FREE Healthy Kids Challenge workshop in Lawrence Sept. 22

Library workers across the state will have an opportunity to participate in the Healthy Kids Challenge, a day of training to support library programs targeting preschool to third graders and their families. The workshop provides fun, interactive activities centered on reading, healthy eating and physical activity. You can pick from a host of ideas that will work best for your library and your community.

This free workshop, funded by a grant from the United Methodist Ministry Health Fund, will be held in different locations across the state.  It’s an ideal lead-up to the Sixth Annual Kansas Reads to Preschoolers Week, Nov. 14-20, 2010, which will focus on food and nutrition. Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayres is this year’s selection. Libraries across the state will plan special displays of food and nutrition-related books, schedule activities, organize pre-school story hours and invite participation by various food and nutrition professionals.… Read the rest