Exercise Ernie's Adventure in Mrs. M's Class!

Hi everyone,
   I spent the week in Mrs. M's class!  My friends fed me healthy snacks on Wellness Wednesday!  We ate cheese nips, pistachios, granola bars, apples, and a clementine!  My friends and I exercised on Fitness Friday too!  We did Monkey in the Middle and my heart was beating very fast!  I even got to go to PE with the class and do gymnastics this week!  That's me in the picture on the balance beam and springboard!  We also had a Healthy Highway assembly this week and guess what?  My friends are going to try to earn enough miles to get to Denver, Colorado so that I can get home!  It is 1,810 miles from here to Denver and so far the boys and girls have earned 836 miles!  I am having a wonderful time here at North Park, but after this year is over, I am going back to Colorado to spread the good news of Healthy Highway!

I LOVE Healthy Highway!  My next adventure is to spend this week
in Mrs. F's and Mrs. B's class!
Love, Exercise Ernie

Fitness Frankie's Adventure in Miss V's Class!

Hi everyone!
    I spent the week in Miss V's class!  I had a great time during Winter Break with Mrs. J and Mrs. F in the main office, but it was great to get back in the classroom and see all of my friends!  My friends fed me healthy snacks on Wellness Wednesday!  We ate apples, carrots, bananas, yogurt, peaches and pudding!  My friends and I exercised on Fitness Friday!  We played outside on the monkey bars, danced the limbo, jumped rope, walked on the big balance beam and did standing jumps off the springboard during PE class!  The boys and girls are starting a unit on gymnastics and I got to play too!  There are so many different pieces of equipment to play on I hope I get to come to PE with another class next week!  My friends took such good care of me!  I LOVE Healthy Highway!  I wonder what my next adventure will be!
Love, Fitness Frankie

Our Adventure During Winter Workshops!

Hi everyone,


   We had a terrific time during Winter Workshops at North Park!  This is a terrific day when all of the boys and girls get to choose special workshops to go to!  It's a whole day of fun and learning new things! Mrs. R and Mrs. M taught the boys and girls all about the circus and we got to play too!  We learned how to spin a plate (not a real one - just a plastic one thank goodness!), juggle, use angel sticks, spin a diablo, balance a feather, and even walk on the high wire! (well, it wasn't a real wire, and it wasn't too high, but it was still fun!).  Later in the day, Mrs. R. took us to some of the different workshops and all of the boys and girls were having so much fun!  (us too!)  Mrs. S. was teaching everyone all about making healthy snacks, other boys and girls were learning about yoga, chess, making all kinds of holiday decorations, and playing so many new games!


We had a blast visiting many of the sessions!  If you want to see more pictures of us at the workshops as well as pictures of our other adventures, click here!  Everyone is on vacation now, but we are having an adventure at school with Mrs. F and Mrs. J!  We can't wait to tell you all about it!  We LOVE Healthy Highway!
Love, Fitness Frankie and Exercise Ernie

Fitness Frankie's Adventure in Mr. P's Class!

Hi everyone,
   I had a great time hanging out with Mr. P's class this week!  I had a busy and amazing week!  This picture is of me in Mr. P's classroom!  Do you see the racecar on the table!  I was excited to begin my adventure!  On Monday I took a math facts quiz; I got done quickly, but got a few wrong.  Mr. P told me to focus on being accurate and that I would get quicker the more I practiced.  At the end of the day I had a nice honey crisp apple for snack!
   On Tuesday I got to use a compound microscope.  I sketched out the leg of a housefly and the head of a spider!  Science is awesome, but a little gross......  Later in the day I got to listen to a few students whisper read; they were working on pausing at commas and stopping at periods.  One group was reading this book about these smart rats that had escaped from some place called NIMH!  At the end of the day I got to play a game called MUM Ball; the rules are simple, if you drop the ball or talk you're out of the game.
   On Wednesday morning I went to the gym to do 30 minutes of "cardio" (that's exercise that makes your heart and lungs get stronger) BEFORE school!  In the morning I worked on my December packet; my favorite page is the picture puzzles with holiday songs!  Later that morning Mrs. L's class came in for science.  We did an activity to emphasize the importance of giving clear, detailed directions.  I had some delicious trail mix for snack today!
   On Thursday I tried to solve a tangram puzzle; boy it was hard!  I wanted to quit, but everyone told me not to give up, so I kept at it.  It's great to have friends like that!  Recess was inside today so I watched some kids play a really cool Harry Potter card game.  In the afternoon we went down to the computer lab.  We got to play a bunch of games on AHA! Math.  I had a granola bar and some green tea for snack today!
   On Friday we went to technology and looked at good and bad websites.  Later that day I played kickball with some kids from class.  I also horsed around on the monkey bars, swings, and slide!  At the end of the day the class got to help Mrs. F's and Mrs. B's class shop at the Holiday Fair.  We all had a blast shopping for our family and friends!  I had a yogurt with strawberries for snack to end the day.  It was great hanging out with Mr. P's class!  I can't wait for the Brotherhood Pageant and the Winter Workshops this week!   I am going to be on vacation soon, so I guess I will have to wait to find out what my next adventure will be........I LOVE Healthy Highway!
Love, Fitness Frankie

Exercise Ernie's Adventure in Mrs. S's Class!

Hi Everyone,
    I spent the week in Mrs. S's class!  My friends fed me healthy snacks on Wellness Wednesday!  We age goldfish crackers, oranges, yogurt, pretzels, granola bars, and popcorn!  My friends and I exercised EVERYDAY!  Everyday we danced to the Cha Cha Slide, and the YMCA!  I even got to go to PE classes!  In PE we were learning about levels.  Did you know that there are three levels?  They are High, Medium, and Low.  The boys and girls used different levels to bounce balls, and play in four different station areas!  We moved in the "Zany Zoo", used a wooden board to launch a turtle (he didn't mind), crawled through a playhouse, and balanced another turtle on three different pieces of equipment that were different sizes!
One of the students asked if "PE Paddy" could play too, so he and I played in the "Zany Zoo" together!  It was great fun!  I am so proud of how smart the boys and girls are!  They learned those levels quickly!  You can view more pictures of my adventure by visiting Fitness Frankie's and my slideshow on the PE Website.  One day this week I went to Planet Fitness with Mrs. D!   That's actually not another planet.....at first I was worried that I was going to travel in space!  Then Mrs. D explained that Planet Fitness is a place where adults go to exercise!  Whew!  I am glad to stay right here on Earth!  I LOVE Healthy Highway!  This is going to be an exciting week full of Holiday fun at North Park so I am going to spend some time in the office and and I am also going to some different events!  Next week I am on vacation just like the boys and girls so my next adventure will be in 2012!  I can't wait!

Love, Exercise Ernie

Exercise Ernie's Week in Mrs. G's Class!

Hi everyone,
     I got to spend a terrific week in Mrs. G's class!  All of the boys and girls took great care of me and I learned so much!  I went to PE with the class and we had some wonderful adventures!  I got to play with noodle bits!  These are tiny pieces of noodles and the boys and girls learned how to pop them!  It was a great way to work on our (well their) hand muscles!  Hand muscles are important for climbing the rock wall!  We got to do that next!  The boys and girls climbed the rock wall with Mrs. R's help and they found letters that they knew on the rock wall!




That's me in the picture next to the letter "E" for "Ernie"!



I also got to play on the parachute!  The boys and girls were very careful with me, but they gave me a great ride on the parachute!  I was actually doing flips!!! We got so much exercise in PE this week!  I LOVE Healthy Highway!
Love, Exercise Ernie

Fitness Frankie's Week in Mrs. M's Class!

Hi everyone,

     I spent the week in Mrs. M's class!  My friends fed me healthy snacks on Wellness Wednesday!  We ate apples, clementines, goldfish crackers, carrots, celery and turnip with hummus.  Yummy!  My friends exercised with me on Fitness Friday!  We played Monkey in the Middle.  Most of our leaders did lots of jumping jacks.  My heart was really beating fast when we were done!  I sure strengthened my heart!  I also got to go to PE two days in a row!  I got to play Junk Relay, try out a heart rate monitor, and help my friends build towers with bricks!  I was proud of how hard the boys and girls are working to learn how to cooperate and help each other!  You can look at some pictures of me at North Park by clicking here .  Mrs. M's students got lots of exercise this week!  Maybe Exercise Ernie will be jealous that he wasn't with these excellent exercisers, but I have a feeling he had a great adventure of his own this week.  One day I peeked in the gymnasium while he was with Mrs. G's class and he was climbing on the rock wall!  I hope I get to do that someday!  I LOVE Healthy Highway!  Love, Fitness Frankie