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Welcome to Wednesday WOWS!
W-wonderful O-opportunities W-with S-schools
September 9, 2009
....Easy HEAR-SEE-DO action tips each week
HEAR .... Provide a message to increase awareness of knowledge/skills
SEE .... Show people HOW to make healthy changes
DO .... Help people practice and make healthy changes
National School Lunch Week 2009
HEAR
National School Lunch Week, October 12-16, takes on a sports theme, called "All-Star School Lunch". The National Basketball Association (NBA) inspired campaign features 5 "basketball teams" comprised of healthy school lunch menu items and coached by a current or former NBA/WNBA player. Join in the fun to help kids learn about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity with school lunch!
SEE
Visit the School Nutrition Association's National School Lunch Week Web site for ideas, menus, downloads and a contest to enter!
DO
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Download the fun All-Star Trading Cards and use in class to teach/review MyPyramid food groups. Pick a Trading Card meal and discuss which food groups are represented. Challenge kids to create their own healthy lunch menus and share with the cafeteria nutrition service staff! Resource: MyPyramid Kids Poster
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Connect physical activity and community service with a "Socks for Charity" event. Kids bring new socks and roll into a ball to shoot into a basket ball hoop set up in the cafeteria. The socks are then given to local shelters. See more great lunch week ideas.
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Invite local high school players to visit your school cafeteria and help celebrate the week! Assign a player at each table to eat with, and talk to the kids about how eating healthy foods like school lunch equals peak performance!
HEAR - SEE - DO Tips for Newsletters
Cut and paste a HEAR-SEE-DO tip each week into your own parent newsletters!
Power Packed Lunches
Whether eating a school or sack lunch, that mid-day meal is important to refuel kids for the rest of the day! Some kids may be picky eaters but encourage them to try to eat a bit of all foods offered in their lunch. Let them know that each food provides important nutrients to help them grow, feel good and look good too!
Upcoming Conference
California School Wellness Conference, Oct. 6-7, 2009. HKC will be presenting and exhibiting! Go to the conference Web site for more details.
Keep the Ball Rolling!...cafeteria, wellness team, classroom, family and community ideas GALORE are available below!
Health Works! Wellness in Academics™ toolkit, a set of seven booklets (24 pages each), designed to help school and community program wellness teams.
Each Health Works! booklet focuses on one of HKC's six healthy practices: Breakfast GO Power, Drink Think, Smart Servings, Snack Attack,
Active Play, and Fruits and Veggies, Every Day the Tasty Way. As a bonus, the seventh booklet provides great ideas for teaching with MyPyramid. Check it out!
Funding Opportunity
Use this grant to connect healthy eating and physical activity with environmentally friendly projects.
UnitedHealth Heroes Grant
Deadline: October 22, 2009
UnitedHealthcare and Youth Service America are offering the UnitedHealth HEROES service-learning grant program for youth-led community education projects in selected U.S. states. These grants of up to $1,000 support teachers, service-learning coordinators, and students in the health professions to implement service-learning projects around childhood obesity and to engage children and youth ages 5 to 25 as volunteers.
Thought for the Day
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt
For questions about Healthy Kids Challenge, please contact:
Vickie L. James, RD, LD, Director
vickie@healthykidschallenge.com
1-888-259-6287
www.healthykidschallenge.com
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