Heartland Child Nutrition
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A Bimonthly Newsletter for ND Child Care Providers Participating
in the Heartland Child Nutrition USDA Food Program
January/February 2014
How To Get Your 2013
CACFP
Tax Statement
Child care providers claiming online
can print out their total yearly reimbursement for tax purposes by clicking
on “tax report” on
the top gray tool
bar. It’s that simple!
Providers claiming
on paper forms, can
print out their tax
statement by visiting
www.minutemenu.
com on any computer. Enter your
assigned log-in and password. (If you
have not yet requested your log-in and
password, please contact Dorleen at the
Heartland office.)
1) After logging in, click on “Review
Claims.“
2) The screen that appears will have
a lower left corner icon called
“Tax Report.“ Click on the icon.
3) The remaining steps to print out
your report will appear.
Reimbursement received in January
2014 for a December claim is considered as 2014 income. If you do not
have access to a computer, contact
Heartland for a printed copy of your
2013 reimbursement.
A source with useful business advice for
family child care providers, including
tax filing, is www.tomcopelandblog.net.
Heartland Child Nutrition, Inc.
P.O. Box 1218, 521 Main St, Suite 425
Bismarck, ND 58502-1218
701-250-0140 or 800-366-6793
hcn@heartlandnutrition.org
www.heartlandnutrition.org
Daily Doses of “Let’s Move!”
CROSS THE STREAM
Place two masking tape lines on the floor to represent the banks of a stream.
Vary the width, with banks nearly touching in some places, widening to no
more than 4 feet. Mark the spots with tape where children can demonstrate
the ability to jump across. Try running leaps. Try jumping with feet together.
Challenge them to make a body bridge over a narrow part of the stream. Use
swimming motions with arms while walking up or down the stream.
WADS UP?
Crush up sections of newspaper to make ball-shapes. Form small wads and
large wads. Have the children aim and throw the various wads into an empty
laundry basket placed an appropriate distance from where they will be standing. When they tire of the game, just throw away the paper balls!
COOKIE MONSTER
Have children line up along a wall or line. Tell them that they are “cookies.”
One child is the Cookie Monster, who stands some distance away, facing the
other children. The children chant, “Cookie Monster, Cookie Monster, what
time is it?” The Cookie Monster responds with a clock time, choosing any
number such as “four o’clock.” The ‘cookies’ then count out loud together
as they take steps toward the Cookie Monster, “One,
two, three, four.” The “cookies” repeat their “what
time is it” call. The Cookie Monster continues to
respond with time numbers until
he or she decides to answer,
“Cookie time!” whereupon
the
Cookie Monster chases
the cookies back to the
wall. The Cookie Monster doesn’t necessary
have to “catch” anyone. If
you prefer, you can use the
title “Crazy Monster” and call
out “crazy time.”
(more ideas on back page)
New Tier 1 Schools
Gluten-Free Diet Booklet
New Learn-At-Home Course
HCN Spring Training
Welcome New Providers
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Contents
Banana-Grams
National CACFP Week Pet Foods May Sicken Humans
Valentine Food Ideas
Movies’ Eating Messages
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New Additions to
Tier One School
Districts
The ND Dept of Public Instruction has announced that the following school districts
are added to the 2014 qualifying areas eligible to receive Tier 1 reimbursement rates.
• Fargo Public Eagles Center
• W. Fargo Public LE Burger Elementary
• Halliday Public Schools
• Hague Bakker Elementary
• Grand Forks Public Valley Jr. High
• Dakota Prairie High School
• Lakota Public Elementary
Providers living in these newly designated
Tier 1 districts have been contacted by
Heartland Child Nutrition. If you have
questions about your eligibility please
contact us.
Gluten-Free Diets
Heartland Helps Booklet Available
If you are caring for, or are considering caring for, a child that requires a
gluten-free diet, this booklet offers information. It is an introductory guide of how
a gluten-free diet can fit into the CACFP
meal pattern. To request a copy, please
e-mail or call our office.
Updated Learn-At-Home Course
Active Kids Are Healthy Kids
Shannon Ehrhardt, a graduate student in nutrition and exercise
physiology, has written a Learn-At-Home course available exclusively to Heartland Child Nutrition providers. The course, Active
Kids Are Healthy Kids, replaces the previous Fun with Fitness course.
Active Kids offers insight and inspiration to instill healthy food attitudes and fitness opportunities into family child care.
Website Remodel
Heartand’s web site is being updated with many
features and added information. Providers will
be able reference the blue Provider Book, Learn-AtHome courses, and take the annual CACFP Compliance Review Quiz online. Watch for an announcement of our site’s
unveiling in a couple of weeks! We predict that you will
love the new and improved www.heartlandnutrition.org!
This new course is approved by ND Growing
Futures for one-clock-hour of training credit.
Completion of a 10-pt. quiz and short reports on
two fitness activities conducted at your daycare
are required to earn the credit. The course is
available to print from www.heartlandnutriiton.
org or upon request to Heartland.
Veggie Trails: The Path To Loving Vegetables
Upcoming Annual
Spring Training
Poor vegetables - usually the least popular food on the lunch menu despite having so much to offer. However, happy trails are ahead! A one-hour video course, Veggie Trails: The Path to Loving Vegetables, is being
developed by Heartland Child Nutrition and will be available to Heartland providers starting in late March
through the rest of 2014. Providers will be invited to watch Ann
Schuetzle, Heartland’s Nutrition
Education Director, chop, toss,
stir and sizzle easy vegetable
dishes for your daycare menus.
The USDA sub-groupings of vegetables, now used in school food
service meal patterns, will serve
as trail markers. One-hour credit
will be available.
Watch for details about the video
in the March newsletter.
Welcome to
Heartland Child
Nutrition
Bismarck:
Julie White
Bottineau: Heather Belcourt
Dickinson:
Amanda Serr
Fargo:
Heather Anderson
Grafton:
Angel Schrank
Golden Valley:Gina Manhart
Hettinger: Katie Hopkinson
Jamestown: Brynne Burkett
Alica Thu
Amy Nagel
Mandan: Brenda Dolajak
McClusky: Ilean Gross
Minot:
Mauash Ali
New Salem: Kris Emineth
Page:
Jessica Erickson
Walhalla:
Heidi Bailly
Welcome back greetings to:
Justina Enzminger
Greta Guscette
National CACFP Week
March 16-22, 2014
During National CACFP Week, family child care providers are encouraged to acknowledge the many ways the CACFP contributes to quality
child care. The CACFP benefits the child, the parents, and the provider.
Plan ahead to have a notable recognition of the food program during
the week of March 16-22. Ideas to consider:
 Take a picture of the children in your care eating a meal and send
it to our Senators and Representative along with a short note
about how the CACFP helps promote life-long eating habits.
Involve the parents and children in planning a week of CACFP
menus featuring families’ favorite healthy choices.
Plan one or more nutrition activity for CACFP Week and inform
the parents. You might want to adapt a clever idea used last year
to promote March, National Nutrition Month, in the Bismarck
Public Elementary Schools. A color was assigned to each day of
the week with a request that children wear a piece of clothing
in the specified color and bring a snack to eat of the same color.
For example, Monday was red day; Tuesday was yellow. Child
care providers could do a similar promotion using the food they
offer at snack during National CACFP Week.
When Pet Food Makes Humans Sick
In a period of 6 months in early 2012, 49 humans tested positive for
Salmonella from dry pet food. But the actual number ill could have been
closer to 1,500, because so many cases of foodborne illness are not identified or mistaken for a flu or virus.
In 2007, 62 fell ill in a Salmonella outbreak linked to pet food from a
single company. Of these, 39% were under the age of one.
Banana-Grams
Start an every day breakfast with a fun
message on a banana peel! The night
before, use a sturdy toothpick, or the
tip of a small paring knife, to carve a
message into the skin of a nearly-ripe
banana. Overnight the carving will darken revealing the message. A personalized banana half will be a surprise at the
breakfast table with questions of “How
did you do that?”
Most people who are sickened by pet food, do so by handling contaminated food or having contact with the pet food containers. It is possible
that children could crawl on floors where pets have been eating contaminated food or treats, or simply come into contact with the pet food “dust”
as it is being poured or eaten by the pet.
Hand washing after serving pet food or touching pets is always recommended to avoid potential pathogen transmission. Do not feed pets or
keep pet dishes in any area of food
preparation or dining. We love our
furry friends but their food and eating should not mingle with daycare.
www.foodsafetynews.com 12/30/13
Day Ideas
Daily Doses of “Let’s Move!” (continued from front page)
Imaginary Adventures
Have children use vigorous motions to act out an adventure that they
have experienced or read about. An adult can lead the way in telling the
story and suggesting movements. For example, pretend to go to a swimming pool with pretend jumps, swimming strokes, tossing beach balls
and drying off. Describe a jungle adventure of climbing trees, swinging
on a vine, stretching like a giraffe, hiding from a tiger, or driving a jeep.
Kids’ Movies Deliver Mixed Messages
on Eating and Obesity
Popular children’s
movies, from “Kung Fu
Panda” to “Shrek the
Third,” contain mixed
messages about eating
habits and obesity, a
new study says.
According to study
from University of
North Carolina School
of Medicine, many
animated and live-action
movies aimed at children are guilty of “glamorizing” unhealthy eating
and inactivity, while at the same time condemning obesity.
Twenty top-grossing G- and PG-rated movies from 2006 to 2010 were
analyzed. Clips from each movie were examined for their depictions of
eating, physical activity and obesity. The findings show that many popular children’s movies “present a mixed message to children: promoting
unhealthy behaviors while stigmatizing the behaviors’ possible effects,”
the researchers said.
Among the movie segments that included eating, 26% featured exaggerated portion sizes, 51% included unhealthy snacks and 19% included
sugar-sweetened beverages, according to the study published online Dec.
6 in the journal Obesity.
Pictured above: Small heart-shaped cookie
cutters quickly turn cheese and watermelon
into valentine treats. Trim the sides of a
carrot, with a notch at the top, then slice
for lunch. Give a nutritious valentine using
“Cutie” oranges.
Source: Pinterest
Unhealthy movie segments outnumbered healthy ones by two to one,
according to the researchers. They also found that nearly three-quarters
of the films included negative weight-related messages. For instance,
a panda who wants to be a martial arts master is told he can’t because
of his “fat butt,” “flabby arms” and “ridiculous belly.” And a donkey is
referred to as a “bloated roadside pinata.”
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opportunity provider and employer.
HealthDay News, 12/12/2013