Teaching in rural Maine has always been a labor of love. The students come from diverse backgrounds and present with many different learning challenges. In the fall of 2015, in walked a young lady who I will call Lynda. Lynda attended our school for a brief two-month period during Kindergarten. She moved away and returned to our school at beginning of second grade. Having repeated Kindergarten, Lynda was an older second grader, performing at a beginning first grade level. Needless to say, Lynda was not interested in being at school. She got in trouble on the bus, on the playground, and in the cafeteria. In class, she avoided participating in activities and refused to do assigned tasks. Lynda was not my first hard to reach child, so …show more content…
A week later, I asked Lynda if she would like to come into my room before school for extra help on her reading? I taught Lynda to read, using an intense reading protocol learned in my Reading Recovery training. Lynda blossomed and made huge gains. Lynda finally saw herself as a capable learner. Lynda is now in third grade, but every Friday afternoon she comes to my classroom to get a bag of food for the weekend. She gives me a hug and tells me about her week. It isn’t always what we teach the student, but what the student teaches us.
Every school seems to have that one go to person. In my school, it would be me. I am the resource from everything from recertification questions to how to unjam the photocopier. Need a paper plate or a vegetable peeler, head right over. Need a committee chairperson, then call on me. I love being part of my school community. Many have asked, “Why do you do so much?” My response has always been, “This is my home, this is my family, and these are OUR students.”
Two strengths that I have as an educator are organization and the ability to follow through on a task. There are many examples of my ability to organize and facilitate successful initiatives, but I will speak of my work with Let’s Go! 5210.
Prior to the fall of 2012, the school nutritionist and kitchen staff took care of promoting healthy habits at our school. I had my students create lunch menus, write thank you
Offering sufficient amounts of nutritious food in schools is more significant than many comprehend. Students who consume full, nourishing meals for breakfast and lunch benefit
For many previous years, Anaheim High school has had a couple lunch system changes finally settling on two lunches, both being half an hour long. With both lunches only being half an hour long, for certain, more than one thousand students being in each, imagine the lunch lines! Making line to get your lunch takes already about fifteen minutes, half of a person’s time already, which leaves little time for a student to enjoy their so called meal and free time with friends.Based on other student’s experiences dealing with school lunch, one can rightfully assume that high schoolers would much rather hold in their hunger until after school rather than have the food being provided. There is not a single day that goes by in which a high schooler does not complain about the “worst than jail” food being served to them. This proposal will go into detail about why having an hour off-campus lunch can increase healthier eating habits between the undergraduates of Anahiem High School. In this layout, you will read about the issue of why we believe off- campus lunch would be a healthier choice for Anaheim High school students, you will also encounter our plan of how we intend to carry out this idea, what exactly needs to be done, with the help of who, and so on.
Since the implementation of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, many school nutrition programs have had challenges in meeting the new standards. Several districts across the nation have indicated a decline in lunch meal participation and financial viability as a result. However, during this time, SLA Management experienced the majority of its growth in the number of schools under contract and, more importantly, the number of meals served. Our meals have always been both tasty and nutritious. Fact is, kids love them!
She mentioned that two students came into the class with little phonetic awareness and alphabet awareness and should have been held back in kindergarten. However, she has gotten them to the point of being almost at a first grade level within the classroom and hopes that they will be there before the year is over. They will probably continue to struggle, unfortunately, but there is little that she can do other than support them, teach them, and develop those
Beginning my elementary school career, I attended Indianapolis Public Schools. When I entered school, Kindergarten was only half days, and we were working on materials such as, learning our alphabet and counting to 100. The workload was a far cry from the addition, subtraction, early reading skills, and science that my daughter is learning in kindergarten this year. Following the first grade I left the Indianapolis Public School System and entered into a new school system. Embarking on second grade we started working on the skills that would help us read proficiently. I was absolutely struggling, but I was also so distrustful that I didn’t dare to say anything to my teacher. Thankfully, even without me saying anything to her, my teacher noticed
Most students will not eat all of their lunch since the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010” was put into action.
The lunch program at High School has been revised to align with the new dietary requirements that increase servings of veggies and fruits and decrease calories. Giving a survey to all students about the school lunches is what I planned on doing.
The goals,is to improve school food, teach nutrition, support sustainable food systems, and create an education program focused on understanding the relationships between food, culture, health, and the environment.By the time today’s kindergartner finishes high school, she may have eaten well over 4,000 school meals—4,000 opportunities to strengthen her body and mind, introduce food pleasures that will make her a lifelong healthy eater, and deepen her engagement with the natural world. The more than 5.5 billion lunches and nearly 2 billion breakfasts served yearly in school programs, along with complementary education programs, can have a profound effect on issues of public health, academic performance, economics, justice, national security,
On behalf of the students of Clackamas High School we would like to discuss the problem of feeding in our cafeteria. We noticed that lots of high schoolers consume unhealthy lunches everyday only because they don’t have a different option. That leads to weight issues and skin problems. Lots of students just don’t realize how many junk food they are eating during those four years of studying here. I believe that everyone is able to make their own choice but when you are hungry, you don’t really care about what to eat.
In conclusion, observing in Lewis E. Wadsworth elementary school with Mrs. Poland was an amazing experience. As I said in the beginning it was my childhood dream come true. I have always wanted to work with children who struggle in academics and everyday life. It has always been a passion thriving inside of me. I have already made plans to continue volunteering with Mrs. Poland and Mrs. Byrne’s. Mrs. Byrne is the EBD teacher. I was able to meet her in person today Friday September 11th. She has such a heart for these children as well. I would like to add she has incorporated many calming techniques in her classroom to help keep the children relaxed and comfortable. She was explaining to me how she first started off a few years back
I am writing to you today because I want to address you about the food problem at our school. The food at our school is not particularly healthy. There's an obesity epidemic in America and our school is contributing to it. This issue has been going on for a long time, but yet no one seems to blink an eye. If we change the way we eat at school we can create a healthy environment. Many people at our school tend to not eat the fruits and vegetables. A healthy diet needs to be encouraged at our school. We also need to budget the money for improved food. The way our school utilizes the money is not effective. We should include an education at our school on how to eat healthily. If we put these actions into effect we can change many lives.
While this initiative is for anyone, the specific target is for pre and school aged children. This initiative reaches into childcare centers, schools systems, as well as museums, gardens and faith communities across the country. In St
The food service department at Garden Grove Unified School District (GGUSD) is interested in improving their A La Carte Program by providing healthier food choices to the staff. District staff members have provided a special service that offers affordable lunch entrées as a courtesy from GGUSD. There are 250 staff members in the district that have
Through Harvesters, a food bank committed to developing long-term solutions to hunger, I volunteered with the Kids in the Kitchen program. Kids in the Kitchen is a four week long program that focuses on food preparation, food safety skills, nutrition and the importance of making healthy food choices. Once a week we get together with school children to teach cooking, nutrition, and how the changing seasons can affect what we eat, when we eat certain foods and how we are physically active. The educational component of Kids in the Kitchen is to begin good nutrition habits at an early age rather than trying to change bad habits.
This year as a part of the Hauraki Plains College Year 12 Business Studies, we are creating and conducting a business that aims at targeting young people and their wellbeing. We intend to educate the younger generation about healthy eating, and being active to promote healthy habits in the younger generation, which can be carried through later into their life. Our aim is to conduct a classroom lesson with a practical element to a selected syndicate along with lunch orders for the entire school.