FLIK Independent School Dining Launches New Signature Program: Book Bites
To better serve our independent school communities, the FLIK Independent School Dining chefs and dietitians have collaborated to create new reading resources for educators launching this week: Book Bites.
This signature program combines the joy of reading with the importance of understanding and appreciating nutritious choices – and what a perfect time to launch the program with both Read Across America Week and National Nutrition Month both happening this March.
As a way to extend nutrition education beyond the dining hall and directly into classrooms, FISD is partnering with our school communities to provide educators with new resources to conduct an engaging and flavorful lesson with the full support of FISD’s dietitians and chefs. Classrooms are provided with age-appropriate wellness-centric books to read as a group, a corresponding culinary tasting to compliment the reading, and “bite sized” lessons around topics like balanced eating, probiotics and an introduction to gut health, diversity and inclusion, and trying new foods.
The books featured in “Volume 1” of our program include:
- For PreK – 1st Grade: I Can Eat a Rainbow by Olena Rose
- For PreK – 3rd Grade: I will Never Not Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
- For Kindergarten-3rd Grade: Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
- For Kindergarten-4th Grade: What’s on Your Plate? by Whitney Stewart
- For 2nd – 5th Grade: A Garden in Your Belly by Masha D’Yans
In addition to the gifted book for the classroom or school library, FISD is providing instructors with complete marketing & signage, creative bookmarks for the entire class featuring our new bookworm mascot, Basil, fun stickers, a paper activity that encourages comprehension, and – of course – a tasty food activity!
As a creative kickoff, our RDs are popping up all over the country at our schools as guest readers! Be sure to follow FLIK Independent School dining across Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to see the programming in action – and maybe even catch a few of our other favorite food-centric family!
Interested in more information about Book Bites and implementing it in your schools? Contact your Food Service Director or District Manager.
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