Stop by Original Firehouse Coffee Company off Barger on Saturday, March 16th, and enjoy delicious coffee drinks or a fantastic Mocha Milkshake and help support our local kids! 50 percent of sales from 3-7 p.m. will benefit Healthy Moves, a local non-profit bringing movement, fitness, and fun to our community's children. Look for Original Firehouse Coffee Company next to Winco and Oil Can Henry's!
We also recently did an interview on KUGN with Storm Kennedy! Listen to it here!
Healthy Moves is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization bringing movement, fitness and fun to elementary students through a six-week trainer-in-residence program. Due to school budget cuts, many physical education programs have been eliminated, leaving classroom teachers to teach PE classes, many times without specialized training. Healthy Moves trainers work with students and their teacher demonstrating fitness activities and providing a model the teacher can use for future PE classes. This approach reduces the teacher planning time for physical education and gives students fitness activities they enjoy. The students develop physical skills required in state teaching standards. Healthy Moves provides teachers with a fitness format that can be used by all teachers of grades two through five.
Benefits of the Healthy Moves Program
Schools play a particularly critical role by establishing a safe and supportive environment with policies and practices that support healthy behaviors. Schools also provide opportunities for students to learn about and practice healthy eating and physical activity. Healthy Moves offers benefits to schools and students in promoting child physical activity in the following ways:
Teachers and students learn a standard warm up and cool down exercise that can be done consistently in all PE classrooms.
Teachers and students are exposed to activities designed by professional trainers that may add procedural and instructional diversity to future PE classes.
Students benefit by experiencing new ideas for activities, exposure to a professional PE advocate, and encouragement to gain strength, flexibility, coordination and endurance in their daily lives.
School districts gain greater visibility for their commitment to PE instruction with teachers, students and parents.
Contact Us
If you would like more information about the Healthy Moves Program, feel free to send us an email at
info@hm4kids.org, or contact us by phone at 541.632.2541. We will also be updating our website in the near future with more information, as well as pictures and video of the program in motion.
Donate
Healthy Moves is a certified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Healthy Moves, click the "donate" button below. All transactions are securely processed by Pay-Pal. All major credit cards are accepted. Once you click donate, you will be able to enter any amount you would like. If you would like to donate by check, please address it to:
