites include:
Awesome Sauce Channel:
Koo Koo Kangaroo Channel:
We did this one every time it was someone's birthday:
MooseTube:
My class also loved these channels:
As teachers, we all love indoor recess right? Well...maybe not - no worries GoNoodle has a solution for that as well. The indoor recess channel mashes up several brain-breaks/activities to give students anywhere from 7 minutes to 18 minutes of continuous activity! Whooo hooo!
So next time your students seem to be glazing over, wiggling all over the place, or need to be calmed down turn to GoNoodle to help you and your students out!
Warning: The songs and dances WILL be stuck in your head ALL THE TIME!!!
This is seriously a tool I cannot live without in my 2nd grade classroom!
For more information and to sign up go to:
Happy dancing, running, jumping, singing, yogaing, and much more!
I'll leave you with a little clip of my students having a blast with Koo Koo Kangaroo's Milkshake:
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