January 2011 Archives

Would you like to refresh your memory a bit on Tai Chi?Do you need some new ideas for helping your students stay calm and focused in class and on tests? Would your students benefit from tools to improve their performance and believe in themselves?

Please join me at the NYS AHPERD zone meeting. Hunter College, 68th Street Main campus

ADAPTED TAI CHI FOR ADAPTED PE
10:35-11:35 gym 301 B

Visualization, gentle flowing movements, and deep breathing make Tai Chi ideal for adapted physical education, therapeutic recreation and special needs students. As students imitate the animal movements they become calm and focused. Tai Chi helps students anticipate outbursts and hyper activity, giving them a tool for self-control.

TAI CHI FOR FOCUS, FITNESS AND SELF-ESTEEM
12:55-1:55 Wrestling Room 303 B

This curriculum teaches students to be calm, focus on their immediate environment, improve standardized test scores and improve concentration flexibility, agility, coordination and self-esteem.

http://www.taichiforkids.com

"Chronic diseases like diabetes are skyrocketing, and children are predicted
to have a shorter life span than their parents. Parents want healthy food
for their kids, and they want accurate information to guide them.
But parents are being fundamentally misled, says Prevention Institute's new
study, released today through Strategic Alliance.
*Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children's
Food
* *examined products with front-of-package labeling--those products that
food companies choose to identify as healthier. Claiming Health found that
84% of products studied failed to meet basic nutritional standards. *

The Vive tu Vida Task Force will participate in this
year’s FIVE BOROUGH BIKE TOUR on MAY 1, 2011
When: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Where: Race begins in Battery Park City
Time: 8:00 a.m. official race begins
Registration: Begins on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at:
http://www.bikenewyork.org/rides/fbbt/register.html
Cost: $75 Adult/ $40 children
Distance: 42 miles
Support: To provide support, 4 group rides will be
provided to Vive tu Vida task force members
and their guests, courtesy of JCLTeam’s cycling
instructor, Lina González.
Group Rides will meet @ Tread Bike Shop
(250 Dyckman Street, NY) at 9:00 a.m. on:
• January 23, 2011
• February 27, 2011
• March 20, 2011
• April 17, 2011
For more information contact Lina González, LCI @:
JCLTeam@me.com

If the cost of the bike tour is a barrier to any Vive tu Vida/Live your Life task force member, please email chalk@nyp.org

Vive tu Vida/Live your Life has just joined the President's Challenge, and we'd like you to join us! What's the President's Challenge, you ask? It's a great way for you to be active and have fun. You can choose from two free challenges that encourage you to track your physical activity for an opportunity to earn awards:

• The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) challenge, which helps people make physical activity a part of their everyday lives
• Presidential Champions, which challenges you to be more active more often—the more active you are, the more points you'll earn toward our awards

Join the group, and we'll help you stay motivated as you become more active. Here's what you need to do:
• If you already have a President's Challenge account, log in at http://www.presidentschallenge.org/ and look up our group in the activity tracker using the group number below.
• If you don't have an account, create a free account at http://www.presidentschallenge.org/, choose which challenge you want to participate in, and look up our group in the activity tracker using the group number below.

Group Number: 97512
Group Name: Vive tu Vida Live your Life

Once you join this group, you will be able to:
• Log your activities and earn points that will count toward our group's total and will help you earn President's Challenge awards
• See how you're doing compared to other group members
• Interact with other members in our group forum
• Add a profile picture that will display in our group (or you can hide your information from other group members, if you prefer)
• Get even more motivated to be active!

CLICK HERE IF YOU PREFER TO USE A PAPER LOG. RETURN LOGS TO:

CHALK

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

622 West 168th Street VC4-402

New York, NY 10032

Use our google map of fitness programs/resources to find some activities that work best  (and are closest) for you and your family.

This is a great way to show some fierce physical activity numbers as a collective for Washington Heights/Inwood. CHALK being a planning partner with the First Lady's Let's Move initiative, it can really highlight our community commitment in living a healthy life. Let's show Let's Move what Washington Heights/Inwood is all about!

Click here for an outreach flyer to get others to join.

 Registration is underway for gymnastics classes in Harlem for children age 18 months to 17 years with Saturdays at Riverbank State Park.

Please see http://www.whfny.org/ for registration and further information.

On Saturday January 22, bring your used, unwanted electronics – functioning or not – to Ring Garden (Riverside Dr. between Seaman & Broadway) where it will be gathered and recycled responsibly.

Sponsored by Tekserve and the Lower East Side Ecology Center.

The Pied Piper Children’s Theatre of NYC presents SEUSSICAL, a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Music and stage directed by Rey-Rey, and choreographed by Brooke Wilson. Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Children ages 9 to 18 are involved on stage and in all aspects of the production.

Performances will be on Fridays, March 11 and 18 at 8pm, Saturdays, March 12 and 19 at 3pm and 8pm, and Sundays, March 13 and 20 at 4pm at the theatre space of Holy Trinity Church, Inwood on 20 Cumming Street (take the A train to the Dyckman/200 Stop, walk one block north of Dyckman and turn left onto Cumming Street) in Upper Manhattan.

Admission charge is $10 for adults and $8 for children (under 16), and seniors.

The Youth Bike Summit is a 3 day gathering geared towards students, educators, and advocates. The conference aims to inspire people from different educational disciplines together to explore, network, and learn how bicycling can be a legitimate and safe form of transportation for today's youth. With this mission in mind, the Youth Bike Summit will offer educational workshops and panel discussions on subjects ranging from how to advocate for bike lanes to basic bike maintenance. It will also provide tools and information on fundraising and best practices for schools that wish to incorporate bikes into the physical fabric of the learning environment.

Featuring NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn

WHERE: The New School, Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011

TO REGISTER: http://youthbikesummit.eventbrite.com/

Sponsored by the Youth Bike Summit was made possible by generous support from The New School, Bike New York, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, Bicycle Habitat & The Government of the Netherlands.

Free art making classes for young adults ages 13-20. No experience is necessary, but applications are required. All materials are provided by MOMA.

Clases de arte para jóvenes de 13 a 20 años de edad. No se necesita experiencia, solo hay que mandar la solicitud. Todos los materiales serán proporcionados por MOMA.

Info: www.moma.org/momateens

Looking for a place to practice the healthy habit: "Be physically active every day"? How about: "Do something healthy every day that makes you feel good". And "Turn off the screens and Live your Life"? Well now you can search a very cool google map. It lists different fitness / exercise programs/resources in the neighborhoods of Washington Heights/Inwood, some free, some with fees. These resources can help you Live your Life with the healthy habits: "Be physically active every day." "Turn off the screens and Live your Life!" and "Do something healthy every day that makes you feel good."

To visit the map click here.

To print the map, you have to use an external program (google my maps don't print with data). Here is one program that might be helpful. Just copy the google map link into the dialog box. Zoom in and out to focus and print different neighborhoods. If you prefer a pdf version, click here, but note that it was last updated on 1/13/11.

Created December 2010 by CHALK (Choosing Healthy & Active Lifestyles for Kids) and the Vive tu Vida/Live your Life Campaign for Healthy Schools Healthy Families and the WaHI community. Special thanks to Alejandra Ríos, Cinthia Ramirez, Stephanie Pitsirilos-Boquín, MPH and Arlen Zamula, MPH. If you have edits/additions email chalk@nyp.org. Visit us at www.chalkcenter.org. Disclaimer: This list is for information only and does not imply endorsement by CHALK, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital or its affiliates. Please verify times/schedules ahead of time.

For those of you who are working in schools we ask you to please work with your school colleagues to ensure they complete the application to the best of their ability. We want more GOLD schools this year.

Remember, the award is open to elementary schools in Northern Manhattan (Districts 3, 4, 5, & 6), the Bronx (Districts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12) and North & Central Brooklyn (13, 14, 16, 19, 23, & 32).

Please click here for a copy of the application.

The application is due April 22, 2011.

Pictured: Stephanie Pitsirilos-Boquin with some CHALKers at the farmers' market.

 The exhibit will be unveiled at the Association's spring conference, Creating Connections, in Baltimore, MD, March 13-16, 2011. I encourage you to attend the conference and especially the awards lunch on Tuesday, March 15, from noon-1:15p.m. when photo exhibit winners will be recognized. Conference and registration information for Creating Connections can be found at www.childrenshospitals.net.

The exhibit will also be displayed on Capitol Hill; we are aiming for a July date dependent on approval from the new Congress. The exhibit is available for lease to member hospitals for display from two weeks to one month. Leasing forms and information can be found on the NACHRI website. I encourage you to consider bringing this powerful exhibit to your hospital.

People's Theatre Project is a community-based organization serving the people of Northern Manhattan and is currently seeking a variety of local, professional actors to take part in the development of new plays by their Resident Professional Playwrights Unit. In addition, the company's education branch is seeking experienced, local Teaching Artists to teach/perform at Isabella Geriatric Center or teach Shakespeare or Poetry in area public schools. Please let them know your interest and send a photo and resume tobob@peoplestheatreproject.org or hardcopies to People's Theatre Project, 715 W. 172nd St., Suite 64, 10032.

People’s Theatre Project es una organización de la comunidad sirviviendo a la gente del Alto Manhattan y esta buscando actores locales profesionales para participar en el desarrollo de nuevas obras escritas por Resident Professional Playwright Unit. Además, están buscando artistas locales para enseñar/actuar en Isabella Geriatric Centre o proveer talleres de Shakespeare o poesía en escuelas públicas del vecindario. Favor de enviar una foto y curriculum vitae a bob@peoplestheatre.org o por correo a People’s Theatre Project, 715 W. 172nd St., Suite 6A, 10032

Shop at your local discount store for food? Then here's a great guide to help you make some healthier choices when you shop on a budget.

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