Getting Started with Our Family Fitness Homeschool Course

Family Fitness by Bethany Learn is a series of lessons for parents to read and use as they determine best. These homeschool fitness lessons and videos teach children the importance of movement in keeping the muscles healthy. Family Fitness  also show the importance of setting goals and patterns that are healthy, such as allowing time for a walk, a bike ride, or some other physical activity that can be done independently or together as a family. Videos along with printouts help family members work together in areas such as posture, the core muscles, exercise, and more. Family Fitness lessons are best used sequentially at first in order to build an understanding of the major topics, but each video and lesson may be reviewed individually as needed throughout the course.

Overview

•   12 weeks, 3 days a week
•   Includes text-based lessons, videos, activities, and printouts
•   Grades Family

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for exercise and food records

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and first set of lesson and printout files. Start with the Day 1 assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Sample for Our Family Fitness Homeschool Course

Fitness isn’t just about movement, and this home education course will open the eyes of your precious family to ALL the amazing ways that everyday movements and postures affect our choices, and how our choices affect our movements.

Each module’s video and further resources can be found at: http://fit2b.us/schoolhouse-teachers/

** The videos are password protected and are not part of this preview.

Module #1 – Making Time for Movement
(Week of January 2-11)

Watch this unit’s video at the link above.

• Module One – Week One: Goal Setting, Scheduling & Prioritizing movement
  • Teaching: Discuss time with your students. The way we use our time has a huge effect on our bodies and health. One of the main principles of fitness is, “Form follows Function.” Whatever you do the most will win. Slouch a lot, and you’ll look slouchy.Move a lot, and you’ll look like you move. But it’s not really about looks, is it? This whole course will keep circling back to the TRUTH that our choices affect our health and fitness at every level from your deepest core outward. For starters, let’s be sure that we have TIME to move.
    • What are the most important things to spend time doing?
    • What things take a long time and happen slowly? (i.e waiting for a birthday, taking a long walk)
    • What kinds of things happen fast? (i.e. the birthday itself, one jump in the air)
    • Why should we spend time moving?
    • What do you think happens if we don’t move our bodies?
    • Use this week’s printouts to make time for fitness.
    • Watch the video for this month!
  • Physical Activity: Play “Freeze” and practice holding different moves for 10-60 seconds to reinforce the muscles needed for slow or still activities.
  • Physical Activity: Since “hitting our goals” is a lot like hitting a target—it takes practice and focus—set up a basic target game and play for 20-30 minutes.
    • Throw toys into a basket
    • Play darts
    • Pin the tail on the donkey
    • Throwing to hit a mark on a tree
    • Archery
  • Movement can last just a few seconds or a longer period of time. Use this chart to brainstorm a few ideas for fast and slow ways to get moving. Make a similar chart (it doesn’t have to be fancy) like this one to brainstorm what types of motions or activities would fit in each section. Spend some time doing them throughout this month.

To view a full sample of this class, click here.