Healthy+Living

=Healthy Living= Was the Hungry Caterpillar eating a balanced diet? Did it help him turn into a beautiful butterfly? How does what we eat help us grow and transform into healthy, strong adults?

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Procedures
Students will visit the United States Department of Agriculture's [|"My Pyramid For Kids" website].

The "My Pyramid For Kids" section features an explanation of Healthy Living guidelines for children. For an age-appropriate poster for teacher to show students, click the PDF file below. Class can discuss why each part of the pyramid is important.

Activities
Students will create individual Healthy Foods collages, as well as a class scrapbook illustrating other ways they stay healthy. Students will bring photos from home showing how they play (basketball, sledding, etc.) and paste them into a booklet. After discussing their own Healthy Living habits, class can watch the video entitled [|"How We Play"], in which two children show the different ways that they stay active. This video is best shown on a Smartboard so students can take turns clicking the pages to hear the boys tell about how they play.