Mrs. Best's WEEKLY HEALTH TIP
Health Tip #4 - This week your student(s) will be bringing home the results to their fitness assessment. The health tip for this week is about goal setting. Review your child’s results and help them create a goal toward taking more responsibility in their physical, emotional, or mental health. The fitness assessments tested their physical strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility. If they performed substandard to the healthy zones in any of the tests, help them create a goal to work on increasing one of these three areas of fitness.
The BMI stands for Body Mass Index, which shows whether their weight is in a healthy proportion to their height. If their BMI was substandard to the healthy zone for their age, then help them create a goal to eating higher quality nutrient dense foods in place of artificial and high sugar snack foods.
If your child is within the healthy zones of fitness and BMI, then help them create a mental or emotional goal toward making a more conscious effort in creating habits that help establish the core virtues of the month. The core virtues for this month are RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY.
Please help your child write down their goal and put it in a place where they will see it everyday. It takes 22 days for a practice to become a habit. Therefore, encourage your child to stay the course of consciously pursuing their goal for the next 22 days. Please have them bring a copy of their goal to me next week. In P.E. class I will be help hold them accountable to their goals. I intend to support, inspire, and encourage them in becoming more responsible in creating an abundantly healthy life! Thank you!!
Teacher Spotlight: Lynette Adams, 6th Grade Teacher – My name is Lynette Adams and I am teaching 6th grade at RMAE! I have taught for 10 years and have found it to be a true passion of mine. I am married to Dave and have three kids and was lucky to be able to stay home with them when they were very young. Mason is 11, Sebastian 7, and Alexis is 5. They are my true joy and I am so grateful for them. I really value family time and try to enjoy every moment, as I know it goes so fast.
Another passion of mine is running. I have done Boston Marathon once and recently got in to do it again this April. I also love trail running and am going to attempt my first 50 mile ultra marathon next summer! Our family loves skiing and we are all very active. My kids are in many sports and we ski all winter long. I feel so fortunate to live in Evergreen, Colorado and we try to enjoy all that is has to offer.
Spotlight on Music – by Susanna Jacobson As a first-year teacher, I am delighted to be among the wonderful staff and students here at RMAE. I studied Music Education at CU Boulder (go BUFFS!) with voice as my primary “instrument” and graduated in May of 2017.
In my classroom, we focus on becoming active music-makers. My students spend a lot of time working together playing instruments, singing, folk dance, and creative dance. We then use these experiences to contextualize elements of music theory and music history. I believe music not only unites the mind, body, and soul; it is also a wonderful tool for teaching life skills, such as working toward a goal as a group.
I teach K-5 Music at RMAE, as well as the Middle School knitting, bucket drumming, and line dance electives. In addition to teaching, I also work as the assistant choir director and children’s choir director at a local church. Sharing the joy of music with children is one of the greatest blessings in my life.
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