Two things I added to my classroom routine this year: Kagan strategies (one of which I'd already been using) and Brain Breaks. For Kagan, I'd been using the Round Table method for much of my classwork before. The two I added: Quiz-Quiz-Trade and Find the Fiction.
I went through and picked 13 of my favorite Brain Breaks from the blog and cycled through them. I've found that physical brain breaks are surprisingly unpopular with the kids (they don't think they're cool). Math riddles as brain breaks work much better, though. The kids like to solve things before their peers.
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