WIN a Back-to-School Prize Pack for You and Your Class!
Fall school days are on their way, bringing tons of exciting new classes, friendships, and experiences. Year after year, however, there’s always one period eagerly-anticipated by kids and teenagers alike: lunch!
Growing students have big appetites, and not just for learning. Unfortunately, while good, wholesome food-for-thought has always been a priority in American classrooms, less attention has often been given to serving-up quality in cafeterias. Happily, schools and communities across the country are putting nutrition education on the lesson plan, with inspiring results!
WIN $100 OF SHOES FOR YOU PLUS $100 HEALTHY SNACKS FOR YOUR CLASS!
Inspired by the recent rise of farm-to-school programs across America, we’re giving away healthy, organic, delicious snack packs to three lucky students to share with their classes! Each of our three winners will receive $100 worth of tasty roasted hazelnuts and dried apple slices, both sourced from friendly farmers right here in our Pacific Northwest region. PLUS, each winner also gets $100 worth of Soft Star Shoes to send them back to class in comfort and style!
Getting hungry?
How to Enter:
In 50 words or less, tell us about your (or your child's) most memorable learning experience in school via the comment form below.
Updated 8/21/15: Since so many people are exceeding our 50-word limit, we will not disqualify entries that are longer. Brevity is highly appreciated, though. If you wrote in under 50 words and would like to re-submit your entry then we will only consider the newer version.
It can be inspiring or funny, adorable or odd. Please include your name and the name of your school (last names are not required—a last initial will suffice). Homeschoolers are welcome to enter, too!
RULES: One entry per person, family-friendly content only. Contest ends at 11:59 PDT, August 31, 2015. At that time we’ll choose our three favorites and contact them via the email address provided with the comment. Email addresses will only be used to contact the winners and will not be shared. Open worldwide, void where prohibited by law. If you have trouble leaving a comment then you can email your entry to us at [email protected].
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Jana is a marketing strategist, writer, and editor passionate about promoting businesses making a positive impact. She holds a Master’s of Business Administration with a Sustainability emphasis, and she has proudly put her training and experience to use connecting health seekers with brands and services that improve their lives. Her specialities include copywriting, brand development, content strategy, on-page SEO, and social media. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, toddler, adorable dog, and well-fed cat.
New york is the capital of new york state.
Me:
New York is NOT the capital of New York state - it's Albany.
Our school: Mariposa http://mariposari.org/
But if brevity be the soul of wit, let's try a haiku:
Twenty-one years spent
homeschooling four lovely girls
Smile as they succeed
When she came home that first day, she told me a lot about Egypt, a little about her two new besties, Emily and Jacob, and how much she was looking forward to Tuesday. Triple win.
Nicole B.
Newmarket Elementary School
A memorable lesson was this: We were talking about how much Zia (my girl) loves pink. She said that she's glad she's a girl because she gets to wear pink and purple. I said that anyone can wear pink, but she didn't think so.
The next day at school, she noticed how Fletcher (a boy at school) wears pink sparkly shoes. After school, she told me that boys can, "wear pink too" -- her interest and observation began a conversation about how boy and girls both like sparkles, and pink and can wear any color they want to - a pretty important lesson! We know notice when people dye there hair, or what colors they wear, if they have bright shoes, bag, glasses, etc. and our conversations are much more, er, colorful using color as an entry into observing and embracing difference.
Thanks for entering Zia and our school in the contest!
Over the past 4 years V has attended Growing up Montessori preschool Waldorf kindergarden and Wood Gormley Elementary of Santa Fe NM.
V is a second grader now :)
I watched as first he asked the boy to his left, "Could you please draw a car for me? Yours look so nice." While that was happening he asked the girl across from him if she would draw a hotel for him. She really just wanted to do her own work, but he kept cajoling her by telling her how nice her art work was and how much better than his ability until she gave in.
His teacher never noticed. I thought about mentioning it and decided that building CEO skills and flattering others into getting double work done was probably a more useful life skill anyway.
Wow, 50 words or less was hard.......
School: KidTown, Buffalo Grove
She's entering third grade this year and I still think about the universal truth of that statement often.
As for my son (he’s homeschooled), there are so many memorable learning experiences--every day is full of them! Most recently, we’ve been encouraging him to play instruments, as he loves watching and listening to them. He has a little clarinet, but when he first got it, he couldn’t figure out the correct way to blow into it. For weeks he refused to play it, and just wanted Mom and Dad to. My husband found him a recorder, which is easier to play, and much to my son’s delight, he was able to play it. The next day, after playing his recorder, he realized he could probably play his clarinet, too. He gave it a blow, and his face lit up as he finally made a note!
On the first day of teaching 2nd grade I found myself frantically chasing an enormous, smelly black lab through our building. When my class cleaned their hands afterward, they used soap instead of sanitizer. The room of sticky, smelly 7yo had one unbelievable story to share with their parents!
When we visited Waldorf we had a good laugh.
The other preschools he was afraid to go
But Waldorf's for him, he told me so.
That night after seeing it and ironing a pillow,
He told me he would go alone as one happy fellow.
He said "it feels like home to me"
And home's a happy place to be!
My three kids just started school at a new school this year. We moved across country with the military for the 5th time and they never flinched. They were so excited at the possibility of new friends and new teachers. I admire their spirit, courage, and perseverance to move every 1-2 years with us. Our family is blessed to see much of what our country has to offer in its lands and its cultures and our kids make so many friends along the way. I can't wait to see what the future holds for them!