{"id":3735,"date":"2024-04-28T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:49:42","slug":"need-a-song-for-your-lesson-or-brain-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/need-a-song-for-your-lesson-or-brain-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Songs\/Music For Elementary Brain Breaks and Student Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you know, we need to pull out ALL of the student engagement tricks. Turn it up a notch by using songs in your lessons or brain breaks? Freeze dance, follow the leader, & sing and dance with them (even if you are tone deaf… like me).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a list I know that I will refer back to with a bunch of songs\/videos in one place. What are your favorites that aren’t on here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warm Up Song <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Say Hello<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1-2-3 Clap<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clap One Time<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Move to the Beat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Growth Mindset<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Neuoroplasticity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power of Yet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t Stop Don’t Give Up<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

*And here is an old blog post with other Songs and Videos about Growth Mindset<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop, Walk and Talk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Rap Lyrics Stop, Walk and Talk (4th\/5th)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop, Walk, and Talk<\/a> (with real kids in video)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweetkick Musician Stop, Walk and Talk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Career Awareness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Career ABC Rap<\/a> (I play this one every year with my career lessons)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little Bosses on the Move<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Social Skills<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Personal Space
<\/a>Respect<\/a>
Responsibility<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sharing Song<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life Vest Kindness Boomerang. One Day<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindness is a Muscle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindness by Juicebox Jukebox<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come Together<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Safety:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Boss of My Body<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run, Run, Yell and Tell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s a Boundary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAFETY (Kid Smartz)<\/a>
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As you know, we need to pull out ALL of the student engagement tricks. Turn it up a notch by using songs in your lessons or brain breaks? Freeze dance, follow the leader, & sing and dance with them (even if you are tone deaf… like me). Here is a list I know that I Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,1,41],"tags":[91,84,89,59,90],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","category-uncategorized","category-video-clips","tag-brain-breaks","tag-lessons","tag-music","tag-songs","tag-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisakingcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Purple-and-Lilac-Modern-Maximalist-Aesthetic-Music-Playlist-Animated-Instagram-Post.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ubJK-Yf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisakingcounselor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}