Minds On
Breakfast time
Describe what you do in the morning before you go to your learning space. You can use pictures or words.
Record your thoughts.
If possible, share your thoughts with a partner.
Eating nutritious foods
Eating nutritious foods means eating foods that help our bodies grow strong and stay healthy.
It gives us energy to move, think, and play!
Pause and Reflect
Pause and reflect
Why do you think it is important to eat a nutritious breakfast?
Check out this video by the How Do You Feel series called “Healthy Eating.” Our friend, Akin, explains how eating nutritious foods keeps our bodies strong and shares his favourite snack!
If possible, share your ideas with someone else.
As you work through this learning activity, you can record your ideas in many ways.
Listen to the following audio recording to learn more about how to record your ideas.
How to Record Your Ideas
Action
The Canada Food Guide
We can use Canada’s Food Guide to help us make nutritious food choices!
Canada’s Food Guide
Canada's Food Guide represented on a dinner plate. The guide helps us make healthy food choices for our meals and snacks. Half of the plate is filled with fruits and vegetables, such as watermelon, broccoli, lettuce, and strawberries. A quarter of the plate contains proteins and dairy foods, such as meat and cheese. The last quarter of the plate contains whole grain foods, such as whole grain bread, pasta, and rice.
Different foods have lots of special nutrients and vitamins that help keep our bodies growing.
These make our muscles strong, give us energy, and can help our body fight off germs!
Some foods have little nutrients, like candies or chips. They are tasty but they do not always give our body the vitamins that it needs to be strong and healthy.
It is important to try different foods and have a balance to give our body all the nutrients that it needs!
Does it have nutrients?
It’s your turn now!
Foods with a lot of nutrients mean that it can help make your body grow big and strong.
Does each food give you little nutrients or a lot of nutrients?
Place the cards into the category that best matches. Use the arrow buttons to move between foods.
Being active
Another thing that can keep us healthy is to be active.
The following images show us some ways to be active!
We can ride a bike to be active.
We can run to be active.
We can jump rope to be active.
Is it active?
It’s your turn now! Can you tell which activities keep us active and which do not keep us active?
Place the cards into the category that best matches. Use the arrow buttons to move between cards.
Hygiene
To be healthy, we have to stay clean and maintain good hygiene.
The following images are some examples of good hygiene!
Brushing your teeth is a way to have good hygiene.
Brushing or combing your hair is a way to have good hygiene.
Washing your hands with soap and water is a way to have good hygiene.
Happy hygiene!
It’s your turn now! Can you tell which pictures show good hygiene?
Place the cards into the category that best matches. Use the arrow buttons to move between cards.
Consolidation
Healthy living collage
Possible materials
- newspapers, flyers, or magazines
- crayons or markers
- scissors
- paper
- glue
Gathering healthy choices
Now, let's create a healthy collage! Warren and Sandy have started theirs.
In a collage, you gather pictures of healthy choices put them together on paper, poster, or even a computer.
Choose pictures of healthy choices for the collage and explain why you made these choices.
If possible, share your collage and choices with a partner.
You can use magazines, flyers, images from the internet, or even draw pictures for the collage.
Reflection
How do you feel about what you have learned in this activity? Press the button next to the sentence that matches how you feel.
