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Become an "Iron Wolverine" - Take the challenge.

For our students and their families we are issuing the following challenge:

"The Push Up Cup challenge" - Start with 5 pennies or something similar in a cup. Sit down as a family and dump out the cup onto the floor. Everyone does 5 push ups and 5 "crunches" or sit ups and then throw one penny in the cup. Repeat for each of the pennies for a total of 25 push ups and sit ups. Do this for 7 days. Then add another penny to the cup, now you will be working on 30 push ups and sit ups a day. At the end of 7 days add another penny. Continue this until the end of the challenge to receive an Iron Wolverine award.

We will begin this as a school on Friday Jan 1. I will provide you with an online calendar of how many push ups and sit ups you should be doing each day. I would like e-mail confirmation each month that your family or student is still part of the challenge. We will do the challenge until Friday June 4th. If your family is still involved I will provide you with a certificate and an option to purchase a specially designed Iron Wolverine T-shirt for whomever completes the challenge.

Kids in Motion -

Each Wednesday your kids have the opportunity to run/walk laps around the upper parking lot during their lunch recess. Have you seen the dots on the back of the hand? that is what they are for, to mark how many laps your kids are doing. they add them as a class and can work toward earning extra recess equipment for the class.

8 laps around our upper parking lot is considered a mile. Come join the fun on some Wednesday, don't forget to sign in at the office.

Below is a form that one family is using to log their laps and have them count toward the Seattle Kid's Marathon. If you wouls like a copy let me know and I can fwd to you

Kid's links

Cool Juggling Site

Heart Diagrams and information

Kid's Health - games, recipes and diagrams of how the body works

Small Step.Gov - Find out COOL stuff about FOOD and what it can do for YOU!

A great food website, fun facts, compare fast food and snacks, food industry secrets etc.

Links for Mom and Dad

The 7 new Rules of Kids' Nutrition

New Rules of Kids' Fitness

Great article on exercise for kids

Good link for Parents - for nutrition, fitness and exercise

Fitness for kids who don't like sports

What is Going on in the gym??

We are culminating our basketball unit. We have played some great games including High 5 Basketball Warm up, Frog basketball, Flag tag Basketball, and Fir'e out (coming next week for the K-2's). We will finish with "Joey basketball" for the 3-6th graders.