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Highlighting Health and Wellness: Ways to Stay Actively Learning While at Home

15 April 2020

Highlighting Health and Wellness: Ways to Stay Actively Learning While at Home

Over the course of a regular school day, our students have many different ways to stay physically active, grow socially and emotionally, and focus on their mental health. Now that living rooms have become classrooms and bedrooms have become playgrounds, we know that our students are missing everything from spending time with their friends at recess to having one-on-one conversations about their day with their favorite teacher. We encourage you to take advantage of the resources below to help your student incorporate social and emotional learning, healthy eating, and physical wellness back into their school day. While it’s especially important to take care of ourselves during this time, we hope you keep thinking about engagement and share the resources that are working for you with other members of your school community. Before you know it, our students will be having fun on the playground with their friends once more.

Physical Activity 

  • Action for Healthy Kids: Resources tailored specifically for healthy activities at home.
  • America Scores: Activity packets and daily literacy and soccer activities on social media. 
  • Chicago Run: Live fitness videos and family fitness challenges. 
  • Game On: Fitness and sports skills videos as well as printable activity sheets. 
  • Playworks:  Live streamed recess and other games and activities. 

Nutrition

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Make sure to check back in as new resources are added to this post.


Maneras de seguir aprendiendo de manera activa en casa

Durante el curso de un día escolar normal, nuestros estudiantes pueden mantenerse físicamente activos, desarrollarse social y emocionalmente y mejorar su salud mental de varias maneras distintas. Ahora que las salas se han convertido en aulas y las habitaciones en parques infantiles, sabemos que nuestros estudiantes extrañan pasar el tiempo con sus amigos en el recreo, y conversar sobre su día con su maestro favorito a solas. Lo alentamos a aprovechar de los recursos que se presentan a continuación para ayudarle a su hijo a incorporar el aprendizaje social y emocional, la alimentación sana y el bienestar físico en su día escolar. Aunque es muy importante cuidarnos durante este tiempo, esperamos que usted también mantenga una participación activa y que comparta los recursos que le estén funcionando con otros miembros de su comunidad escolar. Pronto los estudiantes volverán al parque infantil con sus amigos y se divertirán como antes.

Actividad física 

  • Action for Healthy Kids: recursos diseñados específicamente para actividades saludables en casa.
  • America Scores: paquetes de actividades y actividades diarias de lectoescritura y fútbol en la redes sociales. 
  • Chicago Run: videos en vivo sobre el buen estado físico y retos de ejercicios físicos para la familia. 
  • Game On: videos sobre aptitudess físicas y deportivas y hojas de actividades para imprimir.  
  • Playworks: recreo, juegos y actividades en vivo. 

Nutrición

  • Big Green: recursos para la jardinería y recetas de verduras. 
  • Common Threads: educación digital sobre nutrición y recursos para una alimentación saludable.
  • Campañas de salud escolares: planes de lecciones para comer saludable y lograr un buen estado físico. 
  • Pilot Light: videos y lecciones de cocina en familia. 

Aprendizaje social y emocional (SEL, por sus siglas en inglés)

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