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Winter Activity RaceThe race begins!January 17 - February 14
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We've all heard about the negative effects of physical inactivity. To battle this, the Health Room created something to spice up this winter for grades 4 through 8! A Health Room Physical Activity Race! Home rooms divided into teams to compete against each other in the grade level for scoring physical activity minutes. Winter kept us cooped up toooo long!! This “Activity Race” will run for the four weeks from January 17 to February 14. Each class was divided into teams that will try to “travel” 3070 miles from San Francisco to New York. (Check out the progress next to the gym!) Students will keep track of their activity time in minutes during the week. Each student will log their minutes weekly on the Activity Race link, or turn in their paper form to the health office and we’ll convert it to mileage for the “travel across country”. At the end of the month, we’ll hold a celebration assembly with the leading teams competing in a fitness challenge against Mr. Slaikeu and his team in February! Other incentives are planned also.
An added area this season will be that of nutritional information. Any poster made and presented to the class will be another 100 points of bonus possibility. (If each of the team members made a poster a week they would get 400 points extra per team!) Each class will judge the best poster (giving that team an extra 250 points) which will then compete with the other classes of that grade. Winning posters from each grade will be displayed in the main school hallway at the end of the month with an additional 500 points to that team. Students can choose anything nutritionally related that they want to present on a poster for this portion.
Winter Activity Race Hand-out
Winter Activity Racetrack
