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Award Winning Resources Fidget Busters Helping every child achieve their best Fidget Busters provides teachers with a wealth of stimulating activities to connect movement and learning, and helps you to create greater opportunities for children to be more physical in their routine learning. The activities are ideal for children with special educational needs and to aid concentration. All the activities involve minimal resources and disruption, and the majority can be used within the confines of the classroom. Fidget Busters is divided into three sections, each starting with a short introduction. The first of these is ‘Shake and Wake’, with activities to help children wake up and refocus. The second section is ‘Active Bodies, Active Minds’, with activities that link movement to a selection of curriculum areas. The final section is ‘Simmer down to a Frenzy’, with activities to help overexcited children calm down in order to listen, or to reflect quietly over a particular lesson objective or event. Fidget Busters enables you to combine physical fitness and kinaesthetic learning, helping children to be physically active, to play, learn and have a great deal of fun. Contains 144 pages (246 x 168mm) ADMT11455* £15.99 Call: 0845 120 4776 Fax: 0800 783 8648 www.LDAlearning.com Fidget busters is a fantastic publication providing a wealth of fun stimulating activities for children when they just need a break! Built on sound theoretical and practical understanding of how children learn and the need to keep minds receptive and bodies active, this is a fantastic resource for ‘brain breaks’ and ‘energizers’. Presented in a clear snappy style and easy to use Fidget Busters is a must for any teacher’s toolkit! Sarah Westville – Primary School Teacher The activities in the book are fantastic for giving children a fidget break during long or intense lessons. They are also a great way of filling in the spare minutes that happen from time to time in the week… Great for improving children’s attention levels in lessons. The activities can be used as a fun reward at the end of a lesson, or simply to break up lessons, especially for children that find it hard to work for long periods of time. The activities are varied, which give different children the ability to shine in different activities. It is also very easy to include children with SEN in the activities. The book can be used across all year groups in a primary school and can be used by both teachers and teaching assistants in groups of all sizes; whole class or small groups. This means it is very cost effective, as it can be used throughout the school. The book can be picked up at last minute and a new activity started very quickly, so no time is wasted working through confusing task instructions! Rachel Flory – Year 6 Class Teacher What our customers say… Ideal for • Concentration • Lesson activities • All abilities *VAT will be added to these prices

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Fidget Busters provides teachers with a wealth of stimulating activities to connect movement and learning, and helps you to create greater opportunities for children to be more physical in their routine learning.

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Award Winning Resources

Fidget BustersHelping every child achieve their best

Fidget Busters provides teachers with a wealth of stimulating activities to connect movement and learning, and helps you to create greater opportunities for children to be more physical in their routine learning.

The activities are ideal for children with special educational needs and to aid concentration. All the activities involve minimal resources and disruption, and the majority can be used within the confi nes of the classroom.

Fidget Busters is divided into three sections, each starting with a short introduction. The fi rst of these is ‘Shake and Wake’, with activities to help children wake up and refocus. The second section is ‘Active Bodies, Active Minds’, with activities that link movement to a selection of curriculum areas. The fi nal section is ‘Simmer down to a Frenzy’, with activities to help overexcited children calm down in order to listen, or to refl ect quietly over a particular lesson objective or event.

Fidget Busters enables you to combine physical fi tness and kinaesthetic learning, helping children to be physically active, to play, learn and have a great deal of fun.

Contains 144 pages (246 x 168mm)ADMT11455* £15.99

Call: 0845 120 4776 Fax: 0800 783 8648www.LDAlearning.com

Fidget busters is a fantastic publication providing a wealth of fun stimulating activities for children when they just need a break! Built on sound theoretical and practical understanding of how children learn and the need to keep minds receptive and bodies active, this is a fantastic resource for ‘brain breaks’ and ‘energizers’.

Presented in a clear snappy style and easy to use Fidget Busters is a must for any teacher’s toolkit!

Sarah Westville – Primary School Teacher

The activities in the book are fantastic for giving children a fi dget break during long or intense lessons. They are also a great way of fi lling in the spare minutes that happen from time to time in the week… Great for improving children’s attention levels in lessons. The activities can be used as a fun reward at the end of a lesson, or simply to break up lessons, especially for children that fi nd it hard to work for long periods of time.

The activities are varied, which give different children the ability to shine in different activities. It is also very easy to include children with SEN in the activities. The book can be used across all year groups in a primary school and can be used by both teachers and teaching assistants in groups of all sizes; whole class or small groups. This means it is very cost effective, as it can be used throughout the school.

The book can be picked up at last minute and a new activity started very quickly, so no time is wasted working through confusing task instructions!

Rachel Flory – Year 6 Class Teacher

What our customers say…

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Ideal for• Concentration• Lesson activities• All abilities

*VAT will be added to these prices

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About the authors and a background to the book…The authors, Sharon Drew and Liz Atter are both experienced therapists who have been involved over a number of years with children with a variety of different learning abilities and diffi culties. They fi rmly believe in the use of everyday activities in order to improve intervention outcomes, in particular by working in ‘context’. For children this generally means working within the school setting, hence the need to have activities which can be inclusive and easy for education staff to introduce with minimal equipment and disruption. This has also given them a more ‘realistic’ view of the needs of educators and children within the classroom setting who are working to tight schedules and budgets.

Working predominantly with children who have additional learning needs has enabled the authors to explore the benefi ts of movement to enhance learning concepts by introducing a multi-sensory approach to learning.

They also noted the benefi ts of regular movement breaks to help children and young people to moderate their levels of attention and concentration and maintain higher quality periods of time engaged in learning when they might ordinarily have diffi culty being still, processing language or visual information or maintaining motor control.

Fidget Busters is an accumulation of all these factors and experiences wrapped up in fast, fun activities which require little space and no special resources.

Author: Sharon Drew

Author: Liz Atter

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