Topic: Nutrition

Head Start’s Impact Across Generations

Opportunity to view the National Archives’ presentation of Jenny is a Good Thing. This Academy-nominated short documentary film, created in 1969, documents one of the many significant contributions of the Head Start program, nutrition. Viewers will be able to experience the importance and impact of Head Start across generations and decades of the program. National…

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Spring Garden Storytime Recording

Enjoy the Spring garden storytime recording with rhythmic language, colorful photographs and all of the singing, movement and fun activities!

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How Garden Programs Combat Food Insecurity Recording

Check out this recording and comprehensive list of resources to see how you can best utilize a garden program to combat food insecurity.

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Winter Garden Storytime Recording

Storyteller Noel Nicholas shares a winter garden storytime session where she reads “Logan’s Greenhouse,” by JaNay Brown-Wood.

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Fall GroMoreGood Webinar Recording

Learn gardening activities that can be used to promote the health and wellness of young children.

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Fall Garden Storytime Recording

A webinar recording of a “show and tell” style storytime which shares a song, pumpkins, a story, and an amazing classroom resource.

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5 Easy Ways to Engage Kids in Gardening

Gardening and garden space are extraordinary teaching tools for Head Start educators. Here are five easy ways to get started.

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Connecting Families Facing Food Insecurity to Head Start

The recent SNAP rule change is strengthening both Head Start’s outreach to families facing food insecurity and state and local partnerships.

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5 Tips on Building an Early Childhood Gardening Curriculum

GroMoreGood gardens grantee and Land Grant Director Heidi Ziegenmeyer shares her top tips on how to implement a gardening curriculum.

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GroMoreGood Webinar: Learning from Head Start Gardeners

Join us to hear first-hand experiences and practical gardening tips from fellow Head Start gardeners and educators. This webinar will include program spotlights, detailed below, from three of our GroMoreGood Head Start Garden Grant winners and from educators participating in the Junior Master Gardener’s Learn, Grow, Eat & Grow Early Childhood Program. We hope their…

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2021-22 GroMoreGood Garden Grant Winners

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation and NHSA are awarding 10 GroMoreGood grants to programs connecting our nation’s youth to gardening.

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Early Nutrition

Each month, NHSA Touchpoint shares insights into our latest work to support your programs, our community’s accomplishments and special events, and a love note or two. This month, we are taking a look at early nutrition and healthy eating habits. (Last month, we talked about parents.) This Month’s Theme: Early Nutrition According to a retrospective…

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