Great Big Crunch

"Great Big Apple Crunch"
Thorncliffe Park P.S., Toronto
Thurs, Mar 10, 2011

Teacher and kids
Now today is a really special day. It's called, The Great Big Crunch. So there's going to be some serious crunching action later on with some locally grown apples. But tell me this: we're talking about apples -- what do bees have to do with apples?

Teacher and kids
That's right. They drink nectar from flowers.

Teacher and kids
And would you believe it? If we didn't have bees, we wouldn't have apples!

Meredith Hayes, FoodShare
I'm so excited that we're here today. What's really amazing -- we can see the clock and it's counting down! -- and we've had so much fun today, and in just a few minutes we are going to be biting into the apples that we've been talking about all day. I am so looking forward to it! We are going to be biting in with 75,000 other people across Canada. That's amazing! [Applause] And we have a couple of those students right now -- we have a couple hundred of them that are in Chatham right now and they're going to be waiting and in four minutes they're going to be joining us. And we also have some -- a few hundred students -- that are in Sault Ste. Marie as well -- so all across the province and all across this country were biting into apples.

Carol Mitchell, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Well, we're celebrating Nutrition Month, with McIntosh apples, and all the children are enjoying the apples so much.

Kids
Seven, six, five, four, three, and two, one -- CRUNCH!!!

Kevin Battaglia, Principal, Thorncliffe Park Public School
Thorncliffe Park is the largest elementary school in North America, approximately 1930 students kindergarten through grade 5 in a very diverse community in Toronto, where a large number of our students are ESL and newcomers to Canada.

Carol Mitchell
Ontario apples are a smart choice and they make you smarter! They're good for the environment, they're good for the farmer - everybody wins.

Don Warden, Norfolk Fruit Growers' Association
Well, we've been supplying apples into the food Nutrition Program for many years. For today's Big Crunch we've donated enough apples to cover this whole school of over 1800 kids, so that every child could have an apple.

Carol Mitchell and kids
Good things gro-o-ow... in Ontario. Enjoy! Eat lots of apples!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Apples
• Event
• Ontario
• Food
• Nutrition
• Students

[divAGirL1235]

I used to go to this school in fact i live their!!!!!!!!!

[tahirstars]

nive im in this school

[obscurekam]

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