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New Recipe Idea For Your Weekly Menu: Pizza in a Bowl!

I just love having school-age kids in my program, because they are full of new ideas. This past summer, I observed a group of children looking through some cook books during our summer treats curriculum theme. I walked over to the children and asked, ” What are you guys looking at?” They showed me a picture of a bowl of pasta that was smothered in pizza sauce a pepperoni. It looked so delicious and then the kids asked, “Can we please have this for lunch someday?”

I asked one of the children to write down the recipe and I went to the store buy the ingredients for the recipe: Pizza in a Bowl. Moreover, this dish is now served in my program once a month and today I am going to share the recipe with you.

Pizza in a Bowl Recipe

Mostacolli Noodles (*Grans/Bread)

Pizza Sauce

Pepperoni (*Meat)

Mozzarella or Parmesan Cheese (*1 oz of Cheese is a Meat Substitute)

Cooking Instructions:

  1. Boil the noodles for the recommended cooking time
  2. After draining the water from the noodles
  3. Add the pizza sauce and pepperoni to the noodles
  4. Sprinkle with Cheese and let simmer
  5. Serve in a Bowl!

If you really want to get creative, add some olives and veggies!

The children will love it and this dish meets the Child Adult and Food Program guidelines. Do you plan to add this dish to your menu? If so, be sure to tell me what the kids thought about the recipe.

For more menu ideas, check out the Healthy Child Care Menus ebook!

Your Child Care Business Coach,

Shiketa

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How to Inspire Parents to Build a Library at Home

 

As you may already know, reading to a young child build’s his or her vocabulary and prepares them for school success. Also, having a variety of books for on hand for young children, creates a love for reading and enhances a child’s imagination.

Moreover, this is why it is so important that you inspire parents to build a library at home for their children.

One way that you can do this is by subscribing to Scholastic book and send the book order forms home (once a month) with your parents, so that they can order books for their child(ren) at an affordable rate. Also, sharing literacy articles with parents (on a weekly basis) is a great way to inspire parents to read to their children.

 

I’ve been receiving Scholastic book orders since 2003 and I have built a very large collection of books in my childcare center, just from receiving free books from parent scholastic book orders. Moreover, the parents at my center love to order books for their kids and my hope is that they are building a library at home for their children.

You may already be a subscriber of scholastic book, however, I want you to know that you are in a  position to inspire parents to start a library in their home(s) for their young child(ren).

Need more inspiration? Check out this quote:

” A Nation that reads much..knows much.” ~Thomas Jefferson

In summary, in my recent research of school readiness, I read a quote from a Kindergarten teacher and she wrote: ” The best way to prepare a child for kindergarten, is by reading to him or her.”

Here are some great articles to Share With Your Parents

http://www.earlymoments.com/Promoting-Literacy-and-a-Love-of-Reading/Why-Reading-to-Children-is-Important/

http://www.readingfoundation.org/more.jsp

http://www.totsites.com/help/fun/reading-books.php

 

I look forward to reading your thoughts about this post! Please leave your comments below.

Shiketa

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