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Teachers – Youth Leaders – Wellness Teams
and Other *KidLinks™ Take Action!

Healthy Kids Challenge shares your vision for students with better attention, attendance, and math and spelling scores! HKC lesson booklets and E-newsletters provide teaching ideas for transition time or to integrate with core curriculum.

 
Healthy6 Messages

Connect healthy eating – Physical activity – Academic success

  • Active Play, Balance My Day
  • Breakfast GO Power 
  • Drink Think
  • Fruits & Veggies - Every Day the Tasty Way
  • Smart Servings
  • Snack Attack
  

Examples of Healthy6 Learning Activities:
 

  • Active Play
    Each classroom Balance My Day™ Curriculum lesson has a Move and Learn Activitiy such as that below.
    Connect movement and spelling: Practice spelling as a group, while “popping up” with vowels and sitting down with consonants. Physical activity in the classroom is good for academic success and wellness!
     
  • Snack Attack         
    Balance My Day™ Curriculum
    Collect boxes (or labels) for 5 different “snack” foods.Without looking at the label, have students order the labels from lowest to highest about of fat (and then sugar). Integrate the lesson with math by discussing metric weights, or calculating fat and/or sugar intake with different serving sizes.      

 

The Ways You Can Take Action 

  1. Sign up for the  E-Newsletter, an easy to implement idea for healthy eating and physical activity.  Each edition also includes a brief copy-cut-and-paste "Parent Tip", ideal for "send home" information.
     
  2. Try HKC ideas and resources to connect Healthy6 messages with learning in the classroom.  Resources that make teaching easy and consistent for the greatest impact:

    A downloadable Monthly Action Idea. Bookmark the page and return each month for a new idea. During a staff meeting, share and demonstrate it for your colleagues.

     Balance My Day Curriculum™, Blogs, E-Newsletters and other Tools.
      
  3. Connect with parents. HKC Healthy6 reproducible parent tip sheets are good for health fairs or classroom uses.
     

*KidLink™: A HKC term used to describe people who can help kids make healthy eating and physical activity choices a habit

HKC uses Hear-See-Do strategies for greater IMPACT to make healthy living a habit:

  • Hear—a message
  • See—how and why to make a change
  • Do—develop solutions and practice healthy choices

    Through training, resources, and consulting, HKC is building a healthy world kid by kid.