Snacks and Housekeeping
HOUSEKEEPING SCHEDULE:
It is important to keep our children healthy and safe in a clean environment.
Parents will be asked to voluntarily clean the nursery school once per school year. Cleaning should take place between Thursday at 5pm and Sunday night (excluding Sunday morning). Plan to spend about three hours. A key to the classroom and further cleaning instructions will be available to you the week before you are scheduled to clean. If you are unable to clean on your scheduled weekend, please inform us as soon as possible so that we can arrange for you to trade dates with another family. The Nursery School provides all cleaning supplies.
Any family who makes a charitable donation to BNS of a minimum fifty dollars will be automatically excused from housecleaning duty, and a tax-receipt will be issued for your donation.
Donations must be received by Sept. 30 of every year to be eligible for automatic withdrawal from housekeeping duties.
Parents who volunteer on the BNS Board of Directors are also automatically excused from cleaning duty, as they already dedicate many hours to the operation and safe-keeping of Brandon Nursery School. We are always looking for great directors, so please contact us to get involved!
Snacks!
SNACK SCHEDULE:
Covid Update:
At this time, we ask that parents/guardians provide their own food for their child at snack time. Their lunch bags will be kept in their lockers until snack time.
As per the Day Care Licensing Manual, snacks should include:
- One serving from fruit and vegetables
- One (1) serving from grain, or one (1) serving from milk products or one (1) serving from meat and meat alternatives.
Prior to Covid the following applied:
A few times per year, you will be asked to provide juice and a nutritious snack for your child's class of 15-17 students. BNS will provide the snack for the first three weeks of school, and after that, a snack schedule will be posted on the bulletin board just outside the BNS classroom. Please note that Brandon Nursery School is a nut-free environment. Home-baked goods are not permitted, due to possible cross-contamination with nuts. If there are any additional food allergies in your child's class, that will also be noted on the schedule. Please have snack food washed and cut, ready to serve.
As per the Day Care Licensing Manual, snacks should include:
One serving from grain
One serving from fruit and vegetables
One serving from either meat and alternatives or milk products
*Please have your snacks washed, cut and ready to eat.
*You may bring cookies and cupcakes etc, for a special occasion but please include in your snack food items from the other food groups. Many children eat small amounts of food at a time, and we want to ensure that the food they eat is nutritious.
*Please provide a copy of the ingredients if you are bringing home baking.
*Brandon Nursery school is a peanut and nut free school.
*We provide the plates, spoons and cups at snack time.
SNACK EXAMPLES:
Apple juice or juice blends (1 Litre is good)
Bread
Cheese and cheese strings
Cereals such as: Alphabets, Apple Jacks Cheerios (all kinds but Honey Nut), Corn bran, Crispex, Corn Pops, Froot Loops, Honey Comb, Life, Mini Wheat, Oat squares, Shreddies.
*Crackers such as: Animal, Breton, Gold fish, Graham, Ritz, Soda, Sociables, Swiss cheese, Teddy Grahams, Triscuits, Wheat thins, Vegetable thins, Vinta. (1 box or bag is good)
Fresh fruit such as: apples, bananas, grapes, oranges etc.
Canned fruit or dried fruit like raisins or fruit on the go
*Granola bars (Quaker and Nutrigrain bars)
Meat such as: Ham, Bologna, Ham or Garlic sausage
Milk
Muffins
Pretzels
Popcorn
Pudding
Rice Cakes, (large or mini)
Kellogg’s Rice Krispie squares
Vegetables such as: carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, and cauliflower, green or red or yellow peppers, snap peas etc.
Water
Yogurt or yogurt tubes