Energizers! 88 Quick Movement Activities that Refresh and Refocus

Children need to move to learn! This collection of movement activities are perfect to refresh and refocus young minds. With a few minutes of playful moving, laughing, chanting, or singing, students are ready for more productive learning. This book by Susan Lattanzi Roser includes old favorites with new twists as well as lively originals.

Teach these activities inside or outside, circled up, at desk, or waiting in line. Try them during long instructional blocks, morning meetings, when kids need to calm down or perk up. Usable with any grade level K-6, these activities are easy to teach and learn.

Contents:

1. Air Writing
2. Alphabet Aerobics
3. And Don't You Forget It!
4. Answer This
5. Aroostasha
6. As Still As a Rock
7. Awake, Alert, Alive
8.  Body Drumming
9. Boom Chicka Boom
10. The Button Factory
11. Carousel
12. Chase the Bunny
13. Check My Beat
14. Clapping Patterns
15. Clap Your Hands
16. Deep and Wide
17. Did You Know?
18. Dino Dinner Chant
19. The Doctor Says
20. Double This Double That
21. Do What I Said, Not What I Say
22. Dum Dum Dah Dah
23. The Fidget Family
24. Five Plump Peas
25. Froggie
26. Funga Alafia
27. Go Bananas
28. Granny at the Fair
29. Hand Dance
30. Have a Ball
31. Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
32. High Low Up & Down
33. Hot Tamale
34. Human Protractor
35. I Feel the Same Way
36. Imagine This
37. Interruptions
38. Laughing Handkerchief
39. Left and Right
40. Let's Get the Rhythm
41. Lyle Crocodile
42. Ma Zinga!
43. Mirrors
44. Mosquito
45. Mumbo Jumbo Bubblegum
46. My Bonny
47. My Favorite Sport
48. My Sweet Old Aunt
49. My Two Hands
50. Never-Ending Word
51. No-Talk Toss
52. Now I'm Still
53. Number Freeze
54. Oh, My!
55. Oliver Twist
56. Opposite World Freeze Dance
57. Pass the Mask
58. People to People
59. Popcorn's in the Popper
60. Pop-Up Number
61. Rainstorm
62. Ram Sam Sam
63. Robot Rap
64. Row Your Boat
65. Save the Earth
66. Set the Table
67. Shake It
68. Shake It Down
69. Shante Ohm
70. Share the Light
71. Shark Attack
72. Solar System Rap
73. Song of the Day
74. Spelling Stroll
75. Sports on the Move
76. Switch!
77. Tarzan
78. Terry the Towel
79. Tony Chestnut
80. Top It
81. Walkie-Talkies
82. The Wave
83. We're All Back Together Again
84. What's the Connection?
85. Which Direction?
86. World Ocean Doo-Wop
87. Worldwide Seven Continents
88. Za Ziggy