Topics

Here is a look at what children will learn each month.

Comprehensive health education means that children learn about a variety of important health topics. In THE GREAT BODY SHOP Pre-K, preschoolers will learn what it takes to keep their bodies, minds, and emotions safe and healthy. Click on a topic to see the information and health concepts covered in that particular unit.

1 We Stay Safe

Safety

  • Define safe
  • Safe and unsafe
  • Define rules
  • Follow rules for classroom, home community
  • Hazards including: fighting, poisons, matches, fire safety
  • Safety Helpers, parents, teachers
  • Transportation safety, seatbelts, helmets, car seats
  • Emergency response
  • Safety words
  • Respect for laws
  • Playground safety
  • Stop, look, listen
  • How to get help
  • Self care
  • Responsibility
  • Stop, drop and role
  • Police officers, firefighters
  • Bus safety
  • Guns
  • Problem solving

2 This is My Body

Body Parts

  • Identify and name body parts
  • Function of the body parts
  • Five senses
  • Movement, locomotor, grossmotor
  • Individual differences
  • Uniqueness
  • Respect for others
  • Special traits
  • Growth, change and development
  • Similarities and differences in bodies
  • Self-care
  • Fine motor skills
  • Abilities and disabilities
  • Life changes
  • Family chores
  • Personal responsibilities
  • Recall name
  • Compare humans to other living things
  • Compare and contrast
  • Appreciation of differences

3 I Like Good Food

Nutrition

  • Define food
  • Types of food
  • Living things
  • Define healthy
  • Healthful vs. unhealthful food
  • Wash hands and food
  • Manners
  • Foods around the world (cultures)
  • Similarities and differences in foods
  • Trying new foods
  • Media awareness
  • Special diets
  • Variety of foods
  • Foods for people
  • Foods for animals
  • MyPlate for young children
  • Food safety
  • Identify preferences
  • Sources of food
  • Courtesy
  • Predicting consequences
  • Hygiene

4 This is My Family

Social/Emotional Health

  • Define family
  • Identify family members
  • Share my family and your family
  • Animal families
  • People families around the world
  • Jobs in the family
  • Responsibilities
  • Family fun
  • Physical activity
  • Cultural celebrations
  • Respect for others
  • Cooperation
  • Communication
  • Compare and contrast
  • Family stories
  • Types of families
  • Respect for diversity
  • Family chores
  • Helping others
  • Teamwork

5 Special Me

Mental Health

  • Personalities
  • Uniqueness and differences
  • Feeling words
  • Feeling pictures
  • Appropriate ways to show feelings
  • How to share
  • Love and trust
  • Communication
  • Expressing needs, wants and feelings
  • Personal safety
  • Types of touches
  • Where to go for help
  • Imagination and creativity
  • Anger management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Talents, hobbies
  • Personal strengths
  • Self esteem
  • Respect for self/others
  • Appreciation of diversity
  • Empathy
  • Trusted adults
  • Refusal skills
  • No, go and tell

6 I Stay Healthy

Illness Prevention

  • Define sick and well
  • Doctors, dentists, nurses health professionals
  • Immunizations
  • Self-care
  • Health and hygiene routines
  • Brush teeth, toilet hygiene, wash hands, sneeze in tissue
  • Medicine rules
  • Describe how you feel and who to tell
  • Identify common health problems of children
  • Empathy for the ill
  • Helping others in need
  • Symptoms of illness
  • Germs
  • Healthy habits
  • Exercise
  • Nutrition
  • Sleep
  • Health Helpers
  • Personal responsibilities

7 Good Things In, Bad Things Out

Drug Prevention

  • Things that can hurt the body
  • Poison safety: cleaning solutions, dirty things, soap, needles, gas, dishwasher, old food, plants, etc.
  • Define medicine
  • Medicine roules
  • Candy look alikes, food vs. drugs
  • Refusal skills
  • Getting help
  • Things that are for adults but not for children
  • Alcohol, tobacco
  • Drugs
  • Unsafe things
  • Responsibility
  • Making decisions
  • Safe food and drinks
  • Dangerous foods, drinks
  • Respect for laws

8 Clean and Dirty

Hygiene

  • Define clean and dirty
  • Identify things that need to be cleaned
  • What to share
  • Don't share personal items
  • Self-care routines
  • Hygiene routines
  • Hand washing, teeth brushing, toilet hygiene, bathing
  • Responsibility
  • Service to family
  • Cleaning up the classroon
  • Germs that can spread
  • Predict consequences
  • Use decision making skills
  • Daily routines
  • Helping others
  • Illness prevention

9 My Healthy World

Community/Environmental Health

  • Keeping the home safe and healthy
  • Define community
  • Safe community
  • Helping others
  • City rules and laws
  • Products and services
  • Define pollution
  • Types of pollution
  • Responsibilities for our world
  • Define career
  • Types of careers
  • Goal setting
  • Health and safety professionals
  • Second-hand smoke
  • Weather hazards
  • Societal roles
  • Handicap facilities
  • Doctors, dentists, nurses
  • Check ups
  • Making homes healthy and safe
  • Jobs and chores
  • Healthy and safe cities
  • Recycle, reduce, reuse

10 Fit and Fun

Fitness

  • Define fitness
  • Bending for flexibility
  • Play and exercise
  • Locomotion and gross motor movement
  • Walk, run, gallop
  • Large muscle movements
  • Sports safety
  • Equipment
  • Environmental hazards
  • Citizenship
  • Sportsmanship
  • Conflict resolution
  • Fair play
  • Family fitness
  • Eye-hand coordination
  • Safe at play
  • Rules for play
  • Physical activities