SWC Food For Thought
Valentine’s Day
The Student Wellness Council would like to encourage
teachers and parents to consider having these
Heart Healthy activities for your classroom Valentine’s Party.
Our HEART needs Exercise:
Our HEART needs Friends:
SMALL GROUP GAME
CHALLENGE
A paper grid to get friends to initial. (For example:
someone who has read all 5 Percy Jackson books,
someone with a clean desk, someone who takes
dance lessons, someone with the same birthday
month as you) Each student gets a different person
to initial each box (there can be 10 or even 20).
Step 1: throw a bean bag onto a poster-sized grid
with different exercises in each square (sit ups,
toe touches, jumping jacks, leg lifts, push ups,
etc)
Step 2: roll dice / spin a spinner
Step 3: do the exercise the bean bag lands on +
that number of times (or for that many seconds)
Our HEART needs Hobbies:
Our HEART needs Healthy Food
Make a craft that says:
Make your own trail mix (supplies needed: small
bags, large bowls of pretzels, fish crackers,
raisins, peanuts, etc.) Volunteer scoops a ¼ cup
of what the student selects.
Serve fresh fruit ka-bobs (supplies needed:
skewers, strawberries, apple chunks, pineapple,
grapes, etc.)
To drink: serve water or V8 fruit & veggie juice
Gatewood’s
Wellness
Policy
CRAFT
I
______________
Examples:
I
basketball,
I
music,
I
reading
You can do this with alphabet and heart beads for a
bracelet or stickers to make a bookmark.
Our HEART needs to Give:
MAKE A GIFT FOR YOUR TEACHER
Each student writes 3 specific things they like about
their teacher. Put them all in a jar for her/him to read.
Gatewood follows to the District Wellness Policy (Code 533). It states, “schools
should limit celebrations involving food during the school day.”
The Student Wellness Council encourages Teachers and Parent Volunteers to
serve healthy snacks, rather than sugary treats, during classroom parties.
Schools have a responsibility to help students establish and maintain lifelong,
healthy eating habits. Schools can help promote a positive learning
environment by providing healthy celebrations that shift the focus from the
food to the child.