Tonight we went to a Family Fun Night at the same Middle School we go to for most of the Festivals we attend... it was something I had to sign up to go to a couple weeks ago. It was a nice evening. It was in the gym and basically we had 2 hours to play with basketballs, hockey nets, sticks, pucks, balls and the jumping castle was set up too. Since it was a limited number of Families there we got a great amount of play in and being active!
Tonight's activity reminded me of the brochure Elijah received this week at school called "
ActNowBC". It was a Provincial Pamphlet put out as a challenge for BC Families to turn off the TV and Play Stations and get active together... the note to Parent's in this booklet I received says the following,
"Research and experience have shown that students who are active every day are healthier and do better in school than children who are inactive. That's why the Province is now requiring all students in grades K-12 to participate in physical activity each day." (that's news to me actually... I didn't realize it was required for Students in Grade 11 & 12 now)
"...children in grades K-3 should be active for 60-90 minutes every day." Some of that will be in the gym class, recess and lunch break playtime they are getting at school, but then the rest is up to the Parent's!
So let's get more active!! With that said, Elijah is in a soccer "class" on the weekend for 8 weeks... he seems to enjoy it! I'm happy to finally have him enrolled in something like this!
Next stop was a park in Southern Washington -
and then entering Oregon State mid-water...
Next stop was Fred Meyer just past Astoria - where we get most of our groceries for our stay... we were here by 10:30am - sure pays to get out the door so early, since now we had our whole day yet!
Tonight's activity reminded me of the brochure Elijah received this week at school called "ActNowBC". It was a Provincial Pamphlet put out as a challenge for BC Families to turn off the TV and Play Stations and get active together... the note to Parent's in this booklet I received says the following, "Research and experience have shown that students who are active every day are healthier and do better in school than children who are inactive. That's why the Province is now requiring all students in grades K-12 to participate in physical activity each day." (that's news to me actually... I didn't realize it was required for Students in Grade 11 & 12 now) "...children in grades K-3 should be active for 60-90 minutes every day." Some of that will be in the gym class, recess and lunch break playtime they are getting at school, but then the rest is up to the Parent's!
