Snacks

Each morning, we eat snack around 9:15 because we have about four hours in between school starting and lunch. Many of the students in Room G come to school without a morning snack. Personally, I don't have the funds to provide snack for the students as some teachers do. If possible, please remember to send a healthy snack with your child in the morning.

In the cases where this is not possible for some families, I'm looking for donations.

The students and I have come up with a great idea! The cafeteria encourages the students to take a fruit with their hot lunch, but often, the students don't touch it and it gets thrown away. We have started to put uneaten, untouched foods in our lunch tote so that the we have a few extra snacks for the next day. For example, on Friday, the cafeteria was serving bananas. A couple of students didn't want their banana, so they put them in the lunch tote and put it in a basket in the classroom. Now we have 2 bananas for snack on Monday! This has been great so far, but we don't have enough food to go around. We often have 6-8 kids without a snack, and they end up arguing over who should get the left over food.

This is where we need your help! If you are able to pick up an extra package of snacks next time you are at the store, we would greatly appreciate it.

Healthy snacks are appreciated - fruit such as bananas, cuties or apples, applesauce cups or pouches, crackers, granola bars, fruit leather, pretzels, rice cakes, beef jerky, pre-popped popcorn, etc. We have no method of keeping snacks refrigerated or cold in our classroom, so I ask that you please refrain from sending yogurt, cheese, and the like.

Thank you so much for thinking of our class!