Greenwood Students Learn Healthy Eating Habits Through Theater
Today at 1:30 p.m. Greenwood Elementary School will be teaming up with FOODPLAY, a nutrition-based theater show, to empower children with the skills they need to take charge of growing up healthy and fit.
[Editor's Note: Provided by Foodplay] FOODPLAY, a national award-winning theater show promoting healthy eating and exercise habits, will be bringing its cast of colorful characters, fantastic feats of juggling, motivating messages, music, magic, and fun to K-4 students of the Greenwood Elementary School, thanks to the Greenwood School PTO. While FOODPLAY makes good eating great fun, its messages are very serious. So serious, in fact, that First Lady, Michelle Obama, has launched the nation’s first childhood obesity task force, designed to tackle the alarming rise in the number of overweight children. In the last 25 years, childhood obesity rates have doubled among elementary school children and tripled among teenagers. One in three …
