Recess Rocks®, a proven children’s movement program based in Connecticut, teams with PBS Kids® personality “SteveSongs” to help grade school kids get fit and sharpen academic success.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (February 1, 2012) – One-third of our nation’s children are overweight or obese. Moreover, today’s children are the first generation likely to have shorter life spans than their parents due to increased risks for associated complications including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure and asthma. Compounding this disturbing trend is the reduction of recess in as many as 40 percent of school districts across the United States, in an effort to focus on improving test scores.

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) developed Recess Rocks as a national program to reverse childhood obesity and to redefine and redesign how recess is incorporated into the school day. Recess Rocks is a free, dynamic movement program for elementary school children that can be adapted to any part of the school day. It brings fun, non-competitive aerobic exercise and kinesthetic learning into the classroom and beyond.

Research shows that students’ academic performance improves when the brain and body work together. Through a sound foundation of school-based wellness initiatives, like Recess Rocks, teachers will be better equipped to balance kids’ recommended...