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Health Misc
Contact_FullName: becky Ziegler Contact_Email: beckyvball12@hotmail.com date:: 05/03/02 Area: science Idea: Read this story to the students:::: Sammy and his mother lived together in a house they built at the bottom over the tallest evergreen tree in the forest. Sammy’s mother had to visit her sister on Sunday, so she had to leave Sammy alone for several days. Before she left she told Sammy, “ Watch what you eat. Eat healthy foods. Don’t just eat sweet snacks or you get very sick.” Sammy’s mother made sure she told this to Sammy because he never liked to eat healthy. He always ate too many sweet snacks and got sick. After Sammy’s mother left, he got hungry and went to find some healthy food just like his mother told him. On Sunday he ate one apple, but he was still hungry. On Monday he ate one piece of bread, but he was still hungry. On Tuesday he ate one plum, but he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate one piece of salami, but he was still hungry. On Thursday he ate one pear, but he was still hungry. On Friday he ate one pickle, but he was still hungry. On Saturday he ate one slice of watermelon, but he was still hungry. On Sunday he ate one strawberry, but he was till hungry. On Monday he ate one piece of Swiss cheese, but he was still hungry. On Tuesday he ate one orange, but he was still hungry. On Tuesday he ate one sausage, but he was still hungry. On Wednesday he was so hungry that he had forgotten what his mother said about eating too many sweets. That day he ate one lollipop, one cupcake, one slice of cherry pie, one ice cream cone, and one piece of chocolate cake. The next Sammy was very sick. His tummy hurt really badly and he could not eat anything. The next day his mother came home and Sammy was still sick. Right away his mother knew what was wrong Sammy ate too many sweets. So she gave Sammy some medicine and sent him to bed. The next day Sammy woke up and promised he would never eat too many sweets again because he did not want to be sick anymore. As you read the story hold up a caterpillar puppet. Cut out of construction paper all the foods Sammy ate. Make a hole big enough to fit around your wrist in the center of each piece of food. Have the students bring up the foods Sammy ate by putting them around your wrist while reading the story. After you have finished the story show the students a poster of the food pyramid and explain to them what it is and how much of each food you should eat in order to stay healthy. Next have a blank poster of the food pyramid. Cut out small versions of the foods Sammy ate in the story. Place Velcro on the blank food pyramid and small food pieces so they will stick. Have the students bring up the small pieces of food and place them under the correct category on the blank food pyramid. Then have the students decide if the piece they brought up was healthy or not. After all the food pieces are placed on the pyramid discuss why Sammy got sick, what foods he ate too much of, and what foods he did not eat eat enough of. Contact_FullName: Jackie Contact_Email: duvalltl@bellsouth.net date:: 01/20/02 Area: Health Idea: To help teach my 4 year olds to set the table, I traced the toy dishes, napkin, spoon, fork and knife on to a piece of construction paper and then laminated it. Now when they want to set the table all they have to do is set out the placemats and fill in the blanks.
ideaCut out pictures of all kinds of food and laminate them. Include packages from food as well. Have the students sort these food into healthy foods and not-so-healthy food. Explain that each food has some nutritional value. These can also be used to sort into food groups, or used for graphing of their favorite foods.
11-7-00GERMS! A good way to teach young children about germs is to put a little bit of glitter on their hands at the beginning of the day. At the end of the day, have them look for all the places that got glitter on them ex. clothes, toys, other body parts. This activity gives them a better understanding of the spread of germs and why it is important to wash our hands.
6-6-00Since it's body week at our preschool I made our dramatic play The Healthy Choice Restaurant. The children are learning to set the table. Its so cute to watch them take each others orders. I put monopoly money in there and picked up some plastic food from dollar stores to put in there too. Their learning to print food names when they take each others orders. There is also tables and chairs, aprons, a fisher price kitchen and pencils and paper. I made menus too and laminated them. There is also a pretend phone. I put placemats and plastic forks and spoons and I picked up some extra napkins when I went to Wendy's for supper. I know this is going to be a favorite for a while even after body week.
Date: 3-30-00Doctor Bag Cut out of black construction paper the shape of a doctor's bag. Have the children glue on a red "+" sign, a band-aid, cotton ball, tongue depressor, q-tip, and whatever else you think will look good on it. Another thing that I also did that my preschoolers loved was a week before I knew we were going to do this theme, I had taken all of their pictures separately. I got them developed and I glued them onto a white paper in the shape of a square. I wrote Dr. Michelle or whatever their name was and then I laminated them. I also made them into a necklace. They all walked around pretending to be doctors with their badges and doctor bags.
Date: 3-28-00Have a Bike Day to promote exercise. Have the children bring their bikes from home along with their helmets. I have supplies on hand like crepe paper steamers and balloons the children decorate their bikes with. Don't forget the playing cards and clothespins to attach to the wheels! (This was the part they loved the most) We block off a section of the parking lot for our event and have one class ride at a time for safety.
2-16-00For the theme shapes and Healthy bodies I titled it "Getting in SHAPE for the new year." and I cut out a bunch of shapes and made a shape person with a barbell in his hand. It turned out really cute.
Date: 1-24-00You need one empty thread spool, and two pipe cleaners for each child. Take one pipe cleaner and stick it though the spool and bring it back to the top and tie it. Then take the pipe cleaner that is on the spool and tie it to the middle of the other pipe cleaner. Children can put the stethoscope on like eye glasses.
1-20-00Check with your dental school or college. Most students who are studying to be dentists, dental hygienists, or dental assistants or required to do so many community training sessions. They will come to your school to teach your students in a fun way about proper dental care and they will probably get a bag with a new toothbrush and other dental goodies to take home. They also make great visitors for community helper month.
Date: 1-17-00"Those Mean & Nasty Downright Disgusting, but Invisible Germs" book is a hit that drives the point home to my preschoolers. I use a glob of paint in the palm of my hand after reading the book to show where the germs go even if I cover my mouth when I've coughed. I then offer to hold someone's hand, and of course they don't want to ... I pick up a pair of scissors, a book, any number of (washable) things to show how the paint (germs) are spreading even as I put the object down. I then encourage them to cough/sneeze into their elbow or shoulders. I read the book at least once a month to review, and also for any new ones who've joined our group. Once in a while after potty when someone doesn't want to wash their hands, I put on the 'germ' voice from the story and say, "Ohhh... yess... I'm hiding out on Tommy's hand..." Then when they wash I mimick the germ from the story again, by whining, "Oh, no! Foiled again! I'm going down the drain, but I'll ... be ... bbaacckk!" 1-16-00Marshmallow Mouth During "Health" and/or "Dental Health" try this fun project. Cut an oval from tag board, fold in half (like a taco). Give children miniature marshmallows to glue around the edge of the oval. Color one side (inside the marshmallows) red - representing the tongue. Fold in half again - you have a mouthful of marshmallows smiling at you! Date: 1-7-00Medical Supply Stores provide a wealth of materials for a hospital dramatic play center. Purchase caps, face masks, bandages, gowns, shoe covers, and other real materials for very little expense. Incorporate toy medical bags and nursing tools. Make an X-Ray from a shirt box and black paper. Hang it on the wall along with an eye chart. 1-2-99I am completing a unit on the body with my 4 year olds. We used several body books written for kids, available in libraries, as reference. We made our own "layered" body books. The cover has the a body outline filled in by painting with skin tone paint, with button eyes, woolen hair, etc. and a simple piece of "clothing" glued on. The next page has the same outline, filled in with a skeleton (q-tips), muscles (used red crayon to color muscles around the bones), and a Xeroxed picture of a skull on the head. Each child also drew a picture of what they do with their muscles. The third page, the internal organs, uses cutouts of a heart, lungs, stomach and intestines, and a brain, which the kids glued into the correct position. There is a simple description for each organ and room for the child's comments about that organ. WE have been learning about each body part and adding to the book as we learned about the part. The kids love it and are really starting to understand how their bodies work!
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