Healthier Living
Veggie Skeletons
I had a friend tell me about a great little craft to do for Halloween. Her class and mine are reading buddies so we worked on it together.
We got together a bag of vegetables of all different sizes and kinds. The kids got into groups and had to come up with a way to make a skeleton out of these vegetables.
Some kids used cucumbers for the spine and cherry tomatoes for the eyes. We put ranch dip on a circle paper plate, and the plate was the skeleton’s head. They worked down from the head and came up with some really neat creations!
The best part of the whole process is at the end, the kids (on Halloween) get to eat an extremely healthy snack. I saw some of my grade ones watching the older kids eating some of the veggies and trying things they might not ever try otherwise! Besides, this is probably the healthiest thing they will eat all week!
Week Twelve- Reflecting on Your Health
This is technically our last week of the three month healthier living program, but it doesn\’t stop here! As I have learned myself, not all of the weekly challenges resonate with you completely, and I have not followed through with all of them every week. This week\’s challenge is to actually reflect on which challenge or challenges you liked the best and do them again this week. The three month healthier living program won\’t change everything about you, and the only way you are going to continue getting healthier is if YOU choose to do it yourself. For myself, I have planned to start the three month healthier living action plan over again and continue to repeat it until some of the challenges stick with me and become routine. Here is a list of the challenges week by week. Please pick your favourites and do them again!
Week 1- Take the stairs
Week 2- Park far away
Week 3- Look at the nutritional info
Week 4- Don\’t have portions bigger than your hand
Week 5- Have no more than 2 portions.
Week 6- Drink lots of water
Week 7- Know your BMI
Week 8- Cutting down on calories
Week 9- Eating more roughage foods
Week 10- Get Active
Week 11- Cardio workouts
This weeks optional fast/challenge is to try and compliment someone from your family or close friends once a day.
Week 11 Back to Table of Contents
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Assessment for Week 11
1) Did you attempt to fit more cardio into your week?
2) What did you like about it? What did you dislike?
3) What would be some cardio exercises that would fit into your schedule and your life?
4) What kind of cardio can you participate in with others?
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Week Eleven: Cardio Time!
In these next two weeks, I am really going to push you, and myself to get active and get some REAL exercise. Cardiovascular exercise is the type of exercise that gets your heart rate going. It’s the kind of exercise that pushes your muscles and makes you out of breath. To be honest, it’s the kind of exercise that we usually don’t want to do. But this week, let’s do some cardiovascular exercise. I have found 20 good reasons that we should do some cardio this week. Here you go:
1) Instant feel good. You will feel invigorated for hours after cardio.
2) Train your heart. The heart is a muscle, and cardio is its strength training.
3) Weight loss!
4) Increased endurance and stamina throughout the day.
5) Increased confidence.
6) Healthy lungs
7) Helps weight lifting results show through. It burns the fat close to the muscles.
8) Increases metabolism for up to 24 hours.
9) Improves immune system.
10) Reduces stress.
11) Improves circulation.
12) Increased bone density.
13) Sleep better
14) Relief from depression and anxiety.
15) Reduced risk of some cancers.
16) Reduced risk of heart disease.
17) Lower blood pressure.
18) Decreased resting heart rate.
19) Lowers cholestrol.
20) Live longer!
Some ways of doing a cardio workout are: biking, jogging, running, sports, (Wii doesn’t count), swimming, etc. Think of anything that will get your heart rate up, and you are good to go!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Assessment for Week 10
1) Did you get active this week?
2) Think of all the ways you were active.
3) Did it feel good? Did it feel bad? Why?
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1) Did you try and eat more roughage foods this week? Y/N
2) How can you try and incorporate high roughage foods into your regular diet?
3) If you did try and eat more roughage foods this week, did your body notice a difference? If so, what?
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