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Healthy Start/Départ Santé Recipe Challenge

Calling all kids & educators!! Has your centre/classroom developed an original recipe that is kid-approved? Are you thinking of ways to involve kids in the kitchen?   The Healthy Start / Départ Santé Recipe Challenge is for you! We want to challenge all the Healthy Start centres/classrooms to create healthy, kid-friendly recipes. We are excited to see a range of creative entries from classroom favourites to traditional cultural dishes and everything in between! For every submission, you will be entered to win from a selection of prizes including a $50 gift certificate to Wintergreen! How to Enter: 1) Click here to share your recipe – OR – 2) Email your recipe to Project Coordinator, Tracy Sentes at [email protected]   Deadline to Enter is March 28, 2016 For more information please contact Tracy Sentes [email protected] or 306-519-3962.  

Water in winter?

People might think that water consumption isn’t as important over the winter, but dehydration can occur year round, even in the cold Canadian climate. Here are some important tips on staying hydrated over the winter months, as well as some tricks to put some colourful splash into your winter water.

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Easy Cheesy Macaroni Tuna & Vegetables

What you need: 2 ½ cups of water 2 chicken or vegetable bouillon cubes, or 1 tbsp. bouillon powder 2 cups whole wheat pasta spirals or elbows 1 cup of milk 2 cups of fresh, frozen or canned green beans, peas or broccoli, cut into half-inch pieces ¼ tsp. of black pepper 1 ½ cup of cheddar cheese, shredded 1 6.5oz. can of chunk of tuna, drained How to: In a medium saucepan, bring the water and bouillon cubes to a boil over high heat. Add the pasta and bring back to a boil and keep stirring. Lower the heat to medium-low and cook for eight minutes or so, stirring occasionally to prevent the pasta from sticking to the bottom of the pot. Add the milk, veggies and pepper and continue to cook, partially covered for another five minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat, add the cheese and tuna and stir until the cheese is melted. Serves eight children Reference: LEAP HOP, Legacies Now, p. 175

February-March 2016

Check out this month’s Healthy Start Sampler for a feature on Family in motion Day 2016, a cheesy macaroni recipe, and more!

Healthy Start in your community – winter 2016 edition!

The Healthy Start / Départ Santé (HSDS) team is always looking for ways to get involved in the health promotion movement – spreading healthy activities all across the province and beyond our borders! Did you know that Healthy Start has been implementing the initiative in New Brunswick as part of our overall evaluation study? In the past two years, the HSDS New Brunswick team has implemented the project in collaboration with numerous partners including Active Kids / Jeunes actifs, NB Gymnastics and the Wellness Branch. Recently, seven childcare centres have participated in a Healthy Start training in the following communities: Bathurst, Petit-Roche, Black Harbour; Richibucto and Cap-Pelé. Thank you to Mathieu, Véronique and Émilie, students at the Université de Moncton, for their support in delivering the training sessions! Back in Saskatchewan, Healthy Start assisted the SK in motion team at the SUMA conference in Regina with an impromptu Flash Mob! If you are in Saskatoon for the winter break, check out Family in motion Day on February 15th – there’s a great line-up of activities for families and children of all ages in and around Toon Town! Click here for more info. Healthy Start and partners will be hosting interactive LEAP™ (Literacy, Education, Activity, Play) games targeting young children; and MEND SK (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it!) will introduce active games for school age participants. Plus, don’t miss the dance party and a giant indoor snowball fight! And finally, 11 francophone early years specialists from across Saskatchewan participated in a two day Healthy Start / Départ Santé train-the-trainer workshop at the end of January. Our 12th participant, Nathanael Patriquin, from Fredericton, returned to New Brunswick with loads of resources and ideas on how to continue to share HSDS in his province. Congratulations to these new partners!

Save the Date! FREE Healthy Start/Départ Santé Train-the-Trainer Workshop,

May 13-14, 2016 – Saskatoon, SK Incorporating physical activity and healthy eating in young children’s daily routine The purpose of the Healthy Start Train-the-Trainer workshop: To equip more individuals to deliver Healthy Start trainings throughout Saskatchewan To help expand Healthy Start in your community Why become a Healthy Start community trainer? To be part of an exciting early years health promotion initiative in Saskatchewan To make a difference in the health of young children To help support those working in the early years in the good work they are doing Who should participate? Early years facilitators, educators or coordinators (ECE background) Recreation or health promotion facilitators (nutrition or kinesiology) Public Health Nutritionists or other health region personnel Individuals who have experience with public speaking and in adult training   Don’t miss out! Applications must be in by April 15, 2016 Apply here: http://goo.gl/forms/UWZQNS0Fud  Frequently Asked Questions: Click here. Questions? Email Tracy at [email protected]

Family in motion Day 2016

What: Family in motion day event hosted by Healthy Start / Départ Santé and in collaboration with MEND SK (Mind Education Nutrition Do it!), l’Association des parents fransaskois (APF) and the Saskatoon Federation of Early Learning. When: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm February 15, 2016 Where: École canadienne-française Elementary School – 1407 Albert Ave, Saskatoon Who: Families; activities will target children ages 3-13 and their parents Admission: FREE! Description: Come join Healthy Start, MEND SK and the APF for an afternoon of activities. Fun for all ages including games, healthy snacks, a raffle, a dance party and an indoor snowball fight! Weather permitting, we will also have outdoor activities and there is a toboggan hill so bring your sleds and your crazy carpets. For more information on Family in motion Day, please click here.

GrooveEDGEucation Early Years Training – Dance like no one is watching you!

Healthy Start / Départ Santé hosted a 2 hour training with Amy Tepperman from GrooveEDGEucation based in Ontario. Around 10 early learning educators and teachers participated in the high-energy, action packed workshop. The Groove EDGEucation philosophy and resources that use dance and movement as a kinesthetic learning tool while supporting physical, mental, social and emotional health. The program offers training and resources to schools all across Canada. Thanks to an invitation from the in motion team at the Saskatoon Health Region and in collaboration with the Saskatoon Public School Division Healthy Start will be able to share this new approach with Healthy Start Centres. We can’t wait to incorporate movement to engage body, brain and being – for healthy, active children and their caregivers! For more information check out their website: www.thegrooveEDGEucation.com.

Healthy Start in the North West

Healthy Start/Départ Santé has made great connections in some remote communities of North Western Saskatchewan. Three Aboriginal Head Start (Urban and Northern Communities) centres from Green Lake, Beauval and Pinehouse took part in the Healthy Start 5-hour training on November 6th, 2015 in Green Lake, SK. It was a good turn out with 14 participants and an exceptionally hospitable host, Green Lake AHS, who went above and beyond for the guest centres in providing the location and a delicious hot lunch. The next day, Healthy Start was able to offer another 5-hour training in Buffalo Narrows, SK. It was attended by a variety of early learning centres including: three licenced child care centers from Buffalo Narrows and Pinehouse, one Aboriginal Head Start (Urban and Northern Communities) also from Buffalo Narrows, and two Aboriginal Head Starts (On Reserve) from Meadow Lake Tribal Council. In total, there were 25 participants. Many laughs shared with this group. In both communities, it was great to see early year educators and teachers getting together and including other professionals in the area to join in on the training. Many participants were invited within the last 2 weeks by word of mouth referrals and amazingly, were able to attend on such short notice even though their centres were over 2 hours away. Healthy Start looks forwards to hearing feedback from these centres as well as stories on how these centres are using the training information in their daily routines.

A Year in Review – 2015

Healthy Start Year in Review is an opportunity to show-case and thank our wonderful Healthy Start centres. We are pleased to share a few of their success stories in promoting healthy practices in early years settings. This is our very first “Report Card” highlighting some of the great progress in the last year.

Winter 2015-2016

Check out this month’s Healthy Start Sampler for a feature about the Au p’tit monde de franco daycare in New Brunswick, a holiday recipe, and more!

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