What should parents provide for meals and snacks?
Each family is assigned a week to provide a nutritious snack for their child’s class. We have found that this increases variety for the children. Children gain a sense of pride when it is their week to share. Your child can be involved with the preparation or choosing what to bring in and it can be fun for you and your child to choose snack foods that go along with our themes. We need to know if your child has any individual dietary needs, food allergies, or strong food dislikes. The Academy is a member of the Food Allergy Network and stays current on all information related to food allergies. Due to the increasing number of nut allergies, we are a “peanut free” school. When preparing a special snack to bring to school, please DO NOT use nuts. Children can develop allergies at any time and allergies to nuts can be serious. We have a low sugar policy for snacks at school and encourage parents to bring in birthday snacks or special snacks that are low in sugar. Whenever supplying birthda
For our Kindergarten and Kindergarten Enrichment Program, The Academy provides a nutritious snack daily. For our Nursery School, PreKindergarten and Junior Kindergarten programs, each family is assigned a week to provide a nutritious snack for their childs class. We have found that this increases variety for the children. Children gain a sense of pride when it is their week to share. Your child can be involved with the preparation or choosing what to bring in and it can be fun for you and your child to choose snack foods that go along with our themes. Good nutritional eating involves using a variety of food groups.We ask that parents bring food from two food groups (i.e. a fruit or vegetable plus a starch) along with milk or water. Please have food (cheese, fruit, veggie,) precut. Having items precut, prepared, and enclosed in individual bags or baggies for each child allows your child’s teachers to give more time to the children and their program as well as making it easy for your chi
