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Keeping Kids Healthy Resources
Healthychildren.org: 5 Ways to Help Your Kids Have a Healthy School Year
Begin with the basics, ensuring that students get nutritious meals, sufficient sleep and physical activity. All of these are key to academic and social success. Studies show that children who eat a nutritious breakfast function better at school, for example. Many children qualify for free or reduced-price food at school, including breakfast. The forms for these services can be completed at the school office.
Healthychildren.org: School Attendance, Truancy & Chronic Absenteeism: What Parents Need to Know
Missing just two days a month of school―for any reason― can be a problem for kids in a number of ways. Children who are chronically absent in kindergarten and first grade are less likely to read on grade level by the third grade. For older students, being chronically absent is strongly associated with failing at school―even more than low grades or test scores. When absences add up, these students are more likely to be suspended and drop out of high school. Chronic absenteeism is also linked with teen substance use, as well as poor health as adults.
Sutter Health Grade Schoolers
A Healthy Start to the School Year: A balanced diet helps your child be healthy and fight off infections. Start the day with a nutritious breakfast. Try to include an item from each of the five food groups. Pack fresh fruit instead of sugary snacks, water instead of juice boxes and have plenty of healthy after-school snacks on hand.
Momjunction.com: 17 Simple And Useful Health Tips For Children To Follow
Good health in children depends on several factors, such as their nutrition, hydration, sleep routine, hygiene, and physical activity.
Begin with the basics, ensuring that students get nutritious meals, sufficient sleep and physical activity. All of these are key to academic and social success. Studies show that children who eat a nutritious breakfast function better at school, for example. Many children qualify for free or reduced-price food at school, including breakfast. The forms for these services can be completed at the school office.
Healthychildren.org: School Attendance, Truancy & Chronic Absenteeism: What Parents Need to Know
Missing just two days a month of school―for any reason― can be a problem for kids in a number of ways. Children who are chronically absent in kindergarten and first grade are less likely to read on grade level by the third grade. For older students, being chronically absent is strongly associated with failing at school―even more than low grades or test scores. When absences add up, these students are more likely to be suspended and drop out of high school. Chronic absenteeism is also linked with teen substance use, as well as poor health as adults.
Sutter Health Grade Schoolers
A Healthy Start to the School Year: A balanced diet helps your child be healthy and fight off infections. Start the day with a nutritious breakfast. Try to include an item from each of the five food groups. Pack fresh fruit instead of sugary snacks, water instead of juice boxes and have plenty of healthy after-school snacks on hand.
Momjunction.com: 17 Simple And Useful Health Tips For Children To Follow
Good health in children depends on several factors, such as their nutrition, hydration, sleep routine, hygiene, and physical activity.
