Second Day

The second day of my Fit N' Fun program is over. This go around definitely went a little bit smoother for some reason. The kids seem to have a lot of fun with the program. Today, we had graham crackers with peanut butter and bananas as a snack. I had the kids make their snack to have a little fun. While they ate their snack, I talked about the activity pyramid. The kids admitted to sitting in front of the TV and playing videos games. I gave them a challenge to cut down that time and actually do something active. I even had one kid come up and ask me questions about what they could do. It really made me feel like I was just talking to a wall, instead at least one person was actually listening. I've found some kids can be a tad bit disrespectful, hopefully that will change over time. The game we played today was giants, elves, and wizards. The kids had a lot of fun with that game. I decided to take a group picture today and some other pictures of them playing.

And It Has Begun

Today was the first day of my Fit N' Fun program. It was a little overwhelming at first seeing all these kids that were in my hands for 45 minutes. Needless to say, it all went alright. The kids seemed to have a lot of fun. I started off with attendance and then Krista, my helper, and I introduced ourselves. After that, we had our snack, granola bars, and went on to our game of the day, which was the electricity game. After awhile I could see on the kids faces they weren't having much fun anymore so we did something else. Krista's suggestion was to play some good old duck, duck, goose. Normally, duck duck goose isn't too intense of a workout but with all those kids there was a big circle to run around. Before they were let out, we went around the circle and everyone said their name and something about themselves. We thought this would be beneficial for mainly Krista and I since we don't know all of the kids. A few kids were missing due to illnesses and what not, so hopefully they will be there next Tuesday. Overall, the program went pretty smoothly which I am certainly happy about.

Official Start Tomorrow

Today, I revised over my letter for the parents about the meal plan. I signed and copied those so they were ready for tomorrow. Tonight, I got the game for tomorrow together. I made six signs needed for the game, grabbed some dice, and put it all together. To kick off the program, we are having granola bars for a snack while we discuss the meal plan. After that, we are going to play the game called electricity game. I hope it will be a fun game as I have never played it and with almost 40 kids who knows what could happen. I'm slightly nervous about tomorrow but hopefully it goes smoothly and I have everything done that is needed. We will be taking pictures and video recording as much as we can to present during the expo in March.

Last Minute Touches

After school today, I met with Mrs. Steffensen about some final touches before I start my program on Tuesday. I needed a few more ideas for games to play during the program. She gave me a few ideas such as fruit basket upset and a couple more. I already had the idea of having the kids write every day once the program was over. Mrs. Steffensen gave me some ideas of what they could write about. One was writing about their wise decisions pertaining food and exercise. Another idea she had was since there will be four days we won't be together over the weekend, she mentioned having a exercise sheet. The kids would take home the exercise sheet and log when they exercised and such. An idea to push eating fruits and vegetables would be to challenge the kids each day to eat more of a certain fruit or vegetable that night. That's about all we discussed.

I am for the most part ready for the program to begin. I am quite excited about it; I think it will be a lot of fun!

Attendance Chart

Today, I created an attendance chart for my program. This took about 15 minutes to make. I created this so I had a paper copy of the students who showed up. Also, I thought it would be good to show at the expo in March. I have a total of 25 students and the number is still growing. By Thursday, I should have an exact count on how many students I will have.

Now that the program is just a week away, I need to decide what exercise games I will be playing at the program. I have a few ideas so far but I definitely need a lot more.

Meal Plans=DONE

Today, I worked on my December meal plan and finished it up. I worked on it for 15 minutes to add the last few days off meals and put a little color into it. I just emailed the December meal plan to my community mentor Tiffany. As soon as she looks it over, I will make the final touches on it and will be officially done with the meal plan.

I also picked up the permission slips from each class on Thursday. I counted them and I got 23 students to attend. There are more students who had asked to bring them this upcoming week so I will be picking them up later.

Mentor Update

Today, I emailed my community mentor Tiffany to give her an update on how I'm doing. I also sent her my November meal plan to have her look over it. I'm almost done with the December meal plan which I will send to her as well to look that over. A lot of my research is coming from the same website. As soon as I get done with my meal plans, I will move on to putting together the actual program and what we are doing to be doing. Tiffany's only suggestions were to take out chicken fingers, fish nuggets, and chicken fettucini because they were not healthy for you. Otherwise, my November meal plan is good to go. Talking with her and looking over the meal plans myself, I have decided to attach a letter with the meal plan explaining various things. What I will include in the letter is that the meal plan is only suggestions they don't have to follow it, add veggies to suppers, and eat whole wheat.

Talking to the Students

Yesterday, I went down to the elementary during my homeroom time and talked to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. I went into each classroom explaining what my project was and why I had to do it. They seemed to be pretty excited about it so I hope I get a lot of students to go out for it. I handed out permission slips for their parents to look at and they are bringing them back by tomorrow. I was down there from about 10:45 to 11:30. Sometime tomorrow I am going down to pick them up and see how many students are actually going to do it. From there, I can really get down to the details of my program.