LUNCH GUIDELINES
Children this age are overwhelmed with a lot of choices, so please send two or three nutritional finger foods, e.g. carrot sticks, cheese cubes, crackers, grapes, sandwiches, apple slices, in reusable, easy to open containers. If it could spill all over your child, please don’t send it. Beverage: water, 100% juice or milk in a reusable drink bottle with a screw cap or sports top.
The lunch box should be able to fit within a 51/2 inch wide by 11 inch tall by 12 inch deep cubby space.
We encourage you to consider the environment and help us reduce the amount of trash we throw away. If possible, please do not send paper napkins, baggies, juice boxes or prepackaged cheese sticks to school. If your child is in Berit's class, include a cloth napkin to be used as a placemat.
We support your healthy lunchbox choices: low in sugar, low in processing, high in simplicity and whole foods. Please no candy, chewing gum or things that dye your child’s mouth a color. Instead of highly processed, high sodium foods (like Lunchables) or high fructose foods (like Gogurt), send healthy, fresh, whole foods.
Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle!
SNACK GUIDELINES
We ask parents to bring snack to school three times a school year if their child stays until 1 pm, or six times in the school year, if their child stays until 3 pm.
Parents may choose to either bring snack or pay $40 for each snack day to cover the cost of snacks and shopping.
Please sign up for snack on the Snack Calendar on this website.
The snack you bring will be for both classes, so split it in half and deliver it to both classes. We love fresh, homemade, low sugar treats. A day or two before your snack day, you are welcome to check to refrigerators in each class to see what we already have on hand.
See the following suggestions, or create your own! Bring one item from each group.
1. Breads: mini muffins (50), crackers (one box), banana bread or raisin bread (one loaf)
2. Fruits or Vegetables: (4 lbs) apples, bananas, oranges, carrots, cucumbers
3. Protein: cheese (1 pound, in a block or cubed), hard boiled eggs
4. Beverage: 1/2 gallon water, low fat or whole milk, 100% white grape, orange or apple
juice. No fruit “drinks” or punch or Gatorade, please. No high fructose corn syrup.
Suggested Snack Menu for the Week
Monday Mini muffins or banana bread, oranges, cheese, milk
Tuesday Graham crackers, carrots, cheese, apple juice
Wednesday Raisin or plain bread, bananas, cheese, white grape juice
Thursday Crackers, cucumbers, cheese, water
Friday Mini bagels or pitas, apples, cheese, orange juice