I think that this artifact has been very helpful and valuable as a student working toward a degree in Early Childhood Education. I feel it show how much I will care for my students and want what is best for them, whether that be their education, or the meals that they are served. I think that its very important, as a teacher to educate children, as well as their parents on the important of eating healthy, and having a very nutritious diet. I do not think that a once over on the important of eating healthy and nutritious meal is enough. The health of a child is not a topic that should just fall by the waste side. It is very important, especially wen the child is young. The foundation that a child sets up now will help determine how healthy
He held up pictures of Jesus Christ, George Washington, and Wendy from the popular fast food chain. More children were able to recognize the picture of Wendy than the other figures. Spurlock even tested adults and found out that they know the mottoes for a fast food chain, but barely remembered the national anthem. This illustrates that fast food chains has already enforced American society to focus on what they advertise and nothing else. By providing toys and playgrounds fast food chains entice kids to want to visit to these places. Nonetheless, parents should be capable of monitoring what their kids eat. Parents need to claim some responsibility. Both schools and parents should be taking an initiative to teach kids about how important it is to be health-conscience. Working as a team in to either ban or integrate healthier options into school cafeterias. Helping kids deviate from being enticed by their advertisements will help them in the long
The first artifact I chose was an article review I did on development with music for early childhood development: birth to age 6. I Chose this article review because it’s a great article in showing the many ways music can help build children's social-emotional, physical, cognitive, language and literacy development. What I learned from this article is that there are any ways children can develop their skills by using creative new ways for instance like the music in the article that hit five different areas of development just by using music nothing else so think of all the cool other ways as a teacher that you could come up with in help to promote approached yet creative and fun ways of development.
In this assignment I am going to describe a child observation that I have done in a nursery for twenty minutes in a play setting. I will explain the strengths and weaknesses of naturalistic observation through the key developmental milestones based in Mary Sheridan (2005) check-list and provide a theoretical explanation to support the naturalistic observation.
The facility I did my observation at was Tutor Time in Fairfield, and I arrived there at 3:15pm. When I arrived there, I could instantly see that it was a child centered program by the feel of the artwork the kids had made that were on the walls, the passing classrooms and it smelled like sugar cookies throughout the building. It was very quiet in the office area and in the halls when I was walking to the class of preschoolers.
Grossman touches on the idea of a low income family learning how to spend $100 for a weeks’ worth of food. This made me think of all of the low income families who receive hundreds of dollars in food stamps each month and spend it on frozen entrees, soda pop, snack foods and other less healthy nutritious choices who could benefit from healthy nutrition education, not just for them, but to teach their children healthy eating
After reading and completing the assessment at the end of Chapter One, the author realizes that wellness has not been as much of a priority for herself and her family as it should be. The author sees areas where good techniques are being applied to teach her children to achieve wellness. She also sees areas where improvements need to be made. She teaches her family good hygiene, in a loving nurturing environment. She also buys healthy snacks such as fruit, low fat cheese, skim milk, and yogurt. However, she also buys some cookies and chips. These items are not good snack foods. She realizes that ...
In relation to the modern world of food, in terms of ways in which people or families have grown accustomed to this in turn affects the ways in which students and teenagers eat. In Jonathan Safran Foer’s article, “The American Table and The Global Table,” he expresses that people consume so mindlessly and ignorantly that as a nation, we are giving the government opportunities to manipulate the ways in which food is perceived. Foer argues that “today, to eat like everyone else is to add another straw to the camel’s back” (Foer 971). This is significant in that it highlights the role that consumers play in the food industry. Put bluntly, the more mindless demands that are made, the worse the situation becomes. Students and adolescents, ambitious and goal-driven, often claim that it is important to stop such unawareness, but the irony lies in the fact that we might be just as unaware. The more we demand, the more the government complies and essentially, people are “sending checks to the absolute worst abusers” (Foer 968). As administrators in the cafeteria, where finances are limited, and time is constrained on a daily basis, I believe it is so important that your team continues to implement quick, but sustainable food choices. In a sense, it is purely the matter of the ways of how easily students can be conditioned into choosing the right foods and by continuing to maintain these healthy options students will be able to avoid the growing epidemic, obesity. Michael Pollan claims that “daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds,” and what can be drawn from this is that people are affected by habits and if students are habitually surrounded by these healthier food choices, the result will be most significant and beneficial in the end (Pollan 10). While I am not saying that by implementing a
To conclude, unhealthy foods in the cafeteria and the vending machines are the worst examples for the kids to maintain the healthy eating habits. Us Parents have to step in to make changes for our kids because in doing so would determine what kind of foods our kids are consuming. We do know for facts they are not getting the proper nutrients while in school, although they do spend in average of eight to 12 hours in schools. We, the parents, can start to make a difference, by attending the school meetings and being active in our kids functions in schools.
Toddlers are the epitome of curiosity and energy. From ages 1 – 3, toddlers are always on the go and want to learn about everything in their world. As with infants, no two are alike; each toddler is unique in his or her developmental stages, and each accomplishes milestones at different times. “Although children develop at different rates, there are common stages of development that serve as guidelines for what most children can do by a certain age” (Groark, McCarthy & Kirk, 2014). As seen in the hatfieldmomof3 (2011) video, one observes toddlers at play and can determine the age of the toddlers by their actions and the milestones they have accomplished.
The increase rate in childhood obesity urged Michelle Obama to improve school lunches. In result of First Lady Michelle Obama addressing the issue, nutrition standards were raised in the Healthy Food Act of 2010. Sources show that this law caused a heated debate among parents. The question still stands, is the food actually healthy? the food system in the United States is making it very difficult for students to receive the nutrition they need to grow into healthy adults. The National School Lunch Program plays a huge role involving school lunches. I believe that the National School Lunch Program has influenced school lunches in a few positive ways. Their program is great for low income families and they also promote healthy eating and physical activity through changes in school environments. The National School Lunch Program is the reason behind schools serving breakfast, as well as the increased amount of fruits and vegetables. The National School Lunch Program, Michelle Obama, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, another contributor in school lunches, have been fighting to improve school lunches, but they are not doing so well when it comes to improving the food served on the
The two children that I have interacted with this week at the Early Childhood Education Center from the Willows group is Emily and Harriet. I got a chance to interact with these two girls this week. They are both so much fun to play with and be around. With Harriet, we played in the dirt box and played with the musical instruments. We also played with her stuffed little gray and white cat and a toy tiger. With Emily, we played doctor and played in the kitchen area. Together Emily and I played nurse and doctor to make her little baby feel better and got to play dress up with it. We also played some in the kitchen to make food for the baby as well. From what I have learned from Harriet and Emily is that they have two different personalities.
Imagine entering into a school cafeteria and being seated at any one of the lunch tables. The first thing one may take notice of is the obese or heavier students also seated at the tables. This probably wouldn’t have been nearly as noticeable thirty years ago. Yet, child obesity rates have nearly doubled in thirty years according to the Centers for Disease and prevention Control. Students are making unhealthy meal choices or eating unhealthy foods such as soda pop, candy bars, foods loaded with preservatives, and unhealthy fats. Now, imagine sitting down in the same cafeteria where the students have been educated about healthy food choices. Vending machines had been removed, and parents had made an effort to help their children eat healthy. Due to increasing rates of U.S childhood obesity in the past thirty years, investing in serving healthy meals to school children never sounded so reasonable. The only way we can accomplish our goal is through healthier meals, wiser spending, and getting students to participate.
Reflecting on Cesar Chaves’s breakfast and lunch, I originally thought they did a pretty good job providing the students with and appropriate meal just by observing what they ate everyday.
...them to learn more about food hygiene and especially about the importance of cleaning children’s hands before eating. Also, I would advise them to read more about healthy food to increase their awareness about food and to reduce the risk factors of several diseases.
In an article about the food pyramid by William Newman, it states, “The Obama administration is about to ditch the food pyramid, that is a symbol of healthy eating for the last two decades. In its place officials are dishing up a simple plate-shaped symbol, sliced into wedges for the basic food groups and half filled with fruit and vegetables.” (Newman 1-5). this part of the article states that Barack Obama is introducing a brand new idea to the public, and it will shape and change the minds of young children. The food pyramid has been around for almost 25 years, and that is going to be thrown away, and this plate-shaped symbol is going to be input into the lives of all children everywhere. This will change the way we think about eating foods, and if certain foods are healthy for us, and if it should be a part of our diet. Soon enough, many more ideas will be introduced, and that will shape the lives of our most children. They will not be raised to know what we as teenagers and adults grew up to know. Soon enough, many more ideas will be introduced, and that will shape the lives of most children. Both advancements and new ideas being introduced are greatly changing our scientific knowledge, and this has will bring up numerous changes to