ABS FIT KIDS 2017 Season

Emmett snuggling with an overgrown Peep. Emmett is one of the pups that likes to join us for Fit Kids

ABS FIT KIDS CLUB

2017 Season 

KICKS OFF!!!

Today, May 9th marked the first ABS Fit Kids Club for this school year! 

It was great to get everyone outside for the first FKC session. We had many returning students, but also a lot of new faces joining the club this year. Which is wonderful!! 

We are station out of the Warming Hut brought to us by Ascutney Trails. Deb Shearer was wonderful in meeting us there and we went over general housekeeping. 

One of the most important thing was for the members of the club to come up with RULES for the club. Rules that the club members agreed on were as follows:

ABS Fit Kids Club 

rules 2017

* Respect

-Each other

-The Environment

-Ascutney Trails Community

-Be Kind of each other

*Dogs

-Listen to the owner

-Don't yell at the dogs

-Don't pick up the dogs

-Don't feed the dogs, unless you have owners permission

*Safety

-Wear correct clothing, shoes etc 

-Stay TOGETHER on the trails

-Listen to the adult leaders 

-Don't throw anything, at anybody

-Stay on the trails

After we worked on the rules, we then broke up into small groups. Those small groups worked on getting up to the top of the rope tow with their group all together.  

Then going down the hill they worked on doing a form of leap frog, instead of jumping over their teammates. They instead gave each other High Fives. This worked on getting them down the hill safely. Cause of course a majority of them wanted to just run down the hill. 

We did more team building exercises, then took another break before we went up another trail. We didn't go too far up the trail, because soon parents/guardians began to show up for 5pm dismissal. 

All in all it was great to be back on the mountain again and to start another session of Fit Kids Club! 

Thursday May 11th starting at 3pm is our next session. With dismissal being the same at 5pm. We will be located once again out of the Warming Hut. The Warming Hut location will be the location we will use for the whole duration of Fit Kids Club. 

*New on Thursday is a parent/guardian sign out sheet! It will be located on bench of the Warming Hut on a clip board. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE remember to sign out your child/children before you leave the Warming Hut area. With so many members this year and so many access points to retrieve children from. It's very important for us to make sure we can account for how each child left the Warming Hut area!! 

*PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SENT IN ALL REQUIRED PAPERWORK FOR YOUR CHILD*** All paperwork that was sent home needs to be back to me by Thursday, Monday at the latest. If the paperwork isn't turned in by Monday then your child will have to sit out of Fit Kids until the paperwork is received. If you have any questions/concerns about any of this please email me at annalise.ennis@wsesu.net 

*We are looking for young adult volunteers to help us out with our hikes. If you have a middle school student or up that wishes to volunteer with Fit Kids Club we would love to have them. Also volunteering with Fit Kids Club can go towards a higher schoolers community service hours a majority of them need in order to graduate from high school. It's also a great way to meet families with in the Brownsville Community that could be in the need of babysitters. 

Thank you all who donated $30 towards ABS Fit Kids Club. Finical donations made to the club goes towards purchasing snacks, extra water bottles, sunscreen, bug spray and other needed items to make the club successful. I'm also hopefully that with additional donations we might be able to throw a wonderful end of the year celebration on June 20th, our last day of school and our last day of ABS Fit Kids Club for the school year.