Health Smart is a comprehensive health program that focuses on the essential knowledge and skills children need to know and be able to do to practice healthy behaviors. This year the students will be instructed in four units of Health Smart. Personal and Family Health
Children will learn how to think, choose and act to keep themselves and others healthy by washing hands and dressing approproiately for the weather. Actions promoting mental and emotional health are established as students learn how to identify and establish caring and sharing friendships with their families.
Safety and Injury Prevention
Students learn how to think, choose and act to keep themselves and others safe in a variety of daily situations. They become advocates for safe beahviors.
Nutrition and Physical Activity
Students learn how to think, choose and act to keep them selves healthy and physically active. They identify feeings of pride that come from knowing and liking their bodies and engaing in daily activity.
Tobacco and Alcohol Prevention
Students learn to think, choose and act to stay tobacco free. They learn ways that tobacco and secondhand smoke hurt the body. They spread the tobacco-free message and ask their families for help to remain tobacco free.
