PledgeCents Preferred Partner Highlight: GoNoodle
GoNoodle gets kids moving throughout the school day with short, interactive videos and games. With GoNoodle Plus, teachers can add custom questions to the activities or select from built-in academic categories sorted by grade level, giving students the opportunity to get their wiggles out while building core-subject fluency.
Check out these FIVE ways to use GoNoodle Plus:
1.Virtual Field Trips: Broaden your classroom's horizons with Field Trip, the crowd favorite activity on GoNoodle Plus. Your students will run, jump, and dodge their way to wacky destinations like a volcano, brain, or toothbrush!
2.Customizable Question Sets: Create your own custom question sets and use them in select GoNoodle Plus games. Look for the My Questions icon on GoNoodle Plus play screens to use your question sets.
3.Spelling Practice: Spice up spelling practice by adding your weekly spelling words to BodySpell. Your students will spell the words with their bodies while having a whole lot of fun!
4.Test Prep: Make testing awesome by reviewing the GoNoodle way! Your students will get to show off their dance moves while reviewing addition, subtraction, geograpy, and more!
5.Weekly Review: Reinforce the content you covered all week with a review your students will always look forward to! Check out "Think On Your Feet" for a game show style review game, perfect for a Friday afternoon!
Testimonial
“A moving brain is a learning brain,” I always tell my students. One of our favorite ways to achieve a moving and learning brain is through GoNoodle. Now pair that with the ability to tailor that movement, learning, and thinking to the content you are learning at that moment, and GoNoodle Plus quickly becomes the primary tool for achieving that goal! Today I’d like to share 3 of our favorite GoNoodle Plus activities in my classroom!” – Becky W., GoNoodle Ambassador, First Grade Teacher, Blogger at The Class Couple
Becky shares her three favorite GoNoodle Plus activities below:
1.Field Trip
"My students love running and darting around different obstacles to reach their field trip destination. As they are running, they reach questions to solve and answer if you choose to do so. I love how I can add my own questions so my students are applying their knowledge of what we are learning all while getting our bodies moving!"
2.Ultimate Champ Training
"We all love Coach Terry during Indoor Recess, and he is back to coach our kids in movement activities. Whether it is jumping on the champoline, making marshmallow stomps, or doing the champbot, students will have tons of fun while engaging in these activities after answering questions. Teachers have a choice between built-in questions about healthy choices and friendships, or your own teacher-created, content questions."
3.Body Spell
With this activity, students use their bodies to spell out their spelling words. Teachers can upload their own lists, or choose from the hundreds of lists already built into the program. My kids love following along with the robot to make and spell their spelling words. I also love how the more they do this activity, the more they remember the motions for the letters. So, you could be standing in line for the bathroom, and have your kiddos quietly move and spell their words while waiting. Any fun and different ways to practice spelling words are always welcome in my book!"
