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Explore nutrition tips, kids’ meal plans, kids’ activities, recipes and more from pediatric nutritionist, Melissa Halas, MA, RDN, CDE.

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YMCA Healthy Family Home

YMCA Healthy Family Home Summary: A website designed to encourage healthy lifestyle habits for the entire family. Details: The YMCA

Education World

www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson054.shtml Summary: Interactive, multi-subject extension activities. Details: This website offers individual classroom activities that can be implemented as a supplement to a

Dole 5 A Day

https://www.dole.com/superkids/ Summary: A comprehensive tool that promotes eating 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables per day for students K-5. Details:

Campbell’s Labels for Education

www.labelsforeducation.com Summary: Reflective activities for grades K-3 that help promote healthy eating activity patterns. Details: These lessons meet national education

We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past

You won’t want to rush through this picnic book, as each page is chock-full of color and activity, as page-by-page

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This is a fantastic read to help your kids form healthy eating habits and to choose good foods that will

This Is the Way We Eat Our Lunch

The simple rhymes in this well-illustrated book take us through different regions to show us what children around the world

The Carrot Seed

This book is a great introduction to elementary agriculture. Children learn how seeds are cultivated and that the green tops