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In grade one, our children
stay for lunch. Each child brings their own lunch from home. Part of
our focus throughout the year has been to focus on the nutritious
parts of their lunches. At the beginning of the year, the most
tempting thing in the lunch bag was eaten first, like the treat, or
chips, or fruit roll-up. Sandwiches would be left to last and were
often taken home.
Now in February, children are
very conscientious about eating the nutritious portions first. They
realize that their bodies need the good energy and nutrients
provided by good foods to have stamina to keep focus and learn for
the remainder of the day. Now when I ask if they are eating their
nutritious foods, they hold up their sandwiches, their fruit and
vegetables, their meat chunks. They also come to show me if they
have brought a juice container that is 100% juice. We have been
reading the labels of all the juice containers, and they know now,
that many juice containers really do not have that much juice in
them, or that they are loaded with extra sugars.
Here are some photos of the
healthy lunches our class brings:
We have also been doing some
activities in class to help build awareness of good nutrition.
In November, we cut up two of
our pumpkins and made homemade pumpkin soup.
Click here to go to a
Pumpkin Recipe Page and our Soup Recipe.
The favorite activity was
cutting out pictures of food from magazines and categorizing them
according to their food type.
Our latest nutrition activity
was a celebration of good food, where every child brought in a
fruit, which we cut up to make a fruit salad. Children also made
smoothies with apple juice, yogurt and fruit salad. They were a hit
- in fact, Anthony said that he could make them for his family now,
because they were so easy to make!
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