Teachstone is celebrating Week of the Young Child hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). We'll be posting articles, videos, activities, and more all week on Facebook and Twitter.
For Tasty Tuesday, we've found a few healthy recipes for every mealtime, including dessert. These recipes are easy to assemble and make, and your early learners can help out as well. What are your favorite healthy recipes?
Recipe is from Realsimple.com.
Most of the ingredients in this recipe can be subsituted with other foods (gluten free bagels, different vegetables, etc). Let them create their own bagel faces, and presto, you've got an easy and fun breakfast meal.
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Recipe is from Todaysparent.com.
This salad is packed with super foods like kale and currants. And with such a wide variety of ingredients, you can introduce new vegetables into their vocabulary while you're cooking everything.
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Recipe is from Superhealthykids.com.
Pair these beets with a main course, or eat them as a snack! Beets are delicious and their deep, red color is hard to pass up. While you're waiting for them to cook, ask your early learners to think of other ways they can incorporate beets into a meal (salads, sandwiches, etc).
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Recipe is from Superhealthykids.com.
This is a super versatile and healthy dessert option for kids. You can substitute heavy whipping cream for the coconut milk if desired. You can grill these, or bake them in the oven at 375 degrees for about 30 minutes. If you're looking for a quick science experiment, ask them to hypothesize about what's happening to the cream as you whip it up.
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Teachers everywhere have yet another new challenge—supporting students and their families from home. We know that high-quality interactions, including interesting, hands-on experiences that are facilitated and supported with feedback, scaffolding, and higher-order thinking questions, best support young students' learning. So how do you help your students' caregivers offer the same high-quality interactions while at home? Well, Rachel Giannini has some super fun ideas to share! The following are ideas she shared during her session at our recent InterAct CLASS Summit.
When schools abruptly closed due to Covid-19, teachers everywhere were given a new challenge—supporting students from home. This Teacher Appreciation Week, we at Teachstone want to celebrate the teachers impacting families and say thank you to teachers everywhere.
Here are a few thoughts from some of our team on the impact teachers are having on their families' lives.
Before the 2019 InterAct Class Summit in Nashville was even over, we were already excitedly planning 2020! But before we get too ahead of ourselves, let's take a quick look back at the incredible presenters, attendees, and staff that made 2019 possible. We had nearly 400 participants from all backgrounds—teachers, caregivers, mentors, coaches, trainers, implementation leaders, administrators, assessors, researchers, and more. However, their common passion for improving classroom interactions and empowering life-changing teachers was evident.
I have a confession to make—I'm a social media junkie. I had to go through a 12-step program to cure my Facebook habit. I had a short relapse, but I was able to kick it again. I tried Twitter years ago, but that just wasn't for me. Pinterest is just straight up evil. I've planned two weddings, a total remodel of a home, and a trip to Hawaii. None of these things is ever going to happen, but Pinterest has robbed me of about 400 hours of time that I put into these nonexistent projects. Instagram is one of those things that I can take or leave.