Success StoryZooming with Preschoolers



Zooming with Preschoolers

Author: Lorie Dunn

Planning Unit: Grant County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Initial Outcome

With Covid-19 impacting service delivery of nutrition classes, face to face classes were no longer safe.  In January, In the Beginnings Preschool returned to in person classes but with no outside visitors.  In order to offer programming for the preschools, the Senior Program Assistant from the Grant County Extension SNAP Education program set up Zoom classes with In the Beginning’s director to offer lessons from the Literary, Eating and Activity for Primary (LEAP) Curriculum.  Since 30% of Grant County was not physically active before the pandemic, kid friendly exercise videos were added to the LEAP classes on Zoom.  During each class a new LEAP book was introduced along with newsletters and recipes for the family.  The families were encouraged to make the healthy recipes at home with their children.  Each family prepared at least one recipe with the preschoolers at home.  The preschool also offered new fruits and vegetables for lunches and snacks.  100% of the class tried at least one new fruit or vegetable.  The preschoolers enjoyed exercising with the Program Assistant during the Zoom class so much that they requested to play the videos again.   The Preschool implemented a physical activity time each school day to allow time to exercise along with the videos.   The director stated “the kids loved exercising with the videos so much we added it to our daily plan.”  One of the parents stated “my child tried Kiwi at school and now loves it and asks for it at every meal.”






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