Kimberley Fraser
I am a University of Calgary Education Student. My first undergraduate degree was in Canadian Studies. I am now in my second and final year of Education. I want to teach Division One and my current specialization is elementary social studies.
Family is very important to me and I am in a fairly large family. My parents are incredibly supportive of me and have always encouraged me to be a teacher. I have wanted to be a teacher since I was five years old. I have a twin sister named Lindsay who has just recently completed her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. My brother Mike completed his first year of Business at the University of Calgary but has decided to take a year off to work and decide what his future will look like.
I am a competitive equestrian and have owned my own horse since 2006. I have ridden horses since age 6 and continue to ride to this day and have experienced a fair amount of success. In the 2012 Eventing Season I placed third at an event at the Training Level.
Family is very important to me and I am in a fairly large family. My parents are incredibly supportive of me and have always encouraged me to be a teacher. I have wanted to be a teacher since I was five years old. I have a twin sister named Lindsay who has just recently completed her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. My brother Mike completed his first year of Business at the University of Calgary but has decided to take a year off to work and decide what his future will look like.
I am a competitive equestrian and have owned my own horse since 2006. I have ridden horses since age 6 and continue to ride to this day and have experienced a fair amount of success. In the 2012 Eventing Season I placed third at an event at the Training Level.
Why Nutrition?
I have been working at Mini University PhD summer camps for the last three summers. For the last two summers I have taught children aged 5 and 6 who are going into grade one for the upcoming school year. I had never given the role of nutrition much thought until I began working at these camps. I had started to notice some of the children having difficulty getting through the full day at camp so I began to look for factors that were contributing to their difficulties. I noticed that many of these children were not eating nutritious snacks and lunches. On many occasions the children that seemed to struggle the most would eat things like bags of chips, twinkies, cookies and chocolate for snack and then would move on to pizza, cheeseburgers, and drinking pop along with various other foods lacking in nutritional value. I began to look at the kids who ate more nutritious foods and noticed they struggled less with all the activities of the day. This is not to say that this applies to all children in all cases, however this was the general trend that I noticed so I began research and noticed this is well documented. I wanted to bring awareness of the importance of nutrition to parents because it is very important in their children's lives as well as in their own lives.