Breakfast By The Barn

This month, we started a new Moss Haven tradition where we invited families to gather for breakfast, watch the sunrise and be entertained by the Lake Highlands High School Drum Line.  It was a great way to celebrate our Healthy Zone School, our RISD delicious food service and our community! Thanks to our MHE PTA and Healthy Zone for supporting this event! What better way to start out your day? Thanks for all who contributed and our Rock Star Cafeteria Ladies who serve up yummy food every day. It was a great morning that made for a great day! #BuildingCommunity

Green Apple Day Of Service 2014

This year marked our third anniversary for our Green Apple Day of Service on the Farm. Several businesses, American Heart Association, Dallas Master Gardeners, Whole Foods and our local community came out to spruce up and build up our farm. It was a great day and we were able to rebuild our garden beds, amend soil, weed out The Giving Garden and plant some Fall crops. All ages joined in and once again showed us that many hands make light work. It was also a lot of fun!

Thanks to all who give to our farm! It makes us all the better for it!  E I E I O....,

GenYOUth Nutrition-Physical Activity-Learning Connection Summit

This week was more than exciting, to say the least! I was invited by our Healthy Zone friends to attend the GenYOUth National Convention at AT & T Stadium. It was just what this health loving teacher needed to get fired up for the upcoming school year!

The morning started off with a tasty breakfast that highlighted some of the new national breakfast recipes and standards. Yum!

There were several keynote speakers throughout the morning.  We learned from leading experts in the field of childhood health and nutrition who were there to share their knowledge base. Included in these leaders were members of the NFL, The Cooper Clinic, FitnessGram, National Dairy Council, United Way, Fuel Up To Play 60, Quaker Oats, Pepsico, GenYOUth, US Department of Agriculture, Farmers, Community Leaders, Teachers, and folks from the Medical field. I was proud to be representing our school and took in as much as I could.

While a break was in session, these Healthy Zone teachers were brought onto the field to work with student ambassadors and the Healthy Zone Champion, Troy Aikman!

Activities to engage and re-charge our brains were provided when the Fuel Up To Play 60 Student Ambassadors sat down with us for Lego building fun! We built a scene and shared an inspiring experience with each other. Can you see the two  Lego chickens in my Lego hands below?

The Student Ambassadors and Summit leaders were treated like Pro Football players when we entered the field through fog to participate on the gridiron! Our faces were even flashed up on the humongous Jumbo-Tron.

Student Ambassadors created posters of health and fitness. The winners' poster will be printed and hung in football stadiums around the country. They were all super excited about that opportunity!

The challenge from the summit was to go out and make big changes in our communities! My fuel is fired and we are well on our way! I can't wait to make more healthy changes at our school and in our neighborhood! Thank you genYOUth! This farmer is motivated!