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Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit educational organization making a meaningful difference in childrens lives around the world.
Founded in 1968, the Workshop changed television forever with the legendary Sesame Street. Today, the Workshop continues to innovate on behalf of children in 120 countries, using its proprietary research methodology to ensure its programs and products are engaging and enriching. Sesame Workshop is behind award-winning programs like Dragon Tales, Pinky Dinky Doo and groundbreaking multimedia productions in South Africa, Egypt, and Russia. As a nonprofit, Sesame Workshop puts the proceeds it receives from sales of Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, and Pinky Dinky Doo right back into its educational projects for children around the world. Find the Workshop online at www.sesameworkshop.org. To learn more about Sesame Street's Healthy Habits for Life initiative, visit www.sesameworkshop.org/healthyhabits.
KidsHealth is the largest resource of online childrens health, behavioral, and developmental information written for three distinct audiences: parents, kids, and teens. Each year, over 120 million families turn to KidsHealth.org for expert answers, making it the most-visited Web site devoted to childrens health. KidsHealth has a physician-directed, professional editorial staff that creates engaging online, print, and video media about a wide range of childrens health and parenting issues. KidsHealth in the Classroom (KidsHealth.org/classroom) is KidsHealths free Web site for educators and features standards-based health curricula, activities, handouts, and more. For more information about KidsHealth in the Classroom, visit KidsHealth.org/classroom. KidsHealth comes from The Nemours Foundation, one of the largest nonprofit organizations devoted to childrens health. For more information about KidsHealth, please visit KidsHealth.org.
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Jeanette Betancourt, EdD VP, Outreach Cynthia Barron Project Director, Outreach David Cohen Assistant Director of Domestic Research Helen Cuesta Project Coordinator, Outreach Kama Einhorn Senior Editor Rocio Galarza Director, Outreach and Content Design Rebecca Herman VP, Editor in Chief, Magazine & Special Publications Mai Nguyen Director, Corporate Sponsorship Jane Park Assistant Director of Content Stephanie Patrucco AVP, Corporate Sponsorship Debbie Plate Project Coordinator, Outreach Giao Roever Director, Marketing Carole Schechner Finance Manager Beth Sharkey Editorial Assistant Written by Anna Housley Juster, consultant Rebecca Honig, Sesame Workshop Design by Kristin Richards Lauricella, Lauricella Design Translated by Paula Rochna
Penny Deiner, PhD Department of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children Medical College of Wisconsin Lori Francis, PhD The Center for Human Development & Family Research in Diverse Contexts, Penn State University Mark Ginsberg, PhD National Association for the Education of Young Children Barbara Sawyer National Association for Family Child Care Margery Sher National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies Bettylou Sherry, PhD Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Division of Nutrition & Physical Activity Reginald Washington, MD AAP Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness AAP Task Force on Obesity
Neil Izenberg, MD, Editor in Chief Mary L. Gavin, MD, Medical Editor Jennifer Brooks Heckler, Supervising Producer Debra Moffitt, Senior Editor
Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS), based in Newark, Delaware, works with families and communities to help children grow up healthy. It is the newest division of Nemours, one of the nations largest pediatric health systems, operating the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and outpatient facilities throughout the Delaware Valley and northern and central Florida. NHPS expands Nemours reach beyond clinical care to consider the health of the whole child within his or her family and community. NHPS sees its role as one of catalyst, planting the seeds for better health by working with community partners to reach children where they live, learn, and play. Its initial areas of emphasis are childhood obesity prevention and child emotional/behavioral health. The goal is to impact long-term changes in policies and practices that promote child health and to leverage community strengths and resources to have the greatest impact on the most children. Visit us online at www.GrowUpHealthy.org.
NEMOURS HEALTH AND PREVENTION SERVICES
Karyl T. Rattay, MD, MS, Senior Program & Policy Analyst Dorothy D. Onn, MSW, Senior Program & Policy Analyst Elizabeth M. Walker, MS, Program & Policy Analyst
The Children and Families Commission of Orange County oversees the allocation of funds from Proposition 10 that adds a 50-cent sales tax on tobacco products sold in California to fund education, health and child development programs for children from the prenatal stage to age five and their families. For more information, please visit www.occhildrenandfamilies.com.
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HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE CHILD CARE RESOURCE KIT :: INTRODUCTION
Hello!
Welcome to the Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit
Childhood is an exciting time when children begin to learn about themselves and the world around them.
These years are also the time when children begin to develop habits relating to eating and playing. Such habits can affect them throughout their lives. As a child care provider, you have the wonderful opportunity to help lay a healthy foundation. In addition to their families, you are their model for food and fitness. The Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit and accompanying DVD will give you the tools you need to teach children about eating right and being physically active so that they can establish healthy habits for life. On the following pages, you will find: easy-to-use, fun lessons and activities that will fit in with your existing routines; ways to establish a connection with childrens families so that children continue to practice healthy habits at home. Plus, the familiar Sesame Street characters will help you engage children as they learn!
What YOU Will Learn

In order to teach the basic concepts of nutrition and physical fitness to the children in your care, this kit will:
What CHILDREN Will Learn

Because the greatest learning takes place in an atmosphere of fun, this kit, featuring the Sesame Street friends, is designed to provide an entertaining environment in which children will:
offer information about nutrition and

physical activity for young children,
understand the health benefits of eating

well and playing actively,
help you to use this knowledge in your

group setting, and
be able to name some healthy foods, be more likely to try new foods, especially
fruits and vegetables,
present you with exciting options

for improving nutrition and increasing physical activity during the course of your day.
take part in a variety of physical activities, and be able to explore at home the lessons they
learned in your program.
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HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE CHILD CARE RESOURCE KIT :: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Section 1: Get Moving! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 1: Nutritious and Delicious! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Chapter 1: Moving and Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Group Poem: Move Together! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Movement Grab Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Move Along! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Count Counts Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Handout: Movement Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Handout: Number Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 View and Do: Follow Me: Hips Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Family Handout: Move to Me Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Chapter 2: Go and Grow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Group Poem: The Heart Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Hokey Pokey Muscles and Bones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Raindrops Cant Make the Action Stop! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Handout: Raindrops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 View and Do: Get Up and Move! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Tellys Triangle Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Family Handout: Activity Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter 3: What My Body Tells Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Chapter 3: What My Body Tells Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Group Poem: Listen to Your Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Sesame Super Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Handout: Sesame Super Stretch Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Energy Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Handout: Food Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Feel Good Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 View and Do: Super Wendy! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Family Handout: Recipe for a Healthy Weekend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Group Song: If Youre Hungry and You Know It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 A Bit of This, a Bit of That . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Handout: Food Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Cookie Monster and the Four Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Hungry-Full Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Handout: Hungry-Full Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 View and Do: TJ Fruit Samba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Family Handout: Building a Balanced Meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Chapter 2: Making the Healthy Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Poem/Activity Page: A Meal for a Monster and Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 View and Do: Cookie Is a Sometime Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Anytime Apples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Sometime/Anytime Caf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Adding Up to Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Handout: Try for Five! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Family Handout: Amazing Apple Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Family Handout: Now and Later Zucchini Muffins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Group Poem: I Say Fruits and Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Mystery Food Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 View and Do: I Eat the Colors of the Rainbow! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Build Me a Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Handout: Salad Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Pick and Pull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Family Handout: Great Grocery Shopping Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Section 2: Food and Drink to Grow On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Section 3: Every Day Is a Healthy Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Chapter 1: Bringing It All Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Group Poem: Choose a Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Healthy Week Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Healthy Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Handout: Adventure in Healthy Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Your Healthy Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 View and Do: Mango Tango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Family Handout: Weekend Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Chapter 2: The Power to Make Healthy Choices Every Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Group Song: Healthy Choice Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Nutritious and Delicious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Help Grover Decide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Healthy Day Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Handout: Healthy Hunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 View and Do: Elmo Tricycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Family Handout: Elmos Happy Healthy Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Chapter 3: Celebrating What Weve Learned Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Cookie, Cookie, Cucumber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Hoppity Hopscotch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 View and Do Get Healthy Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Super Healthy Heroes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Handout: Super Healthy Hero Bracelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 View and Do: Fruit and Veggie Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Healthy Happy Party Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Family Newsletter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Family Handout: Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Fruits and Vegetables Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98-99 Sometime and Anytime Foods . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Introduction
The Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit is a comprehensive tool to help you integrate nutrition and physical activity into your program.
Heres a fun-filled, hands-on resource kit to help you and your children find ways to get moving and make healthy food choices along with Sesame Street friends. Youll find tons of activities, games, poems and songs, dances, and ways to include learning about healthy choices into your everyday routines. Its easy to use. This kit is designed to be used throughout the day and to easily fit into your daily routine. The activities dont require a lot of time or preparation, and theyre versatile. Youll find activities for large and small groups, indoor and outdoor learning, and active and quiet play. Choose the activities that work best for your group. Its fun for everyone even you! All of the activities are designed to include all children and you! When children see that you are excited about staying healthy and learning along with them, they are more likely to be engaged. The silly and joyful Sesame Street characters will add to the fun youll have together. Section 1, Get Moving! focuses on physical activity and how it builds strong, healthy bodies. Section 2, Food and Drink to Grow On, highlights ways we can make healthy food choices. Section 3, Every Day Is a Healthy Day builds upon the first two sections to help children remember what theyve learned and celebrate their new knowledge. As you already know, children learn best when there is a strong partnership between home and school, so the Healthy Habits for Life kit also helps you involve families. Now turn the pages and begin building healthy lifestyles!
Allergies & Choking Hazards

You know your children best and should, as always, make adaptations based on
food allergies and childrens unique needs. Of course, be aware of possible choking hazards for preschoolers (e.g., raw carrots or whole grapes).
Using This Kit

Within this kit, youll find a DVD with The Get Healthy Now Show and other segments, plus a companion storybook that helps your children interact with what they see in the video. You can view The Get Healthy Now Show as you begin using this kit, and share the storybook after children have seen the DVD. The View and Do segments on the DVD can be used with the View and Do lessons (see page 8) in each chapter. This binder has three sections and each section has three chapters. Each chapter has: Group Poems/Songs Here youll find poems or songs that introduce the theme of the chapter in fun and active ways. Use them during large group gatherings or in meeting time. Make a copy for each child for use as a personalized coloring page. Look for specific Say it! Do it! suggestions, which highlight ways you can enjoy the poems and songs together. Use a copier to enlarge the poem/song sheets for display in your room. Activities and Handout Pages Youll see plenty of hands-on activities that help children explore the theme of each chapter. Look for the list of goals to help you identify the skills children will be building. Easily integrate the activities into lessons about literacy, math, and more. Reproduce the handouts for children to use. Read the Try This section for ideas to extend learning.
View and Do Pages Besides The Get Healthy Now Show, the kits DVD features a variety of Sesame Street video segments about healthy habits. These short segments are an exciting, interactive way to involve children. The View and Do pages involve showing children a certain segment on the DVD (use the DVD menu to select the title you need) and then doing a fun activity that explores its key messages. The Family Newsletter The newsletter is an appealing resource to share with families. You can use it to stay in touch with families and fill them in on everything children are experiencing in your program. Each newsletter highlights specific information children are learning and offers ideas for how to extend this learning at home. Copy the newsletter and the page that follows and send them home with your children to help everyone stay healthy and strong together! Did You Know? The Did You Know? facts are interesting bits of information to keep in mind as you help your children stay healthy each day. Theres also a Did You Know? fact in each Family Newsletter to help families stay informed. At the back of this binder In the last pages of the binder (98-100), youll find important references and lists. Look here when you need a simple explanation of which foods are sometime or anytime foods, or when you need a color-coded list of fruits and vegetables.
Section 1
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Get Moving!
Get
moving!
Children just love to move. Physical activity
is good for childrens bodies and their minds. Moving helps everyone feel good, and it supports the healthy development of our entire bodies: hearts, lungs, muscles, bones, and more.
All children need, and benefit from, at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. You can help your children reach this goal by adding to the active play you already do as a part of the daily routine. Add several 10- to 15-minute bursts of activity to each day it makes a difference! If youre looking for specific ideas, the Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit has a bunch of fun and easy activities, so you can keep your children active even when it rains. You set the stage so have fun moving with your children! Youll all be building stronger bodies and boosting the energy youll need for many happy, healthy days together.
This section offers easy and fun ideas and activities to get moving:
Chapter 1: Moving & Playing Children explore how their bodies work and discover how it feels to jump, dance, and play together. Chapter 2: Go & Grow Children find ways to move every day. They explore the health benefits of moving and how it affects their hearts, lungs, bones, and muscles. Chapter 3: What My Body Tells Me Children learn to listen to the signals their bodies send, so they know what they need to be happy and healthy.
Watching The Get Healthy Now Show On the DVD in this kit, youll find a fun, furry story starring Elmo, Telly, Rosita, the Count and plenty of their fruit and veggie friends! Before you begin any of the activities in this section, watch the DVD with children. Explain that these friends are singing, dancing, and learning all about staying healthy, and that they will soon be doing the same.
GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING
Chapter 1 Introduction
Moving and Playing

This chapter focuses on finding new, fun ways to move. These activities help children see that moving makes them healthy and happy.
Get moving with the Move Together! poem jump, hop, wiggle, and twist! (page 11) Add bursts of activity throughout the day with the Movement Grab Bag . (page 12) Show children that even reading can be active, as everyone moves along with Move Along! an interactive Sesame Street story. (page 13) Roll the Counts Movement Cubes to combine physical activity with early math skills. (page 14) Celebrate the joys of moving as everyone watches the DVD segment Follow Me: Hips Dance . Dont forget to make up your own moves and grooves. (page 17) Send home the Family Newsletter , which updates families on everything children have been learning and doing to keep themselves healthy and offers tips and activities for extending the learning at home. (pages 18-19)
In this chapter, youll find activities and strategies to integrate active time into your day (and to help families do so at home). You can model healthy behavior by moving along with the children.
During an average day at child care, preschoolers might not be getting enough physical activity. One study found they got only 20-25 minutes of activity that got their little hearts pumping. But you can help by scheduling more active time into every day.
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Most of all... have fun with your children!
Group Poem
Move Together!
Look at me! Look at you! Look what our bodies can do. Dance! Dance! Run! Run! Moving our bodies is so much fun! We can jump. Jump! We can hop. Hop! We can wiggle. Wiggle! We can stop. Stop! We can twist. Twist! We can tap. Tap! We can stomp. Stomp! We can clap. Clap! And we can sit...sit (whisper slowly) And we can rest...rest So that we can be our very best. We whisper. We breathe. We smile and then, We start to move all over again!
Say it, do it! Copy this poem, post it, and use it over and over again.
Read the poem together in an area where everyone has space to move. When you come to an action word, encourage children to demonstrate it. To really get moving, repeat several times. Use a louder voice for action words, like jump. Whisper the calm words like sit so that children experience the difference between moving actively and calming down. Ask children to add their own moves. , Every time you come to We can point to a child and ask her to make up a move for other children to copy. Record your new poem on a large sheet of paper.
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Activity
Movement Grab Bag

Pretending to be animals helps children discover new and energetic ways to move their bodies.
Children will: Get physically active, even during transition times Become more aware of their bodies and how they move Materials: Index cards or small pieces of paper Crayons Glue Old magazines Paper bag Ask children: How do animals move? Which animals move fast? Which move slowly? Which animal is your favorite, and how does it move? Activity: 1. Cut animal pictures from magazines and glue to index cards, or have children draw their own animal on an index card. Put all cards in a paper bag; now you have a Movement Grab Bag. 2. At different times during the day (perhaps when children are on the way to the dramatic play area or another center), ask a child to choose an animal card from the bag. 3. Call out the animal so that children can move like this animal. Help children to name the body parts they move.
Use the animal cards to help children go from one activity to the next. Ask children to move like sleepy turtles when they are moving too quickly. If you need children to move faster, ask them to be busy bees so they can fly quickly to their coats before going outside.
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Activity
Move Along!
When children act out stories, circle time can be filled with wonderful, healthy movement.
Children will: Act out stories Build listening comprehension Activity: 1. At circle time or story time, explain that you are going to read a story that children can tell with their bodies as they move in many different ways. 2. As you read the story below, pause at the capitalized action words so the children can move like Elmo, Zoe, and Big Bird.
Bring other storybooks to life by acting out the movement words. In The Gingerbread Man, for instance, you can act out run, run as fast as you can.
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On the Move to Hoopers Store

Elmo, Zoe, and Big Bird are delivering Ginas grocery list to Hoopers Store, and they need your help! As they are WALKING, Elmo sees a giant puddle in front of them. What should they do? Elmo thinks they should RUN through the puddle as quickly as possible, but they could get very wet! Zoe thinks they should LEAP over the puddle. Big Bird wonders if he could just take one giant STEP over the puddle with his long legs. What do you think they should do? (Ask for childrens ideas.) Good thinking! They are almost at Hoopers Store when a sudden gust of wind carries the list up into the air. It gets stuck in a tree! Zoe thinks she could JUMP high enough to reach the list. Elmo imagines that he could CLIMB to get to it. Big Bird thinks he could STRETCH and REACH his arm up to get to the list. What do you think they should do? (Ask for responses.) Now they are in a humongous hurry. They all decide they need to ZOOM as fast as they can right to Hoopers Store! How do you ZOOM? Great work!
Activity
The Count Counts Moves

Count every hop, skip, and jump with The Count. There are so many ways to move.
Children will: Try different movements and label them Practice counting Materials: Movement cube cutouts (see pages 15 and 16) Scissors Heavy construction paper Glue Activity: 1. Copy pages 15 and 16, and glue each to a piece of construction paper. Cut out the cube outlines. Fold the cutout on all the black lines and glue or tape the tabs to form a cube. 2. Gather children in an open space. Have one child roll the movement cube. The movement it lands on is the movement everyone will do. 3. Choose someone to be The Count. This child will roll the number cube to figure out how many times everyone will do the movement. The Count should ask everyone to count along! 4. Repeat so that everyone has a turn to roll either the movement cube or the number cube.
Ask one child to roll the movement cube once to see what the first move will be. Then have a second child roll the same cube. See if children can do the first move, then the second, then the first again, switching back and forth until you say, Freeze! You can also play this game outdoors.
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Handout: Movement Cube (see page 14)
skip
GLUE OR TAPE
run
GLUE OR TAPE
stretch
GLUE OR TAPE
jump
GLUE OR TAPE
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wiggle
GLUE OR TAPE
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dance
Handout: Number Cube (see page 14)
1 5
GLUE OR TAPE
2 3 4
GLUE OR TAPE
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View and Do
View and Do: Follow Me: Hips Dance

Watch Follow Me: Hips Dance! Get up and move with the girl on the screen who asks us to move and shake our hips. Then play the Follow My Beat game to help children think about different body parts.
Viewing: Ask children to pay close attention to what they see and hear in Follow Me: Hips Dance on the DVD (segment #1 ). Encourage them to move to the music as they watch. Afterward, ask how moving made them feel. Materials: Any classroom rhythm instruments such as rhythm sticks, tambourines, or shaking instruments Doing: 1. Begin the Follow My Beat game by introducing a simple beat such as, Clap, clap, clap, hands ! (Everyone holds out their hands.) Clap, clap, clap, hands ! Ask children to play along. 2. Introduce a few more beats using other body parts (such as stomp, stomp, feet, stomp, stomp, feet) and mix in the musical instruments. Tap rhythm sticks against your feet and then against the floor. Use tambourines against your shoulders! Ask children to name the body parts they use to make their beats. 3. Children can take turns introducing new beats for the class to try. 4. Let children dance and move as they improvise with their instruments. Children will: Imitate movements Move in playful ways Create and repeat various rhythms
SEGMENT #1
Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
In our program, we love to get moving.
In the program, * children have been:
Moving their bodies in different ways, grooving to new songs and acting out stories.
Were exploring all of the ways that moving is fun and healthy, and we found out that it makes us happy, too. You can help at home! Try these creative moves to liven up your time at home. Animal Moves As your child is picking up his toys, call out the name of a fast-moving creature, like a bee, and move like that creature as you work together. As you are getting ready for bed, you might move like an elephant or a turtle to help your child calm down. (Weve been doing this in school. Ask your child about it.) Story time can be an active time, too! Action Tales In our group, weve been moving along to the actions of stories. The next time youre sharing your childs favorite book, move along! For instance, if someone in the story is running, you and your child can run in place. If children in the book are dancing, dance along. You can also make up your own action stories together. Go on an adventure as you jump over a puddle, crawl under a bush, and spin around on a windy beach.
You and your child are partners:

Being active is something children are usually very good at, but sometimes they need a little encouragement from all of the adults who love them.
Your preschooler might not be getting as much physical activity as you think. One study shows that on an average day they get only 20-25 minutes of the kind of activity that gets their little hearts pumping! But you can help! Encourage more play and keep moving so it all adds up to at least 60 minutes a day.
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Family Handout
Move to Me Maze
You and your child can help Big Bird get to his friend Snuffy. Have your child follow the path with his finger. Each time he comes to Big Bird, you can both do the move that Big Bird is doing. Then keep on going. (You can also use a game marker, such as a piece of paper or a small block, so children dont lose their places.) Once you get to Snuffy, its time to celebrate! Use the moves in any order to make up your own Funny Family Dance.
START
balance
fly skip
jump
run
STOP
GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 2 :: GO AND GROW
Go and Grow
This chapter offers ways to teach children how being physically active affects their bodies. Help children see how moving quickly gets their hearts pumping and all that pumping makes their hearts stronger.
Mix it up with a variety of activities, such as nature hikes and stretching, to keep childrens bodies growing healthy, flexible, and strong. Most of all, encourage children to move in different ways and play a lot every day. Moving for at least 60 minutes each day is the goal. To keep children moving, build on the active time thats already in their routine. If youd like to add shorter bursts of activity, aim for at least 10-15 minutes. It can really add up. Children love to be in charge and they can be when you present them with healthy options (Apple or banana? Hokey Pokey or jump rope?). In this chapter, youll find ideas for staying physically active each day even when its pouring rain outside.
Learn how dancing up a storm quickens breathing and heart rates in The Heart Dance. (page 21) Dance to Hokey Pokey Muscles and Bones and learn whats inside the body. (page 22) Learn how to keep moving even when it rains with Raindrops Cant Make the Action Stop! (page 23) Watch Get Up and Move! to send the message that its good to be physically active a lot every day. (page 25) Play Tellys Triangle Tag to stay active AND learn about shapes. (page 26) Send home the Family Newsletter to share how much youve been moving and grooving at school and to let families know how they can keep the fun going at home. (page 27)
When children play, theyre practicing important skills, such as running, throwing, and kicking. Once they master those, they can move on to more difficult skills, like hopping on one foot.
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Group Poem
The Heart Dance

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle. Dance, dance, dance.
(Now dance really fast!)
Prance, prance, prance. Hop, hop, hop. Stop, stop, stop!

Feel your lungs breathe in and out, As you laugh and sing and dance about! Now here comes the resting part, Stop right there and
Say it, do it! Sing and dance!
As children dance together, they will learn that moving their bodies makes their hearts and lungs work harder, and this keeps them strong and healthy. Lead children in the actions listed in the song. Help them notice their quicker breathing and heart rates and guide them to understand that movement causes a change in heartbeat. To work on rhyming skills, shout out the rhyming word at the end of each line (out/about, part/heart, and so on).
feel your heart.

Is it beating fast? How do you know? When youre ready to move say, Go! Go! Go!
Activity
Hokey Pokey Muscles and Bones

Children dance as they sing this variation on The Hokey Pokey, which can help them think about whats inside their bodies: bones and muscles.
Children will: Feel some of the muscles and bones in their bodies Label body parts as they move Ask children: Where are your bones? What do they feel like? Please show me your knee bone. Can you feel the small bones in your wrists and fingers? Now, please show me the muscles in your arms. Where are your leg muscles? (Encourage children to show how strong they are by flexing and relaxing their muscles.) Your tongue is a muscle, too! Did you know that your heart is also a muscle? You cant feel it the way you feel arm muscles, but you can feel it beating. Did you know that you need your muscles to move your bones? Activity: Form a circle and face one another with room to move. Sing and act out the song below.
Have children make up their own words to the song. Try singing a verse about the heart! How would that go?
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You put your hand bones in. You take your hand bones out! You put your hand bones in, And you move them all about. You do the Hokey Pokey and You turn yourself around! Bones are what its all about! You put your knee bones in. You take your knee bones out! You put your knee bones in, And you move them all about. (repeat chorus) You put your toe bones in. You take your toe bones out! You put your toe bones in, And you move them all about! (repeat chorus)
You put your leg muscles in, You take your leg muscles out! You put your leg muscles in, And you move them all about. You do the Hokey Pokey and, You turn yourself around! Muscles move us all about! You put your stomach muscles in, You take your stomach muscles out! You put your stomach muscles in, And you move them all about! (repeat chorus) You put your shoulder muscles in, You take your shoulder muscles out! You put your shoulder muscles in, And you move them all about! (repeat chorus)
Activity
Raindrops Cant Make the Action Stop!

Its a rainy day? Thats okay! Children can find plenty of indoor ways to get the heart pumping and lungs working.
Children will: Recognize they can be active even if they cant go outside Discover many fun ways to be active indoors Materials: Copies of raindrops on page 24 (one per child and a few extra for you) Pencil or marker Bucket (or any plastic container) Activity: 1. In advance, write each rainy day idea listed below on the back of a raindrop. Children can each color a raindrop. Gather ideas from children, as well. 2. When it rains and you are not able to go outside, help children learn that a little rain doesnt mean they cant play and move. Ask children to take turns picking a raindrop from the bucket. 3. Read the activity aloud to the children so everyone can move.
Rainy Day Activity Suggestions (to write on the raindrops):

Jump (using both feet) up and down in place with your arms above your head! Now jump faster with your arms out to the side. Stop! Start a parade! Form a line and march around the classroom with your strong marching legs. Take turns being the parade leader and introduce new marching moves. Turn on some fun music and do a happy dance to chase the rain away! Its time to stretch! Do some simple stretches or try some yoga together. Try standing like a tree, then bend forward to touch your toes. Now place your hands and feet apart on the floor to make an upside down V (this pose is called Downward Dog). Try other yoga animals like cat, frog, or snake, or make up your own! BE the weather! Move like the rain, swirl like the wind, stomp like thunder.
Handout: Raindrops (see page 23)
rainy day activity
rainy day activity
View and Do
View and Do: Get Up and Move!

Watch Get Up and Move and create an Activity Spinner for the classroom. Use the spinner when you need a burst of activity, so you can all make sure to move as much as possible each day.
Materials: Large paper plate (Use colored markers to divide the plate into four equal triangular sections in four different colors red, orange, green, and blue. Label the sections Red: Get Strong! , Orange: Move a Lot!, Green: Raise Your Heart Rate!, and Blue: Streeeeetch! Make a dime-size hole in the center of the plate.) Viewing : Watch Get Up and Move! on the DVD (segment #2). Doing: 1. Ask one child to place his index finger (or crayon) through the hole in the plate, fingertip against the wall or table. This child can spin the plate while a friend marks a spot on the wall or table with his finger. 2. When the spinner stops spinning, see which color is next to his finger. You choose an activity from the list and call it out so children know what to do! Children will: Talk about the ways they like to move Learn that physical activity makes our bodies healthy and strong Use colors to group activities
SEGMENT #2
Help children remember the sequence of their activities based on color category. (First, we did a red activity, then blue, then orange, and so on.)
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Movement Ideas Red: Get Strong!

Arms: push-ups (with knees touching ground) Crab walk Legs: Knee bends Walking on tiptoes Abdomen: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Green: Raise Your Heart Rate!

Tag Jumping jacks Outdoor play Dancing Soccer
Blue: Streeeeetch!
Shoulders: roll shoulders front and back Arms: clasp hands and reach front, back, and overhead Hands and wrists: close hand in fist, open hand, and spread fingers
Orange: Move a Lot!
Nature hike Cleanup (chores) Legs: touch toes Feet: point and flex Parade Follow the Leader Back: sit and twist Cat stretch Simon Says
Activity
Tellys Triangle Tag

Did you know that Telly Monster loves triangles? This Sesame Street spin on the classic game of Freeze Tag will help children learn about triangles as they play together.
Children will: Engage in vigorous movement Learn that triangles have three sides Activity: 1. Gather outside or in a large play space. Ask children to name their favorite shapes and discuss how many sides common shapes have. Remind them that the triangle is Telly Monsters favorite shape. Explain to children that Tellys Triangle Tag is just like Freeze Tag where one child will be It and he or she will tag other children to freeze them. 2. Children can take turns being It, and you can play, too! Start off by being It, and as you tag children, say Freeze! Once children are frozen, they stay in their place with their hands touching at the wrists, forming a V. 3. Any child can unfreeze their frozen friends at any time by making the V into a triangle by putting their hands across it to make the third side of the triangle.
During circle time, invite children to make shapes with their bodies: Square or diamond: By sitting with legs spread into a V shape and touching feet with another child. Circle: By curving arms into a circle overhead. What other ways can children make shapes with their bodies?
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Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
In our program, we are moving to keep our bodies strong and healthy!
Learning about different body parts, exploring their heartbeat, and breathing and discovering ways to stay active even on rainy days. As they move and explore, children are also learning about shapes, colors, sequencing, and rhyming.
Children are learning that something they already love to do is also very good for them. You can help at home! Pediatricians and health experts agree that children need at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. (Preschoolers will not usually understand time in this way. They just need to focus on moving and playing as much as possible every day.) Be active right from the start. J Is for... Make jumping jacks part of your morning routine. At some point before leaving the house, say, J is for jumping jacks! and count along as your child does 10 jumping jacks. Do the same for other letters of the alphabet. Stairs can be a healthy way to travel! Up, Up, and Away Forget about the elevator or escalator take the stairs. Walk when you can, or hold hands and move really fast with your child as you run your errands.
When children play, they're practicing important skills, such as running, throwing, and kicking. Once they master those, they can move onto more difficult skills, like hopping on one foot. Lots of play time means lots of time to practice. Before you know it, your child will be saying, Look at what I can do!
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Family Handout
Activity Chart
Cut out the Activity Chart below and put it on your refrigerator at a level your child can reach.
At different points each day when you and your child need to move, you can play Magnet Mystery Move! together. Take turns closing your eyes and placing a magnet on the chart. (If you dont have a magnet, just use your finger.) Which section did you choose? Pick a movement activity from this list and move together. Now close your eyes and choose again.
Stomp! Jump! Run! Hop!
Cycle your legs! Dance! Swim! March!
Wiggle! Walk! Zoom! Twist!
Do jumping jacks! Hula! Skate! Stretch!
GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 3 :: WHAT MY BODY TELLS ME
What My Body Tells Me

Children have been learning that it feels wonderful to move and that moving is also very important in keeping the body healthy and strong. Now children can focus on listening to what their bodies tell them. They can learn to think about their bodies as machines that need energy to run well, just as a car needs gas.
Encourage children to think about when to move, when to rest, when to let their energy out, and when they need to eat healthy foods and keep moving so they can think and play, with the activities Energy Dance and the Feel Good Mask. (pages 33-35) Watch the DVD segment Super Wendy and then create an Energy City where children can pretend to refuel their own super bodies. (page 36) Send home the Family Newsletter to help families create a healthy home for their children. This newsletter offers ideas for a balanced lifestyle and tips for healthy eating habits, as adults support childrens energy needs at home. (pages 37-38) Show children how good it feels to stretch their muscles in Sesame Super Stretch Game. (pages 31-32)
In simple ways, children can begin to understand the idea of balancing the right amount of healthy food with the right amount of physical activity:
Help children tune in to how their bodies are feeling with the Listen to Your Body poem. (page 30)
Many young children dont get enough sleep and without enough sleep, children arent at their best. Create a peaceful environment for naps, and provide a good balance of activity and rest.
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Group Poem
Listen to Your Body

Listen to your body, (whisper) Listen to your body, (louder) Listen to your body, (really loud!) As you jump, jump, jump! Listen to your heart, (whisper) Listen to your heart, (louder) Listen to your heart, (really loud!) And hear it pump, pump, pump! Listen to your stomach, (whisper) Listen to your stomach, (louder) Listen to your stomach, (really loud!) Does it say, Im hungry or Im full? Listen to your body, (whisper) Listen to your body, (louder) Listen to your body, (really loud!) What is it telling you?
Say it, do it! After reading

the poem with children, ask them to listen to their own bodies. How are they feeling? (They may be breathing harder, feeling warmer, or noticing a faster heartbeat.) Why might they be feeling this way? Tired? What should they do? Energetic? What can they do to use their energy? Hungry? Thirsty? What can they do? Do this activity at various times of the day: first thing in the morning, before lunch, after outside play, and so on. Pay attention to the way time of day affects how kids feel.
Activity
Sesame Super Stretch

Stretching keeps us flexible, which means we're able to move and bend our bodies easily without tightness or pain. Most kids are pretty flexible, but they still can enjoy the best part of stretching: It feels great!
Materials: Sesame Super Stretch Chart (copy page 32) Small block Ask children: Can you pretend you are waking up in the morning? How does your body feel? Now pretend you are sitting in the car for a long time. How do you feel? How does your body feel right now? Activity: 1. Do some warm-up exercises (run or jump in place). 2. Introduce different stretching moves: Stretch UP! (reach up to the ceiling) Stretch DOWN! (reach down to your toes) Stretch all AROUND! (hold your arms out to the sides and move them around slowly in BIG circles) 3. Have children take turns tossing the block onto the Stretch Chart to see which stretch it lands on. All children then stretch the way their Sesame Street friend is stretching on the chart. 4. Ask, What does it feel like after you stretch your muscles? Check your body are there any spots you want to stretch more so you can move more easily? Children will: Stretch their bodies in a variety of ways Learn that stretching helps wake their bodies up Mirror movements they see in pictures
After sitting still in circle time, this is a great way to get children up and moving.
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Handout: Sesame Super Stretch Chart (see page 31)
Bend!
Wiggle!
Reach!
Touch your toes!
Activity
Energy Dance
Children can begin to understand how food gives them energy and that they use that energy for physical activity. Help children understand that, like a car, we need fuel to go.
Children will: Learn that food gives us energy Dance to music Engage in pretend play Materials: Food cards (copy page 34 and cut along lines) Scissors Music (any CDs or tapes you listen to in your program) Ask children: What is energy? What does energy help you do? What do we put in a car? (Explain that gas keeps a car moving and food keeps us going because it gives us energy. We need to eat healthy foods to have the energy to move and play each day.) Activity: 1. Gather children in an open space, and give each child some food cards. 2. Turn on music and dance! Turn the volume down gradually, and tell children to slow their movements to match the music. They are pretending to run out of energy. 3. Turn the volume down even more as children slow their dancing. When the volume is so low that children cant hear the music anymore, they have completely run out of energy. They need to pretend to eat their healthy foods. 4. Now crank the music up again and DANCE with lots of energy.
Handout: Food Cards (see page 33)
Oranges
Eggs
Broccoli
Whole-grain sandwich
Lowfat cheese
Tomatoes
Lowfat milk
Pineapple
Whole-grain rice
Avocado
Carrots
Bananas
Lowfat yogurt
Fish
Apples
Peas
Activity
Feel Good Mask

Children can explore how they are feeling as they use their energy masks and think about why they might be feeling this way.
Materials: Large paper plates (one per child) Crayons or markers Activity: 1. Help children make feel good masks to show how they are feeling. On one side of the plate, children draw a face that looks tired; on the other side, children draw an energetic, happy face. As children color, discuss why someone might be feeling tired or happy and energetic. Children will: Think about how their bodies are feeling Communicate their feelings to one another Explore ways to balance rest and activity
Feeling Good
I I I I ate a healthy meal got a good nights sleep played ball with my friends ran with my friends
Feeling Bad
I didnt eat breakfast I went to bed late I sat around all day and did nothing
2. During circle time use the energy masks to role play. Ask children to take turns putting their masks up to their faces to show how they are feeling. Are they tired and s-l-o-w, or are they feeling ENERGETIC? Why? What might help if they are feeling tired? Maybe a healthy snack. 3. Send the masks home with children so they can help their families understand how they are feeling.
View and Do
View and Do: Super Wendy!

Children watch Super Wendy eat just the right amount of healthy food for energy. Children can explore how they can have super energy too, by eating healthy foods and being physically active.
SEGMENT #3
Children will: Explore ways healthy foods and drinks give us energy Practice listening to their bodies Materials: Crayons Blocks
Food cards (copy page 34) Tape
Choose a spot in the classroom to be the Saving for Later place where children can store their food blocks until they need more energy later.
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Viewing: Watch Super Wendy on the DVD (segment #3) together. Explain to children that when they are finished watching, they can build their very own Energy City, a place where each child can pretend to be a superhero like Super Wendy. (Point out that all superheroes need healthy foods and sleep.) Doing: 1. Choose a certain space for Energy City, like the block center. Children can color the food cards and then tape them to blocks. They can now use these blocks in their Energy City. 2. Encourage children to pretend to be superheroes! You can call them by their superhero names (such as Super Marco! or Super Rebecca!). 3. As they build their city, suggest that kids include a Resting Space in the city where children can go to take a break if they are feeling they need more energy; an Active Place where they can run, climb, and fly; and a Healthy Food Stop where they can pretend to eat the healthy food blocks theyve made to boost their energy. When children are pretending to eat, remind them to stop when they feel full, just like Super Wendy.
Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
Weve been busy listening to our bodies!
Listening to their bodies, stretching and dancing as they explore energy and the importance of getting the right balance of healthy foods, physical activity, and rest.
Your child is learning to listen to what his body may be saying, like:

Im tired. I need to rest. Ive been sitting for a long time. I need to move my body! Im hungry. I need to eat a healthy snack, please! Im full. Its time to stop eating.
Many young children don't get enough sleep and without enough sleep, children are not at their best. Preschoolers need about 11-12 hours, including nighttime and naps.
* Did You Know?
This allows us to balance our energy in (the food we eat and the sleep we need) with our energy out (the energy we use running, playing, working, and so on). You can help at home! For children to move, think, and play at school, they need energy when they get here. They can get this energy from eating healthy foods, sleeping to restore their bodies, drinking water, and staying active throughout the day.
Healthy Eating Tip Preschool children need to have regularly scheduled, healthy meals and snacks. Offer your child the right fuel to keep him or her going between meals, such as fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and lowfat dairy products. By fueling their bodies this way, children dont become too hungry, which can lead to overeating. Limit sugar-sweetened beverages and turn off the TV while eating.
Family Handout
Recipe for a Healthy Weekend

Put this list on your refrigerator, and refer to it during the weekend to be sure youre on a healthy track. Take a walk outside together Read a book inside together Get a good nights sleep Limit TV time Eat fruits and vegetables Eat meals as a family
Section 2
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Food and Drink to Grow On
Food and Drink to grow on

This section offers easy and fun ideas and activities to help children learn about fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods.
Chapter 1: Nutritious and Delicious! Children explore wonderful, colorful foods. Chapter 2: Making the Healthy Choice Children discover what makes a healthy meal or snack. They begin to understand that they can eat certain healthy and nutrient-rich foods anytime, but high-fat, sugary foods should be eaten only sometimes. Chapter 3: What My Body Tells Me Children learn how to pay attention to their bodies signals. Are they hungry? Full? What should they do with each of these signals?
Healthy food keeps us happy and strong! There are so many foods to choose from,
but which are best for growing children?
You can guide children to the right choices by helping them learn about healthy eating and allowing them to choose from a variety of nutritious foods. Youll also learn how to help children understand important body signals like feeling hungry or full and simple ways to express these sensations. Food is colorful and its delicious. Enjoy it together!
FOOD AND DRINK TO GROW ON :: CHAPTER 1 :: NUTRITIOUS AND DELICIOUS!
Nutritious and Delicious!

This chapter focuses on celebrating all of the healthy foods that give children the fuel they need to play and grow.
Chant I Say Fruits and Vegetables and think about healthy foods together. (page 41) Play with the Mystery Food Box to help children explore different healthy foods. (page 42) Notice the colors of different healthy foods in I Eat the Colors of the Rainbow . (page 43) Discover different food combinations as you build healthy salads together. (pages 44-45) Move and chant Pick and Pull together as children think about where fruits and vegetables grow. (page 46) Send home the Family Newsletter , which updates families about everything children have been learning and offers ideas for healthy eating at home. (page 47)
Healthy food is delicious and naturally comes in many colors the more colors you have on the plate, the more nutritious your meal is.
A child might have to try a new food ten or more times before he accepts it. In other words, even if a child says yuck at first, he might still end up liking that food. You can help by encouraging children to taste new foods.
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Most of all... enjoy healthy food with your children!
Group Poem
I Say Fruits and Vegetables

We eat a rainbow of colors every day. They help make us strong so we can play! I say red. We say apples and cherries! I say blue. We say big blueberries! I say green. We say zucchini would be yummy! I say purple. We say plums will please our tummy! I say yellow. We say squash would be nice! I say orange. Lets have a carrot by the slice! We eat a rainbow of colors every day. They help make us strong so we can play!
Say it, do it! Copy this poem,

post it, and use it over and over again. Say the poem together in an area where everyone has the space to move. When you come to a fruit or vegetable, encourage children to strike a pose. If you say cherries, children might ball up on the floor. If you say carrot, they might stand up on their tiptoes. Name various movements rapidly so children are moving around! Add your own colorful foods to the poem. Say the first part of each line (I say red or I say green) and encourage children to call out their own healthy red or green fruits and vegetables.
Activity
Mystery Food Box

Children can begin to understand what healthy food means by exploring the variety of foods that make up a healthy diet and talking about the foods they like.
Materials: An assortment of real fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lowfat dairy products Empty cardboard box (cut a hole in it so children can reach inside) Scissors Ask children: Whats your favorite vegetable? Your favorite fruit? When do you drink milk? When do you eat yogurt and cheese? Activity: 1. Show children the foods you have brought (e.g., an apple, banana, orange, cucumber, broccoli, yucca, bok choy, small piece of cheese, whole wheat pita, empty yogurt container, clean dry lowfat milk carton, etc.) and talk about their colors and shapes. Tell children that this box is a healthy food box. 2. Turn around so children cant see what you are hiding in the box and place a fruit or vegetable inside the box. 3. Encourage children to take turns reaching inside the box, feeling the food (or the container its in) inside, and guessing what it is. Ask the child to describe what he feels to the other children. Is the food smooth? Bumpy? Is it big or small? What could it be? What makes you think thats what might be inside? 4. Open the box and show the food inside. Discuss the health benefits of each food. Children will: Use their senses to explore healthy foods Learn about the health benefits of different foods Taste fruits and vegetables
When finished, wash and cut up fruits and vegetables and have a taste test during snack time. This is a great opportunity to explore foods from around the world.
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View and Do: I Eat the Colors of the Rainbow!

Children can think about what they are eating and understand that colorful fruits and vegetables are good for them because they have lots of vitamins and other nutrients.
Children will: Explore the different colors of fruits and vegetables Sort items by colors
SEGMENT #4
Viewing: Watch I Eat the Colors of the Rainbow on the DVD (segment #4). Have children see how many different colors they can identify. Materials: Construction paper (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple) Crayons in a variety of colors Tape Magazines and/or food circulars Scissors Doing: 1. Post the colored paper along the wall red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Make sure it is low to the ground in an area that all children can easily access. Explain that together children will work to create a Healthy Food Rainbow. 2. Point to a color and ask, What vegetables or fruits are this color? 3. Ask children to find and cut out of a magazine or draw a fruit or vegetable (see full list on pages 98-99). Throughout the week, help children add their healthy food creations to the rainbow wall, posting each one on the color that matches. Where does broccoli go?...On the green square, right! Red & Pink: apples, cherries, strawberries, tomatoes, watermelon Yellow & White: bananas, squash, pineapple, corn Green: beans, peas, lettuce, grapes, pears, broccoli Orange: oranges, carrots, peaches, cantaloupe Blue & Purple: blueberries, plums, grapes, eggplant 4. Ask children to gather in front of their beautiful rainbow. What healthy foods do they see? All those colors mean so many vitamins and minerals that are good for our bodies.
Say this cheer together and ask a child to point to the colors on the Healthy Food Rainbow as you cheer: Red! Orange! Yellow! Purple! Green! Blue! All these foods are good for you. They give you vitamins to help you grow. (reach up to the sky) And the energy you need to go, go, go. (jump around to show your energy)
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Activity
Build Me a Salad
Now that children have thought about healthy fruits and vegetables and learned about eating colors, they can create their own healthy salad.
Children will: Practice counting and writing numbers Explore different ways to combine healthy fruits and vegetables Materials: Copies of page 45 (one per child) Crayons or paint Activity 1. Have children sit in small groups at tables with crayons and paint. Let them know they will be creating their very own healthy salads. 2. Encourage children to use a crayon to circle each fruit or vegetable they would like to include in their healthy salad. Its okay to mix fruits and vegetables grapes and apples are delicious with lettuce in a salad! Ask, What green vegetable are you going to put in your salad? How about a red fruit? What tasty red fruit can you add? 3. When children have circled the fruits and vegetables they want to include in their salads, ask them to count how many foods they have circled. 4. Go around to each child and help them write the number on their paper: 6 healthy foods! 7 healthy foods! and so on. 5. Now ask children to paint or color the fruits and vegetables on this page and ask them to think about the colors they need for each food.
Have a salad bar day and have each child bring in a different salad ingredient, and then bring their recipes to life! Encourage children to taste all the different fruits and vegetables.
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Handout: Salad Ingredients (see page 44)
s Healthy Salad
I put different fruits and vegetables in it.
carrots
lettuce
avocado tomato
apple
orange cucumber
pear
Activity
Pick and Pull

Children can think about where healthy foods come from and move their bodies to show where the foods grow. Do we pull them from the ground or pick them from a tree or a bush?
Ask children: Where do fruits and vegetables come from? We buy them in a store, but where do they grow? What fruits can you think of that grow on trees? What foods grow in the ground? Activity: 1. Ask children to close their eyes for a moment and really imagine they are standing under an apple tree how high do they have to reach for an apple? When they pull from the ground, can they picture the carrot in the dirt? How about a big raspberry bush; how far forward do they have to reach? 2. Encourage children to think about how high they can stretch their arms when they PICK, PICK, PICK and how low they can go when they PULL, PULL, PULL. Try pretending you are all in a big field you can call out between lines, for instance, Now lets run (in place) to the orange tree! Children will: Think about how different fruits and vegetables grow Move their bodies in fun ways Build spatial awareness
Explore what happens next after farmers pull those carrots up. (The carrots travel on a truck to the store and your family buys them, cleans them, and cuts them up to eat.) Invite children to act out the different steps in sequence. What happens first? Next? Last?
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Pick and Pull Song

I see an apple tree. Reach up and PICK! PICK! PICK! I see a mango tree. Reach up and PICK! PICK! PICK! I see a blueberry bush. Reach in front of you and PICK! PICK! PICK! I see a raspberry bush. Reach in front of you and PICK! PICK! PICK! I see a carrot. Reach down and PULL! PULL! PULL! I see a potato. Reach down and PULL! PULL! PULL!
Family Newsletter
Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
In our program, we have been learning all about delicious, healthy foods.
In our program, * children have been:
Singing about healthy foods and learning that eating their colors is fun, nutritious, and delicious. As they explore healthy eating, children have also been learning about numbers, counting, identifying colors, and engaging in pretend play.
Weve been exploring what foods look like in all their gorgeous, bright colors and weve tasted these healthy, colorful foods as well. You can help at home! There are so many healthy foods to try and explore. Activity ideas: Rainbow Parfaits Weve been learning that colorful foods are healthy foods, so enjoy this snack together. What you need: Plain or vanilla-flavored lowfat yogurt Colorful cut-up fruit (strawberries, peaches, kiwi, blueberries, bananas, etc.) Crushed graham crackers Clear plastic cups What to do: In each cup, make layers of yogurt, fruit, and crushed graham crackers.
Colorful Menus Plan a meal with your child that includes at least three different colors, like red peppers, black beans, and brown rice. Buy the items together. While youre preparing the meal, have your child create a dinner menu or draw a plate with all the foods on it. Display the menu near the table, if possible. Have your child count up all the colors on the plate.
Young children may need to try a new food more than 10 times before they learn to like it, so put a little on the plate, and ask your child to just taste it.
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Family Handout
Great Grocery Shopping Tips

Going to the supermarket can be a great learning opportunity. Your child can help make healthy choices as you shop together.
When youre grocery shopping, focus on the outermost aisles of the store. Often, thats where youll find the healthiest foods, such as fresh produce, dairy products, meats, and seafood. Head down the other aisles with a plan for what you want, instead of giving your child the chance to spot sugary cereals, unhealthy snacks, or other foods you dont want to buy. Involve your child as you shop: Let your child push a kid-size cart, if the store offers them. Give your child a small list of items (from your master list) to look for and check off as theyre found. Challenge your child to select a new food to try, focusing on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, or lowfat dairy products. Play I Spy Colors to find all the coli red foods, the green broc foods, etc. peas
Pretend you are running a Healthy Family Restaurant at home. You can start at the grocery store by shopping for healthy foods. Ask your child what you should name your family restaurant.
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FOOD AND DRINK TO GROW ON :: CHAPTER 2 :: MAKING THE HEALTHY CHOICE
Making the Healthy Choice

This chapter focuses on helping children make healthy choices each day. When given the chance to choose from two healthy foods, children can feel proud of themselves for making a healthy decision.
Adults play a very important role in helping children understand the nutritional value of foods and drinks. You dont want to overload them with information, but children can explore the differences between healthy and less healthy foods and drinks. Help them understand that healthy foods and drinks are great anytime, while less healthy foods and drinks should be enjoyed only sometimes. You can also help children count how many fruits and vegetables they are eating each day. Aim for at least 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 !
Begin by making a meal for a monster and pay attention to the rhyming clues! (page 50) Watch Cookie Is a Sometime Food on the DVD and then help children learn the difference between sometime foods and anytime foods. (page 51) Encourage children to think about their favorite healthy foods as you do the Anytime Apples activity together. (page 52) Create a Sometime/Anytime Caf and help children plan the menu, name the restaurant, and decide what they will need to do. (page 53) Think about the many ways to combine delicious fruits and vegetables to add up to five . (page 54) Send home the Family Newsletter to help families foster healthy eating habits at home! (page 56)
Children who get five servings of fruits and vegetables each day are more likely to get the nutrients they need.
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Activity
A Meal for a Monster & Me

Copy this page (one per child) and ask children to circle or color in the meal theyd like to eat.
Grover, Elmo, and Zoe are really hungry, but they need your help to decide what to eat. Please listen to their rhymes so you can help choose the delicious and healthy meal that you like best. Point to the healthy meal each monster might like to eat as much as you do. Its breakfast time! Lets choose a nice healthy meal. Should we choose whole-grain toast and an orange? Or oatmeal and banana with its cute yellow peel?
Its time for lunch! We need healthy food to eat. Should we choose chicken with salad? Or turkey on whole wheat?
Lets choose a healthy dinner! Do you know what I mean? Should we choose soup, bread, and tasty veggies? Or chicken, brown rice, and something green?
After youve listened to the rhymes and chosen meals for Grover, Elmo, and Zoe, ask children what they think Telly, Oscar, and Rosita should eat. Make sure their meals include fruits or vegetables or both.
View and Do
View and Do: Cookie Is a Sometime Food

We need to stop and think before we eat foods with a lot of sugar, fat, and salt. But anytime foods have all of the nutrients we need to grow, play, and learn.
Viewing: Watch Cookie Is a Sometime Food on the DVD (segment #5). Ask children: Help me think of some other foods and drinks like cookies, soda, chips, and french fries that we only eat sometimes. What are some of the healthy foods weve talked about so far? What are some healthy drinks? What vegetables do you like to eat? What fruits? (Write answers on big paper with sometime foods in red and anytime foods in green.) Doing: Help children to think about sometime and anytime foods. Materials: Old magazines/supermarket circulars 2 large pieces construction paper Tape or glue stick Children will: Learn the difference between a sometime food and an anytime food Practice labeling foods as sometime and anytime
SEGMENTO #5
Help children understand anytime foods by thinking about activities we do every single day. We brush our teeth and wash our hands every day; children can pretend to brush their teeth and wash their hands. Then explain that we can eat anytime foods, such as apples, lowfat milk, and carrots, every day.
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Scissors Paper and crayons
Activity: 1. Before beginning, cut out pictures of healthy anytime foods and sometime foods. Use the Sometime/Anytime Food List for your reference (page 100). Show children the sometime and anytime foods youve found. 2. Together, tape or glue the pictures onto construction paper (labeled sometime and anytime) to make sometime and anytime food collages.
Activity
Anytime Apples
An apple a day helps us live the healthy way. In this taste test activity, children can decide which apples they love the most.
Children will: Participate in graphing activity Notice similarities and differences in a favorite anytime snack Materials: A variety of apples Large sheet of paper
Say the following rhyme with children to remind them that not only are apples delicious, they are also anytime foods. Apples, apples, we love you! You taste so good and youre healthy too. Youre green and yellow and Red Delicious, Youre crunchy and colorful and so nutritious! We love apples!
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Plates Markers
Activity: 1. Ask children to bring in their favorite apple or bring in a few different kinds of apples yourself (try for a variety of red, green, and yellow). Tell children they are going to be apple researchers they will find out how many kids like each different type of apple. 2. Cut up the different types of apples and place each type of apple on a plate. 3. Ask children to taste each apple and record their favorites on a large sheet of paper. Help children make a graph to display the voting results. Do they like red the best? Yellow? Green? Which color apple did most children choose as their favorite? 4. You can also check childrens favorite types of apples. Within the red apple group, did children like Red Delicious the best? Fuji apples? Macintosh? 5. Healthy snack time eat the apples!
Activity
The Sometime/Anytime Caf

Plan a grand opening of a healthy restaurant right in the play area! Children can think about what they need for their restaurant and work together to make the restaurant a healthy and delicious success.
Children will: Name and identify healthy foods and drinks Explore healthy eating through pretend play Develop print awareness through menus, labels, and signs Materials: Large white paper (two pieces) Plastic healthy foods (fruits/veggies/milk/juice) Ask childrens families to send in empty food containers (use healthy food containers and safe containers like boxes; avoid cans) Activity: 1. During a group gathering, tell children that today they get to build a new restaurant. They can think of a name for their restaurant, make a sign, and create a menu together. 2. Use one of the large white pieces of paper to start a menu. Ask children to help you make a list of some healthy food choices (anytime foods) such as a grilled cheese sandwich on whole-grain bread, a salad, broccoli and carrots, lowfat yogurt, lowfat milk, water, etc. and have children choose. What sometime foods would children like to include? Make sure that there are more anytime foods on the menu than sometime foods. 3. Ask: What should we name our restaurant? Work together to make a colorful sign using the other piece of paper. Then, have a grand opening! Hang the sign in the pretend area. Children can take turns running the restaurant or being the customers. Talk with the children as they pretend to be customers. For example, Oh, you chose some of the delectable macaroni and cheese. What vegetable could you order to go with that? By helping children to think through their orders, you can reinforce healthy eating habits.
Play the DVD segment Breakfast Is the Best Meal of the Day (#6) as families drop children off. Invite families to visit the childrens pretend restaurant for breakfast. Children can take their orders and serve them healthy and delicious food.
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Activity
Adding Up to Five
Children can find different ways to make five with healthy fruits and vegetables.
Children will: Practice adding and subtracting Materials: Large paper plates (one per child) Reuse the handouts on pages 34, 45, and 62 (one copy of each per child) Scissors Glue sticks Activity: 1. Help children cut apart the fruits and vegetables on their pages and spread them out where there is space. (Set aside cards that show foods other than fruits and vegetables. Put them in the play kitchen area for children to use during dramatic play.) 2. Have each child select five fruits and vegetables theyd like to have in a day by counting them and placing them on their plate. Encourage children to count out loud as they add each item (e.g., broccoli, banana, apple, carrots, and grapes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!). 3. They can then bring the plates to a large group meeting to share what they have selected. Now, start adding or subtracting. What happens if children eat or subtract two fruits or vegetables? How many do they have left over? Remind children that when it comes to eating fruits and vegetables every day, they dont have to stop at five! 4. Children can glue their favorite combination of five fruits and vegetables to their plates and write the numeral 5 on the back. They can take their plates home with their Try for Five! charts.
Copy the Try for Five Chart on page 55 to encourage children to keep track of how many fruits and vegetables they eat during the day. Any for breakfast? Lunch at school? Snack? Help children add up the total and fill in the numerals: servings of fruits I ate and vegetables today. I need to more fruits and eat vegetables today to make five.
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Handout
Try for Five!

Keep track of all the fruits and vegetables you eat today. You can color in the boxes, make an X, draw a picture, or write the name of the fruit or vegetable.
FRUITS
VEGETABLES
How many spaces did you mark? I ate I need fruits and vegetables today. more to make five!
Family Newsletter
Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
In our program, weve been making sure that we are eating lots of nutritious foods that are low in sugar, fat, and salt.
Learning about sometime and anytime foods and drinks and the importance of eating five fruits and vegetables every day. Rhyming, sorting, counting, and adding and subtracting.
We call these healthy foods anytime foods because we can eat them every day. Weve also been learning that foods like cookies, chips, sodas, and other snacks that are high in sugar, fat, and salt are called sometime foods because we should only eat them once in awhile. You can help at home! Children need healthy options in order to make healthy choices. At home, give children lots of healthy foods and drinks to choose from so that no matter what they pick, youll know they are getting the nutrients they need to grow and learn every day (Would you like an apple or a banana? Would you like some salad or some yogurt?) You can empower children as they make their own choices. ANYTIME foods and SOMETIME foods Take a tour around the kitchen together and look at the foods you are eating every day to make sure you have lots of the anytime foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lowfat milk/cheese/yogurt, and lean meats. If you discover any chips, cookies, candy, sodas, or sports drinks, pause to remember that these foods are high in sugar, fat, and/or salt and are only sometime foods.
Children who get all five servings of fruits and vegetables each day are more likely to get the nutrients they need.
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Family Handout: Recipes
Amazing Apple Recipes

Your child has learned that some foods are anytime foods nutritious enough to be eaten anytime. Here are some great anytime snacks to try at home.
What to do Set up an apple dipping station by setting out your plate of sliced apples along with bowls of yogurt and cereal. Let your child dip the apple slices. Anytime Apple Dip What you need Apples cut into thin slices Vanilla-flavored yogurt Whole-grain cereal Os
Microwaved Baked Apples Looking for an easy and delicious way to add fruit to your childs lunch? Pack these baked apples in single serving containers. Ingredients 2 small apples, sliced (peel if desired) 1/2 tsp. brown sugar
1 Tbsp. apple juice dash of cinnamon
Directions 1. Combine ingredients in a microwave-safe bowl. 2. Cover with plastic wrap. 3. Microwave 2-3 minutes, or until apples are soft. Stir. Serve when cool.
Family Handout: Recipes
Now and Later Zucchini Muffins

Your child has been learning that its healthy to eat when youre hungry and to stop when youre full.
Make this recipe together with your children it makes enough so that you can enjoy a muffin now and save the rest for later. What you need 1 1/2 c. shredded zucchini (about 2 small) 2 c. whole-grain pancake or biscuit mix 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. allspice 2 eggs 3/4 c. brown sugar 1/4 c. unsweetened applesauce 2 tsp. fresh lemon juice plastic grater measuring cups and spoons muffin tin and paper liners What to do 1. Preheat oven to 375F. Wash zucchini, remove ends (leave skin on for extra fiber), and shred. 2. Place grated zucchini on paper towels and squeeze to remove water. Measure 1 1/2 cups of squeezed-dry zucchini. 3. In a large bowl, mix whole-grain pancake mix (or biscuit mix) with spices. 4. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, brown sugar, applesauce, and lemon juice. 5. Fold the egg-sugar mixture and shredded zucchini into the pancake-spice mixture (do not overmix). 6. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners. Fill each muffin cup 2/3 full with batter. 7. Bake 10-15 minutes or until golden. Remove muffins from tin and cool on a wire rack.
FOOD AND DRINK TO GROW ON :: CHAPTER 3 :: WHAT MY BODY TELLS ME
What My Body Tells Me

Children have been learning all about the healthy, colorful, anytime foods that we should eat each day.
Children have already grouped foods into categories of anytime and sometime foods, thought about different ways to eat five fruits and vegetables each day, and learned where these foods come from. Now children can think about when to eat and how much to eat by listening closely to what their bodies tell them.
Sing If Youre Hungry and You Know It and encourage children to talk about how they are feeling. (page 60) Sort foods into different food groups in A Bit of This, a Bit of That . (pages 61-62) Read children the story of Cookie Monster and the Four Bears and help them learn about how to eat an amount that is just right for them. (page 63) Use the Hungry-Full Meter to help children express how they are feeling during snack and lunch time. (pages 64-65) Watch TJ Fruit Samba and march in your very own healthy parade. (page 66) Send home the Family Newsletter and encourage families to think about how to eat appropriate portions. (pages 67-68)
When children are urged to "clean their plates," it can lead to overeating. Instead, serve preschoolers small portions of food. A child whos still hungry can have a second small portion. This minimizes waste and encourages children to stop eating when theyre full.
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Have fun singing, sorting, and learning together.
Group Song
If Youre Hungry and You Know It

If youre hungry and you know it, say, Im hungry! (2 times) If youre hungry and you know it And you really want to show it. If youre hungry and you know it Eat a pear! If youre thirsty and you know it, say, Im thirsty! (2 times) If youre thirsty and you know it And you really want to show it. If youre thirsty and you know it Drink some water! If you feel full and you know it, say, No more, please! (2 times) If you feel full and you know it, Then say No so you can show it. If you feel full and you know it Just say, No more food.
Say it, do it! After the first
stanza, STOP! Children now pretend to eat different HEALTHY anytime foods. Ask children to call out what they are eating as they pretend to put these foods into their mouths. Now... STOP eating! And sing again... After the second stanza, STOP! Children now pretend to drink different HEALTHY anytime drinks. Ask children to call out what they are drinking as they pretend. Now... STOP drinking! And sing again... After singing with children, ask them to listen to their bodies. How are they feeling now? Hungry? Thirsty? Full?
Activity
A Bit of This, a Bit of That

Children can learn about the different food groups as they explore the concept of a balanced meal.
Children will: Learn about food groups: vegetables, fruits, dairy, meats, grains Discover how to create a balanced meal Materials: One copy of the food sheets on pages 34 and 62 Scissors Paper plates Five paper bags Large sheet of paper Activity: 1. Cut out the foods from the sheet and place them on the blank paper for all to see. 2. Introduce the five bags and explain that you have one for each food group. Write a food group label across each bag: Fruits, Vegetables, Meat and Beans, Milk and Dairy, and Grains. Together, look at each card and put it in the appropriate bag. 3. Explain that at meal time it is important to have food from each group. Take out a paper plate and draw a food card from each bag. Place the food cards on the plate to show off your balanced meal. Discuss this meal together what types of food do you notice? 4. Before snack time or before children head home for the day, give a paper plate to a child. Have him come up and draw a food from each food group bag. What did he get? You can choose a different child each day.
During snack time or lunch, encourage children to think about the foods they are eating. What food groups do they belong to? They are having carrots and cheese, so they have two groups! They have vegetable AND dairy. What if they added a piece of whole-grain bread?
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Handout: Food Cards (see page 61)
Lettuce
Cucumber
Lowfat milk
Grapes
Soup
Sweet potato
Beans
Chicken
Plum
Whole-wheat tortilla
Spinach
Oatmeal
Pears
Corn
Papaya
Zucchini
Activity
Cookie Monster and the Four Bears

Baby Bear and his family help Cookie Monster (and children) think about appropriate portions of food.
Children will: Think about portion size Explore the concepts of empty and full Activity: Read the following story.
At the water table or sandbox, encourage children to explore the concept of empty and full with a variety of containers (plastic cups, ice cube trays, etc.).
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Cookie Monster and the Four Bears

Once upon a time, there was a family of four bears Baby Bear, Mama Bear, Papa Bear, and little Curly Bear. Every day they loved to eat a delicious, healthy breakfast of oatmeal with bananas. One day a friendly blue monster knocked on their door. It was Cookie Monster! He ran into the room and started to eat all the bears oatmeal. All of a sudden he said, Ugh, me feeling so sick. Why me tummy feeling so sick? Baby Bear said, You ate too much. You need to eat an amount that is just right for you. Watch, I will show you. Baby Bear went to the kitchen and brought back more oatmeal and four bowls. Baby Bear put a small amount of oatmeal in each of the four bowls and he added some sliced bananas. Yummy! All of the bears started to eat their delicious oatmeal. Papa Bear stopped eating and said, Im full. Im not going to eat any more oatmeal.
Cookie Monster said, Oh, me see. Papa Bear not eat more because he not too hungry anymore. Baby Bear was still eating. He said, I played outside all morning and I am really hungry. Im going to eat some more oatmeal! and he put another scoop of oatmeal in his bowl. Baby Bear asked Cookie Monster, Do you need any more oatmeal? Cookie Monster put his hand on his stomach and said, No thank you, Baby Bear. Me full! Me think me already had more than right amount for one Cookie Monster!
Activity
Hungry-Full Meter
Sometimes it can be helpful for children (and adults!) to have a visual reminder that says stop and listen to your body. How are you feeling? Remember: You can let children decide how much to eat. Eat slowly together and enjoy the food.
As you start snack time, ask children: How hungry are you? Think about how you are feeling right now. You may be feeling hungry because its been a long time since you ate breakfast. Or, you may still be full from a big breakfast. Activity: 1. As you are eating snack, pause and get the whole groups attention. Show them how you are using your Hungry-Full Meter. 2. Say, for instance, Ive had two crackers and three apple slices. How do I feel now? I think Im still a little bit hungry. Move the arrow, and then have a bite. Now I feel just right. Move the arrow again. Point out that its not a good idea to be on the marks below the words hungry and full. Tell children that the thick middle tick mark means just right. 3. Now give each child a meter. As they eat and drink, encourage them to pause and think. Are they still eating because they are still hungry? Or are they already full? They can then use the meter to express themselves. Materials: Hungry-Full Meter (copy page 65, one per child; cut and assemble with brass brads or use plastic spoons as arrows) Children will: Think about when they feel hungry and full Pause during snack time to decide what is an appropriate amount of food for them
Use the meter during lunch time as well. When children go home for the day, encourage them to take their meters home. They can show their families how they remind themselves to check if they are hungry or full when they are eating. (Children can explain to families how they use the Hungry-Full Meter in your program.)
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Handout: Hungry-Full Meter (see page 64)
Hungry-Full Meter
Cut out arrow and attach to Hungry-Full Meter with a brass brad. Or use a plastic spoon as an arrow.
View and Do
View and Do: TJ Fruit Samba

Celebrate colorful, delicious fruits and the energy they give us.
Children will: Recall the names of different fruits Think about choosing fruit when they are feeling hungry Viewing: Watch TJ Fruit Samba on the DVD (segment #7) together and ask children about what they saw. What was TJ singing about? There are so many healthy fruits to choose from when kids need an anytime snack. Doing: 1. Play music and start a conga line. 2. To get into the line, each child calls out the name of a fruit. They can conga around the room, down the hall, and even outside. 3. Try different ways of inviting children into the line, such as Anyone wearing purple like a fig, join us! or Who loves guava? Come along! Children might also like to take turns leading the conga line.
SEGMENT #7
Watch this again before a regularly scheduled snack time. Have a healthy snack by offering children a selection of real fruits to choose from. Kids can reach for sliced apples, bananas, blueberries, etc.
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Children might be curious about TJs wheelchair. If children ask questions, its a wonderful opportunity to explain that TJ uses his wheels to get around, just as other kids use their feet. TJ has to be very strong to move the chair with his arms, and he is active in many ways every day. He plays basketball, he dances, and sometimes he needs a rest too.
Family Newsletter
Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
We are focusing on how to tell when we are hungry or full.
In our program, * children have been:
Exploring food groups, building balanced meals, and learning to eat just the right amount of healthy foods not too little and not too much.
Weve been doing activities to help children think about portion size, and children have built balanced meals together. You can help at home! Every child has different food needs. Its okay for a child to take only a little bit of food and then say he is full. However, it is not okay for him to then want to eat cake, or other sometime foods instead! By paying attention to your childs cues and listening to him, you can make sure hes eating the right amount. One way to think about this balance is that you provide the healthy choices, but your child can decide how much to eat. Activity Ideas Eating Healthy Foods Together Whether you are serving your child or he is serving himself, start by putting small amounts of each food on the plate and letting him choose if and what to eat. When he finishes eating, ask, Are you still hungry? Giving him the chance to respond helps your child learn to make healthy choices. Encourage everyone at the table to mention how they are feeling: Hmmm, Im just a little bit hungry. Ill have a couple more bites and then Ill be finished.
Explore Full and Empty The next time your child is taking a bath or playing with sand, encourage her to explore filling and emptying small and big containers (e.g., pails, plastic measuring cups). Point out that our stomachs also can be empty or full.
When children are urged to clean their plates, it can lead to overeating. Instead, serve preschoolers small portions of food. A child whos still hungry can have a second small portion. This minimizes waste and encourages children to stop eating when theyre full. Need a breakfast on the go? Try these instead of doughnuts or toaster pastries: Fruit and cream cheese sandwich: Layer lowfat cream cheese and sliced fruit on whole-grain bread, 1/2 bagel, or English muffin. Breakfast taco: Sprinkle shredded lowfat cheese on a whole-wheat tortilla. Microwave for 20 seconds and serve with a spoonful of salsa, if desired.
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Family Handout
Building a Balanced Meal

You can help at home. Use this picture of a plate to help remind your child how to build a delicious, nutritious, and colorful meal. Display it on the refrigerator and refer to it as you plan meals together.
Think of your plate divided into four equal sections. Use one of the top quarters for protein. Use the other top quarter for starch, preferably a whole grain. Then fill the bottom half with vegetables! None of the foods should overlap or be piled high. Dividing your plate like this can help you keep portion sizes under control, and it will also help you balance your meals.
1 Protein Serving
(like meat, beans, or tofu)
1 Starch Serving
(like bread, potato, or rice)
2 Vegetable Servings
(like green beans, carrots, broccoli, salad, peas, cauliflower, or spinach)
Section 3
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Every Day Is a Healthy Day
Every day is a healthy day

Its true every day can be a healthy day for you and your children.
Help children bring together the learning theyve done so far. Celebrate their achievements as you all stay healthy and strong every day. Chapter 1 Bringing It All Together Children reinforce what theyve learned through activities focusing on healthy eating and movement. Chapter 2 The Power to Make Healthy Choices Every Day Children practice using the knowledge theyve gained to make healthy choices even when there are obstacles, like a rainy day. Chapter 3 Celebrating What Weve Learned Together To help children take pride in all the learning thats been happening in your program, you can play games together, help them make healthy superhero bracelets, and plan a Healthy Happy Party for all.
EVERY DAY IS A HEALTHY DAY :: CHAPTER 1 :: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
Bringing It All Together

This chapter focuses on reviewing everything children have learned so far.
You can integrate everything youve learned into various activities that pull it all together into one big picture. Together, you and your children can make good choices and build a foundation of healthy habits for life. The following activities offer fun ways to make these habits part of childrens everyday routine.
Celebrate movement with the Choose a Move poem. (page 71) Help children create a Healthy Week Banner so they can proudly share their healthy choices. (page 72) Play the Healthy Land board game (pages 73-74). Reinforce the concepts in the last two sections of this binder by becoming a Healthy Team . (page 75) Watch Mango Tango on the DVD and play a silly rhyming game about dancing with healthy foods. (page 76) Send home the Family Newsletter to update families about everything children have been learning, and offer adults ideas to help children learn at home. (pages 77-78)
Children at this age love to imitate adults, so show them your healthy side by eating nutritious foods and getting lots of physical activity.
* Did You Know?
Have fun singing, dancing, and rhyming together as children integrate everything theyve learned.
Group Poem
Say it, do it! Help children

get moving in a way that gets their hearts pumping.
Choose a Move
Choose a move. Choose any one! Lets keep on moving. Its so much fun!
Start a movement parade! March around the room or outside and say the poem together. Say Stop and call out one of the moves from this page. Children do that move until you say March!
stretch! fly! do some jumping jacks!
hop! balance on one foot! skip! twirl! leap! dance!
run! walk! jog!
Activity
Healthy Week Banner

Children can create a banner together listing the healthy choices theyre making each day of the week.
Children will: Recall key messages about eating healthy foods and staying physically active Share the choices they have made Materials: Large white piece of paper (long enough to be divided into five sections for the days of the week) Tape Activity: 1. Show children the large paper youve taped to the wall (or put on the easel) at the front of the group. 2. Write Our Healthy Week at the top of the paper. Create five sections and write each weekday at the top of each section. Explain that you are all going to keep track of the many things youre doing each day to stay healthy and strong. 3. Each day during circle time, ask children a different question about food or physical activity choices. Try these questions:

Children can draw pictures to go with their choices. You might choose a different child to be the illustrator each day.
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What fruits did you eat today? What vegetables? How did you move your body today? When did you drink lowfat milk or water today? What games have you played outside today? Write childrens responses on the banner. They can be individual achievements (Ryan ate broccoli at lunch) or group achievements (We all had lowfat milk at snack time).
Activity
Healthy Land
Children will think about the effects of healthy foods as opposed to unhealthy alternatives as they play this board game.
Children will: Reinforce their understanding of healthy foods and drinks Engage in basic rule-based play Build math skills Materials: Small blocks or any small, colored manipulatives as game pieces Six index cards (numbered as follows: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3) Copies of the Adventure in Healthy Land game on page 74 (one for every three or four children) Activity: During a large group meeting, share the game board and point out the pictures. Say that in this game, landing on anytime foods gives them energy to play with the Sesame friends! Demonstrate the rules by modeling: 1. Choose a game piece (a manipulative or small block). Place number cards facedown and let a child choose from the deck. 2. Start at Salad Meadow. Move the game piece forward the number of spaces on the card. If you land on an anytime food, you get to choose another card. If you land on a sometime food, stop on that space until your next turn. (After each move, place card in discard pile. If you run out of cards, shuffle cards from discard pile and use again.) The goal is to get all pieces to the end. 3. Place the games on a shelf in your room. Groups of three or four children can play during free time.
Use double-sided tape or glue to paste a copy of the game to a piece of cardboard to make it into a real board game. (You might also laminate the paper first.) You can also send the game home for children to play with their families.
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Adventure in Healthy Land

Bananas are a fruit. Whats your favorite fruit? Move 2 spaces.
Salad Meadow
Handout: Healthy Land (see page 73)
START
Banana Bend

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Name another red fruit.
Move 1 space.
Raspberry Patch
Name another healthy, round food. Move 1 space.
Orange Grove
FINISH!
Activity
Your Healthy Team

Being healthy is a team effort. Children cant do it alone, so show them whos on their team and how teams can get the job done.
Children will: Learn they have help and support to be healthy Discover that they can inspire adults to be healthier Get an introduction to the healthy team concept Activity: 1. Begin with a conversation about teams. What is a team? What are some different kinds of teams (sports teams, a class at preschool, a family, a community)? Explain that children are also part of a healthy team a group of people who care for one another and want to be healthy together. 2. Ask children to think about who helps them eat nutritious food and be active (play). Write their answers on a large sheet of paper. The list can include grown-ups (parents, other relatives, teachers, coaches) and children (siblings, cousins, friends). Help children think about what each member does (a parent might make meals, a friend can play outside with the child, etc.). 3. Share these scenarios and ask children to call out which member of their healthy team would be able to help.
Its dinnertime and youre hungry. Someone is at the stove in the kitchen cooking dinner. Which team member is it? (Dad, Mom, grandmother, babysitter, etc.) Youre on the playground and you want to play tag. Who can you play with? (Friends) Your family is deciding how to spend the day on Saturday. Who can suggest some great ways to be active and have fun? (The child)
Ask children about ways to help grown-ups with healthy habits. For instance, they can suggest fruits and vegetables for snacks and lowfat milk and water for drinks. Encourage children to be the teachers!
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View and Do
View and Do: Mango Tango

Children will watch Mango Tango on the DVD and then play a rhyming dance game that focuses on healthy foods and healthy moves.
SEGMENT #8
Children will: Rhyme about some of the healthy foods theyve learned Dance together in various ways Learn about letter sounds Reinforce the relationship between healthy eating and active movement Viewing: Watch Mango Tango on the DVD (segment #8). Together, discuss what you see and hear. What words did children hear over and over again? Did they hear words that rhyme, or sound the same? Doing: 1. Invite children to make up silly rhymes like Mango Tango for different fruits and vegetables. Nonsense words like Apple Bapple are fine. 2. Turn on music and let them make up the Apple Bapple dance. This focus on dance combined with healthy foods helps children link two elements of a healthy life: eat healthy foods and stay physically active every day.
During snack time, ask children to fill in the missing word for these silly rhymes. Im dancing with an apple And Im wiggling like an otter. I dance, and dance, and dance, and dance. And then I drink . (water) a little Im dancing with a bean whos long and thin and green. I dance and groove, but the bean wont jam. Maybe next time . (yam) Ill ask a
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Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
In our program, weve been reinforcing what weve learned so far about healthy habits.
Wed like to celebrate the good choices your family makes on the weekends. Complete the Weekend Update chart with your child to record the ways your family ate right and stayed physically active. Children can share their healthy news on Monday.
Weekend Update:
But we know children cant do it alone. Whos on your childs team? You, your child, and the whole family are important members of your own Healthy Team. You lead the way by choosing to serve healthy foods and planning physical activity into your days. And let your child take the lead once in awhile. She will love sharing all she has learned about eating right and being physically active. You can help at home! Heres a recipe for a healthy day: 5 fruits and vegetables + 60 minutes of physical activity = a great start! Can you dance and rhyme at the very same time? Say this Silly Food and Dance Rhyme with your child. Make sure he moves the whole time you are talking and then let him fill in the silly rhyme.
I am dancing with my string cheese, With its loopy, loopy loops. We dance, and dance, and dance, and dance. . (hoops) Then we try our hula
Children at this age love to imitate adults. So show them your healthy side by eating healthy foods and getting lots of physical activity. Its your chance to inspire a lifetime of healthy habits!
* Did You Know?
What other silly rhymes can you make up about dancing with food?
What fruits did you eat
Weekend Update
this weekend?
What vegetables? Did you drink nonfat milk or
Family Handout
water instead of other drinks?

How did you move your
What have you been doing over the weekend to stay healthy and strong? Write it down and then invite your child to draw a picture of a favorite healthy moment.
body this weekend?
What games have you
played outside?
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EVERY DAY IS A HEALTHY DAY :: CHAPTER 2 :: THE POWER TO MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES EVERY DAY
The Power to Make Healthy Choices Every Day

Children have learned what they need to do to stay healthy and strong. This chapter focuses on helping children to use the information theyve gained to make healthy choices.
Even when children have the knowledge to make healthy choices, they need adults to provide healthy options. For instance, if you offer a banana, apple, or melon as a snack, children can make healthy choices on their own. Through teamwork, along with children and their families, you can help build this foundation.
Begin by singing Healthy Choice Voice and encourage children to notice how healthy foods make them feel. (page 80) Bring children together to prepare nutritious and delicious choices to enjoy with friends. (page 81) Help Grover make healthy choices in Help Grover Decide . (page 82) Go on a Healthy Day Hunt . (pages 83-84) Watch Elmo Tricycle on the DVD and explore what it means to be proud of their healthy choices. (page 85) Send home the Family Newsletter to help adults foster childrens learning at home. (pages 86-87)
When adults provide meals and snacks on a regular schedule and offer children a variety of healthy foods and drinks, children are more likely to develop healthy eating habits.
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Have fun making healthy choices together!
Group Song
Healthy Choice Voice

Sing words to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm:
Say it, do it! Pose the

questions between verses to children. Then sing to provide the solution. You can add childrens healthy choices into the song: Sadie stretched at circle time, she stretched up really high. She stretched and stretched and stretched so much, she almost touched the sky.
If you make a healthy choice, theres so much you can do. Youll move, and grow, and learn, and play, And feel so healthy too.
(Say: What if I sit around all morning and Im feeling really s-l-o-w?)
Then jump up and go out to play and run and dance and move. Youll feel so good youll shout, Hooray! Youre in a healthy groove.
(Say: Im at a birthday party and theres cake.)
Eat a little cake, yum, yum, but have some fresh fruit too. Its juicy and its sweet and nice, it is so good for you!
(Say: Im really thirsty and in front of me there is a big glass of soda and a glass of water.)
Drink a glass of water now to help you feel okay! Water keeps us healthy as we jump, and skip, and play.
Activity
Nutritious and Delicious

A nutritious snack can keep children feeling good and tide them over until the next meal. Children can work together to prepare these delicious snacks. Theyre great alternatives to sometime foods, and perfect for a Happy Healthy Party. As they share the food, children see how wonderful it can be to relax and enjoy food with friends. You can also copy this page and send it home with children.
1,2,3 Sesame Salsa Mix equal parts black beans (rinsed), corn, and mild salsa. Serve with baked tortilla chips. Self-Serve Fruit Salad A variety of cut-up colorful fruits in different bowls. Try strawberries, blueberries, orange sections, kiwi, and banana! Give each child a small bowl and invite them to create a very colorful fruit snack! Super Shapes Presentation makes a difference. Try cutting whole-grain bread into fun shapes. Squares: Cut a sandwich into four squares to make mini-sandwiches. Triangles: Take a whole-wheat pita and slice into wedges, like a pizza. Circles: Work some magic with whole-grain tortillas. Add childrens favorite toppings, roll, then slice into pinwheel-shaped sections. Children will: Practice counting and identifying shapes Enjoy healthy food with their friends Celebrate with healthy snacks: Choose these alternatives to typical party snacks.
Activity
Help Grover Decide

Calling all children! Grover needs their help.
Children will: Discover that they can help others make healthy choices Activity: Read the following out loud. Children can also suggest their own ideas and discuss why they are (or are not) good choices.
Hello everybodeee! It is I, your fuzzy and adorable pal Grover, and do you know what? I need YOUR help. Yes! It is true. Can you help me please? PLEASE? You can? Oh, you are so NICE, and smart too! I want to make sure I keep my fuzzy and blue body healthy and strong, but Im not sure what to do. A little bird told me that you know all about how to be healthy, so YOU can help me choose. Oh, it is going to be such a healthy day! Hello! I have just woken up after a nice long night of beauty sleep. Perhaps I should go right back to sleep and stay in bed for the whole day. Is this a good way to keep this fuzzy and blue body healthy and strong?. . . No? Oh, well what do YOU think I should do?. . . I should eat a healthy breakfast? Okay, then what should I do? A) Play soccer OR B) Watch TV all day long Now my cute and adorable tummy is telling me that I am ready for a snack. Maybe I can be SUPER healthy if I eat five pepperoni pizzas and drink soda. Do you think this is a healthy snack? ...NO? It is not? Well then, what do you think I should eat so I can have energy for my day? A) An apple with string cheese OR B) A plate of cookies Now I would like to build some cute and strong muscles and bones. I should probably eat candy and then take a nap. Is this a healthy choice? ...No again? Oh well, I guess I am not very good at this. What do you think I should do? A) Play LOTS of video games OR B) Play hopscotch with my friends
Thank you SO much for your help! Love, your fuzzy, blue, and HEALTHY friend, Grover
Activity
Healthy Day Hunt

Children can make healthy choices even when they are faced with less-than-ideal circumstances, such as being stuck inside on a rainy day.
Children will: Discover how to make healthy choices even when there are obstacles Practice identifying anytime foods and healthy activities Materials: Copies of page 84 (one per child) Crayons Activity: 1. Have children find and color in the healthy choices in the house. 2. When children have finished coloring their pictures, everyone can share their work. What did children color and what did they leave blank? Why?
Encourage children to be Healthy Detectives for the day, searching for healthy activities. If you are outside on a walk, what healthy activities can the Healthy Detectives find and do? If you are playing outside, what healthy things do children see their friends doing? Be sure to join them. At lunchtime, what healthy foods can the Healthy Detective spot? What about at home?
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Handout: Healthy Hunt (see page 83)
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Color the healthy choices in the house.
View and Do
View and Do: Elmo Tricycle

Children can feel proud about what theyve learned as they watch Elmo zoom around on his tricycle.
Children will: Explore new vocabulary related to self-esteem, such as confident, proud, and I can do it! Move in playful ways as they imagine biking, swimming, and running Viewing : Watch Elmo Tricycle on the DVD (segment #9) and talk to children about what theyve seen. Doing: 1. Ask children how they think Elmo feels when riding his tricycle. Point out that he had to practice and practice! 2. Introduce the word confident and explain that it means Elmo knew he could ride his tricycle if he tried hard enough. Riding around Sesame Street makes Elmo feel proud. Ask, What do you do that makes you feel proud? (Learning to ride a bike like Elmo? Catching a ball? Learning to swim? Theyve probably been running for a long time, but when they were babies they couldnt even walk.) 3. Invite children to try an inside triathlon (in a space where they can move safely from one wall to another). A triathlon is a race made up of three parts swimming, biking, and running. 4. Children can take turns in groups of three or four pretending to swim, bike, and run in their first triathlon. Children can pretend to swim from one side of the room to the other, reaching out with their arms as far as they can. Then they touch the wall and ride their bike back to the other side cycling their legs high and bending their knees. Then children can turn and run to complete their triathlon. 5. Ask children how they are feeling when they finish the run! Are they feeling confident and proud?
SEGMENT #9
When you can play outside, set up an obstacle course and have children work in teams to complete the course in a relay. Have each child jump over a line of blocks on the grass, run around a cone five times, then jump in and out of three hoops before tagging the next team member to complete the course. They did it! They can say this cheer together: We feel healthy, we feel proud. We feel so good well shout out loud YEAH!
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Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
In our program weve been practicing how to make healthy choices.
Weve been thinking about the foods and drinks we put in our bodies and the activities we do with our bodies.
In our program:
Its hard for children to choose cucumbers over a cookie and they dont always have to. Sometimes its okay to have cookies as Cookie Monster says, Cookie is a sometime food! But focus on anytime foods every day by letting children choose from a variety of healthy foods, including fruits and veggies, and offering water and lowfat milk to drink. You can help at home. Offer your child the choice between two healthy options such as tomatoes and cucumbers, rather than between vegetables and a cookie or other sweet. In addition to offering children lots of healthy foods, you can model healthy eating and a physically active lifestyle. Let him do it. Children enjoy eating snacks they make themselves. A turkey cheese rollup is the perfect recipe for the first-time cook. Set out a piece of lean turkey deli meat, lay a slice of cheese on top and roll it up. Throw your child a curve. Try clever new combinations: Cream cheese and peach or nectarine Chocolate graham crackers with strawberries or banana Steamed broccoli and cauliflower florets with ketchup Cucumbers or red bell pepper with hummus Melons or grapes with cheddar or American cheese Mushrooms and fresh greens with lowfat ranch dressing Fresh tomato, mozzarella cheese, and fresh basil
When adults provide meals and snacks on a regular schedule and offer children a variety of healthy foods and drinks, children are more likely to develop healthy eating habits.
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Family Handout
Elmos Happy Healthy Day

After a long day of learning and playing, its time to let your body and mind rest. Before bedtime, share Elmos Happy Healthy Day with your child. Fill in the blanks with healthy foods and activities of your childs choice. decided to play a game of
physical activity
It was morning. Elmo ate a healthy breakfast of

breakfast food
, with a glass of
anytime drink
Everything was delicious! Elmo ran outside to meet his friend Zoe at the park. Ernie came along with a ball. They all together.
Then they went to Hoopers Store for a healthy lunch. They each ordered
anytime food
with .
anytime drink
and a tall glass of

anytime food
They played all afternoon. Then Elmo said good-bye to his friends and washed his hands before dinner. Elmo and his family ate
vegetable
, together.
, and
whole grain fruit
Afterward, Elmo read a book and talked to his Mommy and Daddy. Then it was time for bed. Good night!
EVERY DAY IS A HEALTHY DAY :: CHAPTER 3 :: CELEBRATING WHAT WEVE LEARNED TOGETHER
Celebrating What Weve Learned Together

In this chapter, its time to celebrate. The following pages offer ways to have fun while motivating children to continue to do all theyve learned together.
At the end of Chapter 3, youll find ideas for throwing a Healthy Happy Party. Let the celebration begin!
Play Cookie, Cookie, Cucumber , a healthy twist on the classic Duck, Duck, Goose. (page 89) Play Hoppity Hopscotch together and help children remember delicious fruits and vegetables. (page 90) Watch Get Healthy Now together on the DVD. (page 91) Become Super Healthy Heroes to celebrate all youve learned about nutrition and fitness. Help children make their own Super Healthy Hero bracelets and let them zoom around the room. (pages 92-93) Watch Fruit Dance and Veggie Dance (2 different segments) on the DVD and sing and dance along. (page 94) Throw a Healthy Happy Party in your program invite families too. (page 95)
Preschoolers can learn from friends theyre more likely to try a new healthy snack if its being shared in a group setting. So the next time your class is celebrating a birthday or holiday, celebrate with healthy snacks.
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Have fun playing games, celebrating, and learning together.
Activity
Cookie, Cookie, Cucumber

Children can stay physically active and celebrate what theyve learned about sometime foods and anytime foods as they play this healthy twist on Duck, Duck, Goose.
Children will: Play an active game together Recall important messages about sometime/anytime foods Activity: 1. Ask children to name some anytime foods, then some sometime foods. Refer to the list on page 100 to be sure which is which. 2. Say you are going to play a game of Cookie, Cookie, Cucumber, which is a lot like Duck, Duck, Goose. You can take a turn first to demonstrate. Have all children stand up in their places. As one child is walking around, children can run or march in place so everyone is active for the entire game. 3. Choose one sometime food and one anytime food (e.g., candy and spinach). As you walk around the outside of the circle touching each child say, Candy, candy, candy. When you choose a child to chase, say, Spinach. This healthy anytime food gives the child the energy she needs to run after you! Try to get to her spot before she catches you. Then it is her turn. 4. Help her choose a sometime food and an anytime food; continue the game. Play until all children have had a chance to be the chaser.
Activity
Hoppity Hopscotch
Children can learn the difference between hopping and jumping and think about healthy anytime foods as they play this twist on the classic Hopscotch game.
Children will: Recall the names of fruits and vegetables Work together to share what theyve learned Strengthen balancing skills through play Learn the difference between a hop (on one foot) and a jump (on two feet) Materials: Chalk (for outside play) or tape (for inside) Small block or other marker Activity: 1. Make a hopscotch board with at least ten squares on the ground outside or on the floor. 2. Encourage children to take turns tossing a small block onto a square. This is the square they need to hop or jump to. Before children move, ask them if they are going to HOP on one foot or JUMP on two feet. 3. Once a child reaches the block, he calls out an anytime food (any fruit, vegetable, whole grain, lowfat dairy, or water). If he cannot think of one, the group can help. Then its another childs turn to play.
Try this new way to play. Cut small pieces (no bigger than two-inch squares) of colored construction paper in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. Tape the colored squares in the corner of each hopscotch square. When children toss the block to a square and hop or jump to it, they can name the color theyve landed on and call out a fruit or vegetable to match: Red strawberry! Yellow pepper! Green broccoli! Theyre jumping on a rainbow of healthy colors. If you are playing outside, use different colors of chalk for each square.
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View and Do: Get Healthy Now

Children can share what theyve learned about the importance of eating your colors as they pretend to be the Fruit-n-Veggie Five the performers in the video.
Children will: Think about eating colorful anytime foods Remember that they should eat five fruits and vegetables every day Sing together Explore sequencing Viewing: Watch The Get Healthy Now Show on the DVD in separate segments throughout the day . Encourage children to sing and dance along with the video as they watch. Materials: Five pieces of construction paper (red, orange, yellow, green, and purple) Doing: 1. When youve finished watching all three segments, children can take turns (five at a time) being the Fruit-n-Veggie Five. The rest of the group can be the audience at their concert. 2. Hand out the construction paper (one to each of the fruit-n-veggie five) and have each child tell you what fruit or veggie they are. (Red = apple, orange = carrot, green = broccoli, yellow = pineapple, and purple = eggplant.) 3. Have the group stand in front of the audience on the rug. Then choose one child to be the Big Tomato! He can call the band up on stage (in any order) by calling out colors until all of the Fruit-n-Veggie Five are ready on stage. 4. The Fruit-n-Veggie Five can lead a call and response song, just like in the video. (The child with red paper jumps up and says apple. Everyone repeats apple.) Continue until all colors have been repeated. 5. Hand the paper to five more children and bring on the next Fruit-n-Veggie Five!
Have children think of anytime foods in food groups other than fruits and vegetables.
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Activity
Super Healthy Heroes

Children share what theyve learned about eating well and staying physically active with their own Super Healthy Hero bracelets, which they can wear home.
Children will: Feel proud of all theyve learned about staying healthy Enjoy pretending to be a superhero Materials: Copy the bracelets on page 93 (one per child) Crayons Activity: 1. Tell children theyve learned so much about how to stay healthy every day that they are now officially Super Healthy Heroes. They can make their healthy power bracelets so everyone can see how healthy and strong they are. 2. Have children color their bracelet pages. They can use the crayons to draw pictures of favorite fruits and vegetables, or games they like to play outside. 3. When children have finished decorating their bracelets, cut them out and tape them together around childrens wrists. Now you have a whole room full of Super Healthy Heroes!
Say this cheer together as superheroes hold their bracelets up to the sky. Let children run and fly around the room or outside as they pretend to be superheroes. You can laminate or use clear tape to protect the bracelets. Were the Super Healthy Heroes! Were healthy every day. We eat our fruits and veggies. We run and jump and play!
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Handout: Super Healthy Hero Bracelets (see page 92)
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Decorate your bracelet with pictures of your favorite fruits and vegetables, or games you like to play outside.
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View and Do
View and Do: Fruit and Veggie Dance

Children can watch Fruit Dance and Veggie Dance on the DVD and dance along.
SEGMENTS #11 AND #12
Bring a CD player and some of childrens favorite CDs. Show Fruit Dance and Veggie Dance first to get children up and moving and then turn on some tunes. Move and groove together at your very own dance party. If its cold or raining outside, this is a great way to stay active for 15 or 20 minutes straight.
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Children will: Name various fruits and vegetables Move together in playful ways Prepare a dance for the Healthy Happy Party Viewing: Watch Fruit Dance and Veggie Dance on the DVD (segments #11 and #12 have similar songs and dances, one for fruits and one for vegetables). Encourage them to sing and dance along. Doing: 1. Have children gather (make sure they have room to move safely). Play the DVD and dance along together. 2. Encourage the group to copy some of the moves children are doing on screen and then see if they can make up their own moves. If you watch Fruit Dance first, encourage children to pay close attention to the words in the song. Now play Veggie Dance and see if they can sing along. The songs are similar, following the same rhythm. 3. Children can call out the names of the foods they see on the screen.
Activity
Healthy Happy Party Time

Children can help you plan a party for their families to attend to celebrate everything theyve learned. Planning a party will get everyone working together as a team and let them celebrate their accomplishments with their families.
Materials: Invitations, with a request to bring a favorite anytime snack (see ideas on page 81) Markers or crayons Paper plates and napkins CDs and CD player, Healthy Habits for Life DVD Plan the party: Tell children that together, you will throw a Healthy Happy Party so that everyone can celebrate what theyve learned. Suggest that children decorate the invitations to take home to their families. Have the party! Here are some ways you might celebrate: Choose a few songs, dances, or activities to share with everyone who comes to the party. Tape the poster pages from previous chapters up on the wall and choose one to say as a group. Create a Healthy Museum and highlight all the artwork and other projects children have done. Have children put on a show with one of the songs or poems. Show the Fruit Dance and Veggie Dance on the DVD so that children can dance along. Then have a dance party play CDs and encourage everyone to stay active together. (What dance moves can adults teach children? What moves do children want to share with adults?) Meet on the rug. You can go around the circle asking adults and children alike to name their favorite fruit (or their favorite vegetable, physical activity, etc.). You might even graph the results of your survey. Children will: Celebrate what they have learned Teach others what they know Plan an event together
Send home the family newsletter.
Family Newsletter
Hello, families!
Families and children deserve a BIG congratulations!
Children who eat family meals eat more nutritious food, but thats not all. Family meals give children and families a chance to reconnect. Whether youre having pizza or a full-course feast, its a chance to celebrate something very important being together.
* Did You Know?
Weve completed the Healthy Habits for Life program. Weve learned to make healthy choices, stay physically active, limit sedentary time, eat our colors, eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and listen to our bodies. We want to thank you for being a key member of your childs healthy team. You can congratulate your child with the certificate you received. Have your child fill in his name and color it, then display it on the refrigerator. You can help at home. Weve made nutritious food and physical activity part of our daily routine and hope you'll find ways to do the same at home. Take advantage of the everyday moments you share with your child. In the kitchen, talk about why you chose a certain vegetable for dinner. Or whip up a healthy snack together. Also be ready with activity ideas (especially on bad weather days) so your child doesn't spend too much time on the couch. Little by little, you can weave healthy habits into your familys routines. For inspiration (or a few good ideas), look no further than your child. Do you know how to dance the Mango Tango? Your child can show you how.
Family Handout: Certificate
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You are building Healthy Habits for Life! Keep up the great work,
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HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE CHILD CARE RESOURCE KIT :: FRUITS AND VEGETABLES RAINBOW
Fruits and Vegetables Rainbow

Heres a handy list of fruits and vegetables by color. Remind children to eat their colors! Purple Blackberries Elderberries Plums Purple cabbage Purple Belgian endive Red Blood oranges Cranberries Red pears Strawberries Red peppers Red onions Tomatoes Yellow Yellow apples Grapefruit Pineapples Yellow peppers Yellow winter squash Orange Apricots Nectarines Peaches Butternut squash Rutabagas
Continued on page 99.
Black currants Purple figs Raisins Purple carrots Purple peppers
Dried plums Purple grapes Purple asparagus Eggplant Potatoes (purple fleshed)
Red apples Red grapes Pomegranates Watermelon Radishes Red potatoes
Cherries Red grapefruit Raspberries Beets Radicchio Rhubarb
Cape gooseberries Lemon Yellow watermelon Yellow potatoes Sweet corn
Yellow Yellow Yellow Yellow Yellow
figs pears beets tomatoes summer squash
Cantaloupe Oranges Persimmons Carrots Sweet potatoes
Mangoes Papayas Tangerines Pumpkin
HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE CHILD CARE RESOURCE KIT :: FRUITS AND VEGETABLES RAINBOW
Continued from page 98.
Green Avocados Honeydew Green pears Asparagus Broccoli rabe Green beans Chayote squash Leafy greens Green onions Green peppers Spinach White Bananas White peaches Ginger Kohlrabi Parsnips Potatoes (white fleshed) Shallots Turnips
Green apples Kiwifruit Artichokes Broccoflower Brussels sprouts Green cabbage Cucumbers Leeks Okra Snow peas Watercress
Green grapes Limes Arugula Broccoli Chinese cabbage Celery Endive Lettuce Peas Sugar snap peas Zucchini
Brown pears Cauliflower Jerusalem artichokes Onions
White nectarines Garlic Jicama Mushrooms
HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE CHILD CARE RESOURCE KIT :: SOMETIME & ANYTIME FOOD CHART
Sometime & Anytime Foods

Anytime Foods These are foods that are good to eat anytime. They are the healthiest foods with nutrients to help you grow up healthy. Examples: fruits and vegetables, nonfat and lowfat milk. Sometime Foods These foods are the least healthy. That's why theyre once-in-awhile foods. Examples: French fries, cookies, ice cream.
FOOD GROUP
ANYTIME FOODS
SOMETIME FOODS
Vegetables
Fresh, frozen, steamed, or canned vegetables (low sodium) without added fat (such as butter) or sauces
Any vegetable fried in oil
Fruits
All fresh and frozen fruits, canned fruits packed in their own juice
Fruits canned in syrup, dried fruits
Breads & Cereals
Whole-grain breads, pitas, and tortillas; whole-grain pasta, brown rice, oatmeal; hot and cold unsweetened whole-grain breakfast cereals
Doughnuts, muffins, croissants, and sweet rolls; sweetened breakfast cereals; crackers, cookies, and chips; cakes and pies
Milk & Milk Products
Nonfat and lowfat milk; nonfat and lowfat yogurt; lowfat and nonfat cheese; lowfat and nonfat cottage cheese
Whole milk; full-fat cheese and cheese spreads; cream cheese; yogurt made from whole milk; ice cream, ice milk, and frozen yogurt; puddings
Meats, Poultry, Fish, Eggs & Beans
Beef and pork that have been trimmed of their fat; extra-lean ground beef; chicken and turkey without skin; tuna canned in water; fish and shellfish that's been baked, broiled, steamed, or grilled; beans; split peas and lentils; tofu; egg whites and substitutes
Beef and pork that havent been trimmed of their fat, fried hamburgers, ribs, bacon, fried chicken, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, deli lunch meats, pepperoni, sausage, salami, fried fish and shellfish, whole eggs cooked with added fat
Drinks
Water, nonfat and lowfat milk, unsweetened iced teas and lemonade
Whole milk, regular soda, sweetened iced teas and lemonade, fruit drinks with less than 100% juice

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NEMOURS HEALTH AND PREVENTION SERVICES

HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE CHILD CARE RESOURCE KIT :: INTRODUCTION

What YOU Will Learn

What CHILDREN Will Learn

offer information about nutrition and

understand the health benefits of eating

help you to use this knowledge in your

present you with exciting options

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Section 2: Food and Drink to Grow On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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HEALTHY HABITS FOR LIFE CHILD CARE RESOURCE KIT :: INTRODUCTION

Allergies & Choking Hazards

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Using This Kit

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

Moving and Playing

* Did You Know?

Most of all... have fun with your children!

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

Movement Grab Bag

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

On the Move to Hoopers Store

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

The Count Counts Moves

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

Handout: Movement Cube (see page 14)

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

Handout: Number Cube (see page 14)

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

View and Do: Follow Me: Hips Dance

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

You and your child are partners:

* Did You Know?

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 1 :: MOVING AND PLAYING

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 2 :: GO AND GROW

* Did You Know?

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GET MOVING! :: CHAPTER 2 :: GO AND GROW