You are invited to help your child participate in our school wide health challenge!
Studies have shown that there is a strong relationship between sugar consumption and obesity. In order to promote healthy eating awareness, Murdock is having a contest based on the snacks that the children bring to eat each day.
Your child will write on a class recording sheet their snack name and the number of sugar grams the snack has. In order to help your child, if the snack they are bringing is not prepackaged with a nutritional label, please write the amount of sugar that the snack contains either on the container or baggy or on a slip of paper.
The contest will last for two weeks. The first week, beginning Tuesday, January 17th, is a trial week to give children and their families an opportunity to learn and discuss healthy snack choices. The second week is the week that counts!
Each day classes will report the average amount of sugar consumed for class snacks. The classes that keep their sugar values within the healthy snack range will receive an extra outdoor recess time.
The teachers of the top 3 classes that keep their sugar values the lowest will receive a monetary reward to use in their classrooms!
