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Alphabet Fitness - President's Challenge Program for 3-6 Year Olds!
The Alphabet Fitness - President's Challenge Program is collaboration between Wellness, Inc. and the President's Council on Physical Fitness & Sports.The Presidents Challenge opened up their resources to us in 2006 and are a wonderfully supportive collaborator for building early fitness and learning skills for children 3-6 through Alphabet Fitness activities (Group # 32449). Entering the Challenge is an excellent way for teachers and children to team up for literacy, fitness, and AF-President's Challenge Award Certificates!
Please contact us for information on joining this exciting Challenge for health and literacy. and professional development opportunities.
Alphabet Fitness programs prep kids 3-6 for the program's President's Active Lifestyle Awards (PALA). Children can now earn these awards through Alphabet Fitness Activities.
Wellness, Inc. is the first company to collaborate with the President's Challenge to enable children under 6 to participate in the President's Challenge. Its Alphabet Fitness activities are an excellent way for teachers and children to team up for literacy, fitness, and President's Challenge Award Certificates!
Please contact us for information on joining this exciting Challenge for health and literacy.
"On March 16, 2007, I conducted a Physical Fitness Awards Ceremony at the St. Bernadine Head Start School Program in Baltimore, Maryland. Twenty four-year old children successfully completed the requirements and earned their Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards (under the President's Challenge Physical Activity & Fitness Awards Program).By participating in a program entitled Alphabet Fitness, the children used their bodies to form letters and spell words, while simultaneously learning early language skills. This event made history, because it was the first time in the United States that a Head Start Program received the President's Challenge PALA Award.
In addition to each participant, the St. Bernadine Head Start Program also received an award and Official Proclamation Citation for this achievement from the Mayor of Baltimore."
— Lillian Greene-Chamberlain, Ph.D.
Member PCPFS Council
About the President's Challenge Program
On July 16, 1956, President Eisenhower created the President's Council on Youth Fitness with cabinet-level status. A President's Citizens-Advisory Committee on Fitness of American Youth is confirmed to give advice to the Council.
Purpose
"In relation to addressing the public health and human services needs of the American people, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall develop and coordinate a national program to enhance physical activity and sports participation. Through this program, the Secretary shall seek to:
(1) expand national interest in and awareness of the benefits of regular physical activity and active sports participation;
(2) stimulate and enhance coordination of programs within and among the private and public sectors that promote participation in, and safe and easy access to, physical activity and sports;
(3) expand availability of quality information and guidance regarding physical activity and sports participation;
(4) integrate physical activity into a broader health promotion and disease prevention effort through Federal agencies and the private sector; and
(5) target all Americans, with particular emphasis on children and adolescents, as well as populations or communities in which specific risks or disparities in participation in, access to, or knowledge about the benefits of physical activity have been identified."