Last Updated: March 1 2010
The main focus of the nutrition and wellness committee is to promote nutrition and wellness education to our Murray Ave Committee. The main ways we achieve our goals is threefold. We support our teachers, parents and students alike. Most of the activities happen during the month of March, which is National Nutrition Month. But we hope to promote nutrition education throughout the year by working in conjunction with other PTA committees, such as speaker panel and Lunchroom activities.
Look what we are doing:
- Nutrition education handouts and website links. Some topics include:
- Powering up your Breakfast - Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, click here to read how pack your breakfast with more punch
- You continue to hear from Medical Professionals and supermarket tabloids alike that you need to add more fruits and vegetables and whole grains to your diet but are unclear how to do it? Then click her for:
- Has mealtime gotten out of control? Are you a short order cook making everyone a different food item? If so, then click here for “No More Food Fights” handout.
- Making the grade at lunchtime - Is your child not eating his/her lunch at school? Are you sending in healthy food only to find that they trade with their neighbor for a sugar treat? If the answers to any of these questions are yes, then click here to read, “Making the Grade at Lunchtime” handout
- Do you need to talk to your child about his/her weight, but don’t know how? Read “Talking to your kids about Weight” to learn how to broach this sensitive topics with kids.
- Tired of making the same old stuff for dinner? Click here to find some new recipes from pumpkin pancakes to popcorn delight.
- Handouts for Indoor Recess for all grades
- No Junk Food Week !!
- Healthy Food display at Lunchtime
- Healthy snack handed out at lunchtime courtesy of Whitson’s Food Service