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Book Nook – Ten Red Apples p1 Festive Food! p2 Active Advent Countdown p2 Crunch & Sip Transition p3 Kids in the Kitchen – Pizza Pops p3 Wollongbar Preschool Shop p3 Mini Moves FMS Games – GALLOP p4
Northern NSW
Summer 2019
What’s Coming Up?
Walktober – Move More & Sit Less throughout October. You
may wish to download an app or purchase some pedometers and encourage kids at your service to explore their steps.
Nude Food Day (Oct) – pick a week and get families to pack
Nude lunchboxes. If it is a hit, trial a whole month of Nude November https://www.nudefoodday.com.au/
National Nutrition Week (13/10-19/10) – This years’
theme is “Try for 5” so encourage your families to eat more veg. http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/national/national-nutrition-week-tryfor5
Children’s Week 19/10-27/10 – national celebration of
children’s rights, talents and citizenship http://www.childrensweek.org.au/
National Water Week (21/10-27/10) – This year's theme is
‘It’s time to change the world”. It challenges us to work towards a world where everyone has access to safe and clean water. http://www.awa.asn.au/AWA_MBRR/About_AWA/National_Water_Week.aspx
Book Nook – Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins This book combines counting with a funny storyline that children love!
Introducing the book: Hide a red apple in a bag and pass it around, allowing each child to reach inside, feel the object, describe what they feel and guess what it is. Unveil the apple - did anyone guess correctly?
Use apples for transition: “One little apple, round and red, fell kerplunk on Aarons head” as Aaron transitions to the next activity.
Playdough: Red playdough, twigs, small leaves and seeds. What can you create with this? Suggest an apple. Try green apples as well.
Investigating an apple: Cut an apple in half and place into two bowls. What does the inside of an apple look like? Cover one half with lemon juice and leave the other exposed to air. Predict what will happen. Leave them for an hour. How are they different?
Graphing our favourite apples: Provide different kinds of apples. Sit at the table with the children and involve them in selecting, slicing and eating the apples. What colours are they? How do they taste? Prepare a graph about the children’s favourites. If you have an apple slinky machine, you could also slinky some apples for the children.
Healthy habits start at a young age! Children who develop
healthy habits early are more likely to continue these into
adulthood.
If any of the families at your service are wanting a little bit
extra help around healthy eating, getting their kids active
or sleep behaviours there is a FREE program that may
help.
Time for Healthy Habits offers online modules, telephone
support calls or printed resources to help support families.
Visit www.timeforhealthyhabitsnsw.com/ or more
information.
We’ve also included a flyer with your parent newsletter
snippets for this term.
Festive Food and Activities! Use the Christmas period to introduce children to Festive Foods and activities. Take
advantage of children’s interests in everything festive and explore what people in other
countries eat and how they celebrate Christmas, or make your own festive creations.
Try some Reindeer Rolls, fruit or vegie Christmas trees, banana and strawberry candy
canes, or Santa’s Vegie Platter. If your service usually gives the children or families
festive treats, think of non-food related gifts.
You can even use food for Christmas craft… think snowflake, baubles or Christmas tree
potato prints!
Let us know how you plan to celebrate!
Active Advent Countdown – the 12 days of Christmas
Advent calendars are usually full of chocolate. We challenge you to work with the kids at your service to develop a “12 days of Fitmas” count down. Get the children to come up with 12 different activities or exercises they can do and use the 12 days of Christmas song to put them together… For example, On the first day of Christmas: 1 Spiderman crawl On the second day of Christmas: 2 kangaroo jumps and 1 Spiderman crawl On the third day of Christmas: 3 sumo squats, 2 kangaroo jumps and 1 Spiderman crawl On the fourth day of Christmas: 4 jumping jacks, 3 sumo squats, 2 kangaroo jumps and 1 Spiderman crawl On the fifth day of Christmas: 5 high fives, 4 jumping jacks, 3 sumo squats, 2 kangaroo jumps and 1 Spiderman crawl Encourage families to get involved in this active advent countdown! Take pictures as you go to post on social media, add to daily diaries, or put into a little book for a great Christmas keepsake for your families.
Case Study: Wollongbar Community Preschool Shop
We have a preschool shop and sell fresh produce from our garden and the gardens of our families. Popular items we sell include citrus fruit, flowers and herbs. We even sell worm juice from our worm farm, eggs and second hand books!
We’ve always had a garden linked to the learning program, however it wasn’t until a staff member had the idea to sell our produce in addition to using it for nutrition learning experiences and cooking in the preschool, that we thought what a great initiative! Children have been involved in writing the signs, interacting with customers and learning the language and roles in buying and selling items.
The profits are put back into the preschool and we involve the children in deciding on what to buy with them. Previously we have bought tools for the garden, more seedlings and food for our five quails. It’s a really nice community interaction and the children love being a part of it!
Crunch Time School Transition
This time of year is a great chance to consider integrating a Crunch Time (a vegie snack time) into your transition to school activities. This may be by having a “Crunch” opportunity in the preschool room each day, or simply encouraging children to eat their Crunch snack first.
Remember to focus on vegetables because less than 1 in 10 kids eat enough vegies each day. If children don’t bring their own, they may be able to pick some from your garden.
We have developed a snippet you can share with your families to encourage them to join in. It can be found at https://nnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/health-promotion/files/2019/09/Crunch-Time.png .
Kids in the Kitchen: Pizza Pops
Use basil and cherry tomatoes from your garden to create these fresh pizza pops. Encourage children to make their own.
Ingredients: (serves 10 pops) 10 cherry tomatoes 10 bocconcini balls 10 basil leaves 1 pita bread 10 paddle pop sticks Method:
1. Cut pita into 10 triangles 2. Make a small cut into
cherry tomato for paddle pop stick to go in to
3. Push paddle pop stick through pita, tomato, basil leaf and then bocconcini ball
4. Serve Vary ingredients and colours depending on what is available and child preferences. Explore the following questions: - Where bocconcini (baby mozzarella) comes from? - What other types of cheese the children have tried? - Did they like it?
Contacting your local support officer Remember to contact us if your service needs any support with implementing Munch & Move
Area Support Officer Phone Email
Clarence Valley Kate Collins 6640 0154 [email protected]
Ballina/Byron Maxine Molyneux 6639 9142 [email protected]
Richmond Valley
Martina Pattinson Elsa Mangan Corinne Martin
6620 7668 66230526 6620 7447
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Tweed Valley Liz Patterson Daniel Ashton
6674 9515 6674 9506
[email protected] [email protected]
Physical Activity & FMS Games (GALLOP)
Little Grey Pony
The little grey ponies jump over the fence and gallop and gallop away…
1. Demonstrate how a pony gallops to the group
2. Practise the “Little Grey Ponies” song with the group
3. On the count of three the children gallop along to the
song, moving from the fence to the barn and back
Song example:
The little grey ponies look over the fence, over the fence
today. The little grey ponies jump over the fence and
gallop and gallop away. The little grey ponies come back
to the barn, back to the barn to stay. The little grey
ponies are having a rest, having a rest from their play.
Wild, Wild West Cowboys and cowgirls gallop along on their horses
in the Wild, Wild West
1. Spread animal toys on the ground
2. Ask the children to pretend to be a cowboy or
cowgirl riding a horse
3. Ask the cowboys / girls to gallop around through
the wild west, herding animals by tapping the
toys with their hand as they gallop past
These games are from the Northern Sydney Local Health District Mini Moves Activity Pack. For more games focusing
on Fundamental Movement Skills find your service’s Frankie and Friends Resource