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March Week One:

Set up and introduce the CHARACTER COURSE. After updating the spreadsheet each week, write students names under the correct mileage marker. Update every week or every other week. (See Character Course page for more information).

Continue collecting WMU's, sending out AIU's, adding information to the spreadsheet, and adding miles to the Character Course. Continue these activities the rest of the month.

Send home MARATHON UPDATE 1. As the return slips come back in, add the relevant information to the spreadsheet. Be sure to mark in the “transportation note” column if they turned in this signed sheet or not. Also add how many they need transportation for and the adult contact phone number.

March Week Two:

Start talking to your principal about arranging buses for race day. Discuss race day details for your school including what time to meet at school, what time the buses will leave, who is driving the buses, approximate number of buses needed based on the return slip of MARATHON UPDATE 1.

It is important to choose something for all of your school's participants to be wearing that separates them from other schools. This could be a matching school shirt, a same colored bandana, a school hat, etc.

Begin printing nametags for kids. Be sure their nametags include the name they go by and what school they belong to. Send the OKC Memorial Kids Marathon Coordinator, Shanda Bandi (OKCKIDSMARATHON@GMAIL.COM), your POC's phone number to keep on file. The POC should have their phone on them at all times during the race. ALL STUDENTS SHOULD BE WEARING THESE NAMETAGS TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY IN THE EVENT THEY SHOULD GET LOST! If the school is listed on the nametag, we can call the school's POC in case of emergency.  Make sure you write and emergency number (preferably a responsible adult at the race that day) on the back of the race bib where it says "Emergency Number"

March Week Three and Four:

Introduce the curriculum to your faculty during a faculty meeting. Encourage them to use it as a framework or a guide to adjust in order to make this unit work for their particular group of students. This is completely optional, although recommended, for a deeper meaning of the purpose of Kids Marathon. Again, this is meant to be an example of one possibility.

Make sure teachers approve their individual lesson plans with your principal.

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