Nutrition Services And Physical Activity Plan

Running head: NUTRITION SERVICES

Nutrition Services and Physical Activity Plan Eden Whitehead Brigham Young University-Idaho

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NUTRITION SERVICES

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1. Cut up fresh fruits and vegetables will be served to the children from the garden that they help maintain while they are in the program. These will be supplemented with fresh bread that the children help to prepare and bake. This will be served to the children halfway through their two hour block of time each day they are with us. Snack time will signal the transition between indoor time to outdoor time. 2. For each snack the children will get half a slice of buttered bread and a half cup of fruits or vegetables, for example sliced strawberries or carrot sticks. This will be accompanied by a small cup of water. For lunch, children will have ¾ cup of vanilla Greek yogurt, ¼ cup of sliced cucumber, ¼ cup of blueberries, ½ of a home-baked muffin, ¾ ounce of shelled sunflower seeds. 3. Teachers will wash their hands and have the children also wash their hands. Monitored and guided by the teachers, the children will help slice and butter bread, as well as chop fruits and vegetables and place them in serving trays. Children will never prepare food without a teacher directing and guiding them. Teachers will then sit down with children and eat snack alongside them. 4. Ways that parents and children will be involved in the nutrition services plan include: 

Parents will assist in gardening at the Waldorf Academy Garden

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Parents will assist in baking bread at the Waldorf Academy Kitchen

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Children will assist in measuring out ingredients for baking bread

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Children will assist in slicing and buttering bread

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Children will assist in chopping fruits and vegetables

5. Physical activity is an important part of the Waldorf curriculum. Physical activity is stress-relieving and supports healthy, creative development. The children will spend 45

NUTRITION SERVICES minutes outside engaging in physical activity every class period. We believe in dressing for the weather, not staying indoors. So the children will rarely be kept inside due to weather. When indoors, the children will also engage in eurhythmy, which is a dance style movement activity.

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