GOAL:Improved quality of life for our children through good nutrition health.
OBJECTIVES:Consume diets that will decrease the risks of chronic diseases later in life. Go to Eat Right! to download a copy of the Kids' Korner Food Guide Pyramid.
Teach positive eating habits to last a lifetime.
Increase physical activity daily.
Did You Know??The good news about children's diets these days is they are lower in fat. That means they are more heart healthy than those of kids 20 years ago. But according to the experts, not low enough. The diets of our children still exceed daily recommendations for total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol.
In 1988 fat
totaled 36 percent of calories in children's diets. By 1993 that number had dropped
to 34 percent.
The calorie intake of
10-year-olds stayed almost the same from 1973 to 1988 but they were three pounds
heavier in 1988.
For children and
adolescents alike, desserts are one of the top five major contributors of total fat.
As children approach
adolescence and young adulthood, most get less than two-thirds of the daily
recommendations for vitamins and minerals.
School meals contribute
significantly to a child's nutritional intake, especially for vitamins A, B12, calcium,
riboflavin, phosphorus, magnesium and zinc. Home School meals should too!
Children and adolescents
have an increasingly sedentary lifestyle because of technology.
Skipping breakfast
changes the way our brains work and can diminish school performance.
Studies show that family
involvement is more important to student success than family income or education
level.
When children play, they are doing more than having fun. They are learning every minute. They love to experiment, explore, and discover new horizons. They do all this with boundless energy and insatiable curiosity. (Don't we wish we still had that energy!!).
Good teachers have always known how to tap these qualities. As our children's educator, why not turn the "play" approach toward promoting healthy lifestyle habits while teaching kids about nutrition and fitness. The "play" approach is learning by doing, involving the children themselves along with their families and others.
This program will show how we can teach our children to prepare, season and combine foods themselves to encourage independence and creativity as well as healthy, delicious eating. The program also teaches children to explore, choose and create new ways to be physically active. We want our children to take responsibility for their own choices and assume ownership for their actions and their bodies by adopting healthy habits. Best of all, we want them to know that these habits can be adapted throughout their lives.
See below to view or download the curriculum. Or, go to "Monthly Topic" or "Products" above for more information on the home school curriculum for grades 1-6.
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