Sharing Statistics with Lithuania

Secondary school students begin their study of the results of the hydration survey. They share the first tables summarizing their graphs with Lithuanian mates of "Saltinio" progymnasium Taurage,
Next week they will do the same with the collaborators of the neighboring country, Portugal.

Lithuanian cuisine

Eating habits in our kindergarten

From Lithuania, the teacher Ruta Kersiene tells us about her eating habits in your kindergarten (Jonavos lopselis-darzelis "Saulute", Lithuania):

- Your breakfast habits: food you usually have and the amounts of them.

For breakfast kids usually eat different porridge (150 g. for smaller kids and 200g. for 4-7 years old kids): oatmeal, semolina, buckwheat, pearl barley , boiled eggs and corn flakes with milk. Sometimes they get biscuits (simple ones, not very sweet - 12 g.), small buns (30 g.). Kids drink herbal tea, cacao or black tea with milk - 150 gr. for under 4 years old and 200 g for over 4 years kids.

-Your hydration habits.

All kids can drink water during the day as often as they want, since they have a jar of water in every single group. Children also get 150-200 g. water with slices of lemon without sugar, apple juice or stewed fruit compote once a week.

- Your food pyramid.

We have read your diet and found it very healthy and healthy, with many grains.

It strikes us that they drink tea, since we do not have that custom here, is an interesting idea.They are very kind to share this information with us. Thanks to our Lithuanian friends.

Ukrainian cuisine

The kindergarten ukraine “Educational Complex Vseznaiko” has  already involved some interdisciplinary projects to improve the standards of Ukrainian education.

At this moment they  develop a project called "Winter holidays and traditions in Ukraine"

They were interested in the theme of winter, winter holidays and traditions in Ukraine, also they learned about the seasonal dishes of Ukrainian cuisine, from the point of view of healthy nutrition.

That is why they have kindly offered to share with us their learning about the food of their country.

They send us this kind message with a presentation of their work:

Good day! We are happy to participate in your project. And we are pleased to show our kindergarten approach to nutrition  children following in the presentation.

Thank you very much from Spain and Portugal for collaborating!

Dominican Republic's Food habits

We dominicans usually eat three food during the day.
For breakfast, we could have bread with butter and a cup of coffee or chocolate, or boiled smash banana with boil or fried egg, or cheese or even ham.
Our main food is the rice, beans and meat, it is eaten every singles day by most dominican, sancocho that is a Kind of soup with meat and vegetables, vegetables and fruit are not as popular as the rice. Most of us never eat properly, or have the right amount of food. Also, most people usually have water or juice while are eating, and right after Lunch a cup of coffee is welcomed.
For dinner, it depends on the Day and the Kind of family, it could be pasta, boiled plantain with salami, mash potatoes or bananas, pizza or fried chicken with fríes.
Water, i think we drink the right amount of water per day.

Food pyramid

Information FAO http://www.fao.org/nutrition/education/food-dietary-guidelines/regions/countries/dominican-republic/en/

Sharing projects

Ninfa Laurenzo Early Childhood Center is a Houston Independent School District facility located just south of downtown.

Students attending Laurenzo ECC enjoy a variety of educational experiences from specially trained Early Childhood teachers.  The school is named after a well known Hispanic Houston Icon, Ninfa Rodriguez Laurenzo, who was also known as Mama Ninfa.

Ninfa Laurenzo ECC school is doing their StarT project about peace, hope and well being. The project is called the 1000 paper cranes. They are spreading love and peace by making and spreading out paper cranes. They aim to build bridges between different communities and erase borders, support refugees and enhance Human values. The person in charge of the project at the school is Francisco Usero Gonzalez.

We have contacted them to share tasks. Our students have made paper cranes and their students show us how they learn healthy cooking.

Children give examples by washing the vegetable and picking up the table.

We are very happy to be able to collaborate and have found a school with Hispanic ties.

The three schools congratulate the students and teachers of Laurenzo ECC and we thank them for their collaboration.

A greeting from Spain and Portugal.

Address

Room 8 - Ninfa Laurenzo ECC

Mr. Usero-Gonzalez

Houston ISD

Our pyramids (Portugal)

Challenge the class. Organize into groups to make the food pyramid and be original.
These were the results. Development of competences for the century. XXI. Collaboration, Communication, ICT ....

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Do they drink water?(Tenerife)

From IES Realejos (Tenerife, Spain) 

We are trying to answer this question properly through a drinking and hydration habits survey. In the picture you can see our students doing the survey to their peers using tablets. So far, we have only collected the data and in a few weeks we will have enough information to know more about us and we will be ready to make a new question: 

Is it the same in other places or countries?