![]() ![]() Swing the arm upward and to the front and over the head, creating a spiral motion. Slowly bend the arm inward under the armpit, keeping the palm upward with the plate balanced on it.Spread your legs shoulder width apart and keep your left hand on your hip. Hold it on your palm, without using your fingers. Place a small paper plate in your right hand.As you complete the movement, your whole body is twisted and stretched, and all your joints are gently opened. It has the added benefit of developing physical flexibility, too. This exercise is a challenge to do well, requiring concentration, balance, and mental quickness to master. Keep practicing until you can go through the whole sequence quickly and effortlessly. Now make signs with both hands, showing the sign that cancels the right hand on the left hand.Practice with each hand until the motions feel natural. Rock is a closed fist paper is the hand flat, palm to the ground scissors are two fingers extended. Practice making the rock, paper, and scissors signs from the old decision-making game.Each of two kids makes only one sign, but what if you could be flexible enough to be both kids at the same time? Try this challenging brain game and see if you can! You probably remember making decisions as a kid using “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” where one element cancels out the other-rock smashes scissors, paper covers rock, scissors cuts paper. You may need to move one finger at a time a first, but work up to switching the fingers on both hands simultaneously. See how fast you can switch back and forth. Now bring them back in and point your right thumb and left pinkie to the right. Point your left thumb and right pinkie to the left.Make your hands into fists and extend your arms out in front of your chest.In a similar way, this exercise challenges the brain using competing hand movements. But with practice you can-like an accomplished pianist who plays complicated parts with both hands at the same time. It’s always difficult for the brain to do two things at once. Below you’ll find a group of exercises that will help develop your brain’s flexibility. Your brain has a certain amount of natural flexibility, but if you don’t challenge it, you’ll lose it. Just like in gymnastics, there’s only one way your brain can become flexible, though-practice, practice, practice. This is the second step of Brain Education, which is all about developing a flexible brain. These are good activities to use at the start of a day or when learners need a break before moving to a new activity.In my last blog entry, I discussed a different kind of flexibility-Brain Versatilizing. Combine exercises or use them individually. ![]() Say: ‘Are your brains ready for work? Sit down and get ready to learn.’īrain gym activities can take many forms, for example: walking on the spot, neck circles, yawning, deep breathing, etc. Now, let’s do the whole exercise again twice.’ Put your right ear on your right shoulder and use your right arm to draw sideways eights. ![]() Give the instructions again while learners perform the exercise. Repeat five times’ Stage 4: Play activity Draw a sideways eight with your left arm. Hold your left arm out like an elephant’s trunk. Say: ‘Put your left ear on your left shoulder. Show the learners what to do as you give instructions. It will help us wake up all the areas of our brain.’ Stage 3: Demonstrate Say: ‘This exercise is called “The elephant”. What do football players do to warm up their bodies before a game?’ Say: ‘Let’s start the day by warming up our brains. Make sure all the learners have some clear space around them so they are not touching anyone else. These learners often need something to help them concentrate, and the movement encourages the right and left halves of the brain to work together. They’re especially useful for learners who have learning disabilities. They can warm up the learners and help them develop positive relationships. Read what a teacher says about this activity:īrain gym exercises are great to use at the start of the day. Author Deb Avery | Published 1 December 2022 ![]()
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