May’s challenge is to get you eating your fruits and vegetables! There are so many different fruits and veggies that you can try...either fresh or cooked, for breakfast, lunch or dinner. You can keep track of all the delicious fruits and veggies you eat on your weekly tracking sheets. There’s even a place for you to write a new fruit or vegetable that you have tried during the week. Have your family join in and share in the challenge. Maybe you’ll find a fruit or vegetable out there that will become your new favorite. Turn in your weekly slips on Monday or Tuesday for the amazing Wellness prizes drawn on Wednesdays each week. Here’s to eating healthier and trying new foods in May!

This past year has been a challenge in more ways than one. We’ve worked our mind and bodies. This challenge helps you tackle both! Flexibility is the range of motion in a joint or group of joints or the ability to move joints effectively through a complete range of motion. Your goal is to move through the flexibility flow 1-2 times daily. Mark your tracker each day you complete the challenge. Turn in tracking sheet Monday or Tuesday for a chance to win a prize on Wednesday!

February's challenge is meant to WARM your heart. Since February is the month of love, we thought it would be great to have HP students, families, and staff show that love by doing acts of kindness everyday! These can be small acts or big ones. You can keep track of all the acts of kindness you do by coloring in one piece of the word February for each act you do AND by coloring in the heart on the weekly sheets. By the end of the month, you will have done 28 act...wow! You can use the suggestions given in the packet or come up with your own. Have your family join in and share the love! Turn in your weekly slips on Monday or Tuesday for the amazing Wellness prizes drawn on Wednesdays each week. If you win, you will be given one big prize to share with your family and one small prize to pay it forward to someone you and your family feel deserves some sweetness in their life. Thanks for making HP and our community a loving place to be!

Today starts a new month! Can you believe it is already December? Where has the time gone, and where is the snow? December's wellness activity is Be “Present” for the Holidays. Your child should come home with a new weekly wellness packet. This wellness activity entails being mindful and present in your daily lives as a family. At school, we use a variety of websites for mindfulness. You could also use Headspace, MindYeti, CosmicKids Zen Den, Smiling Mind, or Calm. Please take a moment to watch the Be “Present” for the Holidays informational video on the left.

"Planks-giving"

Since our Walk-tober wellness challenge was such a success, the HP Wellness committee has decided to continue the fun, monthly themed family fitness challenges. For November we are challenging families to do a daily plank exercise together. This month you get to set your own goal for how long you will be able to plank. Make this a fun time for the whole family. We are encouraging families to send in pictures to Linda Keech keechld@hudsonraiders.org of all the fun places you're doing your planks. Mark it on the sheet for the week, tear it off and return it on Monday or Tuesday to be entered in a drawing for an awesome family wellness prize! SO...get out there and start planking!

Students and staff participated in our 1st ever HP Day of Wellness. Grade levels rotated thru 6 wellness stations. One station celebrated the 10th and final day of the Winter Power Up challenge. Another station kicked off the Power Up Food challenge. Students also tasted smoothies, stretched, walked, and practiced mindfulness.

Monday, February 24, we kicked off our Winter Power Up Movement. HP staff and students purposefully incorporated more movement and brain breaks during the day. They logged their efforts for 10 days.

We are excited to offer our HP Family Fit NIght on Tuesday, 1/28. We will have sessions from 5-6, 6-7, and 7-8.

We are excited to offer our HP Family Fit Night on Tuesday, 12/10. We will have session from 5-6, 6-7, and 7-8. As of now all sessions are maxed with 50 skaters per session. We will let you know if there are any openings.

Thank you all for participating in our HP Boosterthon. We exceeded our school goal AND students moved their bodies! We had a great day for the run!

Explore the form to the left for more information regarding our HP Pumpkin Run!

We are excited to kick off our Fall Run club. Teachers have been on kids news everyday this week pumping our students up. Look for feet charms to begin next week!

Monday, April 1st we kicked off our HP run club.

• Students receive lap tracking cards.

• Students run laps at recess. For each lap a student runs, he/she earns a hole punch. Once a student completes 4 laps (1 mile) he/she earns a foot charm.

• We are kindly asking students to reuse any necklace chains they may have from previous years run clubs.

• Wed. May 8th will be our all school move it on the middle school track.

• Our annual HP Fun Run will be on 5/11. See image to the left for more information.

We would love for you to join us for another Family Fit Night. We will be offereing fitness stations for you to rotate thru. Stations will include: Castle ball, open gym, scooter races, gonoodle, cosmic kid yoga, and hallway running or walking. Lace your shoes up and join is for a fun and free night. Open to all HP families.

Planning as has also begun for our spring run club and Fun Run. Put 5/11 on your calendar for our annual HP Fun Run!

Our school participated in a school-wide 3-week challenge that will get students up and active throughout winter. The challenge will also encourage students to find creative ways to become active indoors or outdoors.

Each class will earn and track points for students being active throughout the challenge. Each student has the opportunity to earn 1 point per “active activity” (Recess, Extra Activity, and at Home).

The School-wide goal is based on the number of students participating and how many opportunities each student has to be active.