What It's All About!

This year, we are expanding the scope of the Hite Elementary Hike-a-Thon’s healthy lifestyle focus by launching two additional fitness promotion programs.  The first of these is our “30-Day Activity Challenge.”  From September 10 through October 10, our students will strive to balance every hour of screen time (computers, TV, electronic games, etc.) with one hour of activity.  We have set up a display in the school’s main hallway to showcase the commitment cards of those students taking on the 30-Day Activity Challenge.

In our second fitness promotion program, the Hite family will “Tri to Reach the Moon.”  This program will also begin on September 10, but this fitness initiative will last through the entire school year.  We will tally all miles walked, jogged, run, biked, or swum by any Hite student, staff member, and their families.  For example, if a Hite student asks her mother to join her on a mile walk each day for a week, they will have logged 7 miles each, or 14 miles total.  These 14 miles will be added to our school’s Tri Tally.  If a parent runs a marathon and turns in their mileage, 26.2 miles will be added to the Tri Tally.  Likewise, we have a number of classrooms whose teachers walk a mile with their students each day that the weather cooperates.  Upon reaching 100 miles for the year, these classes are named to Hite’s “100-Mile Club.”  For a class of 24 students plus 1 teacher, these 2,500 miles will be added to our Tri Tally as they are logged.  As our Tri Tally grows, we want to see if our Hite Family can travel the 238,857 miles needed to reach the moon this school year!