Helping young students learn healthy habits is an important part of supporting the whole child. This First Grade Health Booklet, “I Can Be Healthy”, includes engaging health and wellness activities for primary students that introduce important topics like personal hygiene, exercise, nutrition, and taking care of our bodies. These printable health activities for first grade are easy to use in the classroom and encourage students to think about the everyday choices that help them stay healthy. The booklet is perfect for health lessons, morning work, or cross-curricular activities that promote healthy habits and wellness for young learners.
We always kick off the year by discussing germs! What are they? How are the spread? What can they cause? How can we stop them from spreading? We do a lot of role playing and sharing of ideas. This is also a great time to remind students where they can wash their hands, get sanitizer, or find tissues in our room!
Another thing we study at the beginning of the year are healthy habits and practices. I love the discussions that happen around these topics. We don’t have a health curriculum that we follow in my district. We use the first grade health standards and we supplement with books, videos, discussions and charts we make together, activities, and more…and I love it! 🙂
Our P.E. Teacher does a lot of work with the kids involving the importance of physical activity. We have a walking/jogging program at our school that kids participate in before school, at lunch recess, and sometimes in PE. It’s so good for them and I’ve had first graders log 100+ miles in a school year!! This program is a great starting point for our physical activity lessons!
One of our most important things we cover is students knowing their emergency contacts. It’s often a mixed bag…some know names/addresses/phone numbers, etc. while others do not know phone numbers of parents or guardians or their home address. Before we complete this page, I always give parents a heads up so they can write their contact information down for kids before we complete that page in our health book. That way, students will have the best number to reach a parent if needed.
Helping students create healthy habits is a very important concept in first grade! And you can have fun doing it, too!
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