Brain Breaks
Let's get moving, dancing, singing and have a good time re-energizing your brains to think. Go to an appropriate grade level and click on a link to YouTube.
Parents of young children under 5 years old, click here to learn more about Brain Breaks.
K-2 Winter Hokey Pokey Get up and get moving friends!
K-1 Monster Shuffle Dance Song Learning Station fun
K-5 Monster Moves Dance to some strange sounds
1-5 Adams Family GoNoodle Snap and dance along to great music!
K-3 Gobble Gobble Turkey Wobble Koo Koo Kanga
K-3 Turkey Dance The Learning Station
K-4 Christmas Freeze Dance Includes yoga poses too
K-5 Encanto Themed Scarf Movement grab a scarf or something similar and have some fun!
K-5 Lunar New Year Scarf Movement grab a scarf or something similar and have some fun!
3-5 Lunar Rhythm Play Along Clap or play along on a drum too!
2-5 The Skeleton Rhythm Rap Adventure By Mr. Henry's Music World
K-5 Faith (Stevie Wonder with Ariana Grande) Body Percussion Rhythm Play along
1-5 Try Everything by Shakira You can stand or sit and move to the rhythms
K-5 Up Town Funk by Bruno Mars (do actions standing too)
3-5 I Want You Back The Jackson 5 Basketball Rhythm Play Along
2-5 It's All Right Rhythm reading and body percussion
2-5 Fun, Fun, Fun movement and rhythms. Song by Pharrell Williams
2-5 Celebration by Kool and the Gang to practice movements and rhythms
2-5 Dance Monkey Adding some fun stomp, clap, snap, and pat actions.
2-5 Can't Stop The Feeling Adding fun step, clap, snap, and pat actions with a little Free Style Dance section too! SOOOO MUCH FUN!
K-2 Shake Your Foot Koo Koo Kanga NEW
K-5 Kidz Bop Kids "Shake It Off" Official fans dancing, join in the fun!
K-5 I Like Pancakes by Koo Koo Kanga Roo (Dance a long) NEW
K-3 Move and Freeze by The Learning Station
K-2 Simon Says for Children by Patty Shukla
K-5 Skaggs Just Dance This is the teacher version.
K-5 Get Yo Body Movin Soooooo much fun!
K-1 I'm So Happy Dance, sing, read, and feel happy too!
K-4 Get Back Up Again from Trolls (Great to get back on green zone)
K-5 Kidz Bop Up to 34 Minutes to choose from. I like Kidz pop Shuffle in the first 4 minutes.
K-1 Jump, Run, and Shout Dance, sing, and read the words too.
K-2 Tony Chestnut Great when you need to calm down too.
K-1 Freeze Dance All about dancing and following directions. Then go to "Freeze Dance" songs below with helper to turn it off/on.
K-1 Penguin Dance Dance, sing, and read along.
K-1 Old Town Road (Clean) The kids love to move and sing this
2-3 Just Dance Kids - Bingo Dance and sing
K-5 Shake Your Sillies Out!!! Dance, sing, and read
K-5 Tooty Ta Just plain silly!
K-5 Boom Chicka Boom Dance, sing, and read
K-5Just Dance Kids I Like To Move It Dance
K-2 Five Little Monkeys Just Dance Kids 2 Dance, sing, and read
K-5 Can't Stop The Feeling Trolls Get up and dance my friends!
K-5 Get Back Up Again Trolls Motivating to get back to Green
4-5 Electric Slide This is old school, be careful your parents may get up and join you!
K-2 Bingo from Just Dance Kids
4-5 Cha Cha Slide Another old school one.
K-5 Macarena or Maxarena
K Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes You can also search this song in many different languages too.
K-5 Twist N' Shout Maximo style
K-5 Cotton Eye Joe Just Dance style
Freeze Dance Favorites (Someone turns off music and you freeze)
K-5 Twist The original by Chubby Checker
K-5 Hakuna Matata from The Lion King 38 million views, everyone must like this one too!
K-5 Loco-Motion Very old and very fun!
K-5 YMCA Disco Style
K-5 Bunny Hop Demonstration by a family
K-5 Cotton Eye Joe Bluegrass Style
K-5 Jump, Jive, and Wail Big Band Style
K-5 Splish Splash 1950's Style
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K-5 Dance Monkey Kidz Bop Get up and join them dancing my friends!
3-5 The Hustle Learn it here.
K-5 Chicken Dance with Maximo
K-5 Cupid Shuffle With 55 million views, you know this is popular!