This week the students learned about Myplate. We as parents want to make sure our children eat the right things. Myplate is a color coded place setting to help people visualize the foods they eat. We played a Nutrition game based off the book the "Lorax". The students were divided into two teams and had to work together to build a healthy plate of food. They had to make sure that their plate had a fruit, vegetable, protein, grain, and a dairy. This was represented by the different noodle colors that corresponds to Myplate. (blue:dairy, purple:protein, Red: fruit, green:vegetable, orange:grain) The"Lorax" (students) have to collect the seeds to build their "Truffula" trees. The students had to be careful not to get tagged by the “Once-ler.” (taggers) If they got tagged, they had to be saved by their teammates, so they could go back to collecting seeds. We added fats and oils to the second and third rounds of this game. The Lorax had to get rid of the fats/oils by running a lap around the gym. Check out the Myplate site: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/MyPlateAtHome.pdf
