Meta- Graf

I'm think in the back of my head how I'm I going to write a five graf essay. I have so much to do to night, but I will just have to stay up and do it. I get home from work at 6:30 after work and go right to dinner for the kids. Than its eat dinner as fast as we can and do the cleaning up. The girls get in the tub, while they are in the tub I start to look at my essay I'm going to do. I wash them up and get them out of the tub. Than we get ready for bed we brush teeth and there hair. The baby goes to bed not long after her tub. Than I go back and start writing my essay, and have to stop a little in to the essay and have to put the older one to bed. We she is finally goes to sleep I go back to my essay again. When I'm finally done I take a shower and get to bed for work again.

Causes Essay 1 redone

Six years ago when I started working at head start there was not a lot of talk about healthy eating or staying healthy by exercising. When you look back you can see how high over weight kids were getting.You can also see how much the portions has changed. There is a very good web sit with great graphs on over weight kids it has some good tips on how to avoid portion distortion. It is the National Heart, Lungs and Blood institute at http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion. It is good to see that Doctors and other people are getting the word about how to stay healthy and what a difference it makes. How much fun eating healthy can be when you turn it into a game like dancing to get them moving and exercising. Have kids helping make the snacks like wash a apple than peel it and cut it.Kids are more likely to eat fruits and veggies if they have helped make it.  Our trainings are fun and come up with good ideas for the kids and there families. We try to come up with different fun exercises for our kids for inside and outside. Even the development needs has changed to more kids from one to three years old are being referred to C.D.S. It is very nice to see the changes so the littler kids are getting the help they need and its not just the school age kids. I like to think if you start them earlier with a referral so they get the help they will not need them latter on in school. The biggest reason I got into child care was for the kids to help them get the help they need and help them learn what they need to get the developmental needs met. To help the parents feel good about leaving there kids with someone they know will take care of there children and love them and that the parents can trust. It is fun to see the kids years latter down the road to see how there are doing in grade school and how they are acting.

A apart of being healthier is being able to pick healthier foods. Like buying  fruits and veggies  instead of chips and candy. If you buy fruits are will snack on that instead of chips. A tip on snacking on fruits is to wash them and cut it up before so you can grab and go when you need to. The same thing with your veggies you can put little sides of dip with it, I love to dip in ranch with my veggies. Kids will eat there fruits and veggies more if there are out for them to eat. Parent needs to be able to let there kids make the choice for what they eat. That is how they learn what is good healthy foods and what is not healthy foods. You need to talk to them about the foods they are eating. If your not eating healthy you put your self at a higher risk for health problems. Like  lead poisoning, diabetes, heart issues that is just a start of problems to come.   

Being able to exercise is a part also. Kids need to learn how to exercise at a young age. If you make it fun they will love it and will not even know they are being healthy. We try to get over kids outside ever day. During the winter we have our kids pull each other in a sled. In the summer we go for walks with them. We just get them up and moving and any moving is good keeps them active. They love to dance and this is great exercises for them. Kids like to move and stay active. If you are not exercising or moving you are over weight or soon will be over weight. The less you exercises the harder it is to just move and get around. If you can't do that than this effects your hole body in different ways, like tie your shoes and other development delays. Your health is another thing it can effect like being sick a lot from being over weight.

There is the developmental issues, that come form not being healthy. We mostly see developmental issues from not eating healthy, and not being able to exercise. This is sad to me when we see this, because the child didn't ask for the parent to not feed them or to over feed them. If the child is under feed they are not as strong as other children. If they are over feed they are so over weight they can not move around. Than there is the learning part with the developmental issues if there brain is not being nourished it is not going to function  like it should. Than you have the problems and the child falls behind in there learning all because they did not have a good start. From not eating healthy kids don't get nourished like they should. Than they are not as strong as they should be and throws there development off. If they are over nourished and to big they can't move around and run and jump like other children that also throws there developmental needs off.

Cause Essay 1

Six years ago when I started working at head start there was not a lot of talk about healthy eating or staying healthy by exercising. When you look back you can see how high over weight kids were getting.You can also see how much the portions has changed. There is a very good web sit with great graphs on over weight kids it has some good tips on how to avoid portion distortion. It is the National Heart, Lungs and Blood institute at http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion. It is good to see that Doctors and other people are getting the word about how to stay healthy and what a difference it makes. How much fun eating healthy can be when you turn it into a game like dancing to get them moving and exercising. Have kids helping make the snacks like wash a apple than peel it and cut it.Kids are more likely to eat fruits and veggies if they have helped make it.  Our trainings are fun and come up with good ideas for the kids and there families. We try to come up with different fun exercises for our kids for inside and outside. Even the development needs has changed to more kids from one to three years old are being referred to C.D.S. It is very nice to see the changes so the littler kids are getting the help they need and its not just the school age kids. I like to think if you start them earlier with a referral so they get the help they will not need them latter on in school. The biggest reason I got into child care was for the kids to help them get the help they need and help them learn what they need to get the developmental needs met. To help the parents feel good about leaving there kids with someone they know will take care of there children and love them and that the parents can trust. It is fun to see the kids years latter down the road to see how there are doing in grade school and how they are acting.

A apart of being healthier is being able to pick healthier foods. Like buying  fruits and veggies  instead of chips and candy. If you buy fruits are will snack on that instead of chips. A tip on snacking on fruits is to wash them and cut it up before so you can grab and go when you need to. The same thing with your veggies you can put little sides of dip with it, I love to dip in ranch with my veggies. Kids will eat there fruits and veggies more if there are out for them to eat. Parent needs to be able to let there kids make the choice for what they eat. That is how they learn what is good healthy foods and what is not healthy foods. You need to talk to them about the foods they are eating.

Being able to exercise is a part also. Kids need to learn how to exercise at a young age. If you make it fun they will love it and will not even know they are being healthy. We try to get over kids outside ever day. During the winter we have our kids pull each other in a sled. In the summer we go for walks with them. We just get them up and moving and any moving is good keeps them active. They love to dance and this is great exercises for them. Kids like to move and stay active.

There is the developmental issues, that come form not being healthy. We mostly see developmental issues from not eating healthy, and not being able to exercise. This is sad to me when we see this, because the child didn't ask for the parent to not feed them or to over feed them. If the child is under feed they are not as strong as other children. If they are over feed they are so over weight they can not move around. Than there is the learning part with the developmental issues if there brain is not being nourished it is not going to function  like it should. Than you have the problems and the child falls behind in there learning all because they did not have a good start.

At head start I work for we try to teach kids the difference between a good healthy food choice as to a unhealthy foods. We also get them moving as much as we can and tell them how important it is to move and exercises. We do a lot of things with the kids that they can bring home and do with there parents. The parents enjoy this to it gets them moving too and having fun with there kids. That's why it is very important for children to get a healthy start in life. They also need to learning what is healthy foods and not healthy, and how important exercises is for them.  

  

It is a research paper that puts "I"--you--at the center of things.



What do you want to write about?__Healthy choices _______________________________

What do you want to find out about your topic?____How to make it fun for people so they will make the healthy choice.__________________



What are your questions about the topic?

1.Why do some people just sit around instead  of doing something even little things?

2.Why don't parents do more for there kids so they can be healthy?

3.How to learn how to pick healthier choices?

How does it connect to your life?

I work with kids and there families. The growing rate of over weight children is becoming very high. As a caregiver we help our families to be healthier and to learn the difference between healthy and non healthy choices. It is nice when you see a differences when you are helping a family, when they tell you that they are buying fruits now instead of chips things like that. 



Give three reasons you like the topic

1.To be able to see the rates over the years on how many kids are over weight.
2.To try to make a changing in the families, so they are making healthier choices.

3.Being able to help people with this problem and know that I also have a lot of support around this also for them.

Give three ways your life might change if you answer your questions

1.The great feeling you get when you have helped someone.

2.It can also help me I should make more healthier choices for my family to.

3.If you make more healthier choices the difference in how you feel better by doing little steps.

Do you already know the answer to your question? If the answer is sitting in a single book somewhere or if all you need do to find the answer is make some simple decision or ask one person one question, it isn't going to work out for a research paper becuase there isn't much you can research. Is it that kind of question and answer? If it is, please redo the worksheet.

About the I-search Where- Who

Where will I find the answers I'm looking for there are a couple of different web sits that are great for my topic. We use Choosy Kids a lot and they are great. www.Choosykids.com http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion.com I am moving I am learning is also a great link. I also have some great people at work that can give me some great ideas and more information. That do our trainings on healthier choices so I'm very lucky I have them right at work. There will be some actives to keep people moving and thinking about what they are eating. I'm sure there will be some problems coming up there always is something. 

What I know

I would say I know a lot about helping kids pick healthier choices. We have a lot of trainings on this so we can bring it back to our families, but I really enjoy this topic. One of the biggest things for making healthier choices is how your brain develop. Your brain is more likely to develop faster when you make healthy choices, because your brain needs to be well hydrated and needs a lot of oxygen. The more you move is better for your brain. Your  brain has a mind line and the more you cross it the brain the more you brain develops.  I think it is one of the most important ones is the kids development.
Kids really learn a lot when they are move and exercising and they don't even know it. Kids learn through there play and don't even know it. They are learning there space and how much room there bodies take up. So there don't run into things and there peers. They are also learning how to march or jump or skip, how to move there feet. They learn how to talk to there peers and about what they are doing. The list can go on and on about how much there are learning.
They can learn about rhythm and rhyming and counting. You can put all that in to a song and the kids love it. They will also learn the words and tell each other if one is not doing it right or if they are just doing it different. There is really so much kids learn by just being a little active. They don't even know it and you don't know it in till you really look at it what you just did with them.

Outro

At this point I hope you feel the same was as I do about how important it is for kids to be able to make healthier choices. How much they can gain from being able to make this kind of choices for life. Some of the choices can affect them for life. If they are making healthy choices at a young age they are more likely to keep making healthy choices through out there life. If they are moving and exercising at a young age they will also keep doing this through out there life's. If we can start teaching kids early, that is just what they will know to make healthy choices. They will also be more likely to make a healthy choice, when asked what they want. They will also like more healthy snacks and foods than a child that is not offered fruits and veggies. Lets teach our kids to be healthy because if we don't who will teach them and than will it be to late? Lets start them at a young age to be healthy and the different choices.   

Second Intro Graf

When I first start working at the head start six years ago there was not a lot of talk about healthy eating staying healthy. When you look back you can see how high over weight kids were getting. About the last two years we have about four trainings a year about over weight children. It is good to see that Doctors and other people are getting the word about how to stay healthy and what a difference it makes. How fun eating healthy can be when you turn it into a game like dancing helping make the snacks. Our trainings are fun and come up with good ideas for the kids and there families. Even the development needs has changed to more kids from one to three years old are being referred to C.D.S. It is very nice to see the changes so the littler kids are getting the help they need and its not just the school age kids. I like to think if you start them earlier with a referral so they get the help they will not need them latter on in school. The biggest reason I got into child care was for the kids to help them get the help they need and help them learn what they need to get the developmental needs met. 

First Infro Graf

I really care about kids and there health. I want every child to have the best start they can have with there health and learning. I also like to help parents out with what ever they need to learn about this topic. Some parents don't know a lot about healthy choices, but they want to learn. Than they can teach it to there kids and help them be able to pick healthy over unhealthy. I really like to read articles about over weight children and be able to learn from them. Where I work at a Head Start we also have a lot of trainings on how to make healthy choices. We learn different fun ways to keep kids healthy and moving. If the kids really enjoy it we tell the parent what we have been doing so they can do it at home to. I would like to think the work we are doing with our kids and parents really helps them to be healthier. I know with my child who was in Head Start it has made a difference with how she picks foods.

Graf 12 More Me

I'm a very caring person who loves kids. I love working kids and helping them learn things. There are some days it is very hard to do my job. Like when we have sick kids or when we have to talk to a parent about a referral. Sometimes it is simple and sometimes it not as easily to talk to them about. I will say I think the hardest part of my job is the parents sometimes. Some parents just don't know a lot of things or don't think about them. They also didn't think about what the child is seeing or learning for some of the choices they make. The best part of my day is the kids you just never know what they will say to you or what they will do. I also try to work with my parents and help them as best I can. It's a nice feeling to know if you have helped a family. 

New Outros

I hope some parents can use some of the tools, to help there kids make healthier choices. I know they really help us were I work. Our kids love to dance with them and learn how to march and skip and to use the space around them with out running in to there peers.  The C.D.s are very fun to do with the kids and than to  watch them try to do it is just as fun. We also do the healthier snacks and lunches. We eat with the kids and eat the veggies even if we don't like them. We also have the kids help make there snacks. So they are learning the skill of cutting, peeling, and washing. They also learn about there fruits and veggies how they are a healthy choice. Just have fun with it, you can dance to anything. Ever little bit helps kids learn and be healthier.

New Intros With healthy kids

I would like to promote healthy eating and healthy exercising for kids. To get our kids up and moving and also to help them be able to make healthy choices. To also talk about the different ways to help our parents give there kids a healthy choices. I know how hard it can be to get our kids up and active. A lot of our parents are so busies and do have the time to make there kids get up and exercise, but it can be as simple as just dancing. Most kids love to dance and it is very good exercising for them too. Most kids like to eat fruits  and raw veggies but it is cheaper to buy junk food and easier just grab it and go. There are a couple of good ideas for fast healthy snacks and to get you and your child moving. Some good teaching ideas to help some parents and children learn the difference with healthy choices and unhealthy choices.   

New Nutshell

I would like to promote healthy eating for children, because a lot of kids are over weight. This is a growing problem with our kids now a days. When you look at how active  kids  are, they are not as active as they use to be. Now a day kids play games and watch TV. and just sit there and not move around much. This is leading to over weight kids. Another part of the problem is eating healthy. I think a lot of our parents don't know how important it is to teach there kids to eat healthy. I feel it is easier and cheaper for parents to just grab junk food, instead of healthy fruits and veggies. Do they rally think about what there kids are seeing? The kids don't know the difference between healthy and junk food in in less they are told. I also would like to put so good healthy ideas out there for them, so they can make better healthy choices than unhealthy choices. 

Graf 11 Real Life Research

We just bought me a new car. It is a 2010 Ford Explorer loaded. It just took was about four months to get on. I first looked at insurance to make sure it would not go up, but it went down. I also looked at the safety, it is more safe than my old car. It is smaller and more sir bags just more safety features. Than I looked at what it gets for gas most of them were about 19 miles a gallon. That was also good for me. I need the third row seating still and the explorers have it. I have to look at a bunch of different things before I even test drove one. I looked at some than drove one. I really liked how they ride and it handled very good to. Than we would talk to a dealer ship and try to work some numbers. It never seemed to work with the other dealers. Than I saw the one at Quirk and they worked with us very well on the numbers with my trade in. We ended up buying it because we will be saving with the gas and the insurance the best part it is safer. How could I not get a new car, I also like to trade in about every year or two.

Lecturette 3 Outros

My outro is going back to my nutshell paper. Final I got the right car for me and my family.We test drove a lot of different cars. We also talked to a lot of dealer ships and tried to work numbers. They just never worked out. Than we went to Quirk and found the right car for us. It was in our price range. The dealer ship came down a lot on it and gave me a good trade in for my old car. It is also the right size for us it still has the third row seating.I can still fit all the kids in it and still have a little bit of room. It is great on gas it average about 20 miles a gallon. That is so much better than my old on that was about 12 miles a gallon. This has a higher safety rating with the side air bags. It ended up being a Ford Explorer and it fits us great. 

Lecturette 3 Intros

When I was about 14 years old me and my sister took our moms car to work. Little did we know we would not make it to work. On our way in a drink driver hit us and totaled both cars. He left the sense of the accident. So he got a way with a O.U.Y, because he went home and he could of been drinking at home. We all knew he was drink, he never asked us if we were ok or anything. I don't think it is ok for people to get a way with that just because he left the sense  we all saw he and knew he had been drinking. He still got a way with it. I also think that if you want to hurt your self or even kill you self from drinking and driving that is fine but most of the time you end up hurting other people and there families. That is not right because someone was not thinking.  After I knew that my sister was ok, I looked at my nails because I had just had them done and I was going to be so mad if I had broke any of them.If he had broke any of  them he would of been in some trouble with me.

Lecturette 2 Nutshell

I have been looking to buy a car for about the last 4 months. For one I don't like it anymore. I don't like how much gas it used I got about 12 miles a gallon. It is also very to big and top heave. It does not feel that safe on our roads. I'm looking for some better on gas and a little bit safer, and just the right size for our family, I still want a SUV. The price is also a big thing too, I don't want to pay a hole lot either, so it has to be just the right price to.

Lecturette 1

                                               How To Keep Kids Healthy And Moving
When you children playing what do you think? Do you see them learning and moving? When I see kids playing a tag game or other games like that I see much more than that. There are learning and moving and talking to each other. I think is is a growing problem with our kids. We have a very high percent of kids that are now over weight. They don't know how to be healthy and make good choices. Like to eat fruits and veggies instead of chips and cookies. I'm not saying don't eat chips and cookies and candy, but give the kids a choice and talk to them about the differences. I think the same thing about kids and playing outside. Kids need to know how important it is to play outside and just move around instead of sitting in front of the TV.

 At our center we have a CD that is called I am Moving I am Learning. It has a bunch of high beat songs on it, so it makes you want to dance to it. They are also very fun to do with the kids and they love the songs and the dances/ moves. A big part of the songs are about fruits and veggies and how to pick a healthy snack. It gets them dancing and moving that the best part. We have another CD that is great that teaches kids to jump and skip and march. This helps get there engine out and  they are exercising. They are also learning how to move with out hitting each other. About there space and how to move in it. This really helps us in the winter when we cant get out as much because it is to cold out. It is really good for our parents to try it at home for when the kids cant get outside. It is a fun group dance.



I don't think so of the parents to day know how important being healthy is.Not only for the kids but them was well. So if you can get outside for just a little bit it is better than just sitting watching TV. People don't go outside and play or go for a walk or play tag. When I see kids outside I think about how much they are getting from just being outside. They are getting there exercising in and if they are playing with someone there are communicating to each other. If they are building something they are using there fine motor skills. I think it is very important  for the parents to do the exercising with the kids. To also talk to them about how they are making a healthy choice. By just playing outside something there like to do.



Another part of being healthy if the eating part. Kids need to know how to make a healthy snack and how important it is. Kid don't know how to eat healthy they need to be tough  how to. If you give them more fruits and veggies than they will pick them over chips and other sweets. We work with our parents on how to make fun healthy snacks with there kids. Like to have the kids cut a banana or peel it. We have found that the kids are more likely to try new fruits and veggies if they help make it, like help cleaning it or cutting it things like that. We like to do a lot of food projects with the kids and our families. They seem to enjoy it to.

I think if we can help the parents first than we can help the kids learn to make healthy choices. I think it is great to get the kids outside and any kid of moving. The kids like to dances so its not exercising to them it's fun for them. That is way I think our CD are great for our families, Because who does not like to dance. The next time you see kids playing I hope you see much more than them just playing.  Like them exercising or talking to each other, learning there space. how to move and march skip the list goes on and on. We hope to get our kid up and moving around and being healthier.    

New Graf 10

My child keeps me busy with the doctors office, we are going all the time. Ever since Addie was 4 months old we were at the doctors and ER about once a week, some weeks it would be two times in a week. She gets ear infections and pink eye had whooping cough. I can't remember how many time she has had a ear infections and how many times she had pink eye. She had the whooping cough two different times. Now that she is 10 moths old she is sick again. She has been pulling at her ears and not sleeping and crying a lot. She has a bad cough to on top of all that. I have looked in her mouth and it looks like her two top teeth are coming in. I thought do I bring her  back to the doctors or do I just call it teething.

     She had just had a ear infection last week, I was thinking it did not go a way. When she had the ear infection last week it was the same thing. Like not sleeping, crying a lot, pulling at her ears.  It was not getting any better so I called the doctors. Her ear were clear so it must be teething than. That made me happy that her ears were clear. I wish I new if she was teething or not instead of going to the doctors ever time. I feel like if I don't bring her to the doctors, like when I think she is teething it will be a ear infection and it will get really bad and hurt her hearing. It is very hard you never know what to do with them.


   As mad as they gets, I still love them no matter what. Even if we have not slept all night all they have to do is smile and all that goes away like it never happen. It is so hard when they can't tell you what is wrong and they just get mad because you don't know whats wrong with them. I think they are only a baby once too, so I try to take ever moment with them good or bad. I also hope soon she will grow out of the ear infections. Her teeth will coming in soon to and we will not have to do it again. We will be able to sleep again maybe even through the night.
    

New Graf 9 object

Every day when I come home I see a trailer with two sheds be side it. I think in my head how small it is. I also think about how we have no room for anything.We are about a half hour from town, so we now plan our trips in town. It is very hard to see a trailer when we had a ranch style house with a full basement. It was close to town like five minutes. We had all kinds of room, but we lived there before we had kids. We moved into the trailer when we had our first child. We wanted something closer to my family, so we are now right next to them. We also wanted something that was ours. The best part was it was paid for. I guess when every day when I see it I should think about how it is ours. It was really what we wanted at the time and what we needed. Hopefully someday soon we will have another house that we can build. For now I have to say I love my trailer-my house it works for now. It just shows you need to really look at what you have before its gone.

New Graf 8 react I-Search

When I was looking throw them I really liked the one about the Labradors. I have had two labs and loved them. There is a lot to them and every dog is different. I thought this was some good ideas about the labs. How she went into the health and feeding of them. I also like how they wrote about raising a teenager. They had a lot of ideas that you don't think of on a day to day.I also agree it there is a lot good information they had, because raising a teenager can be really hard. Most people that are raising a teenager need all the help they can get and some good ideas to keep the teenager talking to them, ideas like she had. I also liked the one about growing up because who really want to grow up. I know I did not want to but I'm glad I did grow up. They had some good questions on there I-search paper.

Graf 10 3-part paragraph

My kids my kids. They are always keeping me busy. My baby is ten months old. She is always getting sick. She is always going to the doctors for whatever reason. She gets very mad and has a hard time sleeping. She also cries a lot. She does not like to wait for anything. All week she has been like this not sleeping or eating. She has also been pulling at her ears. There is a lot going on with her, it could be another ear infecting or just teething. With the teething it could be anything like a temp, puling her ears, not sleeping,and just mad. I thought we would wait be for we went to the doctors to see if it could get better or not. She has just got over a ear infection about a week ago. She also had pink eye with the ear infection. She had been getting a little bit better from them. I made me think it was just teething. Her top tooth is right there about ready to come through. Than her older sister ended up getting sick too. I brought her to the doctors and than thought I should bring her to because if I did not bring her she would of gotten worse again. Than I would have to make another trip to the doctors. Now they both are fine and there was nothing wrong with them. I feel if I did not bring them it would of gotten worse, and been another ear infection or something like that. As mad as they gets, I still love them no matter what. Even if we have not slept all night all they have to do is smile and all that goes away like it never happen. It is so hard when they can't tell you what is wrong and they just get mad because you don't know whats wrong with them. I think they are only a baby once too, so I try to take ever moment with them good or bad. I also hope soon she will grow out of the ear infections. Her teeth will coming in soon to and we will not have to do it again. We will be able to sleep again maybe even through the night.