Handbook

Snack, Meals, and Rest

  Children require healthy food to focus and learn. Highly processed, sugary foods and ones with large amounts of color hinder that process.
  •A healthy snack will be provided for children daily. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
  •Each child must bring a lunch and drink in a thermos. Please label the lunch box and thermos with your child’s name. Please provide hot/cold packs if needed.
  •Do not send foods that require extra preparation. Your child’s lunch should be ready to eat. Finger foods are best.
  •Lunches should be healthy and appealing.
  •High – sugar foods, “fast foods”, and sodas will not be allowed and will be sent home.
  •Children arriving after 9:00 will need to eat breakfast before they come to the center.
  •Meal times are served family style; children will help with the table setting and clean-up.
  •Meal times are great opportunities to work on table manners, and to learn all about healthy eating habits.
  •Parents of infants must provide formula and or breast milk.
  •Formula will be heated in a crock pot to insure safe temperature.