Join us next Thursday, May 17, for our first (and hopefully not last!) “Get Out & Move” event! This will be an evening event, beginning at 6:30 PM, and there are three components to it: 1.) It will be a potluck, and we encourage you to make your dishes WITH your children. Bring a copy [...]
Meet our Toddler student of the week: Dash! In the classroom he can usually be found reading stories, playing trucks, and generally being a kind and polite friend to his peers. No wonder he has such a love for books at school, his family has some pretty cool traditions that involve reading. They spend [...]
We hid avocados in the chocolate pudding they are having this afternoon! The recipe came from Jessica Seinfeld’s book Deceptively Delicious, lent to us by Claire (a.k.a. Tate & Beth’s mom). It’s super easy to make, and if we weren’t making it for 100 kids, it would have only taken about ten minutes. Enjoy! [...]
Meet our Wobbler student of the week, Henry! The first thing comes to my mind when I think of him is, “FOOD!” This handsome little guy loves to eat, and will eat anything. He especially loves brussel sprouts, cucumbers, cauliflower, watermelon, shrimp, dutch babies, breakfast sausage, and hot dogs (see, I told you). His new [...]
So we all know how important kids’ nutrition is to TBDC, and that one of our favorite things is helping kids try new foods. Granted, I don’t have kids (or picky eaters) in my household, but I made this for dinner tonight and thought of each of you. If you try this recipe at home, [...]
Our mid-semester survey indicated that a couple of you may not be entirely happy with our snack offerings. We, as early childhood educators, have an obligation to expose our students to diversity and new experiences, and this includes what they eat. We know that individuals establish many of their eating habits in the first five years of [...]
As we were planning for the 2011-2012 school year, we decided that we need to take a less-conventional approach to our snack plans. While there have been some pretty major fails (Broccoli-carrot salad, which sparked the petition from the school kids below), all in all the students have enjoyed the change. I wanted to share [...]
In case you haven’t looked at a calendar or turned a television on lately, it’s back to school time! Between clothes and school supply shopping and figuring out new schedules, families also need to start thinking about back to school lunches. Here are some ideas to “spice” up the school lunch routine. Bento Boxes [...]