Cantaloupe

Did you know? Orange foods, like carrots, sweet potatoes, and—cantaloupe, are high in beta carotene. Cantaloupe is also an excellent source of vitamin C, which helps our immune system. It is also a good source of vitamin B6, dietary fiber, folate, niacin, and potassium, which help maintain healthy blood sugar levels and metabolism.

This delicious fruit is packed with nutrients! And a great addition to your child’s healthy lifestyle.

Follow this link to read more about the 7 Nutritious Benefits of Eating Cantaloupe

Recipe: Childproof Cantaloupe Smoothie only 3 ingredients

Recipe: Fresh Cantaloupe-Cucumber Salad

Video: This is the best way to cut cantaloupe to save as much of that delicious flesh!

Sometimes getting vegetables into your child’s diet can seem like an impossible battle! It often seems to turn into negotiations or pleading with your child to cooperate. Fear not!

We have some suggestions which we hope will be helpful:

Firstly, make sure that vegetables are front and center in the refrigerator. Clean and prepare vegetables when you purchase them so they are grab and go and then place them in a location to be seen front and center when the fridge gets opened. Also, think about keeping them out on a tray on the kitchen table or counter so that they are easily accessible to children and are also something they get used to seeing in their environment. They may just reach for one when they feel the urge to snack!

Lastly, think about how you might hide vegetables (in puree form) in your child’s favorite foods. For example, if your child loves mac and cheese think about stirring in pureed butternut squash or pureed carrots. The idea is to add very small amounts in the beginning (think 1 teaspoon) so that your child doesn’t detect the flavor change.  Then slowly increase the amounts over time so your child naturally gets used to the slight flavor change. After a few weeks (or months) you may be surprised that your child is eating so many veggies.

Click here to see the article below for more ideas about how vegetable can be hidden in many foods!

WellKind School’s front grounds are a Certified Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat and Outdoor Classroom!

This spring and summer WellKind Children will be having a lot of outdoor fun!

Toddlers and preschoolers alike will be having learning lessons outside, gardening, and observing and learning about the wildlife population that live in our grounds!

We incorporated an Outdoor Classroom back in 2019 and since then children have enjoyed banging the spoons in the music area, baking mud pies in the kitchen, digging dinosaurs and sitting to enjoy a book in the outdoor nook, our outdoor classroom also has an  art area, math and science play .

Additional to all the first hand fun the children enjoyed, WellKind School for Early Learners joined the effort across the country  for creating havens for wildlife population, so we turned the front look of our landscape into a more wild and self sustained habitat and earned the distinction of being part of National Wildlife Federation’s Certified Wildlife Habitat® program.

This initiative introduced Wellkind children to the wonders of the natural world. Bird watching, feeding Squirrels, finding salamanders, caterpillars and releasing beautiful Monarch Butterflies.

Spending time outside in nature has also thought our children lessons on gratitude and appreciation, living a healthy lifestyle and being conscious of their environmental Impact.

We are looking forward for this year of outdoor learning and to keep creating impact on the lives of children and families and help to deeply develop themselves and discover the diverse and unique talents that each one of us possesses!

Enjoy some of our best memories of the outdoors