Food Education
The Goals of Food Education
The primary goal of Food Education is to provide children with the “Power to produce food”, a basic skill necessary for living a healthy and high quality life in the future.
Here at Shinaikai we hope that children will develop into individuals who enjoy producing and consuming good food while attempting to realize the following goals.
Children develop a standard, healthy ‘hunger rhythm’
An increase in foods that children like and want to eat
Having people they want to eat together with
Children who are involved with making and preparing food
Get children talking about food
The 5 Items of Food Education
We consider the contents of the following experiences necessary for children to promote their skills for “producing food”: 「Food and Health」「Food and Relationships」「Food and Culture」「Raising ‘Life’ and Food」「Cooking and Food」
Food and Health
Nourishing their ability to achieve a healthy body and mind, as well as a healthy and safe life through food.
Food and Relationships
Fostering independence and developing the ability to feel familiarity with people, to support and be supported by people, through the use of food.
Food and Culture
Helping children to understand the deep connections between food and culture, and how food and culture mutually influence one another.
Raising ‘Life’ and Food
Teaching to value all life, including their own, through food.
Cooking and Food
Getting children to look at ingredients through food, build an interest in those ingredients, and create an interest in cooking.
Safe and Comforting Meals
We provide healthy meals based on the traditional Japanese diet, prepared slowly and carefully by veteran cooks under the direction of nutritionists. Nearly all ingredients are produced domestically. Among other measures, soup is prepared with love fresh every morning using bonito and kombu to ensure children can eat safe and comforting meals.
Additionally, we take detailed measures such as dividing meal contents according to children’s age and developmental stage. For children with allergies, we try to avoid giving them a completely different meal. We try to provide them with meals as similar to other children as possible, implementing cooking methods and ingredients for accommodating their allergies.
子供達は活動する瞬間、自らを個性化する。
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Commitment to Shinaikai Childcare
Picture Books・Literature
Picture Books・Literature
Children can enjoy a great feeling of happiness when they are being read picture books with a passionate voice or manner.
Food Education
Food education
We foster “The power to produce food”, the basis for living a healthy and high-quality life, and in doing so cultivate the power necessary to live.
High Quality Toys
High Quality Toys
We want to raise children with high quality toys during their important development stages. We’ve prepared a selection of toys with that feeling in mind.
Nursery Rhymes
Nursery Rhymes
Most of the music time is based on Nursery Rhymes.
Nursery Rhymes cultivate children’s ability to focus, which connects to the act of listening to people’s voices and stories.