Reference no: EM133622726 , Length: 4 pages

Introduction

Pretend you are the owner of a preschool, and putting together materials for your open house event. For this assignment you will be writing a sick policy, weekly menu and curriculum lesson plan that you will be passing out to parents to read in the Family Handbook .

Directions

Part A :Sick Policy

Create an illness policy for your center. Some things to address in your policy; Explain why do you have an illness policy? Will you do a health check? What will it entail? What are some common and uncommon illnesses that would result in a child needing to go home? Explain the reasoning behind exclusions and when a child is allowed back at school. Support your policies with scientific evidence.

PART B: Food Policy and Weekly Menu

Write a food policy for your center. Include a week-long menu of morning and afternoon snacks you will serve. Some things to address in your food policy; What are the reasons you are choosing the foods you are serving? Describe how food is prepped and how food is served. Why have you chosen to serve food in this way? What messages do you want to share with families regarding nutrition? Are there any foods that are not allowed at school and why?

PART C: Learning Experience around health, safety or nutrition

Young children are forming their lifelong habits of health, safety, and nutrition during these formative years. As teachers, we can support children's understanding of these topics by planning learning experiences across the curriculum which help form their lifelong health practices and attitudes. In this assignment, you will choose one of the topics: health, safety, or nutrition and plan an activity/learning experience that is developmentally appropriate for children 3-5 years old. As you are planning your activity/learning experience you will consider skills of this age group, children's understanding, children's interests, free of gender, cultural, or personal bias, and integrated across curriculum areas. Download the Health, Safety, and Nutrition Activity/Learning Experience form and complete all areas.

Health, Safety, and Nutrition Activity/Learning Experience Form and submit.

The paper should be formatted as follows:

The introduction (page 1) of your paper should be a description of your school. Include the age of the children, the ratio of children to teachers, and a philosophy of the school. You can be creative for this part.

The following pages (2 to 4) should be a description of the sick policy, food policy and curriculum. Explain why this is an important part of your school to your families.

The final pages/conclusion will be how this policy/curriculum relates to the larger society and community. For example, you may about:

• Do you have these rules in place to teach children safety or to help them learn about following rules?
• Do you have this food policy because you want to set healthy habits at a young age?
• Does your illness policy also affect the community? Family members?

Include your sick policy, food policy and curriculum