Bike+Walk to School Challenge

Next week (Tuesday, May 1st) is the official May Bike+Walk to School Challenge Month.  Throughout May, students all across Oregon participate in the Walk+Bike to School Challenge. The Challenge is a free, month-long competition between Oregon students of all ages to see who can walk,bike, scoot, or skate the most.  Students keep track of the days they use active transportation to get to school on a scorecard which they then turn in for prizes.

What's happening at Alameda?
Alameda is officially registered to participate in this challenge.  Let's show these other schools who rocks!  There will be two separate challenges- an individual based challenge and a classroom challenge.  

1) Students who want to participate in the individual challenge should print out a scorecard - there will be a link in this week's News Notes. Some copies of  scorecards will also be available on the informational table in front of the calendar outside of the front office.  Students should keep these scorecards at home and circle the mode of transportation they used for each school day in May.  Cards should be turned into teachers on June 1st.  All students who submit scorecards will be eligible for prizes.

2) There will also be a classroom challenge. Each classroom will receive a poster to keep track of how students get to school during the month of May. As students enter the classroom in the morning, they should circle if they walked, biked, rode a scooter, or took the school bus to school that morning.  They should do this for every school day in May. ( FYI: classrooms will receive 1 pt for every trip by bike/foot/scooter/skateboard  and 1/2 pt for a school bus ride.  No points will be received for driving to school). At the end of the month, the classroom with the greatest percentage of students reporting using active transportation to get to school will win an ice cream party donated by Whole Foods!
 
**Any questions email walkandbike@alameda.org
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