Category Archives: Physical Activity

Fuel Up To Play 60

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The childhood obesity rate continues to increase to epidemic proportions.  Adult diseases are starting to show up in our children.  I am preaching to the choir!  We all are aware, and health care professionals are trying!  The age old saying—eat healthy, and exercise has been replaced by living in the fast-food lane and electronic everything—including exercise.  For many reasons, kids eat less than healthy foods and do not exercise.  This has to change, and is not always possible to make
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Rev Up Your Schools Breakfast Program – Funds & Resources Available

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My son recently started Kindergarten and we never leave the house until we have eaten breakfast.  Although, I would let him leave the house before eating breakfast if I knew he would be eating breakfast at school.  What a time saver and stress reliever that would be.  Unfortunately, the school my son attends doesn’t have a school breakfast program “yet!”  I sure wish they did and I will be working on it.  The good news is that there are many resources (money, etc.) for
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Gardening Dilemmas

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We’ve had record rain and record heat—and it’s only July 1.  As with everything in life—it’s always something!  Last week we discussed fertilizer.  To demonstrate how plants take up fertilizer and nutrients, the children made dots with markers on paper towels, and then they placed the end in a small bowl of water to watch the colors rise.  It was an extremely simple way to demonstrate this principle. This week we harvested some of our radishes and more lettuce.  The children
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