Gannawarra Walks to School: Gannawarra Children’s Centre

What an exciting day it was on Thursday when the Gannawarra Walk to School team visited the Gannawarra Children’s Centre in Kerang. Combined with Children’s Week, the event was one of four being held during the week at Leitchville, Kerang, Cohuna and Koondrook.

Children enjoyed messages about healthy eating, being active and how to look after their teeth - by cleaning twice a day, eating fresh foods like crunchy vegetables, and choosing water to drink rather than sticky soft drinks, juices and cordial.

A ‘fruit cake’ allowed the children from the two pre-schools to identify all the different types of fruit and to name off fruit and vegetables in a particular colour, like purple for example – eggplant, cabbage, plums, figs, grapes, even purple beans and carrots. Who would have thought there would be so many! They were able to share their favourites and how they liked to eat them.

Yummy fruits in all different colours were enjoyed by the children as a healthy morning tea along with a cold glass of milk.

Once everyone had enjoyed their healthy snack and had slipped on some sunscreen and slapped on a hat, it was outside for a well-earned play in the sunshine. Cr. Keith den Houting and a big strawberry and carrot joined in the fun, both quickly developing ‘fan clubs’.

The children loved showing the strawberry and carrot around. The strawberry went to London in the back seat of a crowded aeroplane as children piled in on top of her. And, the carrot, well she just kept getting chased around the ‘eaten’ by the hungry kids!