You probably received this email, but in case you couldn’t find it through the 100’s of spam, holiday ads, work and school messages you receive daily, I’ll share it again here! If you are a 4th grade parent, remember the program tonight! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
In our final week of the first series, we reviewed the importance of whole food, awareness of primary food (activities other than eating), and finally, we wrapped up with a discussion about sugar. It’s hard for adults, much less children, to understand how much sugar is hidden in processed foods in addition to the amount we knowingly eat. It’s also difficult, but crucial, to understand the effects that excessive amounts of sugar have on our bodies AND our minds. Please check out the attached handout for more information and to review with your child:
Handout: Sugar Week 3
We will be back in January for more healthy chats with Hilltop students, and hope you all have a wonderful holiday season.
Our next PTA board meeting and general meeting will be on Tuesday, October 27th. We will have our board meeting at 5:15pm and then, the general meeting at 6pm.
This week we talked with kids about other important activities and aspects of their daily lives OTHER than food. We helped them to understand that eating is not an “activity we do” out of boredom, anger, sadness, etc. We eat to nourish our bodies, but we can also “fill up” by being a good friend and family member, exercising, relaxing with a book or quiet time and showing gratitude. Attached you will find a handout you can review with your child about primary food.
Also, a BIG thank you to Country Lakes Dental for sponsoring our series and providing the fabulous prizes the kids get so excited about!
10/19 – 10/23 Fall Book Fair
10/20 Family night – Fall Book Fair
10/23 Homecoming: Show your Spirit!
10/23 End of 9 weeks assembly 1:55
10/26 – 10/30 Red Ribbon Week
Monday – Wear a bandana
Tuesday – Wear favorite sports team gear
Wednesday – Wear favorite super hero shirt or cape
Thursday – Wear red
Friday – Wear Halloween costume
We are only visiting with grades 1st- 4th for now. Please keep in mind we REALLY want to get wellness information in front of our students, but don’t want to make it difficult or time consuming for the parents OR teachers and staff. So, squeezing this 10 minutes into their lunch periods once a week is a great option!
please review the handouts we share with your child so that you know what they’re learning, and how you can help them achieve their wellness goals!!
WE HAD SESSION 1 OF our Hilltop Healthy Lunch Series last week!! The kids really listened, we had some brave volunteers (who received awesome prizes as a reward!) and we hope they left lunch with a better understanding of what WHOLE FOODS really are! Our CHALLENGE for them was to come up with a plan for incorporating more whole foods into their diet each day and bring that plan/ goal back to us this week, and specifically we challenged them to sub one packaged food out for for a veggie, fruit or nut/seed such as raw unsalted almonds, cashews or sunflower seeds.
we are not telling them that packaged foods are always bad, but that they should be limited in general daily, and also limited to the suggested serving size. We talked a lot about how your body understand and knows what to do with whole foods, so your hunger/full signals work better. With packaged foods, we tend to feel hungry after one serving and go back for more.
We will be back on Wednesday to talk about creativity, exercise, relationships with family and friends… and how ALL of this promotes wellness!
to go with last week’s material if you would like to share with your kiddos or review yourself.
Mark your calendars for a quick general meeting to approve budget amendments and tax breaks:
Tuesday, October 6th at 8:15am in the Hilltop cafeteria
It should only last 30 minutes, but we need as many members present as possible.
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