Healthy Snacks

Kieran's challenge for us this month had to do with trying some different healthy snacks.  Well, who doesn't love to eat?  Challenge accepted!

We started the month taking an inventory of what we had for snacks in our lunch kits.  I put the answers in a t-chart with no titles.  What the students soon noticed, was that I was categorizing the snacks into healthy and unhealthy.  This led to a really great discussion of food groups and how we could get more of certain food groups in our diets.

Over Easter break, students had the task of trying and compiling some new healthy snack ideas.  I encouraged them, where possible, to have snack choices with more than one food group.  We put the ideas on a shared Google Doc so we could all share in our ideas right away.

With our list of recipes, we are going to create a recipe book to share with classes around our school and will finalize our work with a healthy snack potluck.

Interesting note.....I did the what snack do you have in your lunch kit survey again after the break, and there were no unhealthy examples on the t-chart.  Success!  I hope they keep it up.