A new grant from SEF provides for stability balls (shown here) ... Stability balls 'bounce' into the classroom at Franklin School. Published: May. 17, 2013, 6:39 p.m.

Plus, she said, the balls complement the Promethean interactive whiteboard recently installed in her classroom. “I’ve really been looking at how kids can be interactive in class,” she said.

Donna Yehl's fourth-grade students bob behind their desks, heads nodding up and down as if the children were on the deck of a ship.

With a yoga ball, I get to bounce and my legs aren’t as restless. ... which is using exercise balls in the classroom and outside of the classroom when they work in the school garden.

This school year her entire classroom is set up with exercise balls as chairs. When Mena first introduced the exercise balls, she was very clear on the rules for using them.

Enzo Delia, a second grader at Hershey Elementary School, sometimes daydreams in class. But all he has to do is roll back and forth a bit on his red bouncy ball to remind himself to focus, he said ...

Walking into Spaetig's frog-themed classroom for the first day of school, ... "I'll ask my teacher if I can sit on a bouncy ball," she said. April 5, 2004. DEBORAH BACH. Most Popular. 1.

The stability balls come in different colors and sizes. If the children get a little too wild with their bouncing, Miss Campbell said they will pull out the regular chairs.