What may you gain by a luncheon contest? At the close of
each month, perhaps, and always at the close of a term, your
teacher gives you a mark or grade. The grade is supposed
to be a measure of your knowledge of a subject. Although
most pupils are very much interested in grades, a grade is not
nearly so important as the real knowledge gained from a
subject.
The study of what you should eat may lead to most valuable
results. Just as white rats are benefited by the right food, so
you will be benefited by the use of proper food. Just as white
rats are harmed by improper food, so you will be harmed by the
use of food which is lacking in materials to make your body grow
and become strong.
The gaining of points in the luncheon contest, then, is far less
important than the benefit you receive from eating wholesome
foods. If, at the same time you gain a high score in this contest,
you realize the importance of using milk, fruits, and vegetables
every day in your diet, and form the habit of using these foods
daily, you will have gained something far more worth while
from the contest than credits. A healthy body is one of the
greatest assets for success and happiness that any person can
lNote to the Teacher: Checking the trays each day of the school week may be
inconvenient. It has been found practical to have the checking done once a week
for an entire semester. The day on which the checking is done should be varied each
week. Also, the day on which the checking is to take place should not be announced
to the pupils.
The points may count on grades. If credit for the points is given at the dose of a
semester, the following plan for giving credit has proved practical : Determine the
total number of points received in the luncheon contest by each pupil. Divide this
number by 6. Then add the resulting number to the term grade which the pupil
would have received had no account been taken of the luncheon contest. Thus if a
pupil at the close of a semester received 24 points in the luncheon contest, divide 24
by 6. If her grade for the term regardless of the luncheon contest were 85, four
credits would be added to this grade, making the final term grade 89.
Lunch at School — The Box Lunch 227
have. Do not stop drinking milk and eating fruits and vege-
tables after the luncheon contest closes. Get the real benefit
from the contest by making the use of milk, fruits, and vegetables
a habit.
If you carry your luncheon, can you bring milk, fruits, and
vegetables? To these pupils in schools where lunch is not
served and to those who carry their lunch even though there is
a school lunch room, this part of the text applies. It is pos-
sible for the pupil who carries her lunch to have milk, fruit,
and vegetables in her lunch basket ? Let us see :
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What may you gain by a luncheon contest? At the close of
each month, perhaps, and always at the close of a term, your
teacher gives you a mark or grade. The grade is supposed
to be a measure of your knowledge of a subject. Although
most pupils are very much interested in grades, a grade is not
nearly so important as the real knowledge gained from a
subject.
The study of what you should eat may lead to most valuable
results. Just as white rats are benefited by the right food, so
you will be benefited by the use of proper food. Just as white
rats are harmed by improper food, so you will be harmed by the
use of food which is lacking in materials to make your body grow
and become strong.
The gaining of points in the luncheon contest, then, is far less
important than the benefit you receive from eating wholesome
foods. If, at the same time you gain a high score in this contest,
you realize the importance of using milk, fruits, and vegetables
every day in your diet, and form the habit of using these foods
daily, you will have gained something far more worth while
from the contest than credits. A healthy body is one of the
greatest assets for success and happiness that any person can
lNote to the Teacher: Checking the trays each day of the school week may be
inconvenient. It has been found practical to have the checking done once a week
for an entire semester. The day on which the checking is done should be varied each
week. Also, the day on which the checking is to take place should not be announced
to the pupils.
The points may count on grades. If credit for the points is given at the dose of a
semester, the following plan for giving credit has proved practical : Determine the
total number of points received in the luncheon contest by each pupil. Divide this
number by 6. Then add the resulting number to the term grade which the pupil
would have received had no account been taken of the luncheon contest. Thus if a
pupil at the close of a semester received 24 points in the luncheon contest, divide 24
by 6. If her grade for the term regardless of the luncheon contest were 85, four
credits would be added to this grade, making the final term grade 89.
Lunch at School — The Box Lunch 227
have. Do not stop drinking milk and eating fruits and vege-
tables after the luncheon contest closes. Get the real benefit
from the contest by making the use of milk, fruits, and vegetables
a habit.
If you carry your luncheon, can you bring milk, fruits, and
vegetables? To these pupils in schools where lunch is not
served and to those who carry their lunch even though there is
a school lunch room, this part of the text applies. It is pos-
sible for the pupil who carries her lunch to have milk, fruit,
and vegetables in her lunch basket ? Let us see :