Balanced School Day

Manitou Elementary follows the "Balanced School Day".

Better Nutrition and More Time for Activity

The "Balanced School Day" schedule breaks the instructional time into three 100-minute blocks, with two nutrition and activity breaks separating the blocks. Each nutrition/activity break consists of an "eating" segment followed by an outdoor activity time.

The minutes of break and instruction have not changed. Two shorter recesses have been combined, and three teaching blocks are divided evenly throughout the day. This schedule creates equally balanced teaching/learning divisions to the school day.

The schedule will look like this:

8:55 - 9:30 Period 1

9:30 - 10:05 Period 2

10:05 - 10:35 Period 3

Morning Break

10:35 - 10:45 Nutrition Time (10 min.)

10:45 - 11:10 Outdoor Activity Time (20 min.)

11:10 - 11:40 Period 4

11:40 - 12:15 Period 5

12:15 - 12:50 Period 6

Afternoon Break

12:50 - 1:15 Nutrition Break (25 min.)

1:15 - 1:45 Outdoor Activity & Intramural Time (30 min.)

1:45 - 2:15 Period 7

2:15 - 2:50 Period 8

2:50 - 3:25 Period 9

3:30 Dismissal