Healthy Actions and Habits

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Awareness Days World Health Day

Objectives

Science

  • Practical scientific methods, processes and skills: Asking simple questions and recognizing that they can be answered in different ways.
  • Observing closely, using simple equipment.
  • Performing simple tests
  • Identifying and classifying.
  • Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  • Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.
  • Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

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.

Design and Technology

  • Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
  • Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles & ingredients according to their characteristics.

Lesson Planning

Find out about healthy habits to establish a daily routine for being healthy.

Children will:

  • Think about our daily routine of habits and actions that keep us clean and healthy.
  • Understand how important it is to general wellbeing to go to sleep well.

You Will Need

  • Flipchart list of healthy themes
  • Mr CP
  • Selection of different types of handwash and soaps, towels
  • Dolls clothes and dressing up clothes, bowl, soap flakes, washing line, pegs
  • Paper plates, paints and paint brushes
  • Supermarket tissues
  • Junk modelling materials to create beds for soft toys
  • Role-play resources for the health centre