ABOUT THE PROGRAM Jump with Jill is a live rock & roll concert about nutrition for elementary school students. The interactive experience not only makes eating breakfast and drinking water cool, but helps increase retention of these important health messages. With fun props, catchy songs, and cool dancing, students learn about many aspects of health: how to choose healthy foods, why our bodies need calcium and how to include it in your diet, why whole foods are so healthy, why our bodies need exercise, and more!

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Boring directives on what not to eat are one of the driving forces behind our culture’s neglect of what’s best for us. The truth is, people know what it takes to be healthy. Even a child can tell you to eat your vegetables and drink more water. But the gap between knowledge and action is widened by the cues to unhealthy behavior that inundate us every day: Professional athletes tout fast food in advertisements, vending machines offer our favorite sugar fix, and banner ads encourage us to shed pounds to look like a computer-altered model half our age. Advertisers work diligently to convert sugar water into hip, multi-million-dollar brands and target kids to establish lifelong consumers. Today’s generation of kids needs to develop brand loyalty to healthy habits. We think it’s so important, we even sing and dance about it.

LEARNING GOALS Respect Your Body: You only get one. Exercise

and eat healthy to show your amazing body the respect it deserves.You make the decisions around here.

Fuel Your Engine with the Best Energy: Your body is your engine. When you fuel your body with healthy foods, your engine can perform at its peak.

Get Goin’ with Breakfast: Start each morning with a healthy breakfast to activate your body and mind for a rockstar day.

Enjoy Nature’s Candy: Choose fruits like watermelon, apples, bananas, and kiwi for their naturally sweet flavor.

Eat Superpower Vegetables: Discover your superpowers. Join the ranks of your favorite superheroes by powering your plate. Vegetables give you healthy skin, hair, muscles, eyes, and bones.

Exercise Daily to Make the Beat of Your Body (Woot! Woot!): Your heart, lungs, and muscles have to be strong, because when you’re exercising, your body makes a song.

Drink Water: Make the clear choice. Answer your thirst with the refreshment that stands out from the crowd.

Get Your Calcium On: Grow strong. Eat dark, leafy green vegetables and low-fat dairy foods like milk, yogurt, and cottage cheese to get the calcium strong bones need.

Study Guide for Teachers

Jump with Jill A Rock & Roll Nutrition Show

With

Renee Zelinski

Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA (866) 500-9265 www.yanjep.org

BEFORE THE PROGRAM 1. Discuss the following topics:

What is nutrition? Why do you think it’s important to eat healthy

foods? What kinds of exercise do you like doing? Who do you like to exercise with? Who do you eat with at home or at school? What questions do you have about nutrition

and health? 2. Have each student bring in one of their favorite snacks. Ask the students to evaluate what is healthy about their snack and why they like to eat it. 3. Make a class chart of everyone’s favorite drink. Notice how many students drink water, soda, milk, or juice. 4. Have students draw pictures of themselves feeling healthy and strong.

AFTER THE PROGRAM 1. Have a conversation about the show:

What did your students learn? What surprised them? What changes to their diet or exercise will they

make based on what they learned? 2. Choose from the following activities:

Music Talk about the different genres of music your

students may have heard in the show. Have your students create a new rap about

their healthy habits. Literacy Have students rewrite fairy tales to incorporate

healthy foods. Goldilocks, Hansel and Gretel, and The Three Little Pigs all work really well.

Science Have your students use their five senses to re-

discover foods. Notice how the smell, appearance, and texture of food contributes to how it tastes and whether we want to eat it.

Cooking Prepare some healthy class snacks like trail

mix or fruit salad. Have your students bring food to make the class snacks.

RESOURCES Music: www.jumpwithjill.com/listen Danceable Music Videos: www.jumpwithjill.com/danceparty Posters: www.jumpwithjill.com/posters Morning Announcements: www.jumpwithjill.com/announcements Worksheets: www.jumpwithjill.com/worksheets Clip Art: www.jumpwithjill.com/clip-art

ARTIST INFORMATION Rock musician and registered dietitian Jill Jayne developed Jump with Jill by combining the two things she loves most: nutrition and rock music. Jump with Jill has been performed nearly 3,000 times for a million kids across the United States, Canada, and Europe. This work has led to multiple Emmy Award nominations, two Telly Awards in the Education and Children categories, two Grammy nomination considerations for Best Children’s Album, and an invitation to the White House to meet Michelle Obama. The role of Jill is played by Renee Zelinski, a certified teacher in English and Theater. She holds her BA in Communications with a music/theater minor from West Liberty University and her Master’s in Education from New York University. Before her journey with Jump with Jill, Renee was a middle school teacher, a group aerobics instructor, an Ironman triathlete, and a professional performer of musical and dinner theater. The role of DJ is played by Robert Pokrzywa, a certified teacher in Social Studies. He holds his BA in History and Secondary Education from Saint Vincent College. Robert enjoys writing, recording, and performing music, and for years has been a guitar instructor.

VOCABULARY WORDS Calcium: A mineral that is in the bodies of most plants and animals; it keeps our bones strong. Energy: The power your body has to do all your daily activities, such as going to school, playing basketball, doing your homework, and walking to the store. Exercise: Bodily activity that helps keep you physically fit. Hydration: Keeping your body supplied with enough water. Processed food: Food that is made in a factory by combining many different ingredients together. Whole food: Food such as fruits, vegetables, and grains that are not changed very much before we cook or eat them.