Today is the first day of the challenge -- for the next 6 weeks, we are asking students to track their minutes of physical activity per day. In addition, for the first 2 weeks of the challenge students are to track the number of fruits they eat each day.
The challenge is described in this post, (please click the link to read it if you have not), but to clarify, please note that we (third grade teachers) have decided that rather than sending home the charts daily (and having half of them get lost or never return again) we will just keep all the charts here at school, and each morning the kids can come in and fill out what they did at home the previous day (and we will help them add school minutes/fruits to their home info). We are just going with the honor system, so if a child says they exercised for an hour, we are counting it.
The BIG idea of this whole program is to raise the kids’ awareness of what they are eating, and how much/little they are physically active, and to encourage them to make healthier choices. If you would like to write things down at home too (just for you and your child to see/track), you are welcome to. You might also chat with your child regarding his/her minutes/number of fruits so that when he comes to school to record, he has an accurate idea of what his numbers are. With a few days practice, it will be something we will get used to and the kids will understand better.
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