Below is a summary of a recent research study on children’s snacking habits, carried out by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers and published in Health Affairs. For more details, see this entry in the Health Affairs blog:
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/03/study-showing-rise-in-snacking-by-children-generates-discussion/
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Snacks accounted for more than 27% of children’s daily caloric intake in 2006—an increase of 168 snack calories [...]
Watts Happenings, Winter 2010, the PTA newsletter, is here! Learn what the kids are doing, what are the teachers doing, what the PTA is doing, and what YOU can do, too!
Contents:
Fruit in Our Future!
From the President
Read-a-thon for Haiti
Meet Ms. McGill
Fundraising News
Exceptional Children’s PTA Committee
Arts & Culture at George Watts
Spring Carnival
Media Center News
Montessori [...]
George Watts has been selected by NC Beautiful to receive an environmental education grant! The award is part of NC Beautiful’s Windows of Opportunity Grant Program, which rewards North Carolina teachers for their creativity and their dedication to perpetuating the natural beauty of the state through creative education projects.
The $1,000 grant will go toward expanding [...]
“A Day On, Not a Day Off”
Martin Luther King, Jr Day – Monday, January 18 – was a gorgeous, sunny day, just warm enough for t-shirts if you were working hard!
It was a day off from school, but for the students of the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM), it was definitely “a [...]
Durham Public Schools recently produced a 4-minute professional video telling the story of our Edible Garden.
It features student narration and great footage of students, teachers, parents, and volunteers. Scenes include the summer’s workdays – back when the garden was just a dream and a dirt patch – plus kids planting their first seeds, the healthy [...]
Mark your calendars: Sat. Mar. 27
and join us for
The Great Human Race.
What is The Great Human Race?
The Great Human Race is a nationwide community fundraising event for nonprofit organizations (such as George Watts Montessori Magnet PTA). The Triangle area race features a 5k competitive run and a 5k community walk through downtown Durham. The event [...]
Head lice can spread quickly among children at school. So parents, please check your children daily!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website has a lot of detailed information on lice in both English and Spanish: http://www.cdc.gov/lice/head/index.html
Harsh pesticide products, such as Rid and Nix, are the only official recommended methods for killing lice. However, [...]
On Monday, November 30, students enjoyed a special harvest-time treat in celebration of their work in the Edible Garden.
Despite the cold drizzle, Chef Mark Day with help from chefs Steve Fugikawa and John Mapel, set up an outdoor kitchen on the playground stage and demonstrated to class after class how to prepare a delicious meal [...]
The annual Book Fair at the George Watts Media Center is an exciting, colorful, book lovers’ feast. For one full week – December 7-11 – the school’s Media Center is jam-packed with hundreds of books for sale, fiction and non-fiction, on all sorts of subjects, in every price range.
Book Fair hours:
Monday: 9:15am – 7:30pm
Tuesday [...]
George Watts Montessori PTA is holding its annual fund drive, and this year we are excited to be raffling off a fantastic prize!
For each $5 donation, you get 1 chance to win
(a $10 donation gives you 2 chances, $15 gives you 3, etc. up to 10 chances)
2 Carolina Hurricanes tickets
Hurricanes vs Chicago Blackhawks
Saturday, January 30, [...]
