Live Healthy Iowa Kids Parent Letter for 5th-6th grade students

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Your child has accepted the challenge! Over the next ten weeks, our team will be taking a journey through Live Healthy Iowa Kid’s 10 Week Wellness Challenge. The challenge is designed to increase physical activity and encourage healthier food and beverage choices. Over the next ten weeks, your son/daughter will be tracking their activity minutes, as well as (during two week time periods), fruit consumption, vegetable consumption, ounces of milk, ounces of water and minutes in front of a screen (television, computer, phone, Gameboy, etc.). Outlined below is the tracking schedule. Every two weeks, they will bring home a new tracking sheet and at the end of the two weeks, your son/daughter will need to return the sheet to me by the following Monday (as outlined on the sheets).  Some students have chosen to leave their tracking sheets at school to have them readily available.

Tracking Dates	Items Tracked
1/27-2/7	Fruit Consumption and Physical Activity
2/8-2/21	Vegetable Consumption and Physical Activity
2/22-3/7	Milk Consumption and Physical Activity
3/8-3/21	Water Consumption and Physical Activity
3/22-4/4	Screen Time & Physical Activity

Your help and assistance in the challenge is vital; parents/guardians are a great support system! We will need your help reinforcing healthier food and beverage choices, providing healthier options and encouraging more physical activity.

Our team would enjoy being able to try new, healthy snacks that we may not have been able to try before! If you are able to provide our team with a new, healthy snack, let me know when you are able to provide that snack and what you are bringing! Please keep in mind the above schedule – we would like our snacks to align with what we are tracking!

Thank you for all of your support during this challenge!

Kay Kern

Team Captain