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Meeting the CACFP requirements for serving size when children serve themselves When children are too young to fully participate in family style meal services, you can put the required serving size of each meal component on their plates. But once they begin to participate in family style meal service, they...

Managing meal time menaces (continued) When a child won't eat Here are some tips to try when a child refuses to eat, to try new foods, or will eat only one or two foods for days: Don't force them to eat if they don't seem hungry. The child may be going...

Team Nutrition - School Meals Program Join TN Team Becoming a Team Nutrition School will help you focus attention on the important role nutritious school meals, nutrition education and a health-promoting school environment play in helping students learn to enjoy healthy eating and physical activity. It will provide the framework...

The benefits of family style meal service Family style meal service is an excellent way to provide children with the opportunity to serve themselves. Family style meal service also provides other benefits. How do children benefit? By practicing fine motor and coordination skills such as pouring, scooping and serving. By...

Why do we eat what we eat? Healthy food habits are formed during the preschool years. During these years, children watch the manners, eating behaviors, and food likes and dislikes of others. As a child care provider, you can help the children form healthy food habits and expose them to...

There has been a lot of news lately about data breaches and other cyber attacks on schools and businesses. A recent statistic in Nebraska reveals that 91% of the cyber attacks that have been reported in our state are human error. Someone clicked a link or gave out sensitive information...

The Beginning Teacher Institute (BTI), hosted by Nebraska Career Education, is designed for teachers who have completed their first through third year of Career and Technical Education instruction. The core purposes of the 2019 BTI are: Explore and define your CTE Program. Learn how to articulate the vision, teaching belief,...

Fun with food Here are some easy activities to help teach children about different kinds of food. Take a small group of children grocery shopping with you. Have them choose one new vegetable to try. See how many vegetables the children can name. Talk about the different shapes of the...

Two Nebraska graduating seniors have been selected as delegates to the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia (NYSC). Aditi Rai from Elkhorn South High School and Sanika Navalkar from Millard North High School will join delegates from around the country at the event. Rai and Navalkar were chosen for...

Activity 2: Skills and Best Practices Sequence of Events Chart "Graphic organizers are perhaps the most common way to help students generate nonlinguistic representations." --Marzano, Robert J., Pickering, Debra J., Pollock, Jane E. (2001). Classroom Instruction That Works. McREL/ASCD. 75. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Pathways to School Improvement: www.ncrel.org. A Sequence of Events...

Kids in the kitchen Kids in the kitchen are kids who like to eat a variety of foods. Try these tasty ideas to encourage the children in your care to help in the kitchen. The children can: Help make a cottage cheese salad for each other. Show them how to...

Tips for preventing food hassles "Clean your plate." "No dessert until you eat your vegetables." "If you behave, you can have a piece of candy." For parents and caregivers, these phrases probably sound familiar. Food should be used as food, not as a reward or punishment. In the long run,...

Remember children's needs for proper nutrition Scenario: You have a three year old in your care who has refused to drink orange juice for a week. He says that only milk will do because he only likes "white" food - and orange juice isn't white. This kind of unpredictable and...