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Jazzy Food and Nutrition Bulletin Board Ideas

Division of Nutrition Assistance

Breakfast: A Great Start to Being Smart

Directions for Design
A cheerful boy holding a breakfast tray is depicted. Suggested Materials

An illustration of a boy holding a tray of breakfast food
Markers for lettering or prepared letters

Learning Activities

1. Plan a field trip.
Take a field trip to the library for books on breakfast foods. Gather books on themes, such as milk, dairy farms, bread, fruits, and foods that animals eat.

2. Develop morning announcements about school breakfast.
Ask students to develop 30-second and 60-second public address system announcements and work with the school principal to read them during announcement time. Examples of themes include the following:

School Breakfast: A Great Start to Being Smart!
Get on the Right Track - Eat Breakfast
All Aboard for Breakfast. Tomorrow's Menu is ….
Be the Engine not the Caboose - Eat Breakfast
Breakfast - It Gives Your Engine Power
You’re on the Right Track with Breakfast

3. Make buttons to promote breakfast.
Assist the students in making tags or buttons to wear which read, "Breakfast: A Great Start to Being Smart."

4. Why is eating breakfast a great start to being smart?
Teachers and principals often encourage students to eat breakfast every morning before taking very important standardized exams. Note that students could be more alert and do better in school every day if they had a regular routine of eating a well-balanced breakfast. Symptoms of hunger include headache, fatigue, drowsiness, restlessness, lack of concentration, and grumpiness.

Ask students to keep diaries of everything they eat or drink for breakfast for five days. Younger students may draw pictures of the foods. Set aside 10 minutes each day for the students to add to their lists. Ask them to record how they felt at 8:30 a.m. and then about 10:00 a.m. Ask the students whether they had lots of energy, a little energy, or no energy at those two different times. On Friday, ask a few students to share their diaries with the rest of the class. Students who skipped breakfast probably had little energy all morning. Students who ate candy and drank a soda for breakfast probably had energy at 8:30 a.m., but little energy at 10:00 a.m. Students eating a well-balanced diet that included foods from at least two or three of the food groups – such as toast, milk, and juice – probably had the most energy all morning.

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