This time we did it through a game where the children had to choose the healthiest foods and put together a menu, using high relief sheets with food and life-size portions.
By developing these activities, we want the children at the Healthy Nutrition Center to be able to identify the foods that should be consumed and how to distribute them in adequate quantities in order to stay healthy”.
In the nutritional workshops for parents, developed in Soledad, we continued working on the different food groups, this time we worked on the importance of cereal consumption, highlighting oats as one of the most important, as it is a food rich in iron, magnesium and calcium, it also provides energy, strengthens the immune system; with oats we can make multiple preparations, such as cookies, breads and smoothies. During the workshop the parents prepared delicious and nutritious pancakes.
This Tuesday in Soledad, the nutritional assessments of the beneficiaries of the food security project began, with the objective of determining the nutritional status of children and identify possible risk factors associated with physical health, for this process we have the presence of two nutritionists and a doctor thanks to a partnership with the Food Bank.
This week in Soledad we celebrated the Mental Health Week, developing different activities that favor the socioemotional well-being of our children through different artistic activities, healthy habits and mental exercise, in addition to a campaign called “Don’t hit, better hug” to promote good treatment and reduce situations of violence.
In our Soledad location we use Love & Friendship to boost affective relationships in our children and to honour the value of friendship through a series of different recreational activities, contests and a fun menu to share.
This week in our Soledad location we worked on the habit of punctuality, teaching our kids some strategies that they can use in their daily life to get on time to different places, some the strategies we worked on were: the use of the clock, organizing a routine with the to-do activities and relate it to the times established for the activities of our dining room.
This week in our Soledad location, our nutritional activity had a different focus; we reinforced mathematical competences through fruits and vegetables, with the goal that our beneficiaries familiarize with these foods and at the same time they can strengthen their counting and categorization abilities with elements from everyday life.
In the cafeteria of the Soledad location, we continued reinforcing the food groups, but this time we used a train activity, in which the children had the opportunity to choose their favorite food and go through the seven wagons that made up the train, finding proteins, carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, dairy and sugar. With these types of activities we seek to familiarize the children participating in the Food & Health project with the different types of foods and their nutritional benefits in order to strengthen healthy eating habits.
This week in the Soledad location, we worked with the families involved in the Food & Health project on reducing waste in the kitchen by using scraps, peels and seeds, checking our pantry, monitoring the state of our foods, keeping expiration and best by dates in mind in order to get the most nutrients possible out of our food.
At the end of the workshop we chose a few vegetables that are almost always in the pantry to make a salad using these root-to-stem cooking tips, counting on the participation of the parents in the preparation process.
This Thursday in the Soledad location, we developed the Educating at Home project with the parents, where we tackled possible conflict situations within the family dynamic and how to resolve them using assertive communication. Then, towards the end of the workshop we did a communication exercise with the whole group.
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