Morning Excercise Program
March 11, 2009
Small School, Big Challenge!!!
As one of SCISA’s Wellness Schools ARA has the opportunity to
compete in their Spring 2009 Wellness Challenges. The challenge that I
would like to take on is the “Most Innovative Programs” Challenge. Our
school is to come up with a program that supports this drive toward a
healthier, happier population through good nutrition and exercise. This
topic is becoming increasingly important as the technological advances of
our time are making our children and adults less active in their everyday
lives.
I strongly believe that starting the day off with some type of
exercise is the best way to motivate a person to have a productive day
whether that means being more engaged in your first period class,
accomplishing more at the office, or getting the housework done. There is a
growing number of educators and researchers that believe one of the many
benefits of exercise is that it primes the brain for learning. These ideas
are the basis for the program I would like to put into action. This program
is about jumpstarting your day, eating a healthy breakfast, and spending
more after school time outside being active.
We would start off the day here at ARA with a 15 minute morning
exercise class in the gym. This will sometimes entail older students
leading the younger students through the workout and other times we will
have two separate workouts going on for upper and lower school. Each time a
student attends the morning workout they receive a ticket and five tickets
can be redeemed for a uniform free day, fifteen tickets is worth a free
lunch on Friday, and twenty five tickets is good for an hour of fun at the
barn with the horses. Following the workouts students will be given a cool
down time before class begins. During this time there will be a simple,
light, nutritious breakfast set up for everyone. In addition to the morning
exercise we want to promote after school time being spent outside, away from
the television, video games, computer etc. To encourage this we will send
home a form where students can record each day any after school activities
that they engage in. Some examples include a bike ride, nature walk,
jumping on trampoline, riding a horse, canoeing, or climbing a tree.
We will be starting on Monday, March 9th. If you want your child to
participate please have them here and in the gym by 8:00. This will be a
light workout and age appropriate. School uniforms will be fine, tennis
shoes please! This will be a great way to wake them up before standardized
testing. We will have food and drink. If any parents would like to help
with breakfast stuff let me know.
Thanks, Abby
Links of Interest
March 11, 2009
LINKS OF INTEREST
| LANGUAGE ARTS | MATH | |
| SCIENCE | SOCIAL STUDIES | |
| PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH | REFERENCE TOOLS | |
| E-ZINES | SEARCH ENGINES | |
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Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they’ve read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.
This site contains hundreds of recommended book reviews in a variety of reading levels and interest areas.
Elements of Style: a Writer’s Style Guide
This classic online reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer.
Story Train is an illustrated, collaborative story project for creative children.
Take a retroactive trip with those cute little animations and songs from the 70′s. Learn about grammar, multiplication, science and America. Read the synopsis, trivia and facts.
The home of writing for kids, by kids. Young Authors can publish stories/poems and receive feedback directly from the reader.
Online writing center web site by children at home and at school all over the world.
Little Explorer’s Picture Dictionary
A multi-lingual picture dictionary with links to educational activities and games.
A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare’s works and thousands of quotations and poems.
It’s funny, whimsical, clever and zany, and it’s the biggest collection of hilarious poetry for kids anywhere on the net.
This classic online reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer.
This site is geared for grades 3 and above.
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
A website for children, parents and teachers interested in Key Stage 1 Maths, providing games, songs and animations and ideas for numeracy hour.
Weekly math challenges divided into three age categories: grades 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8.
This site include very cool math stuff such as Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, math puzzles and problems, tessellations, functions, limits, and math links.
Figure This! Math Challenges for Families
Ongoing series of colorful award-winning math challenges (with hints and solutions) for middle-school kids, with helpful parent guides. Can be downloaded and printed.
Improve your math skills. Fun game teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and elementary algebra. For kids and children of all ages and grades.
A magic chalkboard leads you to interactive math activities: 3D geometry, tessellations, symmetry, polygons, conversions, number stories, multiplication, estimation, probability, using money, real-life problems, a math art gallery of geometric designs, MicroWorlds projects, and more.
How much will you have saved when you retire? Is it better to lease or buy a car? Learn the answers to these and other mathematical questions that affect our daily decisions.
This site provides resources for students to talk to others about math and find resources to explore math using the Internet. It also has links for fun math learning.
This site includes daily word problem challenges, family fun math activities, and online flashcards.
With over 8,000 math problems, the goal is to help elementary and middle school children improve their math problem solving and critical-thinking skills.
This is a gallery of many thousands of images of banknotes world-wide.
American Museum of Natural History
This is one of the world’s preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.
View various areas of the body.
Animated movies, comic strips, activity pages and 24 hour homework assistance via email for Kids.
DIVE AND DISCOVER: Expeditions to the Seafloor
Join scientists as they dive to the mid-ocean ridge thousands of meters deep. Explore towering underwater volcanoes, black smokers, and bizarre creatures that live there.
This is a place to explore the exciting world of innovation. Whether you’re a student, teacher, writer, inventor, history buff, or just looking for innovative consumer products, you’ll find things you can use here.
A pediatrician’s guide to your children’s health and safety.
BMI Calculator
Keep kids healthy by using this BMI calculator.
Kids, you can find great articles, fun features and interactive activities about health!
This site includes a variety of exciting games and activities to help kids learn about aeronautics, earth, and space.
Features games, stories, jokes, postcards, screen wallpaper, and ideas for science projects, crafts, and more.
Science Fair Project Resource Guide
This site will guide you to a variety of web site resources, leading you through the necessary steps to successfully complete a science experiment or science fair project.
This site examines the science behind the most popular team and recreational sports.
United States Department of Agriculture for Kids
Designed for kids, this site offers a wealth of scientific information
Learning history doesn’t have to be all about reading textbooks and watching drab documentaries. Here at Active History, interactive games add a completely new dimension to your history studies!
Ben’s Guide to US Government for Kids
Designed especially for kids, this provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career
information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about
their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers
do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and
expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
This site features US Supreme Court briefs, opinions, orders, calendars and more.
Published by the United Nations, this site promotes education about international issues and the United Nations.
Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
FBI Kids and Youth Educational Page
Created for Kindergarten through 5th grade students, this site offers an inside look at some of the FBI activities.
This is a fun way to study geography!
Test your knowledge of history with an interactive challenge.
Use this site to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th – 20th century sub-Saharan Africa.
Interactive History Games
This site includes state information resource links to state homepage, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds, flowers, and trees.
US Department of Treasury for Kids
This site introduces to students how money is minted and engraved.
This kid-friendly site offers a wealth of current information about the White House and past presidents.
This site navigates through 3 000 years of World History with links to important persons of world historical importance; civilization timelines; events and facts; and historical maps.
A pediatrician’s guide to your children’s health and safety.
BMI Calculator
Keep kids healthy by using this BMI calculator.
Kids, you can find great articles, fun features and interactive activities about health!
This site examines the science behind the most popular team and recreational sports.
Suitable for all grades the Ask an Expert Page provides links to experts in a number of different categories.
Bigchalk offers K-12 learning and classroom resources plus subscription research products for teachers, students, library media specialists and parents.
This website is dedicated to helping writers create bibliographies that adhere to the 5th Edition of MLA Handbook for Writers and Researchers, and the 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual.
This site offers great resources for homework help.
INSPIRE (for Indiana Students Only)
Indiana’s virtual library – Offering cover-to-cover full-text for over 2000 general interest, business, academic, health and children’s publications.
Find the best library and reference resources, including top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, quotations and much more.
This site provides a free, on-line dictionary (with audio pronunciations), thesaurus, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
This site includes facts, games and helpful stuff for kids ages 8 and up.
World Book Encyclopedia Online
The Student Resource Center contains World Book resources to help students with their school work. It also offers educational games and activities that help make learning fun.
World Fact Book
This site includes facts about the world.
A news web site for KIDS with weekly interactive stories about everything from NAPSTER to VOLCANOES to OUTER SPACE!
On this site you can find fun games, articles written by other kids and a great learning center for all ages.
This is an award-winning magazine for kids 8-18 that highlights exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe.
Be a National Geographic kid! Find tons of games, e-mail postcards, photographs, pictures, animal facts, cool links, NG Kids Magazine stories, and more!
You can send e-cards, read great sports informational articles, and participate in polls and more on this site!
Designed for kids, this site offers games, research tools, news, poll zones and more!
This site offers discussion groups for kids, polling activities, and a hotlist of their pick of sites for kids.
This organization publishes 16 periodicals for grades PreK through sixth grade. This website is divided into these different age levels and offers great interactive information
Learning history doesn’t have to be all about reading textbooks and watching drab documentaries. Here at Active History, interactive games add a completely new dimension to your history studies!
Ben’s Guide to US Government for Kids
Designed especially for kids, this provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career
information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about
their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers
do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and
expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
Yearbook Ads
March 11, 2009
Order your yearbook ads today. Email Margaret Crouch for more information:
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African Dance
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