Title of Bulletin Board: 5210 Healthy Physical Education Board

Category: Beginning of School

Suggested Grade Level: 3-5

Materials: colored paper, construction paper, letters and pictures of students

Description:

I LOVE this bulletin board. This summer when I was looking for new ideas I came across the 5210 Let's Go website and fell in love as it is such an EASY way for our students to remember to be healthy! After researching on the 5210 Let's Go website, I printed out the "themes" of each number and invited two Middle School Students to meet me at school. I told them how I wanted the wall to look, and then gave them free reign with the creativity. With it being summertime, I sent out an email to just a few people and asked them to provide me with pictures of their child exhibiting one of the behaviors in the 5210 theme, which they did! Acutally, it fills up the main wall in our Elementary School because it is such an important message:

5 fruits and vegetables every day
2 hrs. or less of screen time
1 hour or more of exercise
0 sugary drinks

The first day of school I told a first grader about it and he memorized "5210" immediately and could tell me what each number meant. It is such a GREAT formula for being healthy.

Additional Information:

I have also put "5210" all over the school so that when students see just the numbers, they will think "healthy behaviors."

I wanted this bulletin board to be full of color and very eye catching. I asked some of the students to give me pictures of them demonstrating these behaviors. I have pictures of students with a coke in hand with a sad face, pictures of students exercising, pictures of students with fruits/veggies in hand. It is just GREAT and I am excited about the learning possibilities with this bulletin board!