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What is the Kid Fitness for Schools Program?
The "Kid Fitness for Schools" program includes a 7-minute 'Fun Fitness Break' kit that incorporates exercise elements and characters of the Kid Fitness public television series to get children exercising directly in the classroom during regular instruction. Each kit contains:
(1) A large exercise poster featuring images of the Kid Fitness super health hero and his animal friends doing 8 sequential exercises
(2) Large Flash Cards depicting a Kid Fitness animal character doing their favorite exercise. The back of the card has a description on how to execute the exercise
(3) An audio CD that has a step by step 7 minute 'fun fitness break' segment which uses either poster or flash cards as the visual guide. The audio segment ends with a calming message that encourages the participants to exercise their minds
Additionally, a Kid Fitness Workout DVD is included. The DVD can be used in the classroom and in recess and lunch break areas to encourage children to be physically active, especially on days with inclement weather. The DVD can also be an effective tool for pre and after-school programs.
Teachers will have the option to do any or all of the following 'Fun Fitness Break' activities during a regular classroom period:
(1) Use the Kid Fitness exercise poster and the audio CD to explain each exercise and engage the students to participate
(2) Use the Kid Fitness exercise flash cards, with or without the audio CD, to quickly stimulate the students through physical movement, in any part of the classroom
(3) Use the Kid Fitness exercise DVD
Elements of this program are on the Kid's section of this website under 'Fun Fitness Break'. Your children and students can actively participate in the 'Fun Fitness Break' wherever there is a computer with internet access. We recommend joining in on the fun while being an physically active role model for your children and/or students.
The program was designed to be used in grades P-5 classrooms as a means to:
. Provide regular physical activity to the students, thus increasing their level of physical fitness
. Facilitate cognition and absorption of the day's lessons
. Provide supplemental activity minutes toward meeting federally mandated school wellness policies
. Provide an opportunity to build team spirit and class camaraderie
"We are pleased to be forging a partnership with Kid Fitness on a program that will roll out in over 9700 classrooms city-wide and that complements our department goals and healthy initiatives for young students." says Lori Rose Benson, Director of Fitness and Physical Education for the New York City Department of Education. "We assess each of our partnerships carefully and found that the Kid Fitness for Schools program was dynamic, well-designed, easy to integrate and met with our physical education standards."
To view this program in action at an elementary school classroom, please click here [or click on the TV screen icon]
If interested in having the Kid Fitness for Schools program available at your children's school, please email us at: info@kidfitnesstv.com and tell us why you want this program.
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