Nutrition Education in the After School Program

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Nutrition Education in the After School Program

• Network for a Healthy California
• Monrovia Unified School District
• Presented by Valerie Parsons, Program
  Coordinator
• Tamara Morrison, Lead NEA and Lizett Olivares,
  RD

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History of Nutrition Education in the Extended
School Program

• 1999-Village Extended School Program
• 2001- Nutrition mini-grant awarded for 43K
• 2002- Nutrition lessons after school
• 2003- Nutrition contract awarded for 600K

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California Health Standards

• Chefs
• Classroom
• Cafeteria

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Extended School Cooking Lessons

• Healthy Ingredients
• Students Cook
• Students Serve
• Enjoy!
• Nutrition Lesson
• SPARK Activity

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Extended School Nutrition Schedule

• Elementary Schools
• 105-115 Attendance
• 115-130 Free Play
• 130-200 Snack
• 200-315 Nutrition/SPARK Rotation
• 315-445 Homework
• 445-515 Learning for Life
• 515-600 Choice Time

• Middle Schools
• 145-205 Attendance Snack
• 205-330 Nutrition and SPARK rotations
• 330-430 Homework
• 430-500 Outside Play
• 500-530 Table Games
• 530-545 Freaky Friday Cash in
• 545-600 Clean Up

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Date Instruction Lesson Cooking / Craft Lesson SPARK Lesson
Week of March 3rd to March 7th National School Breakfast Week I Spy A Healthy Breakfast K-2 Breakfast Balance 3-6 National School Breakfast Week Fun Activity Sheet SPARK Lesson of Site's Choice
Week of March 10th to March 14th My Lunch Bag K-2 Forgetful Fred Makes A Meal 3-6 Food Fingerprint Art SPARK Lesson of Site's Choice
Week of March 17th to March 21st Harvest of the Month Spinach Popeyes Spinach Scramble SPARK Lesson of Site's Choice
Week of March 24th to March 28th Picture A Healthy Me K-2 --------------------------------------- Food Catcher 3-6 Picture A Healthy Me K-2 --------------------------------------- Food Catcher 3-6 SPARK Lesson of Site's Choice
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Training for Extended School Staff

• Training
• Once a month with Site Managers
• Site Managers train Activity Leaders
• Monthly Highlights reported by Site Managers

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Goals/Challenges

• Challenges
• New leadership
• Training after school staff
• Quality of nutrition education lessons
• Goals
• Provide direct training to Activity Leaders.
• Progress to more nutrition skills-based learning.
• Collaboratively develop an evaluation tool to use
  quarterly
• Continue with after school program liaison