Happy holidays! Spice up the holiday season in your classroom with Little D and his Royal Food Family friends, and remind students that nutritious foods and healthy eating can be part of the fun! Here are some festive suggestions using Little D's Nutrition Expedition™ this holiday season.
Create a snow storm of nutritious foods!
Have students make paper snowflakes; write their favorite, nutritious holiday foods on them; and scatter them around the Little D Wall Dragon that students begin in Activity 1, Meet the Royal Food Family, and add to throughout the unit. Coordinate the snowflake and food group colors. Be sure to add a hat and scarf to keep Little D warm!
Have a Puppet Theater.
Add a holiday twist to the Going Further, Puppet Theater idea in Activity 1, Meet the Royal Food Family. Create Five Food Group scenarios for winter holidays like Kwanzaa, Christmas and Hanukkah. For puppets, photocopy and color the Royal Food Family Trading Cards activity master.
Channel holiday energy with 60-second exercise breaks!
Stand up and dance to holiday tunes for a Mini-Moves, Going Further exercise break described in Activity 4, Princess Peapod's Vegetable Group. Try other Going Further exercise breaks, such as Follow the Mover in Activity 2 and Staying Balanced in Activity 7.
Celebrate with a "We All Need Five!" Holiday Party.
Involve students in planning a nutritious party menu for your classroom festivities. Be sure to ask your school nutrition professional to help, too. Include foods, such as single-serve containers of flavored milk; red and green apple slices with yogurt dip; whole-grain and dried-fruit trail mix; and potato latkes with applesauce and low-fat sour cream. Incorporate the Little D and the Royal Food Family downloadable characters into the decorations.
Looking for something fun and different for students before the holiday break?
Enter the Munchable, Gulpable Tales Classroom Contest Drawing. The Tales, which feature Little D and his friends, engage students in Nutrition Education and Language Arts fun as they practice using nouns and verbs.
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| "I can't begin to tell you how much the students enjoyed it and how much fun I had teaching it." |
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| "This program was a big hit and a great way to involve the students. They have been thoroughly excited about Science this year." |
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Have a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Look for our next Little D's Nutrition Expedition™ E-Newsletter in January, 2007!