Lesson
Show kids how making healthy choices can cause a chain reaction of feeling good and making more healthy choices.
First and foremost, fit is about choices. Each day a child, no matter their age, makes many choices that impact their health and well-being. The lessons in this unit build awareness of the many moments each day when they can make a choice, then empowers them to make the best choice—the fit choice! Print and display the fit Posters to support healthy decision-making involving recharge, mood, food, and move.
Share examples of healthy choices you've seen students make at school and ask them to share what types of healthy choices they have made.
Follow along with the slideshow as you continue the lesson.
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Awareness of Mood Influencers
Ask students to recall their recharge and mood choices from the previous day. Do they recognize how recharge and mood influenced their choices?
Read about the healthy choices each of the kids in the slideshow make to learn how they motivated their mood and recharged their energy to make better choices.
Learning Self-Management Skills
Highlight each kids' decision to manage their moods and make fit choices on the slideshow. Next, students match fit choices with slideshow photos. A correct answer is one they can justify. Reinforce students’ use of the terms recharge, mood, food, and move.
Practicing Self-Management Skills
Discuss fit choices that kids can make at different times throughout the day. Encourage students to identify someone they can talk to if they need assistance.
Download the Make a fit Choice printable for students to draw and/or write about their fit choices.
Practice thinking about and making fit choices! Try out the fitMarathon printable or create your own fit fortune with the fit Fortune Teller.
Grade: K-2
Time: 20 Minutes
Kids learn to pay attention to their energy level and mood, then do a fit-check to identify choices they can make.
Get PrintableRead a story about two characters. One takes the time to do a fit-check and the other does not. See the differences in their outcomes.
Start SlideshowHelp kids think about the choices they make after school and which are healthy choices.
Get PrintableRead the slides slowly and quickly depending upon whether they refer to low or high energy.
Start SlideshowHelp kids think about three choices they make after school and which are healthy choices.
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