It is a common experience to hear adults state that children will not eat a healthy meal - all they want is junk. Our experience at the Harriet Tubman Charter School proved otherwise. The children love healthy food as long as it is creative, tasty, and fun to eat.
The problem is not the children, it is the adults. Children choose healthy over junk if it is available. The problem is that adults do not want to take the time to provide or prepare healthy choices for children. The children at the Harriet Tubman charter school had the courage to challenge the administration. As happens so often, the administration smiled and filed their letter away. Kids need us now - they deserve to be fed well.
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Dear Ms. Pirrs (Pierce),
As a class we wanted to tell you that the food we are eating for breakfast, lunch and snack isn't so good. We thought that we should eat something much better. We say this because some kids aren't eating the lunch and Dr. René is always saying to be healthy but not eating is definitely not healthy. We also thought that if you get the food that we like we would be happy and we wont have to take any food out of the refrigerator. Also so parents wouldn't use there time making sandwiches for there kids. So will you please try to do what ever you can to do us that favor.Think about it because if you change the way the food is than kids wont go home and start complaining to there parents that they don't have anything to eat. So just write the people who give us the food a note and be brave like we are and tell them that there are kids in our school who are not eating. So we are asking you please think about this first and it would be a great help and you will also be a great principal so please help our system.
From, Tynisha, Khadija, Kamaria -
Dear Dr. Rene,
I enjoyed your visit very much. You are very intellegent and smart. I have learned how to eat healthy and enjoy what I eat at the same time. You also gave me ways to make healthy food at home. I really apreciate you taking the time to come in. Your work is very educational. You should come in and teach us more stuff. I really helps me think about my heatlh. THANK YOU!
Sencirly,
Alex
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I want to thank Dr. Rene for coming to the class and helping us with eating right. I also want to thank Dr. Rene for teaching us how to make healthy food and healthy toppings. I want to thank her and all the other people for buying the supplies for the things we made. Now I know how to eat and how much to eat. Now I also know how to find out how many sugar cubes there are in anthing from Dr. Rene.
The part I liked best is the tasting part. I also liked the part to serve people. From her I know what I might want to be when I grow up a waiter. Those are the parts I liked about the class and what I want to thank you for.
Alexis
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Thank you Dr. Rene I really aprsat it how you took your time coming to our school and my class. I like when we did the toppings for the pancake. I like the pancakes and the sack. I like the pancak better then the scak it tast better. I like the maple nut topping and strawberry. I hope you write back soon.
To: Dr. Rene
From: Andrea
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Dear Dr. Rene,
I thank you so much for coming to my class I love when you came and visit our classroom. I learn so much from you like how to mace pancakes it was very very good Thank you so much.
Angela
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Dear Dr. Rene,
I want to thank you for coming to our class. It was great having you. We had a lot of fun with you and thank you for helping our body to keep us learning good thing I was fun, making pancake and the shakes The first one was to nute but it was good watching you make it The topic where verey good blueblues we mad the name but evrything was good We had a lot of fun but want to say thankyou I was great serving We had fun while we was doing It was great I want to say thank you and we hope to see you.
Love,
Carl Dunn
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Dear Dr. Rene,
Thank you for showing me how to eat right it really helped me. Now I know how to eat right. It really helped me now when the teacher ask me a question I can think faster. I have more energy then I used to. I eat fruits, like apples and other things my favorite is grapefruit. I make shakes with my mother we made a banana shake.and we made one with melons.
Love,
Derek
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Dear Dr. Rene,
Thank you for helping us eath health and giving us good tasting.
Devaughn
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Dear Dr. Rene,
Thank you for coming to our class room teaching us how to make pancakes and shakes. I hope you could come again in our classroom. I was very excited but patient and quiet in class when you doing something with another group instead of my. The important thing that I learn is that to put a little bit of the pink sugar (stevia) thing that taste sweet.
Jerry
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Thank you for coming to our class. I
liked the pancakes. They were delicious. I think what we have to do the next time we make a shake to strain the nuts first. It was really fun.From,
Mateo
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Dear Dr. Rene,
Thank you Dr. Rene for coming in to make us shakes. I thought I'll never get to make shakes, But we finally made them. Thank you for making pancakes for us. They were very delicious. The best part I liked about making the pancakes were when we got to make the toppings for them. Thank you for telling us the story about the Megabites. Thank you for telling us healthier ways to eat. And I would really like to thank you for putting us on kidsneedusnow.org that's on the internet with our class pictures.
I can't wait until you teach us how to make healthier chips.
From,
Michael
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Dear Dr. Rene,
Thank you for comeing to are class sto teach us about helf. Thank you for helping us eat balins and helfly. Thank you for helping us make helf pancake we can eat. Thank you for makeing saw we eat helfy. The most impotin thing that I learn was that the people that make the label liey to you about how many shuougars is in the proditd. The scond impotin thing is that we need all the egunis to make the shake, and make sure that you are folowing the direcng. Thanke you for ever thing you thart us and very thing I learn frome you. Thank you for making pancakes with us. Thank you for teaching us how to make shake.
From,
Omana
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Dear Dr. Rene,
Thank you Dr. Rene for taking your time to work with the school. I also want to thank you for teaching us how to make shakes and pancakes. Some people didn't like the pancakes. They said it has a lot of salt. But it's okay. I think that we should add healtly products that makes pancakes taste beter. We hope you an visit us again.
Sincerly,
Rashawn Wrenick
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Dear Dr. René,
I would like to say thank you for coming to our class and teachering us how to make pancakes. I realy like the pancakes and making them. I really like the shakes but I think you put too many nuts in the shakes. I really like you and I think you are a grate person. I hop you visit us again soon.
Fom.
Tahir Holman
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From the 4th grade class:
Dear Dr. René,
I will like to say thank you Dr. René for coming to the class room to visit us. I had learn a lot of things how to make pancakes and shaces and we learn how to make toping on the pancakes and it was good.
Tireri
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Dear Dr. René,I want to thank you for coming into our class and doing the actives that you did for us. Dr. René I really want to thank you for showing me how to eat things that are good for me.
Dr. René, now that you showed me how to eat I been calm and I can thing better. I been showing my family too how to eat healthy thats why everybody has been coming to my house to talk to me and how to have a good meal. Know that I have been doing so well than at the end of the week I can get a junck food meal. I thank you so much.
Love,
Ty'nisha