Children’s comments include:

• I like making the smoothies the best. Because I like fruit a lot, lot, lot!!! It was fun!!!
• I did not know about fiber in the diet. Now I know a lot.

Teacher’s observations include:

• Students have talked about eating more wheat bread than white bread
• I have observed students making better choices at the salad bar
• My one autistic student now says he needs “calcium” when he eats his yogurt.”
• Students are drinking more water and milk.
• I just think that the program is great and useful to the lives of my students.

Every time I am in the school the kids come up to me and ask if I am coming to their class. They get so excited for nutrition and always check up on me to see when their next class will be. Some of the children also attend the classes at the Police Activities League with my co-worker and they always tell me that they saw “my friend’ and what recipes they are doing. Whenever we do a recipe in class they always ask me specifically for the recipe to take home to their parents. The Hispanic children also ask me for the Spanish version of the recipe for their parents. The kids were also really excited when I gave each of them a color copy of the new MyPyramid for Kids. They thought that was way cool.

This year I have noticed that they are retaining a lot of the information that we covered last year in class. They (3rd-6th graders) know exactly where to look to find information on the nutrition facts label and can find specific information (calories, fat, etc.) without help. Even the 1st and 2nd graders are remembering the information covered last year and have done an excellent job remembering their food groups, despite the change to MyPyramid.