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Breakfast makes a difference - some facts to consider
Breakfast makes a difference - some facts to consider
Posted on Mar 04, 2015 by Maggie LaBarbera
As we continue to celebrate national School Breakfast Week, I thought I would share these facts provided by SNA:
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FACT: Students who eat breakfast have better attention and memory. Research indicates the quality of foods children eat impacts cognition — with poor nutrition linked with absenteeism, hunger symptoms and psychosocial problems.
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FACT: Students who eat school breakfast attend, on average, 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5% higher on standardized math tests.
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FACT: Students who participate in school breakfast show improved attendance, behavior, standardized achievement test scores as well as decreased tardiness. Providing students with breakfast in the classroom setting is associated with lower tardy rates and fewer disciplinary office referrals.
Nourish Thought for the Day:
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
Tips for Parents - Breakfast and Kids
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Breakfast Printables for Children
Kids sometimes forget that a good start for school always starts with a healthy breakfast. This activity worksheet is designed to remind children that the brain needs foods from the five groups to be energized for learning.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: PreK-3
Ages: 4-8
Teach children about the healthy foods that make a balanced and healthy breakfast. This worksheet is a good tool and supplement following a lesson on the foods that comprise a healthy breakfast.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: PreK-5
Ages: 3-13
Healthy Breakfast themed activity for children. Writing activity for young writers. Find the words that best match the sentence.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: K-2
Ages: 5-8
Reinforcing the importance of a healthy breakfast with our writing activity for young children learning to read and write. Alphabetize the breakfast words printable.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: K-1
Ages: 5-7
Creative writing activity for children. Great for younger writers who can write a couple of sentences and for older writers who can write a paragraph about the importance of breakfast every morning. Combine writing skills with healthy habits for school and after school activities for kids.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: 2-5
Ages: 8-13
Counting worksheet for children just learning to count and write numbers. How many fruits can you add to your cereal bowl. Remind children that fruit is a tasty and nutritious addition to cereal.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: K-1, PreK
Ages: 5-6, 4
Math calorie fun for children. This great worksheet teaches children to read a chart, practice addition and see how different foods carry different calorie levels. This exercise provides a series of common breakfast meals to compute the calories and see which foods are higher and lower in calories.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: 3-5
Ages: 9-13
Children can make a commitment to eat healthier and be healthier with our kid-friendly healthy goals agreements. This goal contract is for children who would like to eat a healthy breakfast that includes at least three of the food groups.
Published: Jul 17, 2011
Grades: PreK-5
Ages: 4-13
Make tracking children's healthy goals fun with our very cute healthy goals trackers and food diaries. Daily breakfast meal tracker. Just color the stars for each morning breakfast is eaten. For use with "Breakfast Starts My Day Right Healthy Goal - Printable Agreement"
Published: Jul 18, 2011
Grades: PreK-5
Ages: 3-13
Crossword puzzles and Answer Key These crossword puzzles focus on healthy topics. These also provide a fun way for students to promote their cognitive, spelling and reading skills.
Published: Jul 15, 2011
Grades: 3-5
Ages: 8-13
Children love word puzzles. This word search puzzle has a breakfast theme and helps promote the importance of a healthy breakfast. This word search puzzle has 7 breakfast themed words and good for younger readers too. No diagonal words, only horizontal and vertical words.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: K-5
Ages: 5-13
Elementary school children love word puzzles. This word search puzzle has a breakfast theme and helps promote the importance of a healthy breakfast. This word search puzzle has 15 breakfast themed words and challenging with diagonal words, horizontal and vertical words.
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: 3-5
Ages: 8-13
Breakfast words scramble for children. Kids love puzzles and once they have unscrambled the words and entered in the correct letters, a secret message is revealed that promotes the importance of a healthy breakfast!
Published: Aug 26, 2012
Grades: 3-5
Ages: 8-13
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