St. Patrick's Day fell on Rainbows & Colors week, so it was also a fun day for crafts here at Future Scholars. Room 9, which has been focusing on a different color each day of the week, celebrated St. Patrick's Day by wearing orange and mixing yellow and red together to make their color of the day. Our waddlers in Room 5 enjoyed making finger paint rainbows!
Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day and to celebrate, all of our classrooms enjoyed fun parties! From green jell-o to rainbow cupcakes, our students enjoyed the most delicious treats--thank you to all of our parents for sending things in! Rooms 10 and 6 even made Shamrock Shakes--how fun!
St. Patrick's Day fell on Rainbows & Colors week, so it was also a fun day for crafts here at Future Scholars. Room 9, which has been focusing on a different color each day of the week, celebrated St. Patrick's Day by wearing orange and mixing yellow and red together to make their color of the day. Our waddlers in Room 5 enjoyed making finger paint rainbows!
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Many parents have trouble getting their children to eat vegetables, so let's make it fun! Food preferences established by young children affect food choices throughout their lives. So it is important to introduce as many vegetables as you can to your kids while they are young. Here are some fun ways to get your child to eat more vegetables: Get your child involved in the cooking process. Kids are more likely to eat veggies if they are part of the preparation. Let younger children wash the vegetables and let older children help you use a grater or food processor. Buy some seeds and help your child grow vegetables in a pot or in the yard. Check out the Beginners Guide to Gardening with Kids for ideas. Have your child help pick out new veggies at the grocery store to try. Children will be more likely to cooperate and try new things if they get to make some of the decisions. Make veggies sound "cool". For example, tell your child that dinosaurs used to eat trees to grow healthy and strong. Then have him or her pretend to be a dinosaur eating trees. Try fun recipes that include veggies and let your child help! Try this fun and delicious Rainbow Veggie Flatbread Pizza. These tips are curtesy of the CATCH program.
Don't forget--we're celebrating St. Patrick's Day tomorrow with classroom parties at 10:00AM! If you signed up with your child's classroom to bring any treats in, tomorrow is the day!
Also, be sure to send your child to school wearing green! Tablets, laptops, and the television can be both fun and educational for children, but too much screen time can lead to an unhealthy lifestyle. Are your kids watching too much? "Screen time" includes: watching TV shows, watching movies, and playing video games and computer games. Too much screen time promotes sluggishness and immobility--habits that may follow children for the rest of their life. The CATCH program encourages fewer hours of screen time and an increase in physical activity to keep children fit and healthy. The recommendation for screen time is 2 hours or less per day. Here are some alternate ideas to help reduce screen time for your child:
These tips are courtesy of the CATCH program.
We all love going out to eat, but eating out frequently, especially at fast food restaurants can be disastrous to your health. But, there are a lot of things you can do, and encourage your child to do, that will make eating out healthier:
Tips to improve the nutrition of your meal based on the type of restaurant you're at: Mexican Restaurant: Chinese Restaurant: Italian Restaurant: American Restaurant: All of the tips above are great for parents and children alike, but here are a few more restaurant tips specifically for your children's nutrition:
These tips were provided by the CATCH program.
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