Brain breaks!

I am a huge fan and student of whole brain learning. I use this in my classroom daily and I'm constantly trying to become better at incorporating it into everything I teach. One of the parts of whole brain teaching is a scoreboard.  The class as a whole is rewarded with tally marks under the smiley face or the frowny face during the day and then rewarded based on the score. If there are more smiles than frowns by lunch, the students are rewarded some brain breaks after recess. Then we wipe the slate clean and start all over for the second half of the day. At the end of the day, if there are more smiles than frowns, they get to choose a piece of candy from the candy box as they leave. Here are the kids enjoying a brain break after recess. As you can see, some of them prefer to just color or watch from their seats - and that's okay, too!