Getting Closer and Closer

After school today, Mrs. Steffensen and I met up to go talk to the 3rd through 5th grade teachers. Mrs. Steffensen had previously sent out an email just briefly explaining to them what I was doing and that I would be coming down to talk to them. I went down to the 3rd grade teachers first. I am meeting with them tomorrow at 10:45ish. We are going to combine both classes for this little meeting. I will be handing out the permission slips at the meeting also. I am meeting with the 4th graders after that and the 5th graders after that. I am having all the teachers collect the permission slips and I will pick them up when she has all them back. Hopefully, I will get a lot of students to come out for the program. I really don't know what I would do if I had no students come out. Let's just hope we don't have to go down that road!

Attacking the Meal Plan

After talking to Mrs. Steffensen earlier today, I decided I really just want to get everything done as soon as possible. I have really buckled down tonight and actually put together the November meal plan. Every day we don't have school there are breakfast, lunch, snack, and supper foods. On every day we have school, there are the same foods except no lunch beings most students eat school lunch. I worked on this for 45 minutes.

Off to a Good Start

Today, I met with my faculty mentor Mrs. Steffensen for the first time. We met for about 15 minutes. She looked over my permission slip and it looked fine. I started making a poster to hang down in the elementary. She thought that was a good idea. We discussed me meeting with each 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade class and Mrs. Steffensen thought that would be a good idea. I am going to email the elementary principal and see if that would be ok. If it is, we are going to go ahead and talk with the teachers to find a good time to talk with the students. I'm hoping it will be ok because I think it would help a lot to get the students to come to the program. They would get a better explanation and hopefully it will come off fun and exciting!

Down to Business

Yesterday, I got to thinking about my senior project and how I should really get it all figured out and ready for my program to begin beings it starts in a couple weeks. I started really looking at a hand out my community mentor sent me. The hand out is a actual program they did with kids that was along the same subject I am doing. I looked it over and got some ideas from it. Some of them weren't so helpful while others were a great help. I am getting further along with my project which is good. I'm going to really get down to business this week and get my permission slip done so it is ready to get sent out along with my meal plan and program totally figured out.

Meal Plan

Part of my senior project is making a meal plan for the students in 3rd through 5th grade. I researched some healthy foods for my meal plan. The most effective website I found was actually a blog written by a mom. I also found a lot of ineffective websites. I ended up finding a lot of information on healthy snacks that kids will actually eat. There are multiple varieties of how to put snacks together to make them fun and healthy. I still have many foods to look up to finish my meal plan.

Permission Slip

To get going on my senior project, I have started to write a permission slip for students in grades three through five to take home. It is basically a slip explaining what I'm doing. Parents need to sign it as an ok for their kid to come to my program. I worked on this on September 14 for an hour. I am pretty well finished with the permission slip but I just want to meet with Mrs. Steffensen and have her overlook the slip to make sure I have everything needed in there. After that, I plan to give the permission slip to the students two weeks before the program starts.

Preventing Childhood Obesity

Being a senior this year, I have a senior project to finish by spring time. I am doing my project on how to prevent childhood obesity. The big overall base of my project is pediatrics. The whole reason for my chosen topic is I want to further my education in college majoring in Pre-Medicine. I hope to eventually go on to med school and be a pediatrician. I have had my project approved by our committee and found my mentors. My faculty mentor is Mrs. Steffensen and my community mentor is Tiffany Keating.