Kids are back in the classroom and back to exercising their brains! It’s also important for kids to exercise their bodies and stay active throughout the school day. Our friends at the Alliance for a Healthier Generation share how and why active kids learn better in this great article. Plus, visit their website for great tips and ideas on how to incorporate physical activity throughout the school day!
Why Move?
“Research shows that in addition to improved health, physical activity actually supports better learning in school. When kids are physically active, they perform better academically, have better attendance and their behavior improves.
What Works?
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation works “with tens of thousands of school and community organizations to develop strategies that increase physical activity before, during and after school. Of the schools that are actively engaged in the Alliance’s Healthy Schools Program, more than 85 percent of the elementary schools offered at least 20 minutes of recess per day. More than 75 percent dedicated at least 20 percent of their afterschool program time to physical activity.”
Together, We Can Get Kids Moving
“Take 3 minutes to see how active environments make better learners.”
The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.
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Keep summer boredom at bay and get kids moving! Promote healthy habits and keep kids engaged with tips from our friends at The Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Try some of their games, activities and strategies to create active and healthful environments for your kids at home, on vacation, at the park or wherever your kids may roam this summer.
to turn healthy eating and physical activity behaviors intohabits. It’s especially important to stay active and make healthy choices at snack and mealtimes over the summer months so that kids can pick up where they left off when the school year begins. After all, active kids learn better.
Fitness Cards:
Anyone – parents, kids, caregivers or neighbors – can take a time out for fitness with exercises such as push-ups, chair dips and invisible jump rope.
Product Calculator for Smart Snacks:
Take the guesswork out of finding healthy snacks. Just enter the product information, answer a few questions and determine whether your beverage or snack is a healthy choice.
Task Cards:
Print these cards and use them at home, waiting in line at the store or at summer camp to keep kids moving anytime, anywhere.”
The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.
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Alliance for a Healthier Generation
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation – founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation – aims to inspire kids to develop lifelong, healthy habits in an effort to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity. It collaborates with and empowers people and leaders to transform the environments that can make a difference in a child’s health: homes, schools, doctor’s offices and communities.
Jawbone and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation have teamed up to spark a new conversation around 
children’s health – a cause that’s dear to our hearts – with a Special Edition Orange UP band: a promise, reminder, contribution and conversation starter around healthy living.
Every adult who wears the Orange UP band can make a difference in the lives of the young people they influence by setting an example of a healthy lifestyle – whether its bypassing the elevator for the stairwell, slicing fruit after dinner instead of scooping ice cream, or spending Sunday in the park rather than in front of the television.
By joining the UP community with an Orange UP band, you’ll also help support the Alliance and its mission to transform the conditions and systems that lead to healthier kids: for every Special Edition Orange UP band sold,Jawbone will make a donation of $20 to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to support its school and community programs.
What’s more, the Special Edition Orange UP band serves as a visible platform for driving awareness, new conversations, and progress around childhood obesity and children’s health.
UP helps turn good intentions into positive action by giving you a complete picture of yourself based on your sleep,movement, eating and mood. It delivers useful and engaging information through a smartphone application that generates personalized insights to help you make meaning of the data and achieve your goals. UP also lets you connect to the apps and services you already love, like MyFitnessPal and RunKeeper, to complement your UP experience.
Jawbone and the Alliance are passionate about the health of today’s youth, and are inviting you to be a part of the solution. Together, we can encourage the kinds of healthy behaviors and lifestyle choices in adults that will help young people today and future generations make smart choices and live better.
The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.
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