Go, Slow, and Whoa!!!! Looking at healthy decisions!
Hello Everyone!
We have been talking about the healthy choices we can make that impact the systems of the human body such as diet, sleep, exercise, habits, stress reduction, and more. In your HeartSmarts booklets, you are reading about many things you can do to improve heart and body health!
Next time you go into a grocery store with your parents, take some time to notice. Where are the healthy foods? Many times, the healthiest options are located around the outside areas of the store, whereas processed and packaged foods that are less healthy options tend to be in the centre aisles. Is this true in your store?
Today everyone received a handout about Go, Slow, and Whoa! The idea of this chart is to help guide us in making choices about our foods. You can also use the Canadian Food Guide which we received from the Community Health Nurses who visited. GO foods you have lots of when you are hungry. SLOW foods you should think about first and only have moderate amounts. WHOA foods are the “only once in awhile at a special occasion” foods. Using magazines, we cut out pictures to put up on three posters for GO/SLOW/WHOA to practice sorting foods into the three groups and to have a visual reminder in the classroom.
This weekend, please use your HeartSmarts booklet to do some recording of your own habits to think about healthy choices.
- pp 34-35: Write down your food choices for five days and evaluate them!
- pp. 36: Read about SALT and find the item in your pantry with the most!
- pp. 51-53: Read about WATER and track SUGAR consumption!
- p. 73: Track your EXERCISE for three days! Read the pages before it for more information if you need it!
- p. 83: Do the ULTIMATE SCREEN CHALLENGE to see if you can get through a day without screen time!
Please complete these by Friday next week. In the meantime, you are welcome to do any pages in the booklet for fun. We will be doing a few more of the activities next week. Thanks very much to the Heart and Stroke Foundation for these resource booklets!
Coming UP!: Math Checking In Quiz on Thursday, October 26th. Unit Quiz on Monday, October 30th. We will review for both! We will finish our Disease PowerPoint and share them with one another, talk about paragraphing and write up our TED talk, discuss benefits of SLEEP, talk about bear anatomy in relation to indigenous cultures of B.C., and start wrapping up this unit with some end projects.
No School Friday/Monday. PHOTO DAY on Tuesday, Oct. 24th!
ALSO: Please have your parents fill out this survey on FIELD TRIPS, due by next Wednesday. Thank you.
See you Tuesday!
Ms. D