Healthy Iowa Kids and ITBS!

I am sending home a lot of papers today, some for you to keep and some that need to be returned.  Please read through this post very carefully.  I have gone over everything with the students, but I felt I also needed to make parents aware of everything.

First off, I am sending home a calendar that will be used for a school wide activity encouraging students to stay healthy and active.  This activity started January 18th and will continue throughout the school year.  To begin with, I have started recording the minutes the students are active in something, which includes recess and PE, on their calendars.  You can see that from January 18th until today, the calendar has been completed as far as minutes of being active.  Now it is your 3B child's responsibility to continue recording the minutes he/she is active and return it to school on the date shown.  Here is some more information:

     * Minutes can include active time are recess and PE (so be sure to include those every day).  Your 3B
        child can add whatever minutes he/she is active at home to the minutes given for each day of the
        week we are active at school.  (For example, if he or she is active 30 minutes at home or Fitness
        Center on Monday, he/she would add that to the 75 minutes we are active at school on Monday,
        which is on the previous weeks, so the total would be 115 minutes for Monday.)

     *  Students should also record the fruit they eat at home.  They will need to write tiny to write in the
        box what fruits they have eaten.  Be sure to add what fruits they have eaten at school as well.
        I did not do this part of the activity so 3B will start recording their fruit today.

     *  As far as exercise:  PE at school can be counted.  Add on whatever time is spent doing physical
        activity at home but here is the catcher:  Exercise with a video game, such as wii Fit, cannot be
        included!

If there is any confusion, please feel free to email me or call.  This is something new and I am totally confused about it as well so we will get through it together.  Hang it somewhere at home so it is easy to record minutes and fruits each day and then return on due date.  Students who reach the goal the school has set will get some sort of recognition by putting names up.  I am not sure about those details at this time.

Also, you will see that your 3B child is bringing his/her ITBS results home.  Please read through their profile very carefully as well as the parent information that was sent home.  If you have questions, feel free to contact me now or wait until parent-teacher conferences in 2 weeks.  Overall, I was extremely pleased with the scores in 3B!  Yeah!

Book-it for January is due tomorrow or Wednesday.  I am sending home February calendar today as I am not sure what the weather will be like the next few days for us.

I will be sending home conference times next Monday.  Remember these are student led conferences so your 3B child will need to attend.

Have a great week.....maybe all the snow will pass us....we can only hope!