Mileage Club Kickoff 2016-2017 School Year
The Feelin’ Good® Mileage Club is North America’s premier walking/running program for schools. Last year, more than 2.5 million children in nearly 15,000 schools logged almost 30 million miles (48 million kilometres). Climax-Scotts Community Schools was part of that statistic.
This activity helped to reduce playground hassles, increase kids’ learning readiness and fights obesity. The Mileage Club is an exercise program for elementary school students that runs during recess and occasionally during physical education. Students walk, jog, and run on a course around the playground. Each student has a barcode that they scan after each lap is completed. We use an iPad as our scanner for students to keep track of their laps and mileage. For each five miles walked, jogged, or ran students are rewarded with a Toe Token (brightly colored plastic foot) to put on a shoelace or chain. Each student that completes 25 miles, 50 miles, 75 miles is rewarded with a black and white certificate and a numbered token representing the mileage completed. At 100 miles students receive a 100 token and a color certificate as recognition of their achievement.
This is an exercise program for elementary schools that makes everyone a winner... teachers too! Teachers no longer need to spend valuable time trying to settle arguments after recess. The children return to class ready to learn and eager to show the teacher how much they walked on the playground.
Walking, jogging, and running helps develop fitness while building muscles, burning calories, reducing stress and creating good lifelong habits. Educators who use this exercise program for elementary schools say their students end the school year in better physical condition than before they began the Mileage Club. Best of all, you can now use walking to help make your playground almost hassle-free and a contributing part of your children's educational process. Besides promoting fitness, you will also have a program that makes it easy for your teachers to enhance learning readiness and self-esteem - two key elements in children's academic achievement.
This activity helped to reduce playground hassles, increase kids’ learning readiness and fights obesity. The Mileage Club is an exercise program for elementary school students that runs during recess and occasionally during physical education. Students walk, jog, and run on a course around the playground. Each student has a barcode that they scan after each lap is completed. We use an iPad as our scanner for students to keep track of their laps and mileage. For each five miles walked, jogged, or ran students are rewarded with a Toe Token (brightly colored plastic foot) to put on a shoelace or chain. Each student that completes 25 miles, 50 miles, 75 miles is rewarded with a black and white certificate and a numbered token representing the mileage completed. At 100 miles students receive a 100 token and a color certificate as recognition of their achievement.
This is an exercise program for elementary schools that makes everyone a winner... teachers too! Teachers no longer need to spend valuable time trying to settle arguments after recess. The children return to class ready to learn and eager to show the teacher how much they walked on the playground.
Walking, jogging, and running helps develop fitness while building muscles, burning calories, reducing stress and creating good lifelong habits. Educators who use this exercise program for elementary schools say their students end the school year in better physical condition than before they began the Mileage Club. Best of all, you can now use walking to help make your playground almost hassle-free and a contributing part of your children's educational process. Besides promoting fitness, you will also have a program that makes it easy for your teachers to enhance learning readiness and self-esteem - two key elements in children's academic achievement.
Children Sharpen Their Skills:
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The Mileage Club has proven to:
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This year we have moved from punch cards to the EZ Scan System:
EZ Scan® is a barcode scanning app for iOS and Android operating systems. It works by using a tablet's built-in camera technology to scan each child's barcode (EZ Tally® generates and prints these). During your run club session, each time a student completes a lap they scan their barcode as they pass the tablet. Every time they scan their barcode they can see their progress on the screen as well as receive some fun encouragement from the tablet. We've included three encouragement themes (pirate, coach and standard) with more on the way. Once the running club session has been completed for the day and your tablet is connected to Wi-Fi, it will sync to your EZ Tally® database and update each child's progress.
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