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Munch & Move WSLHD Newsletter Issue 2 2016
Issue 2 2016
Munch & Move WSLHD Newsletter Issue 2 2016 2
Welcome to the second 2016 issue of the Munch & Move Newsletter from the Western Sydney Local Health District. We encourage you to share this newsletter with your staff
and hope that it provides useful ideas to implement Munch & Move at your service.
We always love to hear about the wonderful Munch & Move activities that are happening at your service! To share these with us, or if you have any ideas for future
newsletter editions, please contact the Munch & Move team on (02) 9840 3603.
Western Sydney Local Health District Munch and Move Support Officers
Alicia Kenyon [email protected]
Anthea U [email protected]
Claudia Lee [email protected]
Natalie Virgona [email protected]
For other Munch & Move stories and tips, you can visit and ‘Like’ our South West Sydney LHD colleagues social media pages:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Munch-and-Move-
SWS/454583547949366
http://twitter.com/MunchandMoveSWS
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NEXT BEYOND MUNCH & MOVE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 22nd March @ Parramatta 9:00am-3:30pm
Spaces are limited - REGISTER NOW to secure your place! Services who attend will receive
a FREE piece of fundamental movement skills equipment and also have the chance to win
a $100 Bunnings Warehouse or Educational Experience voucher.
If your service would like to attend, please complete the registration form here and email
to [email protected] or fax to (02) 9840 3608.
For other workshop dates, please refer to page 7 of the newsletter.
The first Beyond Munch & Move workshop for 2016 was held on 25th February at Rooty
Hill RSL and it turned out to be a great success with 21 services in attendance! All of the
educators enthusiastically got involved in the activities throughout the day which included
a variety of FMS games, a lunchbox activity, healthy cooking experience, a fun aerobics
session with the lively Sarah and Jennifer from ECTARC, and more!
Some of the pictures from the day are below, if you are keen to see what all the fuss is
about REGISTER NOW for a Beyond Munch & Move workshop!
"We loved attending the Munch and Move
workshop, and have gained plenty of ideas to
implement at our service and share with the
educators". Tara Armstrong & Amanda Steed,
Bright Start Kidz (pictured left).
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Munch & Move Key Message
Choose healthier snacks
Snacks are as important as meals in meeting children’s nutritional needs
Snacks should be based on healthy, filling foods such as fruits, vegetables, dairy products and wholegrain cereal-based foods
Snack foods that are high in added sugar, saturated fat or salt are generally high in kilojoules and low in nutrients contributing to increased weight gain in children
Below are some healthy snack suggestions that your service can encourage from home or
provide at morning, afternoon and late afternoon tea:
How can your service support this key message?
Promote healthy snacks at your service – include this information in your Nutrition
policy, display photos of the children eating healthy snacks (and add these to their
portfolios), share healthy snack recipes and ideas with families.
Prepare healthy snacks with the children and be a good role model by eating and
enjoying healthy snacks with the children.
Vary the snacks on the menu to keep children interested and to introduce children to
a range of healthy snack ideas.
Healthy Eating Guideline
Offer meals and snacks at regular and predictable intervals
FRUITS VEGETABLES DAIRY CEREALS
Fruit salad Vegetable sticks Reduced fat yoghurt Rice crackers/cakes
Fruit kebabs Vegetable kebabs Homemade custard Wholemeal crum-pets/bread
Fruit platter (whole or sliced fruits)
Dips – tzatziki, baba ghanoush, hummus, beetroot
Reduced fat cheese cubes/slices
Wholemeal fruit bread
Dried fruit (limit to once per week)
Cherry tomatoes Reduced fat plain milk
Corn thins
Corn on the cob Pikelets
Baked beans Air-popped popcorn
Rice paper rolls
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How can your service support this key message? (ctd)
Where food is brought from home: encourage families to bring healthy snacks for
children and promote snacks with less or no packaging.
Provide information to families about the benefits and importance of giving children
healthy snacks such as the Munch & Move fact sheets, Healthy Lunchbox Snacks
poster, or Healthy eating for Children brochure (pictured below).
Through providing healthy snacks, your service would also be meeting the following
Munch & Move Program Adoption Practices:
Practice 2: Site menu includes fruit and vegetables at least once per day
Practice 3: Site menu includes only healthy snack options everyday
Practice 4: Site supplies age appropriate drinks every day (water and plain milk, reduced fat
for children 2 years of age and older)
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Healthy Eating Learning Experiences - why are these essential? Integrating play-based Munch learning experiences into your everyday curriculum are a great way
to educate young children about food and healthy eating and provide opportunities for them to
discover, create, improvise, imagine and have fun.
For young children, we are aiming for them to develop a positive
and relaxed attitude to food and eating rather than creating too
many rules and taboos around food. So it is important that
discussions with young children about food focus on the positive
and avoid describing and categorising food or specific nutrients
(eg. sugar, fat) as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, focus on food groups and use
the terms ‘every day’ and ‘sometimes’ foods.
When carrying out healthy eating learning experiences, it is also important that educators as well
as Cooks are involved and that foods from a variety of cultures are included, particularly those
cultures represented at your service.
Below are some suggested healthy eating learning experiences you can trial at your service:
Cooking experiences such as fruit or vegetables kebabs/faces, muffins, pikelets. Parents and
grandparents could also be invited to participate or facilitate this activity, especially if they are
from different cultural backgrounds.
Gardening activities to explain how foods grow. Encourage children to plants seeds in your centre’s
fruit or vegetables garden or in their own individual pots and when they are ready, harvest to
include in snack time or use in lunch recipes.
Sensory activities to provide opportunities for children to explore the smell, touch, colour, taste
and texture of different fruits and vegetables. Compare raw vegetables and fresh fruit to cooked
vegetables and stewed fruit, and whole vegetables and fruit to sliced versions.
Games such as ‘fruit/vegetable heads’, The Magic Lunchbox game
(pictured), or fruit bingo.
Songs and books that link into healthy eating, such as songs from the
Munch & Move music CD, The Magic Lunchbox book, The Hungry Little
Caterpillar, Handa’s Surprise.
For more ideas, don’t forget to refer to your Munch & Move resources!
By providing Munch learning experiences every day, your service will also be meeting the following
Munch & Move Program Adoption Practice:
Practice 5: Site provides structured and specific learning experiences about healthy eating at
least once per day
Pages 55-68 Pages 165-170
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UPCOMING MUNCH & MOVE WEBINAR SERIES
Munch & Move training is now delivered via a ‘live’ webinar series and consists of 4 sequential modules, each 2 hours in length which can be completed over 2 weeks (2 sessions per week) or 4 weeks (1 session per week). The training is delivered by the Early Childhood Training and Resource Centre (ECTARC).
Please see table below for upcoming training dates. To register your interest, click here.
UPCOMING BEYOND MUNCH & MOVE AND COOKS WORKSHOPS
Following the success of our Beyond Munch & Move and Cooks workshops held in 2015, more dates have been scheduled for this year and we are now accepting registrations from services. These workshops are delivered by the Early Childhood Training and Resource Centre (ECTARC) and provide a great refresher on the Munch & Move key messages and Practices including focusing on Fundamental Movement Skills, healthy eating learning experiences, and getting your whole team on board!
The dates of our upcoming workshops are below:
Note that the content of these workshops are the same as the ones held in 2015.
For more information and to register your service for a Beyond Munch & Move workshop, please click here. *Note that priority will be given for services who have not yet attended this workshop.
For more information and to register your service for the Cooks workshop, please click here. *Note that we will only accept registrations from services who have not yet attended this workshop.
By completing a webinar series or attending a workshop, your service will also be working towards the following Munch & Move Program Adoption Practice:
DAY TIME MODULE 1 MODULE 2 MODULE 3 MODULE 4
Tues & Thurs (2 weeks)
10am-12 noon Tuesday 29th March
Thursday 31st March
Tuesday 5th April
Thursday 7th April
Mondays (4 weeks)
4:00-6:00pm Monday 2nd May
Monday 9th May
Monday 16th May
Monday 23rd May
Tuesdays (4 weeks)
1:30-3:30pm Tuesday 3rd May
Tuesday 10th May
Tuesday 17th May
Tuesday 24th May
Wed & Fri (2 weeks)
10am-12 noon Wednesday 4th May
Friday 6th May
Wednesday 11th May
Friday 13th May
Thursdays (4 weeks)
2:00-4:00pm Thursday 5th May
Thursday 12th May
Thursday 19th May
Thursday 26th May
Mon & Wed (2 weeks)
6:00-8:00pm Monday 30th May
Wednesday 1st June
Monday 6th June
Wednesday 8th June
Tuesdays (4 weeks)
10am-12 noon Tuesday 31st May
Tuesday 7th June
Tuesday 14th June
Tuesday 21st June
Thursdays (4 weeks)
1:30-3:30pm Thursday 2nd June
Thursday 9th June
Thursday 16th June
Thursday 23rd June
WORKSHOP DATE TIME LOCATION
Beyond M&M Tuesday 22nd March 9:00am to 3:30pm Parramatta
Beyond M&M Wednesday 6th April 9:00am to 3:30pm Baulkham Hills
Cooks Specific Thursday 28th April 2:30pm to 5:30pm Blacktown
Beyond M&M Thursday 12th May 9:00am to 3:30pm Parramatta
Beyond M&M Friday 17th June 9:00am to 3:30pm Baulkham Hills
Practice 14: Site with at least 50% of Primary Contact Educators trained in nutrition and at
least 50% of their staff trained in physical activity
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Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)
FMS are a specific set of gross motor movements that involve different body parts such as the feet, legs, trunk, hands, arms and head. These skills are the basic building blocks for
more complex and specialised skills required by children throughout their lives to competently participate in games, sports and recreational activities.
It is important that early childhood educators guide and support children in the development of FMS as they do not naturally learn these skills as part of their normal
growth and development. As a result of including FMS in your daily program you will also be meeting the following Munch & Move Program Adoption Practice:
To assist your service in teaching the FMS, we will provide some game ideas on a few skills in each newsletter issue. In this issue, we will focus on jumping (locomotor skill), hopping
(locomotor skill) and kicking (manipulative skill). Also think about what popular games you are currently playing with the children that include these skills.
Practice 8: Site provides fundamental movement skills for children 3-5 years of age every day
to at least 90% of children
LEARN IT FIRST!
Educators should familiarise themselves with the skills and understand how to teach them correctly by watch-
ing the Fun Moves DVD (pictured) or youtube clips.
DON’T FORGET TO USE YOUR MUNCH & MOVE FMS RESOURCES!
FMS app now available! The app provides quick ideas for active games that can build children’s FMS. It also provides support for educators to help
teach the correct movement skills, with links to videos and other resources. Information about the app is here.
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Jumping
Game Ideas
Crocodile jump (from Fundamental Movement Skills in Action: FMS for 3-5 year olds)
Lily Pad jumping (from Fundamental Movement Skills in Action: FMS for 3-5 year olds)
Obstacle course with small objects that children can jump over
Bubble blowing (from FMS with Franky and Friends)
Hopping
Game Ideas
Hopskotch (from Fundamental Movement Skills in Action: FMS for 3-5 year olds)
Hopping relays (from Fundamental Movement Skills in Action: FMS for 3-5 year olds)
Rivers and puddles (from FMS with Franky and Friends)
Kicking
Game Ideas
Number kicking (from Fundamental Movement Skills in Action: FMS for 3-5 year olds)
Across the River (from Fundamental Movement Skills in Action: FMS for 3-5 year olds)
Tunnel Ball (from FMS with Franky and Friends)
Soccer game
SONG IDEA
Let’s all move together on the
Munch & Move Music CD (pictured)
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UPCOMING EVENT
In today’s society where spending time on screens (mobile phones, TV’s, iPads, computers) is all too common, we often forget to take a break from these devices and
reconnect with the ‘real world’.
On May 2nd to 8th, children, families and communities around the world will rediscover the joys of life beyond the screen. During this time, encourage everyone at your service
(educators, Cooks, children, families) to unplug from digital entertainment and spend their free time playing, reading, creating, exploring, and connecting with family and friends.
How can your service get involved and promote this message?
Encourage outdoor free play as often as possible during the day
Encourage indoor active play during periods of wet weather
Provide information to families on screen time recommendations such as the Munch & Move fact sheet (pictured right) or newsletter snippets
Discourage the use of small screens to calm or settle children - try yoga, meditation, music, drawing, or reading instead
Set a screen-free challenge for families to try at home
Through encouraging a screen-free week, your service will also be promoting the
following Munch & Move key message and Program Adoption Practice:
For more information about this initiative and to access promotional resources, visit the
website here.
Practice 9: Site use of small
screen recreation by 3-5 year
olds is appropriate
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HEALTHY EASTER CELEBRATIONS
When we hear the word ‘Easter’ our minds automatically think of chocolate!
However, there are other creative and fun ways that you can celebrate Easter
at your service using ‘every day’ foods and your imagination!
FOOD
Toasted hot cross buns
Mixed sandwiches cut into Easter shapes
Boiled eggs made into the shapes of rabbits or chickens
Fruit ‘basket’ made from melon shells
Mixed vegetable platter served with healthy dips
NON-FOOD CELEBRATIONS
Painting/drawings of Easter images
Easter hat parade - children can make their own hats from paper or cardboard
Easter egg hunt using boiled or plastic eggs, instead of chocolate
Painting the shells of boiled eggs
Creating Easter cards or banners to display at the service
