For the last two weeks of my Capstone experience, I have been working with three other nursing students teaching the kids about nutrition. We focused on lessons that talked about the food groups, food group servings per day, calorie intake per day, water consumption, healthy versus unhealthy snack choices, reading food labels, sugar and sodium consumption, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and cholesterol. We had a few other things that we wanted to cover; however, we ended up having to tweak our lesson plans from day to day. This was due to some of the behavior in the classroom. Unfortunately when teaching kids, some behavior issues are bound to follow. It was important to deal with these issues in an effective and efficient manner to ensure that our topics were going to be covered. It was a little difficult at first to find ways in which to do this, but by the second week I thing we found effective solutions. This taught me a lot about how to manage a classroom and to work as a cohesive group in order to attain our goals.
Most of the kids were very receptive to our teachings. They stayed interested and participated in discussions. A lot of the kids were very knowledgeable on these topics and were happy when they could answer questions correctly. We made sure to have some fun games and activities for them to do such as creating their own daily menu using the correct number of servings of each food group and making their own trail mix. Having games and activities for them to participate in kept them entertained, focused, and interested in the topics we were teaching about.
Overall, my NYSP experience was great. I was able to learn a lot about these kids and also a lot about myself. There were some bumps along the road but we were able to work through them and really experience the greatness of the NYSP program.
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