Grade Two – Healthy lifestyles:

Central Idea: Making balanced choices about daily routines enable us to have a healthy lifestyle.
We will:
• To study our daily routines. (Eating, sleep, hygiene, safety play and exercise.)
• Look the choices available to us.
• Identify balanced choices.
• Look at the consequences of our choices.

Skills we will develop include:
Research, thinking, listening, reporting, cooperating, working as a group, presenting, reflective, analysing.

We want to be knowledgeable, thinking, open minded, balanced, reflecting, communicators.

Vocabulary:
Balanced, diet, healthy, unhealthy, safety, choices, hygiene, consequences, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, dairy products, protein, exercise.

• Ways to help at home:
Discuss the concept of a healthy diet. Look at different foods when shopping. Discuss the importance of exercise, play, and sleep why we need them and how much we need. Safety issues at home in the car, at the beach, crossing roads etc.