What is PE-Nut?

PE-Nut is a nutrition and physical education program that uses a Meet your Nutrition
whole-school approach to motivate students, parents and educators to be Educator
physically active and eat healthier. PE-Nut is designed to improve health
behaviors in a school environment by presenting simple, consistent nutrition
and physical activity messages via multiple approaches and locations.
A trained Nutrition Educator from the National Kidney Foundation of
Michigan will be visiting your classroom 5 times between now and the end of
the school year. On the back of this newsletter, you will find a list of Healthy
Classroom, Healthy Schools activities we will be carrying out in your
classroom. Take a look at the suggested supplemental activities in that unit
and consider doing them with your students during the month of our visit!

FOOD TASTINGS:
Pumpkin Fruit Dip 1

Curry Vegetable Dip

Power to Play Trail Mix
Fruit and Vegetable Taste-Off
Fruit Celebration Smoothie
Randa Abdallah
2
This is my first year with PE-Nut
3 and Im so excited to start! My
favorite fruit is cantaloupe and
4 my favorite vegetable is
cauliflower. I love to garden, and
5 I was a former Tennis player. I
am looking forward to teaching
PE-Nut to your class!

Contact me at:
(313) 205-6135
PE-Nut Materials rabdallah@nkfm.org

Healthy Classrooms, Healthy Schools: Classroom curriculum containing healthy snack

ideas, family letters, school-wide announcement, core curriculum links and CSH links. This is Dont forget to...
what both you and the Nutrition Educator will be teaching from!
Send home the Family
FitBits: 7- to 10-minute physical activity breaks for classrooms that were developed to get kids Letter from your
up and moving during the school day Nutrition Educator!
Fruit and Veggie Buddies: Given to P.E. and classroom teachers to use for lessons and
added incentives.
Health Through Literacy: Book bag containing 5-6 nutrition or physical-activity related trade
books. Includes lesson guides and ensuring success sheets.
EPEC: Curriculum that the students are being taught in P.E. class.
Building Leadership Guide: Principal component that includes morning announcements and
news letter inserts.
 Scheduled Nutrition
Education Lessons:

Week One (Unit 1, Activity 1)

(Unit 2, Activity 1)
Date:_____ from___:____--___:____

Week Two (Unit 6, Activity 1)

Randa Abdallah Date_____ from ___:____--___:____
1169 Oak Valley Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan
48108
Cell: 313-205-6135
Week Three (Unit 8, Activity 1)
Phone: 734-222-9800
E-mail: rabdallah@nkfm.org
Date_____ from ___:____--___:____

Week Four (Unit 4, Activity 1)

Date_____ from ___:____--___:____

Week Five (Unit 9, Activity 3)

Eat Well - Be Active - Stay Fit!
Date_____ from ___:____--___:____

PE-Nut Tips:
Encourage your students to check out the nutrition books available in your library
Try out new healthy snacks in class
Ask what they are learning about healthy eating in gym class
Encourage your students to eat healthy foods at lunch
Provide incentives for bringing healthy snacks to class
Be physically active with in the classroom
Be a good role model

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