{"id":170,"date":"2020-04-30T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/?p=170"},"modified":"2020-04-30T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:16:16","slug":"brain-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/2020\/04\/30\/brain-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Breaks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"902\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/Brain-break-1024x902.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"173\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/Brain-break.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/?attachment_id=173#main\" class=\"wp-image-173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/Brain-break-1024x902.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/Brain-break-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/Brain-break-768x677.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3236\/2020\/04\/Brain-break.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Good Morning Families! Another tool that I have found useful is to include Brain Breaks during your child&#8217;s day, especially when completing schoolwork at tabletop. For some children, it&#8217;s difficult to sit and sustain attention on task for several minutes. Breaking up the schoolwork with some movement will help with attention! I have listed below ideas to include for movement\/brain breaks, but you can be creative! You do not need to use any equipment for these!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Animal walks: Kangaroo jumps, frog hops, bear walks, crab walks<\/li><li>Jumping jacks, push ups<\/li><li>Wall Pushes<\/li><li>Carry around household items: Laundry basket, heavy books, backpack<\/li><li>Crawling on the floor<\/li><li>Yoga poses<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Families! Another tool that I have found useful is to include Brain Breaks during your child&#8217;s day, especially when completing schoolwork at tabletop. For some children, it&#8217;s difficult to sit and sustain attention on task for several minutes. Breaking up the schoolwork with some movement will help with attention! I have listed below ideas to include for movement\/brain breaks, but you can be creative! You do not need to use any equipment for these! Animal walks: Kangaroo jumps, frog hops, bear walks, crab walks Jumping jacks, push ups Wall Pushes Carry around household items: Laundry basket, heavy books, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/2020\/04\/30\/brain-breaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading Brain Breaks!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/andreameador\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}