Thursday, April 01, 2010 - Friday, April 30, 2010
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28	29	30	31	1 Solve... The Case of the Missing food Groups	2 Play... Too Many "Others" Foods Tag today	3 Celebrate Earth Day All Month Long Share and talk about the Earth Day Student Tips and Earth Day Facts
4 Happy Easter Fun Fact Hard-boiled eggs spin easily, while raw eggs wobble	5 Egg Salad Week Eggs are in the Meat Group even though stores sell them in the dairy case	6 Earth Day Fact Recycling a ton of plastic milk bottles saves the equivalent of 3.8 barrels of oil	7	8 Teach.... What Belongs, What Doesn't	9 ENROLL TODAY! FREE 2010-11 Fuel Up to Play 60 School Wellness Kit	10 Earth Day Student Tip Turn off the lights when no one is in the kitchen
11 Research Finding Milk is the number one source of protein in 2 to 11 year-olds' diets	12	13 Thomas Jefferson Day Jefferson ate lots of vegetables with meat as a "seasoning"	14	15 Teach King Henry's Meat Group... Read the Mighty Muscle Meat Group story and pantomime ways we use muscles	16 Nutrition Fact The calcium in an egg is in the shell	17 Implement a Fuel Up to Play 60 Physical Activity Action Strategy... Make Stop and Go Signs
18 Earth Day Student Tip Drink milk and other beverages in plastic containers, and recycle the bottles	19 TV Turnoff Week (19th-25th) Have students get up and Play 60 minutes a day instead of watching TV	20 Earth Day Student Tip Pack sandwiches in reusable containers instead of sandwich bags or sandwich wrap	21	22 Earth Day 40th Anniversary Send home April Fun Facts with 12 Kitchen Tips for Saving the Planet	23 Instant Kids Poll Have students learn how many daily Milk Group servings they need with this interactive poll	24 Make and Taste... Shamrock Smoothies
25 Nutrition Fact 8 ounces of milk provides as much potassium as a banana	26 Implement a Fuel Up to Play 60 Health Eating Action Strategy…Set up and run a Milk Mustache Booth	27 Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers Get a Feel for Food	28 Find Fun Food Trivia Have each students find and share a piece of food trivia...it should be for Five Food Group Foods	29 National Dance Day Take Snack Dancing break today	30 Teach Nutrition and Physical Activity Lessons.... And track how long it takes to climb three famous monuments	1