Wednesday, February 19, 2014

February Family Fitness Challenge

The students have been jumping away over the month of February. This month's Family Fitness Challenge has to do with jumping rope. The students have been learning about their heart's function and how to keep it healthy by exercising 60 minutes a day. Jumping rope is a great way to increase your heart rate! 

Complete the challenge below and send in a picture. Each child that brings in a picture will be entered in a drawing for a prize. I will extend the deadline to March 11th since we got a late start with the snow. 


This challenge can be done as a group or against each other as a race. The object is to get all six tasks completed.

a die



a jump rope



a copy of the roll and jump task card






You will start by rolling the die and doing the corresponding activity. For example, if you roll a 3, you will do 10 basic jumps backward. Once you complete the task put a check next to the number. You will continue rolling the die and completing the corresponding activities until all the numbers have been checked off. The catch is, if you roll a number more than once you have to repeat the exercise each time you roll the number until you have rolled all six.




Have fun!

Also, don't forget to visit www.heart.org/jump to join the Cool Spring Elementary fundraising team. Students have already raised over 10,000 dollars which will go directly to the American Heart Association. WOW!!!