Physical Eddie's Adventure in Mrs. B's Class!

Hi everyone,
     Physical Eddie here!  I had the greatest adventure in Mrs.B's class!  My friends fed me healthy snacks for Wellness Wednesday!  We ate oranges, strawberries, pretzels, carrots, yogurt and cheese, and crackers!  I exercised with my friends on Fitness Friday!  We did Macarena Math and Thumbs Up!  What fun I had!  The children in Room 3 have been learning about Economics.  I learned about needs and wants, goods and services, and consumers and producers.  During theme stations the kids and I moved each day to a new station where we did many hands-on activities.  It's fun to be 2nd grader!  I also had an amazing time at Jump Rope for Heart!  I know that Healthy Hannah already talked about Jump Rope for Heart but I got to go too! The boys and girls worked so hard that they were sweating at the end of their jumping time!   Mrs. R got me a new red outfit and I wore a pin that said "Heart Ambassador!"  I feel so proud!  That's Healthy Hannah, Fitness Frankie and me in the picture!  Mrs. R said that we are all Heart Heroes!  I LOVE Healthy Highway!  I wonder which classroom I am going to visit next?..........
Love,
Physical Eddie

Healthy Hannah's Adventure in Mrs.O's Class!

Hi everyone,
     I had a fantastic time in Mrs. O's classroom!  On my first day I went ice skating on the icy ground.  Near the end of the day when my friends went to chorus I went to Mrs. C's kindergarten classroom and watched 101 Dalmatians!  It was the 101st day of school!  That movie that we watched was so awesome!  I helped clean off desks every Friday and I also went to the library and picked out books.  I helped write fiction stories like Talking Animals, The Woods Walk, adn the Awesome Adventures of Kyle the Crab.  I read "Music, Music, Music Gianna's" in reading group.  The other group was reading Stone Fox.  I watched the kids play kickball.  It was awesome!  I went to Philadelphia with Mrs. O and her daughter to an amazing Gymnastics meet  Every single gymnast had on a beautiful pink leotard.  I had so much fun!  That's me on top of the sign!  During PE class we were getting ready for Jump Rope for Heart and when it was time for the event I was ready!  This is a wonderful event where the boys and girls worked hard to make their own hearts healthy and help others by raising money for the American Heart Association.  I LOVE Healthy Highway!  I can't wait for my next adventure!
Love, 
Healthy Hannah

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

Fitness Frankie's Lake Placid Adventure!

Hi everyone,

Cross Country Skiing

     I had the most AMAZING adventure during our winter vacation!  Miss H took me to Lake Placid with her family and friends!  I learned that the Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid in 1932 and 1980!  There were so many cool winter sports to try and Miss H let me go along and try them out!  We dressed in warm clothes (Miss H and I have new matching scarves!) and then we were ready to go!  We went cross country skiing, snowshoeing, tubing, and snowmobiling!  We got so much exercise and we made some terrific safe and healthy choices!  Miss H helped me write a book about this adventure and Mrs. R is reading it to the boys and girls during PE class this week!  If you want to see more pictures of this and other adventures click here!

I met some new friends during this adventure and I told them all about Healthy Highway!  I mean really, what's not to love about Healthy Highway!

Love, Fitness Frankie

Healthy Hannah Goes Snowshoeing!

Hi everyone,
     I had an amazing Winter Vacation with Mrs. R!  She took me to the Adirondack Mountains to a place called Chatiemac Lake with her family and friends!  There was so much snow!  I am not used to snow since I am from Savannah, Georgia!  It was pretty cold outside and Mrs. R told me that it was important to wear the right clothes when exercising outdoors.  Mrs. R got me a new sweatshirt so I was nice and warm!  I am a bear after all.......
When we were dressed warmly and had packed our water for the trip, Mrs. R taught me how to snowshoe!  That's me in the picture!  We hiked in the woods with friends and made our own trail and then we took a trail called Second Pond Trail.  It was so beautiful!  We got some great exercise!  Some of our friends went cross country skiing while we were snowshoeing.  Maybe another time I can learn how to do that!  I love the snow - don't you?

I also made some new friends while I was on vacation......can you tell?
I LOVE Healthy Highway!
Love,
Healthy Hannah