Exciting News from Walnut Canyon Press!
Introducing Super Me Arkansas: 35,000 Smiles
Every Choice Matters.
35,000 Fourth Graders. 35,000 Kitchen Tables. Statewide.
Walnut Canyon Press is excited to introduce Super Me Arkansas: 35,000 Smiles, an innovative summer whole-health literacy initiative designed to reach approximately 35,000 Arkansas fourth-grade students and an estimated 200,000 family members.
By connecting Arkansas agriculture, nutrition, reading, STEM activities, and practical life skills, the initiative brings meaningful learning opportunities from the classroom to the family kitchen table.
Through colorful original illustrations, engaging activities, and QR-code learning resources, children can explore healthy choices independently or alongside family members and caregivers.
Learning Doesn't Stop When School Lets Out!
Keeping Minds Active. Building Healthy Habits. Reducing Summer Slide.
Summer is an opportunity for discovery—and continued learning helps children maintain the skills they develop during the school year.
Super Me Arkansas: 35,000 Smiles keeps children engaged through reading, math, science, technology, engineering, agriculture, and nutrition.
Hands-on STEM activities and practical whole-health literacy lessons encourage curiosity, problem-solving, and healthy decision-making while helping reduce summer learning loss, commonly known as the summer slide.
And the learning doesn't stop with the child. It reaches the family kitchen table, where everyday discoveries become opportunities to build lifelong healthy habits.
From Arkansas Farms to Family Tables
Discovering Where Our Food Comes From
Arkansas agriculture is woven throughout Super Me Arkansas, helping children discover the connections between farms, food, nutrition, and their everyday lives.
Through interactive activities, children explore how food is grown, how to make nutritious choices, and how simple food-preparation skills can support healthier families.
These lessons encourage children to become informed advocates for their own health—sharing what they learn with parents, grandparents, caregivers, and friends.
Harvest to Hallways
Trading Waste Bins for Waistline Wins
Taking a Bite Out of Lifestyle-Related Disease
Food provides nutrition only when it is eaten. Helping children understand, appreciate, and enjoy nutritious food is an important part of whole-health literacy.
A Penn State school-cafeteria study reported plate waste reaching as much as 53% in the setting studied, illustrating how much food—and potential nutrition—can be lost when meals go uneaten.
Through agriculture education, food awareness, and practical activities, Super Me Arkansas encourages children to value nutritious foods, reduce avoidable waste, and make informed choices at home and at school.
Growing Healthy Smiles Beyond Arkansas
Arkansas is the starting point, but the opportunity extends far beyond one state.
Walnut Canyon Press welcomes conversations with educators, agricultural organizations, state agencies, and community partners interested in exploring similar summer whole-health literacy initiatives for children and families in their own communities.
Every Choice Matters.
One Child. One Family. One Healthy Choice at a Time.
Together, we can keep children learning throughout the summer, strengthen whole-health literacy, celebrate agriculture, and inspire healthy habits that last a lifetime.