Offer your child a rainbow of snacks…choosing healthy options at snack time provides modeling healthy choices! Choose options such as apples, bananas, pears, oranges, grapes and strawberries. Carrot or celery sticks, colorful bell peppers, sliced cucumbers and grape or cherry tomatoes. Chickpeas or hummus spreads, whole grain crackers, cheese, low sugar yogurt, sunflower butter, hard boiled eggs will add a variety of proteins. And the best choices for a drink are water and milk.
Please be mindful of choking by avoiding hard, round or slippery foods, chunks of food, whole nuts, popcorn, uncut grapes or hotdogs. Cut foods into small pieces and remind children to chew and not speak while eating.
Information and resources can be found at: https://www.healthychildren.org/english/healthy-living/nutrition/pages/default.aspx
The American Academy of Pediatrics
Get your Flu Vaccine! The best way to protect against the flu is to get a yearly flu vaccine for yourself and your preschooler. Children under 59 months are required to have a documented flu vaccine before December 31 to stay in school. This is a NJ State mandate per N.J.A.C. 8:57-4.19. Please submit evidence of your child receiving their vaccine to Lorraine LaTempa, our school nurse. Let's have a healthy classroom this year! Wash hands, block coughs and get the flu vaccine today.
