Live Healthy Iowa Challenge

Students and staff at M-P are participating in this year’s Live Healthy Iowa program.  For 100 days, we will be keeping track of our minutes of physical activity, as well as one other aspect of our health (for the first two weeks, we will be tracking how many fruits we eat per day). 

We kicked off this program with an assembly at KE today, and Nurse Jenna explained the program to us.

For KE third graders, we have decided to keep students’ record sheets AT SCHOOL to fill out.  We will help students keep track of their minutes of physical activity at school, and students will be encouraged to keep track of their physical activity at home (just by remembering how many minutes they were active and telling us the following day – there will be no paperwork at home).  We will then total the minutes (home/school) to record on their sheets at school.  We will do this on the honor system, and each morning students can record their minutes of activity and (for the first 2 weeks) servings of fruit from the previous day. 

Keeping track of the EXACT number of minutes is not our primary focus – our big goal is to raise awareness and to increase students’ minutes of physical activity per day as well as to pay closer attention to what foods we are eating.