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How Music and the Arts are Powerful Learning Tools
I know I’ve delivered a successful lesson when I see my students actively engaged in their learning. I often use multiple modalities in my lessons to engage children's diverse learning styles - my favourites being the integration of music and the Arts.
The Arts have the capacity to reach ...
Love in a Lunchbox - lunches made with love
We love our kids, and want the best for them right? And when it comes to your little one's lunchbox, as a Prep Teacher I can always tell which lunchboxes have had that extra love packed inside... it's the lunchbox filled with home-made food, with limited packaged, processed treats. While we've all ...
FIVE Tips to Teach Children about the five 'everyday' Food Groups
Having worked as a Teacher and children's performer for over two decades, along with delivering evidence-based Health curriculum support to schools since 2011, it's important for me to have a classroom with happy healthy kids who are actively engaged in their learning! And part of my happy classroom is due to ...
How Good Nutrition Improves Children's Learning Outcomes
We can attribute our intelligence and talent to our genetic makeup. We may even say smarter kids are born like that. But the environment in which our children grow up in can facilitate massive growth, learning and development, and nutrition has an important part to play. Have you ever noticed that ...
5 Tips to Talk about Food and Nutrition in the Classroom
Have you ever wondered if your Food and Nutrition lessons deliver accurate messages? Firstly, let’s just say, we respect that Teachers wear a million hats, and nobody can expect Teachers to be nutrition experts! As a Teacher myself over two decades, I've heard ...
Making a positive difference in the classroom
Teachers are heroes! And, teaching is a heroic act. Is one of the reasons you became a Teacher - because you wanted to make a positive lasting difference in kids' lives? As Teachers, we try our best. And sometimes we’re better at teaching some subject areas than others. And that’s okay. In the last 25 years ...
What the best of the best Teachers are doing...
Recently we went searching for what the absolute best of the best Teachers and Educators are doing. And here's what we found ... Successful Teachers have a SENSE OF PURPOSE. They're able to see the BIG picture of how their teaching can positively impact their students' lives. It's understanding that the little things we do NOW can make a BIG difference in kids' lives LATER.
And, this 'sense of purpose' is what inspired ...
Leveraging Evidence-Based Programs and Pedagogies in your Classroom
How do we best engage children in their learning and achieve the best learning outcomes? What if a change of pedagogical approach could not only provide better results, without creating extra work or take up valuable time, but make our jobs easier too?
The best Teachers engage children in ...
Six Ways to Celebrate your Achievements
Being recognised for the valuable contribution you make in children's lives every day is often neglected ... and sometimes you simply need to celebrate your achievements. But being recognised for your contributions and achievements is not always easy ... In this article we'll share the back story of how ...
Is your child always hungry?
Recently, a mum at school (let's call her Carol) reached out to me about her seven year old son’s complaints that he’s always hungry at school, even though she packs him plenty of food in his lunchbox.
When I asked her what she packs in ...
How to Make Healthy Eating Fun for Kids!
Do you remember having quite the imagination when you were a kid? I know I did. I liked to hide my peas in my mashed potatoes and pretend the peas were hidden treasures I was digging up!
Why not inspire your little one’s imagination by ...
Why you should let kids play with their food
At one of my lunchbox workshops, I played a game with the kids: the Superhero Secret Senses game. This is where children wear a blindfold and try different fruits and veggies, exploring the food with their five senses to guess the fruit or veg!
The most amazing thing happened: one of the preschool ...
How to get 'fussy eaters' to eat!
I recently presented a Lunchbox Workshop to a group of parents whose little ones were transitioning to prep. I always start the workshops reading the ‘I am a Superhero - Fruit & Veg’ book to the children and the kids make superhero masks while I chat with their parents.
Prior to the workshop a concerned mum shared that ...
How to Make Healthy Eating Fun for Kids
My nephew was visiting last weekend and he wanted to play tag! I knew he never ate tomatoes so I decided to make them fun! I threw a sliced cherry tomato in my mouth and said he’d never catch me with my super tomato speed powers! I ran off and left him in the dust, but then he did the unthinkable, something I totally didn't expect ...
How To Make Kid-Friendly Corn and Vegie Fritters For Your Little Superhero's Lunchbox!
A nutritious diet full of fruits and vegetables is super important for little superheroes to grow strong and live a healthy active life. But getting kids to eat their 5 serves of vegetables can be a bit of a struggle on the best of days.
Let us introduce a handy trick that will get kids loving vegetables ...
6 Fun & Healthy Halloween-themed Lunch Box Ideas
Get into the spirit this Halloween with a ghoulish lunch box for your little one. This lunch box has all the 'tricks and treats' that are junk-food free, and includes foods from the five everyday food groups, including Vegetables (V), Fruit (F), Dairy (D), Protein (P) and Grains (G) for a well-balanced Nutritionist-approved lunch box that's fun for the kids!
Now, who says you can't make healthy eating fun?! Check out the method ...
The BEST Proven Parental Feeding Style for Kids
Recently I had friends and their four year old son over for dinner. I didn’t hold back and cooked up a storm! There was an array of choices on the dinner table, including a variety of vegetables ripe for the picking!
Their son was initially intimidated by all the choice. Then his dad said ...
How To Get Kids To Eat More Fruit and Veg!
My little nephew has always wanted to be BIG and STRONG like a superhero! To prove his strength, he recently challenged me to a push-up competition - cute. I told him "I'm gonna win because I eat my spinach" (the food of a superhero, of course!) He laughed at me, and then the competition started:
One ... two ... three ... !!! I heard a ...
How to get kids to wash their hands in a FUN way!
Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands… it’s what we’re all hearing… and it’s essential more than ever right now, to help us all keep healthy and safe.
But how do we get kids to ...
Sensory Food Tips for Fussy Eaters
We had a mum reach out to us recently for some advice about her four year old's sensory issues. Her little one turns up his nose to vegetables, refusing to try any vegies, other than potatoes. As for fruit, he'll eat only apples. Does this sound familiar? ...
If your little one's a fussy eater, it's important that sensory ...
Food and Nutrition in the School Curriculum AND Lunch Box
How often at schools do we see kids’ lunch boxes loaded with packets of chips, sweet biscuits and bars, along with packet after packet of processed, packaged foods high in sugar, salt and fat?
A plethora of research has shown that ...
SIX tips to choose the best school lunchbox!
Whether your little one's about to start school or they've already started, one thing you'll be looking for is the right lunchbox. But which lunchbox is the right one?
It's as easy as this - the ideal lunch box is ...
How Teachers and Educators can Model a Healthy School Lunchbox
Teachers and Educators can be powerful and positive role models in children’s lives. You could even go as far to say that some Teachers are 'Superheroes'. We help shape young minds, guide children in their learning and development, and support children to reach their full potential.
When it comes to teaching children about ...
How movement can help improve your students’ health literacy!
Let’s be honest, what Teacher hasn’t experienced a time when children are not engaged in a lesson and they’re wriggling around in their seats. While it’s frustrating, the fact is that children of all ages find it difficult to sit still and listen to academic information for a long period of time, and it leads to them becoming ...
Why every classroom should have Food and Movement BRAIN BREAKS!
As Teachers, I believe it’s our job to make learning engaging for students. But, from time to time, we might find that we struggle to captivate our students' attention.
Did you know that food and movement brain breaks can maximise children’s productivity, engagement and learning outcomes? It can easily be achieved by ...