School Morning Fitness Program Thinks Outside BOKS
Mill Pond hosted the eight-week Build Our Kids’ Success pilot program.
Last Tuesday, before their day’s first bell, about 20 Mill Pond School students did a light jog, squats, burpees and dodgeball. In the school gym. On their own. Over 40 minutes. Mill Pond’s eight-week Build Our Kids’ Success pilot program wrapped up last Tuesday morning. The sessions feature five minutes each of drop off/free play and meeting/warmup time; 10 minutes each of running and a weekly skill; and five minutes each of a game, and cool down, BOKS bit and wrap up time, according to the program’s website. A version of this Reebok Foundation initiative started at Natick’s Memorial Elementary School in October 2009 by a parent who was inspired by “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain,” by Dr. John Ratey, MD, of…
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