Happy New Year!

Once all the delicious Christmas candies and cookies have been devoured, our minds turn toward heath and fitness. Lucky for us, the Lower School has a fabulous gym teacher (Delica Van Harmelen) who helps our students stay active all year.

Recently, students and teachers competed to see “who could walk farther than a 4th grader." The first day I had to ask why all the teachers were stomping while they made copies. Luckily they were not angry, they were just trying to win the challenge by making sure their pedometers recorded steps. The first class to "walk" the amount of steps it would take to go from our school to Olympia won. When I asked one third grader about the competition she said, "Turns out we can't walk farther than a 4th grader because they won!"

This week, fourth grade held the Golden Sneaker high in the air to celebrate their victory of being the first to walk to Olympia!

The true victory is that our students and teachers learned that being active is a fun and important part of life.