I. description of nutritional goals for your classroom.

II. Considerations that guide your menu planning process including an accommodation you may make in managing and/or meeting a young child’s special dietary needs.

III. Strategies to inform and engage families in the planning of nutritional meals for their children and a sample menu for home or school. Identify Nutritional Goals and Guidance for Healthful Menu Planning

Nutrition education in the schools and home are very important to the child health it helps them to focus on the daily lesson of the day.

Many children are not getting the right amount of food or they getting too many rich and fatty foods from the fast food chains.
As a teacher, you have to teach the children and the parents what the portion size that the child may need.
To teach preschoolers about food and nutrition, you have it to make it fun and keep the children interested in what you are teaching them. According to the American Dietetic Association (Sorte, The Foundations of Optimal Nutrition, 2011) (Nevin-Folino, 2008), caregivers should allow the toddlers to explore foods as they become increasingly independent in their food choices. Have them taste a new fruit and vegetable they never had before.

Promote pleasure and success while eating. Avoid succumbing to unreasonable demands. As a teacher, I know this is not going to be easy for child or the parent or caregiver if they do not like fruits and vegetables. We have to wait and see what the child going to love and what they do not like every child is different and I can remember when I was in preschool and I was the only one who love vegetables and I remember how the teachers had to beg the rest of the children to eat them. At the end children will eat them but on their terms.

Meal pattern requirements for infants are very specific. They outline the