Nutrition Education Through Entertainment
Jill Jayne and twelve Bills players joined over 300 excited elementary school students at the seventh annual Play 60 Challenge Fitness Party for youth on December 6, 2011 at the Bills Healthy Zone Fieldhouse.
The Play 60 Challenge Fitness Party is an interactive fitness event that rewarded approximately 360 students (3rd – 6th graders from ten Buffalo Public and two Orchard Park elementary schools) that participated in the Play 60 Challenge this school year.
Enjoy the video from our day with the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. We kicked off the day with a professional session for FUTP60 student ambassadors, ran drills with Detroit Lions coaching staff, lunched, then closed the day by dancing to the Jump with Jill Beat of Our Body flashmob on the 50 yard line. Jill is on stage with current wide receiver Nate Burleson and Roary the Lion. On the sidelines, there’s retired players Luther Ellis and Herman Moore. On the field, there’s 400 teachers and students from Detroit schools. And yes, that is Beat of Our Body playing on the jumbotron at Ford Field!
ROCKIN’ NUTRITION SHOW HEADED FOR GERMANY
Department of Defense Schools Rock Out in the Name of Healthy Eating!
From November 14 – 18, The Rockstar Nutritionist Jill Jayne will perform her live nutrition rock concert, Jump with Jill, for six Department of Defense schools in Southwest Germany. This interactive show teaches nutrition through music and movement. Jump with Jill is an innovative answer to childhood obesity prevention, formatted as a kid-appropriate rock ‘n roll concert with healthy eating and exercise messages. See below for full schedule of events.
Jill Jayne joined campF.R.E.S.H.℠ chefs for a culminating performance for their parents. campF.R.E.S.H.℠ at Fontbonne University takes kids entering 4th through 6th grade on an interactive, hands-on journey toward better health through activities emphasizing nutrition, wellness, physical exercise, and creativity. Grab your passports! Each week-long day camp features a different continent, from Antarctica to South America, with stops along the way to learn about the unique lifestyles of kids around the globe.
Led by Fontbonne’s Human Environmental Science (HES) faculty, kids will roll up their sleeves and whip up healthy cuisine with international flavor in our state-of-the-art kitchens. They’ll learn about teamwork and the benefits of physical activity through participation in each continent’s popular sports and games. They’ll discover how music, art and nature can enhance their own physical and emotional well-being, just as it does for kids all over the world. Fieldtrips to the St. Louis Zoo will give campF.R.E.S.H.℠ campers an opportunity to learn about the animals and geography unique to each location in our world tour.campF.R.E.S.H.℠ is an opportunity for kids entering 4th through 6th grade to travel the world without leaving St. Louis.
Would you like to be a part of campF.R.E.S.H.℠ next year? Contact Kimberly Ross, HES Department Assistant at (314) 889-1415 or [email protected]
Southampton Intermediate School brought back Jill Jayne for a “rockin” healthy time. She has been working with our school and students on her promotional tour to help students become aware of the media and the unhealthy and unrealistic propaganda they present to them. ” I Will Not be Bought”, is a national campaign to help children be savvy about what is being sold to them and what they purchase.
We had “A Good Time” in Music City with the School Nutrition Association. As you can see, school food service staff know how to enjoy a professional conference. Check out my watermelon carving and an original dance with my avatar to Alan Jackson.
It’s WATERMELON DAY here at South Butler Primary School! Join the Rockstar Nutritionist and Mrs. Gourley’s first grade class to show you how it’s done.
With all the competition from unhealthy food advertising, we are constantly running a PR campaign for healthy food. And one of the ways you can get kids excited about healthy food is to involve them in your campaign. That way, eating healthy food doesn’t seem like punishment.
Use every opportunity to teach healthy habits. Instead of counting pizzas, we are counting watermelons!
Make healthy the norm, rather than the exception. When healthy becomes the accepted choice, everyone wants to do it. Incorporate what kids already know from other subjects into nutrition education to make healthy habits relevant.
Create opportunities for kids to be successful with healthy food. Let them pick it out, cut it, and eat it with you. Ask them to use all their senses like how it tastes, looks, and smells. It takes up to 10 tries for a child to accept a new food, so keep singing healthy food’s praises!
If you’d like to organize a watermelon day at your school, visit watermelon.org for tips, recipes and activity sheets.
[Read the press release "WATERMELON DAY VIDEO OFFERS JUICY WAYS TO BRING NUTRITION EDUCATION INTO CLASSROOM: Pittsburgh School Becomes Movie Set for Fruit-Filled Day" here.]
On March 17th, I went green with Fuel Up to Play 60 Georgia state winner, Lovinggood Middle School. Joined by their teaching staff dressed as cows, the USDA, and the ladies of the Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group, students dedicated their day to planting gardens and celebrating Calcium with a performance from the Rockstar Nutritionist. Food and Nutrition Services Supervisor, Cindy Culver, hosts this video to showcase the day.
An exciting trend among elementary age kids… learning to dance like the King of Pop! I’ve seen it in many cities around the country and at a few weddings I’ve been to recently, and this time I caught it on tape! Here in the School District of Philadelphia, we get the audience warmed up before the Jump with Jill show with MJ classic moves. Have you ever been schooled by a second grader?
In May, the Eat More Watermelon! Jump with Jill Tour landed for a week in Orlando, Florida. The shows rolled out a USDA Team Nutrition grant for the Orange County Public Schools, managed by Teresa Douglas Shipley. In this video, The Rockstar Nutritionist joins brother-rocker Mark Jayne and sound engineer Trevor Gast to the most annoying tune about a day of the week ever sung, though similar in content to the Black Eyed Peas 2008 weekday naming hit “Tonight’s Gonna Be a Goodnight,” the former written by a 13-year old and the latter by a grammy winner. When I was 13, I played terribly on the basketball team, folded up notes to my friends, and decorated my bookcovers with magazine ads. I’m so glad the world heard my music long after I finished middle school!
