Thursday, October 01, 2009 - Saturday, October 31, 2009
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27	28	29	30	1 Apple Month Taste apples with vanilla yogurt for a dipping	2 Eat Better, Eat Together Month! Family meals promote good eating habits and overall good nutrition	3 Send home... The October Fun Facts Newsletter
4 Take the Test! New President's Challenge Online Physical Fitness Test for Adults	5 Goal Setting Week Set physical activity and health eating goals	6 Online for Kids Help Sophia and Billy get ready for the Fueled for Fun track event!	7 Walk to School Day Learn more at WalktoSchool.org Walking helps to build strong bones	8	9 Have a... Balloon Basket Relay for a Friday food group review	10 NEW! Download fun physical activity and healthy eating activity puzzles
11	12 National School Lunch Week Begins Eat school lunch with your students one day this week	13 Teach... Classroom Menus for the Cafeteria as a School Lunch Week activity	14 Research Finding School lunch eaters have higher nutrient intakes at lunch and over the course of the day	15 Football Fun Score classroom touchdowns for healthy snacks and physical activity	16 World Food Day Take a global nutrition adventure with Arianna's Nutrition Expedition™	17 Nutrition Fact Fat-free and low-fat milk have the same amount of bone building calcium as whole milk
18 Food History Pumpkins were used for pie crusts, not filling in colonial days	19 NEW! Check out the... "One Stop Shop" Child Nutrition Health Education Kit	20 World Osteoporosis Day 12 Tips for Getting Kids to Drink More Milk (PDF)	21 Write... Sentences about healthy bones from a 3-A-Day™ of Dairy Word Splash	22 Check out our Age-appropriate Nutrition Concepts chart	23 Enroll Now... For your school's FREE Fuel Up to Play 60 School Wellness Activation Kit	24 Grain Group Activity Read a Prince Waffle's Trip to the Cafe and put math skills to work, too
25 NEW! Nutrition and Physical Activity Bridges to Wellness™ lessons	26 Fun Fact Our bodies have 206 bones; 27 of them are in our hands	27	28 Play Food Group Concentration	29 It's Almost Halloween... Talk about skeletons and strong bones	30 Classroom Cooking Make and taste Pumpkin Cheesecake Shakes	31 Halloween Read Halloween Pie