Week 4, Day 1 - The Belly

Today's lesson was focused on nutrition.  We discussed the five basic food groups, and MyPlate.  Most of you probably remember the food pyramid, but the pyramid has changed to a plate in order to help us think about healthy food choices and how they relate to our daily meals.  You can learn more about MyPlate here.  We talked about making healthy food choices, and the importance of eating fruits and vegetables.  We set a goal for the girls to eat 5 fruits & vegetables every day until our next meeting! 

After our discussion, the girls drew a picture in their journals about what their own "MyPlate" would look like. 

After the journal we played a fun game.  We had a backpack filled with weights to represent foods that provide zero nutrition for us, and weigh us down.  One girl wore the backpack at a time, and they ran down the basketball courts and back.  Each girl had a chance to run with the weighted pack.  The rest of the girls carried colored rings to symbolize items from our MyPlate that are good for us.

It was a lot of work running with the weighted pack!  The girls much prefered the MyPlate food items when running.  Lets hope they remember that when they choose what they eat this week!

Today was supposed to be an easy running day, but these girls were begging to run more!  So, we let them run for as long as we could before we stopped for snack.  We will finish out the belly week on Wednesday with another related game, and a 2 mile run.