This Body Parts Worksheet helps 1st Grade students name the nose, hand, ear, mouth, foot, and eye with a picture word bank, then show what each part does. Answer key included.
Using this Jumping Jack Song (MP3), your students will be working up a sweat as they do jumping jacks along with the catchy beat.
This Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner Classifying Food Worksheet has 1st Grade students sort nine familiar foods into three meal columns. Answer key included, so sorting practice checks itself in minutes.
Using this Jumping Jacks Song (Original Music Video), your students will be working up a sweat as they do jumping jacks along with the catchy exercise video.
Help first grade students sort foods into the five MyPlate food groups with this my plate sorting worksheet. A printable science activity with an answer key that builds healthy-eating skills.
This Fitness Package Download provides you and your students with all of the Have Fun Teaching Fitness DVDs, CDs, and Reading Comprehension Workbook.
Using this Stretching Song (MP3), your students will cool down and stretch their muscles with perfect form along with the catchy beat.
These Donut Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
This taking care of your teeth worksheet asks 1st grade students to complete five sentences about brushing, flossing, and the dentist using a five-word word box. An answer key is included, so checking work takes seconds.
This Label Food Names Worksheet asks 1st graders to study nine food pictures and write each name using the word box. An answer key is included, so checking work takes only seconds.
Students use a word box to complete eight sentences with the body parts fill in the blanks worksheet, then write one of their own. Built for 1st Grade with an answer key included, it makes naming body parts simple.
This brushing your teeth sequencing worksheet asks 1st graders to number four pictures and four sentences to rebuild a familiar routine. An answer key is included, so checking sequencing practice takes only a moment.
This Plant Parts We Eat Worksheet helps 1st graders match eight foods to the plant part we eat, using a helpful word box. Includes an answer key for easy, no-prep plant science practice.
This Fitness Songs (MP3 Album) provides you and your students with seven fitness songs to get your class moving and fit in a fun and musical way!
This Fitness Package provides you and your students with all of the Have Fun Teaching Fitness DVDs, CDs, Reading Comprehension Workbook, and T-shirt.
This tooth addition worksheet lets 1st graders solve twelve sums within 20 and circle the right answer on each card. An answer key is included, making fact practice quick and fun.
This fruit writing paper gives 1st graders a cheerful healthy-snack prompt and roomy lines, so young writers can describe a favorite fruit and build stronger sentences.
Using this Walking Song (Original Music Video), your students will be working up a sweat as they walk along with the catchy beat.
Crunchy carrots and sparkly smiles
First graders learn that their bodies need good fuel, movement, rest and clean habits to feel their best. They sort foods into groups like fruits, vegetables, grains, protein and dairy, and they build a "plate" with a little of each. They practice the routines that keep germs away: washing hands for about 20 seconds, brushing teeth twice a day, covering a cough. The big click comes when kids connect a choice to a feeling: "I ate breakfast, so I have energy for recess!"
Six-year-olds remember what they sing, sort and act out. These three moves turn health talk into habits.
Kids never know how long to scrub. Play a hand-washing song at the sink and the song becomes the timer. When the chorus ends, the bubbles rinse off. After a week, you'll hear them humming it on their own.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withWash My Hands SongSongsOpen it →Draw a big plate on chart paper, split into food groups. Kids cut out pictures from grocery flyers and glue each one in the right spot. Then they plan their own lunch plate and check: "Do I have a fruit? A vegetable?"
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withMy Plate Sorting WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Routines are sequences, and pictures make the order stick. Lay out brushing steps out of order and let partners fix them: wet the brush, add a pea of toothpaste, brush every tooth, rinse. Hang the finished strip by the sink at home.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withBrushing Your Teeth Sequencing WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Healthy habits stick best when kids are moving and laughing.
ActivitiesHold up food cut-outs and kids show "sometimes food" or "everyday food" with a thumbs sign. Great talk starter!
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VideosTurn on a jumping jacks song between lessons and talk about how a fast heartbeat means a strong heart.
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WorksheetsPancakes or pizza? Kids sort foods into breakfast, lunch and dinner and defend their answers.
Open Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner Classifying Food Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Body Parts Worksheet, Jumping Jack Song (MP3) and Wash My Hands Song.
First grade health usually covers food groups, hand washing and germs, dental care, exercise, sleep and basic safety. The focus is on everyday habits kids can do themselves.
Talk about "everyday foods" and "sometimes foods" instead of good and bad. Fruits, vegetables and whole grains give lasting energy, and treats are fine sometimes. Let kids help build a balanced plate at dinner.
About 20 seconds with soap, which is roughly two rounds of "Happy Birthday" or one short hand-washing song. Scrubbing between fingers and under nails matters as much as the time.
Brush together, two minutes, twice a day. A song or a sand timer helps, and a picture chart of the steps by the sink builds independence fast.
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