University Daily Kansan
Monday. March 3. 1980
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Learning is healthy experience at elementary school
By BILL MENEZES Staff Reporter
If elementary school children were allowed to plan their own school lunches, would they be eating pizza, ice cream and cake?
The children at Trailwalk Elementary School in Overland Park had just such an opportunity, but their lunch were nutritious and balanced by their own choice.
All 450 kids at Trailward are involved in the Sunflower School Health Education project, the brachialet of Wayne Ossen, and the annual Girl Scout camp and recreation at the University of Kansas.
The project, in the last year of a three-year study, found that the lifestyle of the students—and through them, their parents—for protection against such diseases as heart disease, respiratory infections.
THE PROGRAM includes emphasis on studying and experimenting with aerobic activity, nutrition, cardiac health, motor development and personal health education.
The goals of the project are to teach the children fundamental health and physical fitness, the children about nutrition and their diet, and to give them a positive experience life and to give them a positive experien-
associated with physical activity and health.
Onness said the program had been highly successful in making the children, their families and their bodies and general health and how they could maintain this awareness after they completed it.
"We're doing extensive evaluations on 43 different parameters." he said.
These include pre-course and post-course physiological studies in areas such as blood pressure measurements, fitness, posture abilities and nutrition and health knowledge.
"We do a lot of follow-up to the tests," Osness said. "We'll do activities to learn about nutrition, for example, then give the students a chance to make up their own school lunches.
"DIFFERENT CLASSES select the lunches. One child from a class is selected to a school lunch board to discuss and decide on the school lunch with the people who
Ossess said the children on this board were given the opportunity to see how the lunches were made to give them an idea of work went into their preparation.
"Sometimes the kids will learn about a different vegetable in class," he said, "how it grows, the vitamins it contains, and then have a day for at lunch.
"They had a cauliflower day, for example. It was prepared in different ways, and the kids could take as much as they wanted.
"Sometimes what the kids take is contrary to what you might think."
Ossess said that during the time the children planned their lunches, the number of Trailwool children eating a school lunch rose from 38 percent to 70 percent.
"If the kids make a certain decision to do something with the lunches," he said, "they must explain why to the others."
"They banned all carbonated beverages from the lunches. If a principal did this he would have gotten stoned."
OSNESS SAID the children learned more by actually performing activities such as planning their lunches and explaining their choices to the other students.
Another important part of the program, physical fitness was presented as a practical activity to encourage students' physical activity by the children, and others involving conventional study. But none of these activities were effective.
"These involve no competition and anyone can do it and get the same physical satisfaction as the others."
"There are no recesses at Trailwood," Osness said. "There are fitness breaks."
During fitness breaks the children participate in aerobic exercises for a 20-minute period.
Another aspect of the fitness break is the vita park, a course set up in the school yard with several physical activity stations for fitness testing and strength building.
Omiss said the fitness breaks and wain park were designed so that all of the students, regardless of their physical abilities, could walk without embarrassment or self-consciousness.
"WE HAD ONE PARENT who didn't want her daughter to participate because she was overweight," he said. "The goal of this girl's class was to go through the vauk park without stopping, but she could not for a while, and did make it, it was really something to see."
"Her classmates all were alurging her on, and leading her along by the hand when she had to slow down. Because of the program we have now, you are receiving positive feedback from anything physical."
Osness said Trailwood teachers and
parents were involved in the program through the children.
"There is an aerobic rhythms class for teachers after school," he said, "so the teachers can better relate to what the kids learn. We also feel the teacher is sharing the experience."
PARENTS WERE ENCOURAGED to run with their children through a "om-sible" camp, and with their teacher. Miles logged by parents running with their children went included in the study.
"They mapped a cross country run from Oregon to New York by charting the miles they had run on a map of the country," he said. "The kids logged miles from Oregon to Colorado, and we were too cold in New York, so when they got where the decided to run down to Florida."
Parents were kept informed about the program in a monthly information sheet, 'Sunflower Signals', "Osness said. They also sent their children early through early morning and PTA meetings."
The project, begun in 1976, has been nationally publicized through articles in various journals and in a Public Broadcast program, "Off Your Duff," which awarded yearly.
OSNESS SAID he had heard of similar
Icefishing, traveling one man's life
By GREG SACKUVICH
Staff Reporter
It was a bitterly cold, blustery morning and the two old men were hunched over in defense against the wind. Earlier they had tried to capture the frozen pond and lowered their fishing lines.
For two hours they had hardy a nibble,
when a young boy arrived, armed only with
a hatchet, some string and a safety pin. But
until the girl reached for a millstone was
milking fish off her tongue.
Finally, the old men approached the boy and one asked, "How are you catching all of those fish?"
"Mghikmn." the boy replied.
The boy reached into his mouth and pulling out a slimy, squiggy blob said, "Keep your worms warm."
"Excuse me son, but I'm hard of hearing What did you say?" the other man asked.
Sitting in the cold on a frozen pond may not sound like fun to most people, but to Wilits, it's heaven.
Recounting this fish yarn yesterday at frozen Perry Lake, one of the old men, Jim Wilkins, said he learned long ago the importance of keeping the worms warm.
"It sure beats working for a living and it keeps me from going crazy sometimes," he said.
"I don't just sit out here on this ice for fish. I can go to a store for that. The outdoors is my life."
Wilts was reared in Hibbing, Minn., where camping and fishing were year-round activities for boys, he said. But as the other schools are in these activities, Wilts' interest greets
'When we were kids we kept warm with a fire. When the other guys got older they used a girl to keep them warm. I stuck with the fire," he said.
"Now, 50 years later, those guys have them women nagging at them and I've still got my fish and my fire. I used to think I was the crazy one, no I'm not so sure."
Jim Wilits has been living as a fisherman and camper since the Depression in the 1930s. At first it was out of necessity.
"My family didn't have any money and so I just began going off on my own when times got rough," he said. "Now I never get back there."
"I only worked once in a while then, and I never do now. I like to keep on moving."
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And about keeping those worms warm?
"That kid ain't as dumb as you think," he said.
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"I've lived most of my life outdoors and that's just as soon where I'd die."
And Willits, in his battered old Chevy pickup truck, looks the part of the drifter.
"I've been everywhere from Argentina to Chile," he said. "I work around, I worked on a couple of beads, but now I finally got my pick. I even rode a dogged in the Northwest Territories."
"I'm getting a little old to be running around all over the place. I’ve been thinking of going back to Minnesota, drawing my camps and camping and fishing up there," he said.
His weather-beaten face looks tired as he scans the frozen lake.
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programs, but none as comprehensive as the "Sunflower School" project.
"We hope to follow up for five to ten years on these children," he said.
Ossess said the program was originally set up in only six months, and has since met with "absolutely no resistance" from any quarter.
“This is very strange,” he said, “but if something’s successful and successfully its willing to work on it, then it will work and it can get people to work together.
"It takes a great personal commitment from teachers after school."
(1938)
The project is o-sponsored by the Kansas affiliates of the America Heart and Lung Association, and the KU department of health, physical education and recreation and the University Health Center.
Monday, March 3
THE LADY VANISHES
Ossess said the project was operating only at Trailwood because it was a demonstration program. He compared it to a control school in an experiment.
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