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Why Nutrition Matters in Head Start

Head Start has been around for five decades and counting. Its unique design offers comprehensive education, health, and nutrition services to low-income children. Come learn why nutrition matters in Head Start and how you can meet the nutritional needs of our country’s most vulnerable children.

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Smarten Up Snack Time

Explore how snack time can be more than just crackers and juice. Let’s focus on nutrition and learning! Discuss unique, multi-purpose and make-your-own snack ideas that can be incorporated into your lesson planning. Let’s make snack time a fun and educational experience for all.

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Nutritious Ideas for Head Start

Want to improve nutrition and agriculture education in the classroom? Learn how to educate your children with hands-on activities to explain how food is grown, why eating fruits and vegetables is important, and the importance of trying new foods.

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Movement & Fun: Learn Ways to Promote Active Play with Infants and Toddlers

Learn fun, developmentally appropriate physical activities to play with infants and toddlers in CACFP child care homes and centers and Early Head Start classrooms. Consider the many benefits of physical activity and how these activities help meet recommended best practices. View demonstrations and videos of these activities so you can apply these ideas in your own trainings.

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Connecting Meal Times to Learning Outcomes Framework

The Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework lays out the skills, behaviors and learning experiences that all programs must offer for all children. Discover the natural learning experiences around meal times and how being intentional in the way we use these experiences can strengthen your programs approach to the HSELOF.

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CACFP and Head Start Food Service Regulations

We will focus on the performance standards that govern child nutrition and how they align with the CACFP program to provide good nutrition to children in Head Start. Also, learn what’s new in the HS performance standards concerning child nutrition.

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