Teach Students to Stay Healthy

Teach Students to Stay Healthy: This post offers several ideas for keeping students healthy so they can learn.

If our students are not healthy, they won't be learning much, will they? Although there's no guarantee, we can help them learn some ways to stay healthy.

Teach Students to Stay Healthy: This post offers several ideas for keeping students healthy so they can learn.

Here are a few ways we can help them learn to develop good health habits:

Model Good Health Habits

Teach Students to Stay Healthy: This post offers several ideas for keeping students healthy so they can learn.


Being a good role model is the best way to teach children pretty much anything. They need to see you modeling proper health habits! Let them see you:
  • drink water
  • wash your hands frequently
  • eating healthy foods
  • cough or sneeze into your elbow
  • brushing teeth
  • working through stress
  • exercising
  • getting fresh air
If you're unable to let them see you doing these healthy things, work it into your conversations:
  • Yesterday, when I was out for my daily walk... "
  • I was getting stressed about the weather, so I... "
  • This morning, while I was brushing my teeth... "

Share information about good health habits.

Teach Students to Stay Healthy: This post offers several ideas for keeping students healthy so they can learn.

Plenty of resources with information can be shared with children about good health habits.

I suggest trying some of these "Stay Healthy" activities from this bundle.

Explore this image for a link to this money saving bundle!

Or you could try this bundle, available on the popular Boom Learning platform!
The "Stay Healthy" Boom Bundle has these two decks
Explore this image for a link to this money saving bundle on the Boom Learning platform

Here are a couple of helpful videos!

 
You can easily add these books to your classroom library for the children to read or for read-aloud! (These are Amazon affiliate links.)

Talk about what we can do to stay healthy

Teach Students to Stay Healthy: This post offers several ideas for keeping students healthy so they can learn.

I truly believe in having a health unit. But that's not enough! Good health habits should be discussed regularly! It might sound like this:

"I know it's chilly outside, but bundle up because fresh air is important for your health."
"What a healthy snack! That will help your body fight germs."
"I'm glad to see you wash your hands so carefully! You won't be spreading any germs!"
"Yes, you can refill your water bottle. Water helps us stay healthy!"

Teach Students to Stay Healthy: This post offers several ideas for keeping students healthy so they can learn.
Being healthy is at the lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. So, it makes sense that being healthy is essential to learning. See the post below for more information about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Bloom's Taxonomy.

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What do you do to help your students learn how to stay healthy?

Teach Students to Stay Healthy: This post offers several ideas for keeping students healthy so they can learn.


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