This video simply introduces the Healthy Living Night, as well as the Healthy Living Night agenda. |
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Dear Parents/Guardians: I am writing to invite you and your child to the healthy living night that I’m putting on for the parents and children in my classroom. As you are well aware, healthy living is a substantial part of the curriculum. Specifically, we focus on the areas of health, safety, and nutrition. That being said, the goal of my healthy living night is to show you how healthy living relates to health, safety, and nutrition. While we focus on it in the classroom, it’s also important that you focus on these areas at home as well. To that end, my second goal is to give you a few suggestions and ideas about how to extend these concepts from the classroom to your very own home. In order to achieve these goals, I have planned exciting activities and presentations that will not only inform you of the important concepts that we cover, but also include you in your Childs’ learning experience. The activities I have planned are interactive activities that will require both you and your Childs’ participation. The activities that we will do as a group will include: proper hand washing (health), poison control (safety), and the food groups (nutrition). As you can see these activities is all part of a healthy living initiative that our center is currently implementing. On top of the activities you will be sent home with informational pamphlets and posters that will help your child remember these important concepts at home. In short, you will definitely not want to miss this healthy living night. It will be a fun packed, yet informational night that you don’t want to miss. It will be fun for the entire family! I have attached an agenda of activities for the night to this letter. I hope this will give you an idea of what to expect, as well as get you excited about attending. While my hope is that all of you will be able to attend, I know that we are all very busy people. Since I’m sure that some of you won’t be able to attend I have also set up a website where you can find informational videos, the presentation on health, safety, and nutrition, the activity plans and supplemental information, as well as downloadable content and informative external links. This website will be very helpful to those who can’t attend, as well as to those who do. I hope to see all of you at the healthy living night. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Also, if you want access to the website please visit the healthy living night website. Sincerely, Crystal Fulp
Healthy Living Night Agenda
I. Welcome & Introduction II. Health, Safety, and Nutrition Presentation III. Activities: a. Hand Washing Activity: I will acquaint parents with the hand washing poster, as well as the hand washing song. We will sing the song and complete the hand washing activity that accompanies it. The activity will be used to demonstrate the proper way to wash your hands via the six steps of proper hand washing. I will also show parents the supplemental information that goes along with the hand washing poster and song. b. Poison Control Activity: I will acquaint parents with the poison control concepts that we are learning in class. We will have a class discussion about what poisons are. This discussion will be followed by an activity from the poison control handbook. Copies of the handbook will be distributed to the parents. c. Food Group Activity: I will acquaint parents with the concepts we learned in class related to the food groups. We will have a class discussion about good, healthy meal choices followed by an activity where children use the myplate template to draw in what they had for dinner. This activity will be followed by a class discussion about the meals. If better meal choices could be made the parents will be asked to suggest different, more healthy choices. IV. Website Explanation & Demonstration a. I will show the parents have to log on to and utilize the healthy living night website. I will acquaint parents to the layout of the website and where they can locate additional resources.
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