Go Noodle is a great way for your students to "get their wiggles out." Go Noodle has free activities and a premium service that you can try for free for a limited time as you decide whether you want to fork over the $10 a month. It provides brain breaks for kids and has a great library of videos that get students up and moving around to counter the time they spend sitting in their seats. According to the video, "In the morning, they can stretch with Maximo, play Run With Us in the afternoon, and use Airtime to reduce stress before a test."
Jaime Jackson has used it with her second graders. When I visited her classroom, her kids were playing "Bodyspell." They were following an online, animated robot, telling them what word to spell and the kids were standing up and forming the letters with their bodies as they called out the letters. At the end, they had to repeat all of the words they just spelled. Jamie had preloaded Bodyspell with all of the words that students had been learning to spell, which she said was very easy.
This is another great example of the way technology is enhancing the learning in the classrooms at Bill Roberts. Nice work Mrs. Jackson!
