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CATCH is Austin ISD's Heatlh and Wellness Program established for all Austin ISD schools. Each of the 4 9-Weeks there is a new theme including programs and health lessons.
The K-2 Family Dance Night was created with the PE and Music Teacher to get the children and their families out and active TOGETHER!
The dance is hosted in January of every year.
Kinder and 1st graders learn 5 dances over a 2 week period to perform for their parents and the 2nd grade.
The following dances were learned and performed:
Bow Wow
Knock
Get Funky
Shiny Clean
Tony Chestnut
The 3 Family Dances were learned and performed that night:
Looby Loo
Chicken Dance
Cha Cha Slide
This year, over 150 parents attended and over 80% of our students from Kinder-2nd grade as well as their teachers attended!
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Below is what was sent out to families regarding the Dance Party:
Thanks,
Afton Heinatz and Nathalie Schiele
More on Austin ISD's CATCH Program:
What is CATCH?
CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is a TEA approved Coordinated School Health Program designed to promote physical activity, healthy food choices, and prevent tobacco use in elementary school aged children. By teaching children that eating healthy and being physically active every day can be FUN, the CATCH Program has proved that establishing healthy habits in childhood can promote behavior change that carry into adulthood.
CATCH is a resource or tool that builds an alliance of parents, teachers, child nutrition personnel, school staff, and community partners to teach children and their families how to be healthy for a lifetime. The four CATCH components - Go For Health Classroom Curriculum, CATCH Physical Education, Eat Smart School Nutrition Guide, and family Home Team activities - reinforce positive healthy behaviors throughout a child's day and make it clear that good health and learning go hand in hand.
How is CATCH benefiting the students, staff and families at Bryker Woods Elementary School?
- Improving the nutritional quality of school meals by promoting and coordinating ideas for linking good food to good health. Promoting the consumption of more GO foods than SLOW foods and more SLOW foods than WHOA foods.
(http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/catch/PDF_Files/GO-SLOW-WHOA_11-04-10.pdf) - Providing teachers with user-friendly,easy to implement resources that blend health topics with core academic areas.
- Getting students, parents and extended family members involved in practicing and adopting healthy eating and physical activity behaviors at home.
- Promoting student’s enjoyment and participation in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during PE classes, extra-curricular activities, and recreation time with family and friends.
What are the CATCH goals at Bryker Woods Elementary School?
2. Increase fruit & vegetable consumption.
3. Decrease TV viewing to no more than 2 hours per day.
4. Decrease sugar sweetened beverage consumption (i.e. sodas, energy drinks, vitamin water, sports drinks, etc).
What does CATCH look like on our campus?
We have a CATCH Champion.- The CATCH Champion is the Master Coordinator of CATCH on our campus. It is the role of the CATCH Champion to lead the CATCH Team in the coordination and implementation of the CATCH Program to ensure faculty and staff are creating a healthy/healthier school environment and promoting healthy habits. (insert name and pic of Champion)
We have a CATCH Team.
- The CATCH Team is a core group of volunteer faculty and staff, representing all areas of the campus who determine the steps the campus will pursue each year to help their students, “Make the healthy choice the easy choice.” Our CATCH Team includes(Insert pic of Team):
- Champion – name here
- Administrator(s) – name here
- Cafeteria Manager – name here
- Physical Education Specialist(s) – name here
- Classroom Teacher(s) – name here
- Specialized Support Specialist(s) – name here
- Parent Leader(s) – name here
- We use the CATCH Coordination Toolkit as a campus to provide simple, doable tasks that drive school wide coordination.
- We have GO/SLOW/WHOA signage in the cafeteria and around our campus.
- Our classroom teachers have declared their classrooms Healthy Zones.
- Our faculty uses Activity Breaks (short bouts of physical activity during class time) to reactivate the brain through full body movement.
- During PE we implement CATCH games and the CATCH philosophy to ensure our students are engaged in Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) at least 50% of the PE class.
- Teachers incorporate the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade CATCH lessons into their subject lesson plans to promote healthy eating, adequate sleep, physical activity, and water consumption.
- We host a CATCH Family Event each academic year to encourage families to eat healthy and be active together.
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