Healthy Living

Hello,

    For the month of April, the focus was on healthy living.  For this lesson I concentrated only on the grades 5/6 and 7/8s.  I was able to relate proper nutrition to some prior experiences we had in the class last year before phys ed.  I had some students who would get ill during phys ed, and were not exerting that much energy.  What I discovered was that they were eating skittles before phys ed. class and were getting upset stomachs over this.  I introduced my lesson by reminding them what was happening last year.  We also discussed how important it is to fuel our bodies properly and the negative side affects if we don’t.  A couple of students also shared answers on how to keep our bodies healthy by exercising, and staying away from substances.  

      In our grade 7/8 class we had a competitive swimmer who was on a strict diet for his competitions.  We reviewed what he was eating, and why he would eat some specific foods.  We discussed how some individuals would carb load before a competition the night before and how the body would use that energy.  We also looked at a couple other eating habits and discussed a coupe of known diets.  The class also discussed the negative side affects of energy drinks and pop.  For the monthly challenge I got the students research a healthy food and give 5-8 reasons why students should be eating it.  We are beginning track season this month so we created a bulletin board of healthy foods we should be eating during the month of May.  Some of the foods the students picked were eggs, spinach, broccoli, lemons, smoothies and brown rice.