Adventure To Fitness- Great Practice

Hello everyone!

We have had some calls and emails asking about the best ways to implement Adventure To Fitness into the classroom and I first want to say thank you for asking! We have some concepts that can help and I wanted to share with you:

Repetition

Kids benefit from repetition. I know I'm preaching to the choir about repetition (you probably have dreams of the alphabet and multiplication tables every night! Ha)! Teachers are amazed when we say that many of the schools across the nation that use Adventure To Fitness work our program into their schedules for the kids 3 times a week! Most include it once a week on the same day every week so the kids know to expect it and get amped for it. For 3 times a week, you might be thinking: "Wow... those schools must have teachers who just put this on so they don't have to teach the kids anything." But that is the farthest thing from the truth! I was actually curious about that myself, so I looked into all of our high user schools (I'm a realist, you see) and time after time I was finding that they are exemplary schools- A schools that are recognized for their achievements in academics and various other efforts. Good job to you all! In getting some of their feedback, they said that they pride themselves in keeping the kids engaged and steadily motivated through out the day. The episodes help do that! This goes back to the times I have mentioned that physical activity helps activate the brain for better attentiveness, retention and memory recall. 

So, great implementing of the program: Repetition! Finding at least one time a week where you carve out 30 minutes to do a full episode with the kids. (P.S. I personally know what a Sherpa is now after watching the "Abominable Ascent" episode a few times!) Repetition will help your students retain the academics included in each episode. It will also teach them the value in being physically active if they know that at certain times each week, they will be exerting some energy. That's what this is all about anyway! Keeping kids healthy.

Reinforcement

Before and after episodes, we suggest reinforcing the academic elements from the episode. They just learned about the Mayans in an episode? Try reinforcing the facts with our activities that we have pre-made for you! I know teachers love to see activities that are ready to use! Try them out because that repetition about, say, the Mayans can help out a lot when you're doing a lesson on them! Use the Episode Standards guide in the PDF format next to the episodes to help you understand what subjects the episode applies to. 

Revitalizing

Maybe you don't have enough time in your day to carve out a whole 30 minutes for an episode. That's OK! Adventure To Fitness episodes can be stopped, paused, re-wound and fast-forwarded however you need. Give your kids a brain break from the monotony of sitting at their desk writing and listening to lectures. They need movement too! So get them up for even just 5 or 10 minutes with a quick clip from one of our adventures. This helps to get that blood flowing again, giving them a little more energy to get through the rest of the day. Some teachers have even written about how they use Adventure To Fitness as a reward. If their students do well on a test, or behave exceptionally well, they put on an episode, and the kids love it! As you can probably remember being a student yourself, class was always more fun when the teacher did something out of the ordinary (even if it was study-oriented!). So revitalize your students and your day by getting everyone up and moving!

Repetition, Reinforcement, Revitalizing! Implement these concepts and your students are on their way to becoming some top adventurers who are healthy and ready to take on whatever you give them!

As always, we are here for your questions and comments so don't be shy! 

Keep it moving!