5210 Challenge

KCSD is excited to bring back 5-2-1-0 for 2025. With support from our partners, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, we are committed to offering our staff, students, families, and communities opportunities for increased physical activity through our Open Community Use policy. This policy allows our communities to utilize our walking tracks, parking lots, and playgrounds on our elementary school campuses. 

What does 5-2-1-0 mean?

• 5 or more fruits or veggies daily 
• 2 or less hours of recreational screen time 
• 1 hour of physical activity 
• 0 sugar-sweetened beverages 

Students and staff will go to Classlink daily and click on the 5210 icon to log their daily activities for 5210.

What is the 5210 Challenge?

A month-long opportunity for KCSD staff and students of all schools to learn about, try and adopt four science-based daily habits that help make children and adults healthy and less likely to become overweight or get cancer, heart disease or diabetes. All of us can benefit from making 5210 our daily habits to eat better, be more active, manage our weight and simply feel better!

The challenge is to do these four things every day in March (and, then, life-long!):

• Eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables.
• Spend 2 hours or less viewing your TV, smartphone, computer, tablet or gaming system (apart from school or work).
• Get 1 hour or more of physical activity.
• Drink 0 (no) sugary drinks (fruit drinks, sodas, sweet tea, sports drinks, energy drinks and other beverages with caloric sweeteners like sugars and syrups).

Participants must log their activities to track progress and accumulate points:

• Each day, log your Challenge activities into this form.
• If you forget or do not have time to complete your log, remember to complete it first thing the next day.

Students and staff will go to Classlink daily and click on the 5210 red apple icon to open the survey and log their daily activities.  Make sure to log all your days!