Healthy Hannah's Adventure in Mrs. B's 3rd Grade!

Hi, it's Healthy Hannah once again! I had a lot of fun in Mrs. B's class!  During snack, the nutritionists and I walked around to each student's desk looking for yummy and healthy snacks to eat.  We shared granola bars, sunflower seeds, apples,crackers, fruit salad, and many other nutritional snacks.  I even went to Mrs. B's Super Bowl party and ate vegetables and dip!
     I did many exciting physical activities with the class.  One activity I participated in was gymnastics.  I was able to do a split on the balance beam!  Another activity I got to do was Monkey in the Middle on Fitness Friday!  Even though I'm a bear, I got to be a monkey and did jumping jacks and push-ups!  Have I mentioned the fun in the snow I had?  Our class had an opportunity to go snowshoeing in PE class.  I had my very own snowshoes that were quite hard to get on but we persevered! Everyone helped each other!  I even got to share with my friend Fitness Frankie!  My favorite activity was going sledding!  The third grade classes had a Winter Reading Challenge.  Can you believe every student in the class reached the goal of reading four chapter books in six weeks?  I was so proud of them!  After falling off the sled many times, I had to go inside and sit by the heater to dry off and sip hot cocoa with marshmallows.  YUM!
     I had such a wonderful time with my friends in Mrs. B's class!  I wonder which classroom I am going to visit next?
I LOVE Healthy Highway!
Love, 

Healthy Hannah

Physical Eddie's Adventure in Mrs. S's 5th Grade!

Hi everyone,
     I have been spending the last few weeks in Mrs. S's 5th Grade class!  I have had such a great time!  I did many aerobic activities during my stay!  In fact, AEROBIC is the PE Password this week!!  I learned that "aerobic" means "with oxygen" and that many exercises are aerobic because your body needs lots of oxygen to do them!  In PE class I did gymnastics and snowshoeing!  That's me in the picture!  In class, we did a new math lesson that involves exercising between timed quizzes.  They are called sprints.  We jogged and skip counted at the same time.  This helped us to improve our math facts!
     On Valentine's Day, our class learned all about the heart and how it works.  The heart is a muscle which is constantly working out.  Every minute your heart beats 80-120 times.  It will beat about 3 billion times in your lifetime.  AMAZING!  The human heart is about the size of your fist.
     Every time your heart beats, blood goes in and out of the heart.  This is because the heart has two pumps working together.  The right pump has used blood that contains carbon dioxide and is pushed into your lungs to release this gas.   The other pump gets blood from the lungs which has oxygen and nutrients in it.  This oxygen filled blood travels through to all the parts of your body.  I learned so much about the heart!
     We also had heart healthy snacks.  Some of them were celery, carrots, strawberries, and grapes.  It is important to eat healthy snacks so your heart stays strong!
     My friends took such good care of me!  I LOVE Healthy Highway!  I am going to spend the next few weeks in Mrs. B's second grade!  I can't wait for my next adventure!
Love,
Physical Eddie

Physical Eddie's Adventure in Mrs. E's 4th Grade!

Hi everyone,
     I have been having an amazing time at North Park!  This is my first year here and I understand what all of the excitement is about!  Recently, I was taken care of by Mrs. E's 4th graders! They took such great care of me!  My friends fed me healthy snacks for Wellness Wednesday!  We ate apples, bananas, oranges and grapes.  We also had apple swirls with trail mix, wheat thins and fresh vegetables! Yummy!  Yummy!

     I exercised with my friends on Fitness Friday!  We had a lot of fun!  We played Monkey in the Middle with Miss H!  We did gymnastics in PE class!  That's me in the pictures on the balance beam and the junior turning bar!  I learned that doing Gymnastics takes strength and balance!  While we were outside we did many things including tag, push-ups, and basketball.  It was exhausting but very healthy and fun!  We even went to the Healthy Highway assembly and danced to the music!  Watch out for us 4th grade drivers!
     In the classroom we exercised our brains!  We are learning the multiplication facts and how to use the partial products method.  In Science we dissected owl pellets and had to use fine motor skills to carefully pull apart the pellet and pick out the bones and skulls!  It was amazing!  In Social Studies we finished studying the Native Americans.  Mr. A came and taught us about New Netherland children's lives!  That was a lot of vocabulary and Math too!
     We know it's a lot of work but we need to eat right, exercise our bodies and exercise our brains!
     I LOVE Healthy Highway!
     I wonder which classroom I am going to visit next..........?
Love,
Physical Eddie