Today was the FIRST Walk and Bike to School Day! I saw many happy faces walking into school and several smiling students with bike helmets as well. Thank you to Liberty Mom, Regan Versele, for organizing the event again this year. Many students showed me their cool token they were given for making the trek to Liberty today. I am joining once again this year with daily commutes to school - I am up to 16 days and 64 miles so far... The 2014-15 school year is off to a great start. We have reviewed our Wellness guidelines and targets for the year, participated in our first PACER (measures our heart endurance power! - the numbers will be coming soon of the percentage of students that improved their PACER over the summer), and are now engaged in a Soccer Unit - this is the first time I have scheduled a Soccer Unit in the Fall. We have always scheduled soccer in the Spring and of course, have been rained out on numerous years. The students have been amazing learning the POWER skills of soccer - dribbling, passing, and finishing. We have also set targets to move within our shape/form as a team, to know when to dribble or pass, and to of course, exhibit fair play. I have heard many cool stories of both WATCHING the World Cup this summer and students playing in their own version of the World Cup. We even have 3 noon soccer clubs at school that are led by students!! At the end of the month is the Wellness Run at Granby Elementary. This is an ACTIVE event that is SO MUCH FUN to participate in. Please click below to sign up today! We will have Warrior Run practice during every wellness noon option in the month of September and will then continue on after with our "Adventure Running Club". Adults can participate too - this is a great opportunity to practice together at home for this FUN (and sometimes muddy) run! http://www.planetreg.com/2014warriorrun That is all for now. Get moving, keep moving, enJOY moving! Mr. Smith
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Mr. SmithWellness 4 Life Teacher at Liberty Elementary; Player Development Director with Worthington United Soccer; and dad and husband to an awesome active family. Archives
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