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Intermediate School Nurse
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Charlotte
O'Connor
GIS School Nurse
13 McNally Street
Goshen, NY 10924
(845) 615-6525
Fax: (845) 615-6524
Email: coconnor@gcsny.org
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THE NURSE’S
CORNER by Charlotte O'Connor, GIS School Nurse
School nurse
thanks community for its generosity
Dear Goshen
Intermediate families and friends,
On behalf of the Youth Ending Hunger organization
and all the students and faculty, I would like to
thank you for the generous gifts that we have
received following the Times Record-Herald article
on the changing roles of the school nurse. I am
truly overwhelmed as well as eternally grateful for
your commitment to helping our children in need.
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Happy Fall GIS
Parents and Students!
Did you know
pumpkin seeds are a delicious and healthy fall
treat? The pumpkin plant goes to great effort in
producing and protecting its seed, filling each
packet with high concentrations of vitamins,
minerals, proteins and essential oils.
As part of our NYS
standard based health curriculum followed at GIS ,
the students will be learning about nutrition this
month. Carving pumpkins and toasting the seeds are a
great family activity as well as a health lesson in
itself that can be taught at home!
Since I was a
little girl, my family and I would always toast our
pumpkin seeds after we carved our jack-a-lanterns. I
didn’t know what a great source of vitamins and
other nutrients I was eating; I just thought I was
eating a tasty treat (I had a very tricky Mom)! I
found this great recipe that I thought our GIS
community might like to try. Toast or roast pumpkin
seeds in your oven in no time at all. They can be
salted or spiced to suit your palate. The shells are
edible and are a good source of fiber. Use this
method with other seeds such as acorn squash and
butternut squash.
More information
Dear Goshen
parents,
Fall is such a
great time to get out of the house and really
appreciate our beautiful region. It’s a wonderful
time to spend quality time with our children, as
well as exposed them to the great sunlight (Vitamin
D) and promote healthy habits. In my reading, I came
across this article I’d love to share with you. I
hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I have. Happy
trails!
Encouraging children to walk
The level of
inactivity among children has rocketed in recent
years, resulting in rising levels of obesity and the
likelihood of serious health problems in adulthood.
Making walking a regular part of children's everyday
lives is a good way of counteracting this worrying
trend, and they could still be reaping the benefits
of a healthy, active lifestyle for many decades to
come. The important thing is that walks need to be
planned to suit the child's interests and abilities:
don't expect them to enjoy walking or landscapes for
their own sake in the way that many adults do.
For more
information,
click here.
Your child is sniffing, sneezing and
complaining of a scratchy throat, but his
temperature is normal….should you pack his lunch
and send him off to school?
Parents make tough calls like that every day,
often with little else to go on other then there
gut instinct. Parents are “pretty clued in to
their kids” and know when their child isn’t
feeling well, says Marlin Kinne, a school nurse
practitioner and school projects coordinator at
the National Association of school nurses. “If,
in their best judgment, the child is running a
fever and has other symptoms, then it just seems
prudent to give them a day at home resting (and
to) give them extra fluids and keep an eye on
them,” she says. Surely that’s what June
Cleaver, the fictional television mom from the
early 1960’s situation comedy “Leave it to
Beaver” would have done, But in today’s dual
–income society, few moms-or dads, for that
matter-have the luxury of taking a day off from
work to serve chicken soup to their ailing child.
For more
information, click
here.
Sleep may be
their missing link…
It's that time of
year again, when the hazy-lazy days of summer
suddenly comes to a close and big yellow school
buses begin to lumber along neighborhood
streets…….Bummer!!
FYI...Poll data released from the National Sleep
Foundation earlier this year found that
school-aged children average 9.5 hours of sleep a
night, less than the recommended 10-11 hours for
this age group. Findings show children who sleep
less, are twice as likely to have the school call
their parents about behavior problems.
Hyperactivity, trouble concentrating or a short
attention span may be signs that your child needs
more sleep. When children get sufficient sleep, it
enhances their ability to not only participate in,
but to enjoy and even excel in academic,
extracurricular, and community activities.
For more
information, click
here.
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