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We Like to Move it (With GoNoodle)

We are having so much fun taking brain breaks with GoNoodle! We love moving and grooving. Research has shown that physical activity helps the brain process learning, and it helps us concentrate if we have a little break every so often.

GoNoodle is great! It has dancing, stretching, and we can work with Olympic athletes on sports such as the shotput, discus, hurdles and sprints. Here we are working on our 200M sprint!



We also enjoy relaxing and calming ourselves by breathing deeply with Airtime, where our breathing moves an air bubble around the country. Each time we stop we land in a different city and learn fun facts. Did you know there is a town in America where it is against the law to put an ice cream cone in your back pocket on Sunday? Yep! So far we traveled from Rhode Island to Florida just by doing one minute of relaxing breathing every so often!


Thanks for checking in with us! 



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