How Brain Breaks Improve Your Homeschool Day

Kids will perform at their sharpest when they have regular breaks to process and store new information.
How Brain Breaks Improve Your Homeschool Day
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The brain is an amazing, hard-working organ. Even while your kids are sleeping, their brains continue to busily process all of the experiences from the day, store essential information, and categorize and weed out the unimportant. It’s on duty 24/7.

The brain does need quality rest, though. Enter brain breaks. Adding in a brain break for about three to five minutes in between lessons throughout your homeschooling day will help your kids—and their brains—to rest and reset for optimal learning.

What Is a Brain Break?

Simply put, a brain break is a pause in learning.
Karen Doll
Karen Doll
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Karen Doll is a freelance writer and homeschooling consultant based in the small village of Wassergass, Pa. She enjoys writing about homeschooling, gardening, food and culture, family life, and the joys of chicken keeping. Visit her at AtHomeWithKarenDoll.wordpress.com