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Coalition Sponsored
Community Challenges
Don’t
let the frosty Wisconsin winter keep your family from being physically
active and eating healthy!
This 4-week
program challenges day care providers and preschool teachers to make
physical activity and healthy eating a daily priority for children in
their care. Earn “miles” every day you participate and “walk” your way
from La Crosse County to San Antonio, Texas! Return your completed log to
the Health Department by March 15th for a chance to win great
prizes!
Download the Walk around the World
log today HERE !
Ultimate Turn off the Screen Challenge
Turn Off the Screen...Turn on Your Life! We’ve all
heard the statistics... the average preschooler spends 4 ½ hours/day in
front of screens while the average school age child spends 6 hours or
more. If you’re worried that
your family spends too much time in front of the TV, on the computer or on
their phone join Coulee Region Childhood Obesity Coalition members and
become part of the 6th annual
Ultimate Turn
off the Screen Challenge
April 30th – May 6th!
During this week, families are being challenged to limit their
screen time to what experts recommend…
·
Children under 3 years of age:
0 hours of screen time/day
·
Children 3-12 years of age: 1 hour or less/day
·
Teens & adults: 2 hours or
less/day During
Challenge Week you and your family are encouraged to shut off your screens
and exercise both your minds and bodies by finding healthier alternatives.
Rather than come home from school or work and plunking down in front of
the TV or computer, coalition members are challenging you to enjoy your
free time by reading a book, going on a picnic, walking or biking with a
friend or listening (and
dancing!) to your favorite music.
The possibilities are endless!
Limiting screen time frees you up to spend time with friends and
family or enjoying favorite pastimes. It’s a great way to encourage
healthy habits and build a healthy mind as well as a healthy body. To
participate in the
Ultimate Turn off the
Screen Challenge download
the log below and each day of the challenge week note on your log how much
time you spent watching TV, on the computer or watching movies in your
free time. Your goal is to
keep screen time during your free time within the times the experts
recommend. All completed logs
submitted by May 11th will be eligible for cool Challenge
prizes.
Ultimate Turn off the Screen
Challenge log
May 13-17th
Warm Spring
days filled with sunshine...what a wonderful way for kids to start their
day. May 13 – 17th
is Bike to Work Week; a week set aside each year to encourage community
residents to bike rather than drive to work.
To encourage children (and their teachers!) to bike to school
during the week, the Coulee Region Childhood Obesity Coalition is
challenging Coulee Region kids to get active by participating in the
Wheel to School Week Challenge.
The goal of the challenge is to increase the number of
children throughout the Coulee Region adopting an active lifestyle by
biking (rollerblading, scootering or skateboarding) to school. Students
who cannot bike to school can still participate by walking to school.
Students are
encouraged to challenge their teachers and other school staff to
participate in the challenge as well.
The school with the highest proportion of students and school staff
wheeling to school during the week will win the
silver spoke award, a
traveling trophy. It’s easy &
fun to participate! Just
download the log below and record on it how you commuted
to and
from school each day.
At the end of the week submit your logs to win cool challenge
prizes (including the silver spoke award)!
To be included in prize drawings and the count for the Silver Spoke
Award logs must be submitted by May 30th.
WHEEL TO SCHOOL WEEK CHALLENGE
LOG
Sponsored by the Coulee Region Childhood Obesity
Coalition, the goal of the week long challenge goal is to activate Coulee
Region kids’ lifestyles by encouraging them to regularly walk or bike to
school. Why encourage your kids to walk or bike to school?
Children who walk and bike to school are more apt to be physically
fit and less prone to overweight, they learn how to handle traffic safely,
they help reduce the family’s gas budget and they contribute to a cleaner
environment and improved air quality by reducing traffic volume near their
school. Children at participating schools receive a log on
which they note if they’ve walked or biked during the Challenge week.
At the end of the week, the school with the highest proportion of
walkers & bikers for the week will win the coveted “Golden Shoe Award” for
display at their school during the 2013-14 school year.
Lost your log?
Download the copy below & be sure to record your school as well as
how you got to school on the log!
Contact
Us: Linda Lee, Co-Chair
c/o La Crosse County Health Department
Contact Linda at:
Contact Beth at:
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