Well Care Visits Key to Healthy Childhood
Well-care visits are important for children of all ages and their families! These routine health checkups with their pediatrician help you keep your child up to date on the vaccinations they need for daycare or school and serve as a way for you to ensure your child is happy, healthy and thriving. Each visit includes a complete physical exam during which the healthcare provider checks your child’s weight, height and other vital information. Pediatricians will also examine your child’s growth and development to identify potential problems. Immunizations, screenings and other preventive care may also be included depending on your child’s age.
Try Day to Feature Plantains Partner of Try Day has become a student and staff the Month: favorite in LCCAA Head Start. New foods are introduced in a variety of ways Prevent in the classroom and this month plantains are featured. Plantains look like large bananas. They are technically fruits, but much like the Blindness tomato and unlike the banana, they are eaten and cooked as if they were a vegetable.
Harder to peel (especially when green) than bananas, plantains cannot be eaten raw. They must be cooked and are an important part of Central and South American, Caribbean, African, and Southeast Asian cuisines.
One of the best ways to help students succeed in the classroom is to make sure they are seeing clearly. LCCAA Head Start works with Prevent Blindness to provide vision screenings to all enrolled children.
Plantains are very versatile and typically inexpensive. They are always ready for cooking no matter what stage of ripeness—green, yellow, or Vision plays a critical role in black—and used in a variety of dishes, from appetizers to desserts. They children’s physical, cognitive just need to be peeled when raw. and social development. Visual LCCAA Head Start students will get to explore a whole plantain in class functioning is also a strong predictor so they can feel, smell and see the food. Lunch on Friday, Oct. 22 will of academic performance in schoolinclude a sample of plantains which will also be sent home for parents age children. to try. Parents can complete a survey to be entered into a drawing for a Without early detection and George Foreman panini press. treatment, uncorrected vision disorders can impair child pan. Spread evenly. Set aside Sweet Plantains development, interfere with for step 4. Ingredients learning, and even lead to permanent 2. Melt margarine in a small pot vision loss. 1/3 cup water
3T brown sugar (packed) 2T margarine 2 1/2 tsp. raw ginger root slices 2 1/2 lbs. raw yellow plantains in medium sized slices Preparation Instructions: 1. Place plantains into a baking
uncovered over medium heat. 3. Add sugar, water, and ginger. Stir well until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat. 4. Pour ginger mixture over plantains in baking pan. 5. Bake at 350 °F for 15-25 minutes
Prevent Blindness provides training and equipment to LCCAA Head Start staff to conduct these critical vision screenings.
