Bright Beginnings Preschool

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Nutrition Policy

We provide snacks and lunches (lunch costs $3.00) for children ages two and older which meet USDA standards. Our meals are creative and planned with nutrition and children's preferences in mind. Parents of children infants to two years old will provide ALL food, juice, and milk products daily for their child.
Snacks and lunches provide the opportunity for modeling and learning appropriate and healthy eating habits.
Teachers interact with children and encourage meals to be pleasant, social times. They sit with the children during meals and facilitate conversation.
Children are given first servings with the opportunity and encouragement to take seconds.
Children are encouraged to eat but not forced. New foods are served in small amounts so children can taste them.
Food is presented in a very positive and objective manner. Children are also introduced to nutrition and health education in a natural and matter-of-fact manner: "Oranges have lots of Vitamin C."
Children feed themselves.
Spilling, dropping food or breaking dishes are treated as accidents. Children are helped to clean up accidents but are not made to feel guilty. A natural consequence of spilling is cleaning up.
When children have finished eating, they leave the table and prepare for participation in outside time, center activities, rest or quiet time.

Snacks
Bright Beginnings promotes interest in a variety of healthy foods by offering them at snack time. Some of our favorites include: Cinnamon Toast, Apples with Peanut Butter, Fresh Baked Quickbread, and Chewy Oatmeal Bars.

School Lunches
While we ask that parents pack lunches for their children, we understand that sometimes things come up and parents forget. For $3 we will provide your child with a lunch that consists of peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a fruit, a vegetable, and milk.

Pizza Fridays
Friday Pizza Parties!! Support your child's classroom by buying a slice of pizza ($2.00/slice), available every Friday for your child's lunch. ALL of the proceeds go directly to your child's classroom. The money will be used for educational supplies, instructional materials, and toys!!

Just sign up at the front desk by 10am each Friday and provide your child with hot and yummy pizza and more fun in the Bright Beginnings learning environment!

Pizza Friday is a favorite with homemade sicilian style pizza baked on site - we grow herbs in our pizza pots for pizza toppings... basil, parsley, oregano and chives!

Mac & Cheese Mondays
On Mondays parents can purchase a perennial favorite of the pre-school set- homemade macaroni and cheese! It’s another weekly fundraiser where we underwrite the cost of the food and all proceeds go directly into the childen’s individual classrooms. The teachers love that they can purchase special equipment with their mac and cheese money and use it for the “extras”.