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Program Components Structured Activity replaces the traditional recess and provides students with 40-minutes of physical activity every school day. Structured Activity provides the recommended daily amount of physical activity without the anti-social behaviors traditionally exhibited at recess time. Structured Activity also gives students another opportunity to enjoy the successes they experience in physical education class. In addition, it helps to increase good sportsmanship and teamwork, reduce discipline referrals, and provide additional grade-level planning time for teachers.
Multi-Vitamins are available for each school to disperse. Students with parental consent take a chewable multi-vitmain supplement. Many students are not used to eating the healthy foods provided at school and may not receive balanced meals outside school. The multi-vitamins help ensure that students' nutritional needs are met. The supplement of vitamins and minerals is given by the classroom teacher during lunch time. The multi-vitamins provide minerals and nutrients that help with proper brain functioning, help reduce illness-related absenteeism, and help counteract poor nutritional habits. Parents may opt their child in or out of this component at any time throughout the school year. Water Bottles are provided to each student. Each student is allowed to keep a water bottle on his/her desk throughout the school day to help ensure hydration. Providing students with easily accessible water throughout the day helps increase hydration to combat mid-day lower energy levels, decrease the need for trips to the water fountain thus increasing learning time and eliminating time spent standing in line. Increased Physical Education Time is another component of the EEE program. Schools are asked to increase their physical education (PE) time to 90-minutes per week. Increasing the amount of time for PE along with Structured Activity time provides students with the recommended daily amount of physical activity to be healthy. PE is important because it encourages lifetime fitness, skill development and aerobic exercise. Lunch in the Classroom serves many purposes, including: providing a calmer and more relaxed atmosphere for eating, eliminating standing in line for a lunch tray thus allowing more time to eat, allowing teachers to build positive relationships with their students, giving teachers an opportunity to provide nutrition information using the food students are served at lunch as a "hands-on" learning tool, providing teachers the opportunity to model the good eating habits they are teaching, and allowing students to learn table manners and appropriate mealtime conversation. The students also tend to eat more of their lunch and to drink their milk!! Teachers generally agree that eating lunch with their students is an extremely positive experience for everyone. Also, in return for giving up their duty-free lunch period, teachers receive additional planning time which results in better instruction and less work for the teachers after the end of the school day.
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