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Make My Breakfast Promise and Win
Breakfast Rally with Hines Ward!
Help your students make My Breakfast Promise to eat breakfast every day and you could win a visit from Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward! The contest is open to schools in the Pittsburgh area. Check out My Breakfast Promise for rules and information.
Announcing the Western PA Junior Broadcaster Competition!
Think breakfast is the best? That chocolate milk is cool? Or your school dominates Fuel Up to Play 60? Speak up! Enter the Pittsburgh area’s Junior Broadcaster Competition with a 90-second radio commentary and you could win a sweet prize pack including four tickets to a Pittsburgh professional sporting event, tickets to Kennywood Park and more. The contest is open to students in grades 6 to 8 in the Pittsburgh area. See official rules and flyer for how to enter by March 15, 2010.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
Celebrate with the Bottle Buddies
Read Across America is an annual awareness and motivational program that calls for children to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Observe this annual event in your cafeteria. Team up with your school librarian to create a reading event in your cafeteria by bringing books to breakfast.
Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association is providing free Bottle Buddy bookmarks to cafeteria mangers for Read Across America Day. The bookmark features a breakfast message on one side and a reading pledge on the other. Use the bookmarks as a thank you for eating school breakfast and as a reminder to keep reading on 365 days a year.
Contact us to order your Bottle Buddy bookmarks. In the body of the e-mail, include your name, title, e-mail address and telephone number; school name and shipping address; and the quantity. The bookmarks are packaged in bundles of 100.
Here are a few ideas to make your event sensational:
- Celebrate your favorite children’s books and characters in style. Have your foodservice staff dress up for breakfast and lunch.
- Create a reading café. Work with your librarian to feature books with breakfast.
- Ask your foodservice staff or teachers, administrators and other building personnel for the names of their favorite children’s books. Feature the titles on your breakfast menu.
- Invite guest readers to don the Seuss hat and share their favorite books with your students at breakfast.
- Sponsor a reading challenge. Reward the winning class with a Breakfast Bash.
- Read Across America is sponsored by the National Education Association. Visit NEA's Web site www.nea.org/readacross for posters, certificates and more. You’ll also find links to Flickr, SchoolTube, Facebook, and the Seuss Store.