KinderCare Learning Centers, with locations all throughout Delaware and Chester County, developed an Active Adventures Program in 2008. KinderCare has been known for their private early childhood education programs and a care provider for children ages 2 and under. They also have supplemental programs for school age children up to 12 years. In 2008 when report from the Centers for Disease Control published the obesity rates in children ages 6-19, KinderCare took action with the help from nutritionists and early education experts to create Active Adventures.
What is Active Adventures:
It is a program designed to encourage healthy eating habits and physical activity at a early age.
The program is broken into four week lesson blocks:
- Introductory Block teaches children about their body and how it is used for physical activity. Show child how being healthy is good for their heart. By creating a healthy foundation to build on these children have the tools they need for life
- Do the Locomotion a movement series designed to teach child the power of movement through jumping, hopping, running and leaping. They also highlight the importance of eating healthy
- Let's Play ball is a ball handling series hand/eye coordination and what body parts are needed for throwing, kicking, bouncing, rolling and dribbling a ball.
- Mission Control is all about healthy muscles and bones.
The Active Adventures program, supports the notion of active body equals active mind and is a way of informing children and parents of the importance nutrition and movement in a fun and age appropriate environment. There is a direct correlation between physcial activity and mind stimulation. Mind and body should be an integrated in a learning program.
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