During the recent January CI Down Under ’24, I will be forever grateful to Ibu/ Senora Anne for convincing me to be a learner in Annabelle’s spanish language lab. It was an INCREDIBLE experience!
As I now plan for the week 1 lessons for my students, I have reached a point where I need to add a brain break. Looking at the photos of the complete list of Annabelle’s brain breaks uploaded to the conference facebook page by Lily & Prue, it quickly became clear that I couldn’t remember how many of them ran. So while waiting for help with two (silencio & snaps), here they are with instructions, mostly taken either from Annabelle’s blog, La Maestra Loca or her YouTube channel, also conveniently called La Maestra Loca!
I have firstly added a link to her very first brain break post, which explains the why and the how as well as adding a few bonus brain breaks!
Brain Breaks – Why? How?
Here they are in the order they appeared on the board…
Chocolate
Selfies
Zip Zap Zoom
Brain Bursts
Name Game
Maestra Dice (Simon Says)
Platus/ Quick Feet
1,2,3, Dali (satu, dua, tiga, Yo!)
Evolucion (Evolution)
Two’s
Splat (not one of Annabelle’s clips)
Giant, Fairy, Wizard
Body Parts
Face Off!
Dance Party
Hachi Pachi
WiiFit
Stomp, Snap, Clap
Serpiente (Serpent)
While searching for the above links, I came across some others that are worth adding!! Here they are:
Indonesian Teacher Reflections 