Extension
It Starts With Us
| 2063 - Youth Fruit & Vegetable Access | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2063.1) | 301 |
Number of children grades K-2 who could identify vegetables |
| 2063.2) | 301 |
Number of children grades K-2 who could identify fruits |
| 2063.3) | 238 |
Number of children grades 3-5 who report eating vegetables |
| 2063.4) | 238 |
Number of children grades 3-5 who report eating fruit |
| 2063.5) | 238 |
Number of children grades 3-5 who report intention to ask their family to buy their favorite fruit or vegetables |
| 2063.6) | 238 |
Number of children grades 3-5 who report the intent to ask their family to keep fruits in a place where they can reach them |
| 2063.7) | 238 |
Number of children grades 3-5 who report intention to ask their family to keep cut-up vegetables in a place where they can reach them |
Author: Danielle Ford
Major Program: Youth Fruit & Vegetable Access
Each month as I travel into classroom after classroom, and I always come away with learning something new. To start out, I introduce a new book to read to the Head Start participants, preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students. Then we have to get all of our wiggles out by teaching them some new exercises to get them moving. And lastly we sample a new fruit or vegetable. With the food lesson we turn it into a science lesson and the children make observations about the fruit/v
