{"id":84225,"date":"2017-02-08T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=84225"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:14:54","slug":"kids-take-a-brain-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/02\/08\/kids-take-a-brain-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids take a &#8220;Brain Break&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84226\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_0816.jpg\" alt=\"Shown are students from Christie Wendel's fourth grade room engaging in a Brain Break. (Photo submitted.)\" width=\"330\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shown are students from Christie Wendel&#8217;s fourth grade room engaging in a Brain Break. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brain Breaks are short, energizing bursts of activity that boost blood flow, send oxygen to the brain, and help kids better retain information. Teachers at Lincolnview incorporate movement into their classrooms to help engage students. Activities include anything from stretches, running in place, and &#8220;would-you-rather&#8221; games to walking around the building and even Zumba!<\/p>\n<p>Research has shown that Brain Breaks increase students\u2019 on-task behavior and\u00a0the amount of exercise they get each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain Breaks are short, energizing bursts of activity that boost blood flow, send oxygen to the brain, and help kids better retain information. Teachers at Lincolnview incorporate movement into their classrooms to help engage students. Activities include anything from stretches, running in place, and &#8220;would-you-rather&#8221; games to walking around the building and even Zumba! Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lincolnviewcolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 00:42:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}