Kindergarten Health: Unit 1

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For Kindergarten Health there are seven standards that need to be taught to achieve healthy habits!

Unit 1 Personal Health

Unit 2 Growth and Development

Unit 3 Nutrition and Physical Activity

Unit 4 Substance Use and Abuse

Unit 5 Injury/ Violence Prevention Control and Safety

Unit 6 Prevention/Control of Disease

Unit 7 Environmental Consumer Health

These units can be taught out of order. They are only numbered for your convenience.

This is a great health unit to help your students achieve healthy habits!

Through using this Kindergarten Health: Unit 1, students will explore and learn to identify daily healthy habits.

Included in this unit:

* Students will understand the order of brushing their teeth as a daily habit.

* Students will understand the importance of going to bed on time is a healthy habit.

* Identifying healthy eating habits.

* Understand what it means to be physically active.

* Students will write a goal to brush teeth daily.

* Understand that being clean and washing hands is a part of being healthy.

There is a total of 14 pages included in this Unit 1 for Kindergarten Health.

There are seven units that cover all the health requirements for Kindergarten. Here are the links to other health units:

Kindergarten Health: Unit 1 Personal Health

Kindergarten Health: Unit 2 Growth and Development

Kindergarten Health: Unit 3 Nutrition and Physical Activity

Kindergarten Health: Unit 4 Substance Use and Abuse

Kindergarten Health: Unit 5 Injury / Violence Prevention Control and Safety

Kindergarten Health: Unit 6 Prevention / Control of Disease

Kindergarten Health: Unit 7 Enviromental Consumer Health

You can also teach your students about keeping yourself safe by studying about the Coronavirus, where and when it started and facts that plagued our world with this virus.

Kindergarten Health: Covid 19 / Coronavirus Facts

This unit meets Common Core Standards.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify daily habits as healthy or unhealthy
Sort foods into healthy and unhealthy categories
Sequence the steps of a daily hygiene routine
State a personal health goal in writing or drawing

Teaching tips

Use the food sort page as a hands-on cut-and-paste center rather than a worksheet completed at a desk
Read the Pete the Pig story aloud before the hygiene sequencing page so students have the narrative fresh for ordering the steps
Pair the habit-labeling worksheet with a class discussion, since several items (TV, video games, snacks) invite differing opinions
Save the goal-setting page to revisit later in the unit or year to check whether students met their stated goal

Skills covered

Food classification — students cut and sort pictures of foods into healthy and unhealthy columns.
Habit evaluation — students label seven daily behaviors, such as brushing teeth or eating cookies for dinner, as healthy or unhealthy.
Sequencing — students order four steps of a tooth-brushing routine using first/next/then/last language.
Goal setting — students write or draw one personal health goal, such as brushing twice daily.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the six worksheets build from one health concept to the next?

They move from sorting healthy and unhealthy foods, to circling physical activities, to labeling daily habits, to sequencing a hygiene routine, and finally to writing a personal health goal, with each page headed "Personal Health Unit 1."

What is the role of the Pete the Pig story at the end of the unit?

It retells the hygiene message through a numbered story about a pig who gets muddy and dirty, then washes with soap, giving students a character-based recap of the unit's core habit.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

personal health
healthy habits
hygiene
nutrition basics

Topics

health health units personal health kindergarten health healthy foods healthy habits personal development for kids kindergarten lesson

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