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I got this hoping to give it to my son for Christmas, but after seeing them in real life I had to open and play with blocks right away. They are wonderful to build with; my only wish is they had more pieces in the set. I had to get one more to expend the fun. Sometimes I catch my husband building with them alone =)
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We have two sets of these blocks and they are absolutely stunning---our 15 month old loves playing with them and so do we. However the half-ball blocks are choking hazards; our daughter stuffed one in her mouth and really started choking on it. My husband was right there and was able to pry it out quickly but not before she threw-up from gagging. We took those two out and all is fine, but I wouldn't let younger kids play with these unsupervised.
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These Haba blocks are top notch wooden blocks. They are so much more exciting than the standard ho hum that we purchase them for anyone we know with a little one. The colors are so very rich and exciting. My 10 month does more knocking down than building up but that will change and these blocks will grow with her. All the colored pieces are non toxic and every piece is very well sanded and finished. We were so excited to find a company so committed to fine, safe products. These blocks are heirloom quality and a show stopper to be sure!
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these were interesting blocks for my child. She has the standard letter blocks. But these blocks we used to form different shaped buildings and learn her colours. A couple of the blocks can be set inside other blocks. I think this set of blocks is a great introduction to more complex thinking. For instance the round blocks have to be set on their ends or they roll away (for a two year old this is huge.) or a round block can be set inside another block and then stacked on top of. And some blocks can not be stacked on top of and can only be used as toppers or stand alones. So the child has to think about "Object placement" and "task order". Which is a great start to further development for a block design for young children.
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My son who is five is still playing with these. The favorite two blocks were and are the blue bridge and the yellow "flower". The flower rolls under the bridge when pushed. This was how he made his first car when he was a few months old. He's five now, and still builds cars, albeit more advanced. Who knows, maybe it's thanks to these blocks?
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Check out a variety of grade-specific nutrition education resources and nutrition education partners at the following site: Nutrition Education Resources.
Peer Consultant Networks
The School Food Service Peer Consultant Network provides consultation services on a wide variety of food service management topics. Experienced school nutrition personnel offer free training, mentoring and technical assistance to other school nutrition staff in their region.
For a listing of the current mentors available around the state, check out our Peer Consultant Directory.
If you are interested in receiving assistance from a food service peer mentor, please contact us by phone or E-mail.
Coming Soon: School Wellness CoachesThese regional coaches will be available to assist schools in implementing their student wellness programs by helping them receive a healthy schools award, enhancing healthy menu planning, nutrition education, or physical activity efforts.
Creating pleasant and positive mealtimes......
Recorded Webinar Training for Schools: Welcome to Our Comfortable Cafeteria on February 21, 2012
Recorded Webinar Training for Early Childhood Educators: Pass the Peaches Please on February 22, 2012
Who can use this information? school administrators, school food service professionals, paraprofessionals, teachers, parents; any adult supervising the school cafeteria
Why are school meals important?
The experiences which kids have now with food/meals will shape their future/life-long relationships with food. The goal is to develop healthy, capable and competent eaters.
Meals consumed at school are essential to the growth of healthy students- bodies, minds and behaviors.
It's good for the bottom line; increased revenue to schools if more students participate in school meals programs (breakfast and lunch).
Why should schools strive to support pleasant and positive mealtimes vs. just getting the students fed?
- Mealtime should be a time for students to relax, socialize and nourish their bodies and minds. When the mealtime/cafeteria environment is pleasant, students eat better, do better in their academic coursework, and have fewer behavioral problems.
- Many kids are undernourished, even if they are overfed. School meals provide key nutrients for students to grow and learn to their full potential. School meals may be the only reliable meal of the day for some students.
- School meals help to develop healthy eating habits and acceptable meal time behaviors.
A Positive Feeding Approach requires effective teamwork and communication amongst administrators, teachers, aides, school food service staff, students and parents.
Sometimes, school cafeterias are not so inviting: students are pressured to eat, supervising adults are not trained in how to be supportive at mealtime, students are not allowed to talk during meals, and meals are consumed in a hurry to get outside. This training addresses a variety of mealtime scenarios and tips for positive meal time practices.
Comfortable School Cafeterias Resources and Ready to Use Training Materials
- Comfortable Cafeterias Video (If you use the video, please provide feedback via an evaluation. Thank you.)
- Poster for school cafeterias - 11x17 8x11
- Handouts
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Welcome to Our Comfortable Cafeterias Webinar Recording - This training is useful for any adult supervising the lunchroom including aides, teachers, administrators, and school foodservice staff.
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Montana Team Nutrition
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Phone 406.994.5641
Fax 406.994.7300
Molly Stenberg, RD, email@example.com
Katie Bark, RD, firstname.lastname@example.com
Who can use this information? Early childhood educators, child care programs, Head Start programs, paraprofessionals, teachers, parents; any adult supervising mealtimes with children.
Why are meals in child care programs important?
The experiences which young children have now with food/meals will shape their future/life-long relationships with food. The goal is to develop healthy, capable and competent eaters. Meals consumed at child care are essential to the growth of healthy children- their bodies, minds and behaviors.
Why should child care programs strive to support pleasant and positive mealtimes vs. just getting the children fed?
- Mealtime should be a time for young children to relax, socialize and nourish their bodies. When mealtimes are pleasant, children eat better and learn to try a variety of foods in a positive way.
- Many kids are undernourished, even if they are overfed. Meals provide key nutrients for children to grow and learn to their full potential.
- Meals consumed at child care may be the only reliable meal of the day for some children.
- Positive mealtimes teach healthy eating habits and acceptable meal time behaviors.
- A Positive Feeding Approach requires effective teamwork and communication amongst staff, children and parents.
Sometimes, mealtimes in child care programs are not so pleasant: children are pressured to eat, supervising adults are not trained in how to be supportive at mealtime, supervising staff do not eat or drink the same food as they serve the children, etc. This training addresses a variety of mealtime scenarios and tips for making mealtimes with children pleasant and enjoyable for both children and adults.
Pass the Peaches, Please Resources and Ready to Use Training Materials
- Pass the Peaches, Please Video (If you use the video, please provide feedback via an evaluation. Thank you.)
- Teaching outlines
- Poster for child care programs
- Handouts and Group Activities
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Pass the Peaches Please Webinar Recording - This training is helpful for early childhood educators
USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
Montana Team Nutrition
P.O. Box 173370, MSU, Bozeman, MT 59717
Phone 406.994.5641
Fax 406.994.7300
Molly Stenberg, RD, email@example.com
Katie Bark, RD, email@example.com
School Wellness for Healthy Students
For assistance on implementing your school district's student wellness policy, visit our School Wellness Resources site.
Look under the "Montana School Wellness Resources" tab for useful guides to topics like Wellness Policy Implementation, Recess Before Lunch, Nutrition Sen$e and many more.
Team Nutrition Resources
- Healthy Meals Resource System
Information for school nutrition personnel from USDA Team Nutrition – menu planning, nutrition education, food safety, etc.
- Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Cafeteria Toolkit
A Nutrition Education Toolkit to Connect the Cafeteria to the Classroom, Parents and to the Community. Also includes a cycle menu for Montana child care.
- Healthy Classroom Party Ideas
- Healthy Habits Challenge
- Healthy Ideas for Student Rewards
- Healthy School Snacks
- Let's Eat at School Brochure
- Making it Balance and Kickin' it Up- A Cycle Menu for Montana Childcare
- Montana's Healthy School Recipe Roundup
- Nutrition Resources Order Form
- Pleasant and Positive Mealtimes
- Recess Before Lunch
- Traditional Foods of American Indians
- Traditional Food: Recipes
In Montana there are many stellar examples of schools that have made positive changes related to healthy eating, active living, and creating a healthier school environment.
To showcase examples of healthy change in schools, the Montana Team Nutrition Program called on youth to take part in the Focus on Health video competition. Through this video contest, Montana schools, organizations, or clubs had the opportunity to win a cash prize gain statewide recognition, and have their video featured at statewide conferences.
Examples of relevant topics include: improvements in the nutrition of foods available in school meals, healthy snack options (vending, concessions, student stores, etc.), Farm-to-School programs, increased opportunity for physical activity, expanded school breakfast programs and healthy school fundraising programs. Download the 2012 Final Report with sample documents. NEW
2012 Contest Winners
This winter Montana students from Kindergarten through 12th grade created short videos to submit to OPI's Focus on Health Youth Video Contest. Fifteen videos were submitted from across the state competing for the top three prizes and a People's Choice Award. All the winning teams will be awarded cash prizes and part or all of their videos will be featured at statewide conferences and on the Montana Team Nutrition website. The 2012 winning teams are:
- Grand Prize: "You Are What You Eat" made by the Jefferson High School team.
- Second Place: Kalispell Middle School's team
- Third Place: "The Curious Case of Our Food" by Red Lodge High School's ProStart Class
- People's Choice Award: Kalispell Middle School's
Thank you to all the teams who participated in the contest! It is exciting to see such talent, creativity, ambition, and dedication to wellness.
Watch a compilation of the three award winning videos!
or more information, contact Aubree Roth, Child Nutrition Education Coordinator and Contest Organizer at email@example.com or 406.994.5996


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When we first take a glance at Shieldon, we will find those enormous defenses hard to ignore. Oftentimes, however, its mediocre Speed and offenses prevent it from taking on a truly threatening role on a team. But whoever said this was an entirely bad thing? Shieldon's defensive prowess and access to supporting moves such as Stealth Rock and Rain Dance make the little Shield Pokemon an excellent supporting player on most Little Cup teams.
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In Western culture, mere mention of FGM sends feminist activists up in arms, generating intense negative feelings and evoking discussion about sexism, brutality and gender-based violence. However, while FGM is mostly practiced in African and Middle Eastern countries and classified as an "off-shore problem," many Americans are unaware of the cultural complexities embedded in the custom and the fact that it is happening right under our noses.
According to a report by the non-profit group Sanctuary for Families, the practice of FGC is on the rise in the United States. The study claims that up to 200,000 American girls and women are at risk of FGM whether at home or through what is known as "vacation cutting," in which young women in the U.S. are sent abroad to undergo the ritual.
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UNC brings rarity to online MBA programs: CredibilityMarch 23, 2012: 11:14 AM ET
Online MBA degrees have been proliferating like daisies in an open field in recent years, but UNC-Kenan-Flagler's program takes its task quite seriously.
By John A. Byrne, contributor
(Poets&Quants) -- Marissa Hunt and Ben Walker are trying hard to coax a few million bucks from four venture capitalists in a San Francisco conference room. But they're pitching a rather peculiar idea and there's skepticism all over the faces of the people they're trying to sell.
The idea: a retractable shield that covers the top of a kitchen drawer when closed to keep out dust and prevent the drawer from jamming. They call the product "Drawer Shield" and the tagline they're using to promote it is "Content protection with NO CATCH."
"It's made of sturdy material," says Hunt, imagining something quite different than their prototype, which is taped together from bits of Styrofoam, cardboard, paper and balsam wood. "Think of the cover on an iPad."
"It's really easy to install and real cheap," insists Walker, trying to gin up some enthusiasm. "This can help sell kitchen cabinets."
But no one is buying it. The feedback is tough.
"I personally have zero use for this," says one potential investor.
"It's just not a problem for me," adds another.
Nonetheless, the four venture capitalists hand over $500,000, a pittance for the pitching pair who were hoping to get at least $2 million.
Hunt and Walker are students studying for an MBA degree at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. The venture capitalists are fellow students handing out Monopoly cash. All of them are on a weekend immersion experience in San Francisco devoted to innovation and entrepreneurial thinking. It's one of the very few times that Hunt and Walker will be with their classmates in person because they're enrolled in a new and highly ambitious online MBA program dubbed MBA@UNC.
While online MBA degrees have been proliferating like daisies in an open field in recent years, Kenan-Flagler's program is significantly different because it is the first time a top 20 school has put together an online effort with the publicly stated goal of making it the world's best MBA program delivered over the Internet.
UNC's partner, 2tor Inc., a startup with over $68 million in venture funding, is investing more than $10 million into this one effort alone. It also has online degree programs in nursing at Georgetown University as well as social work and education at the University of Southern California. Kenan-Flagler has 20 of its full-time professors, many of them considered the school's best faculty, deeply involved in the online initiative, developing and recording special lectures and teaching live classes online.
Together, 2tor and UNC aim to make online education both respectable and credible. If they succeed, the number of MBA candidates in this two-year, $92,725 program will vastly exceed Kenan-Flagler's full-time MBA student population on-campus and the program will reach a worldwide audience.
"We're not Phoenix," insists 2tor CEO Chip Paucek, dissing the massive for-profit online education player. "Online education has been dominated by the for-profits, but nothing is even close to this in terms of quality. We're doing this at the highest possible level."
Same teachers, same curriculum
When UNC's faculty voted to approve the move online, it did so with the understanding that MBA@UNC would be held to the high academic standards of its mainstream MBA program. "It's the same faculty, the same students, and the same curriculum," says Doug Shackelford, who teaches tax policy and business strategy at UNC and heads up the academic team for the online program.
Shackelford concedes that when he first heard that Kenan-Flagler was considering an online MBA program he was aghast. "'Oh my God,' I thought, 'the budget situation must be desperate.' I told the dean [James W. Dean Jr.] that this is such a big bet that either he will be a hero for doing it or burned in effigy from a tree on campus if it fails."
So far, UNC has signed up 134 students for MBA@UNC since taking on an inaugural class of 19 students in the fall of last year. The school enrolls a new group of candidates every quarter and, on April 4, it will bring in some 45 new students as part of a fourth cohort.
Students typically take a pair of live, or synchronous, classes a week that each run an hour-and-a-half. They also spend about two-and-a-half hours engaged in what the school calls "asynchronous learning," lectures and cases that have been videotaped and archived on the Internet. Another six to eight hours a week is devoted to group projects, readings and homework. All told, MBA@UNC students are devoting 20 to 25 hours a week to the program.
Nowhere to hide when you're on a webcam
Shackelford says the live classes are far more intimate than one would think. Instead of having 70 students in an on-campus class, a typical webinar session has little more than a dozen. "These guys are being taught in groups of no more than 15 students," he says. "It's an intense experience. Everyone sits in the front row so there is nowhere to hide."
Students who check into the MBA@UNC dashboard see a Facebook-like interface with separate places for academic and social posts and a pull-down menu for "My Courses" with every lecture or class session to date. During a live session, students hear and see the professor teaching the course as well as each other.
The archived programming varies from highly produced video -- roughly 5% to 15% of the asynchronous class material -- to lectures by professors videotaped in their offices via webcam. Among the more produced material are taped interviews with managers and executives and on-the-ground lectures by professors outside the classroom.
For Kenan-Flagler's faculty, getting it all off the ground has been a massive undertaking. Shackelford says it takes roughly 100 hours per credit hour for a professor to create the canned lectures. "We've had faculty lock themselves in the office all night long or come in over a weekend to get this done," he says.
Kenan-Flagler's professors have developed 32 hours of asynchronous teaching material and have another 36 hours under development. Three professors -- including two adjunct hires -- are teaching their live sessions from India, Israel, and France. The students, meantime, hail from all over the country and the world, including China and Kuwait.
A few field trips to keep things personal
The San Francisco experience -- which runs from a Thursday to Sunday evening -- is one of four in-person immersions in the program. Another one is devoted to leadership development and held at the school's Chapel Hill campus in North Carolina. Two more will be global, with an immersion in San Paulo, Brazil, focused on managing in a high-growth environment, and one in London centered on global markets. Each student is required to do two immersions during the two-year program.
Other than a few minor technical glitches, says Shackelford, the professors teaching the online courses are receiving the highest possible scores on their evaluations from the students. "We are scoring almost straight fives on a five-point scale for everything we're doing," boasts Shackelford. "I'm waiting for all hell to break loose."
That seems unlikely. Hunt, 29, says she enrolled in the program because she didn't want to quit her job as an internal auditor for a biotech firm in Boston and yet wanted an MBA for her career. Her husband is in a doctoral program, and she travels 40% of the time, so an online degree seemed like a good option. "It's better than I expected," she says, "and this is how I do business now, with video chats and Adobe Connect."
Her make-believe business partner, Walker, 25, agrees. "I was a little worried about the online interface and the perception at work that an online program isn't quite the same as an on-campus experience," says Walker, who is in a leadership development program at Lockheed Martin (LMT) in Washington, D.C. "But this is not the traditional kind of online program. I've taken marketing strategy and financial accounting and I've used both of those courses already at work."
The immersion, adds Walker, helps to "cement" the relationships that are forming among students online. While in San Francisco, the students were brought to Google (GOOG) for a half-day series of presentations on how to create and sustain a culture of innovation. They also heard Pandora (P) CEO Joe Kennedy speak on disruptive business models. Kenan-Flagler professors Sridhar Balasubramanian and Brad Staats lectured on "Innovation and Consumer Insight" and "Disruption and Accelerating the Curve of Innovation," respectively. A panel of four venture capitalists spoke about "Turning a Great Idea Into A Great Business" and also heard presentations from students on their product ideas.
"We run them hard and it's intentional," says Susan Cates, executive director of MBA@UNC. "They are all working professionals. We want to maximize what we're doing with them while they are here."
At the end of the day, Hunt and Walker didn't do nearly as well as some of their fellow students. But the experience of working with four other students to develop the product and then pitch it to fellow students seemed like a worthwhile exercise.
Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that 2tor has raised over $100 million in venture funding. It has, in fact, raised over $68 million.
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