Lesson Planning
Find out some important ways to look after mental health as well as physical health.
Children will:
- Begin to understand the importance of our own and other people’s mental health.
- Build self-esteem.
Healthy Minds
Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of
Awareness Days World Health Day
Objectives
SMSC
- Develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence; encourage respect for other people.
- Make good choices.
Art and Design
- Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
Music
- Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs & speaking chants and rhymes.
Provided Resources
- Mr Counch Potato introductory letter
You Will Need
- Junk modelling containers,
- Googly eyes
- Collage resources, natural: conkers, leaves, twigs, shells
- playdough
- Items for gardening
Weblinks
Worry monster instructions from sunhatsandwellieboots.com
Playdough self portraits from sunhatsandwellieboots.com
How to grow cress from mudpiefridays.com
If you're happy and you know it − YouTube clip
2 fat gentlemen met in lane from carrypaterson.wordpress.com
Important factors in maintaing kid's good mental health from gosnellsps.wa.edu.au
Place2Be website from place2be.org.uk
Relax kids website from relaxkids.com
Family Links nurture programme for schools from familylinks.org.uk