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=**Make Time for Brain Breaks!**=

Greetings and welcome to my Wiki! Within this wiki, I hope that any educator, parent, student, etc. is able to find out more about brain breaks. What are brain breaks? Well, before we delve too far into this concept, let me tell you a little bit that may shed some light on this subject. media type="custom" key="19563102"

All About Me
I'll go into Brain Breaks more in just a little bit. For now, if you want to know a little bit more about me, the creator of this wiki, then click on the link below to go to my personal blog. There, you'll find some of my insights from teaching, links to other blogs and websites that are education related, and just other areas that I'm interested in. So, go click on the link and find out all about me! Fantastic First Grade Findings Another source of information about me is available by clicking on my Prezi. Here, you can see what a few of my favorite things are and enjoy some of my personal pictures. Check out my Prezi below. media type="custom" key="19677502" If you would like to contact me about anything else that may be related to this wiki or otherwise, then check out my contact information and a little summary about me below and feel free to drop me a line. My name is Erika Nolley Furman. I first taught English, then Math, and finally PE and Health when I worked for 9 years in Virginia. During this time, I met my husband, Wayne, and we started a family together. We have our son, Iain, who will be 6 in December and our daughter, Bella, who will be 3 in December as well. In the summer of 2011, my family moved back to my hometown of Mullens, WV. This past school year, I was a Title I teacher, and I worked in between the schools of Mullens and Pineville Elementary. When I worked with my small groups in Tier, I often used brain breaks. These were great to get the students back on track in between activities. This coming school year, I will be teaching 1st grade at Mullens Elementary. As I move in to that new phase of my life, I am anxious to use brain breaks with my class. I can see a lot of benefits in these. Okay, before we move on to Brain Breaks, let me offer you my contact information in case you need to ask me anything. Erika Nolley Furman 1st Grade Teacher Mullens Elementary School furman.mommy@gmail.com or efurman@access.k12.wv.us   media type="file" key="wiki podcast.wav" width="300" height="50"