Topics
Here is a look at what children will learn each month.
Comprehensive health education means that children learn about a variety of important health topics. In THE GREAT BODY SHOP Pre-K, preschoolers will learn what it takes to keep their bodies, minds, and emotions safe and healthy. Click on a topic to see the information and health concepts covered in that particular unit.
- 1 Safety
- 2 Body Parts
- 3 Nutrition
- 4 Social/Emotional Health
- 5 Mental Health
- 6 Illness Prevention
- 7 Drug Prevention
- 8 Hygiene
- 9 Community/Environmental Health
- 10 Fitness
1 We Stay Safe
Safety
- Define safe
- Safe and unsafe
- Define rules
- Follow rules for classroom, home community
- Hazards including: fighting, poisons, matches, fire safety
- Safety Helpers, parents, teachers
- Transportation safety, seatbelts, helmets, car seats
- Emergency response
- Safety words
- Respect for laws
- Playground safety
- Stop, look, listen
- How to get help
- Self care
- Responsibility
- Stop, drop and role
- Police officers, firefighters
- Bus safety
- Guns
- Problem solving
2 This is My Body
Body Parts
- Identify and name body parts
- Function of the body parts
- Five senses
- Movement, locomotor, grossmotor
- Individual differences
- Uniqueness
- Respect for others
- Special traits
- Growth, change and development
- Similarities and differences in bodies
- Self-care
- Fine motor skills
- Abilities and disabilities
- Life changes
- Family chores
- Personal responsibilities
- Recall name
- Compare humans to other living things
- Compare and contrast
- Appreciation of differences
3 I Like Good Food
Nutrition
- Define food
- Types of food
- Living things
- Define healthy
- Healthful vs. unhealthful food
- Wash hands and food
- Manners
- Foods around the world (cultures)
- Similarities and differences in foods
- Trying new foods
- Media awareness
- Special diets
- Variety of foods
- Foods for people
- Foods for animals
- MyPlate for young children
- Food safety
- Identify preferences
- Sources of food
- Courtesy
- Predicting consequences
- Hygiene
4 This is My Family
Social/Emotional Health
- Define family
- Identify family members
- Share my family and your family
- Animal families
- People families around the world
- Jobs in the family
- Responsibilities
- Family fun
- Physical activity
- Cultural celebrations
- Respect for others
- Cooperation
- Communication
- Compare and contrast
- Family stories
- Types of families
- Respect for diversity
- Family chores
- Helping others
- Teamwork
5 Special Me
Mental Health
- Personalities
- Uniqueness and differences
- Feeling words
- Feeling pictures
- Appropriate ways to show feelings
- How to share
- Love and trust
- Communication
- Expressing needs, wants and feelings
- Personal safety
- Types of touches
- Where to go for help
- Imagination and creativity
- Anger management
- Conflict resolution
- Talents, hobbies
- Personal strengths
- Self esteem
- Respect for self/others
- Appreciation of diversity
- Empathy
- Trusted adults
- Refusal skills
- No, go and tell
6 I Stay Healthy
Illness Prevention
- Define sick and well
- Doctors, dentists, nurses health professionals
- Immunizations
- Self-care
- Health and hygiene routines
- Brush teeth, toilet hygiene, wash hands, sneeze in tissue
- Medicine rules
- Describe how you feel and who to tell
- Identify common health problems of children
- Empathy for the ill
- Helping others in need
- Symptoms of illness
- Germs
- Healthy habits
- Exercise
- Nutrition
- Sleep
- Health Helpers
- Personal responsibilities
7 Good Things In, Bad Things Out
Drug Prevention
- Things that can hurt the body
- Poison safety: cleaning solutions, dirty things, soap, needles, gas, dishwasher, old food, plants, etc.
- Define medicine
- Medicine roules
- Candy look alikes, food vs. drugs
- Refusal skills
- Getting help
- Things that are for adults but not for children
- Alcohol, tobacco
- Drugs
- Unsafe things
- Responsibility
- Making decisions
- Safe food and drinks
- Dangerous foods, drinks
- Respect for laws
8 Clean and Dirty
Hygiene
- Define clean and dirty
- Identify things that need to be cleaned
- What to share
- Don't share personal items
- Self-care routines
- Hygiene routines
- Hand washing, teeth brushing, toilet hygiene, bathing
- Responsibility
- Service to family
- Cleaning up the classroon
- Germs that can spread
- Predict consequences
- Use decision making skills
- Daily routines
- Helping others
- Illness prevention
9 My Healthy World
Community/Environmental Health
- Keeping the home safe and healthy
- Define community
- Safe community
- Helping others
- City rules and laws
- Products and services
- Define pollution
- Types of pollution
- Responsibilities for our world
- Define career
- Types of careers
- Goal setting
- Health and safety professionals
- Second-hand smoke
- Weather hazards
- Societal roles
- Handicap facilities
- Doctors, dentists, nurses
- Check ups
- Making homes healthy and safe
- Jobs and chores
- Healthy and safe cities
- Recycle, reduce, reuse
10 Fit and Fun
Fitness
- Define fitness
- Bending for flexibility
- Play and exercise
- Locomotion and gross motor movement
- Walk, run, gallop
- Large muscle movements
- Sports safety
- Equipment
- Environmental hazards
- Citizenship
- Sportsmanship
- Conflict resolution
- Fair play
- Family fitness
- Eye-hand coordination
- Safe at play
- Rules for play
- Physical activities