ACES Day

Tomorrow is All Children Exercise Simultaneously day at Columbiaville. To celebrate, all classes will be walking the neighborhood sidewalks from 3 to 3:30 at the end of the day. Parents are more than welcome to join in, please just check in at the office :) For more information on ACES day, cut and paste this link: http://www.michiganfitness.org/aces Update: we had all the kids out for a .5 mile walk through Columbiaville, a great success!

Not In My Yard

This is a game we are playing this week to work on the overhand throw and catching. The kids love it and they get in a great workout doing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNCufQAgKn0

Fishing Club

Sign ups for our after school fishing club will be going out soon. Last year was a great success, the kids learned various things ranging from water safety to knot tying and had a blast! Here is a photo from last year I managed to find.

FJGA

It's that time of year for some Golf! The Flint Junior Golf Association is having sign ups starting now, ages 8 - 18. Here's a link for more info: http://www.fjga.org/ For younger kids, there is a golf course in North Branch that offers classes for 5 and up (I think) heres a link for them: http://www.washakiegolfrv.com/index.html

Ant Tag

Here is another tag game the kids love to play. 2 - 4 kids are anteaters, the rest of the kids are ants. If an anteater tags you, you have to play dead with legs and arms in the air. It takes 4 other ants to carry you to the hospital, where you can do 5 situps to recover. Excellent game, the kids work their cardiovascular system running and core muscles doing situps and playing dead. This is also an excellent time to talk about compassion with the kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oFRbY-dLfs

Archery In the Schools

Here is some video from one of my after school programs. The equipment comes from a grant from the DNR called Archery In the Schools. All the equipment was supplied that we needed, 11 bows, 5 targets, 250 arrows, and a huge net to catch any errant arrows! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAZYByTXUGE

Forehand Strike/ Sharks and Seals

This is a video of what we did about three weeks ago, working on our underhand/forehand strike and playing a tag game called Sharks and Seals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkxRbK6SQ8w