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Health Kindergarten
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- Acceptance of Personal Responsibility for Lifelong Health
- Standard 1
The student understands and demonstrates ways in
which his or her health and well-being can be enhanced
and maintained.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Recognize good personal hygiene, including caring for teeth, gums, eyes, ears, nose, skin, hair, and nails.
- Recognize healthful food choices.
- Participate regularly in active play.
- Identify and share feelings in appropriate ways.
- Standard 2
The student understands and demonstrates behaviors that prevent disease and speed recovery from illness.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Cooperate in regular health screenings.
- Understand that medications should be taken under the direction of parents, trusted adults, or health care providers.
- Demonstrate behaviors that prevent the spread of disease.
- Standard 3
The student will understand and demonstrate behaviors that reduce the risk of becoming involved in potentially dangerous situations and know how to react to situations in ways that help to protect his or her health.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Identify and model safe behavior in or near motorized vehicles, including fastening seat belts and crossing the street safely.
- Identify who is a stranger and use appropriate behavior when
interacting with strangers, including how to avoid contact with strangers.
- Demonstrate appropriate behaviors during fire drills, earthquake drills, and other disaster drills.
- Understand the need for using protective equipment in recreational and day-to-day activities.
- Understand appropriate behaviors in the presence of blood.
- Understand that medicines can be helpful or harmful.
- Identify products that should never be consumed, such as chemicals and cleaning products.
- Respect for and Promotion of the Health of Others
- Standard 4
The student will understand and demonstrate how to play a positive, active role in promoting the health of his or her family.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Demonstrate polite ways to talk to each other.
- Describe a family.
- Describe family responsibilities.
- Standard 5
The student will understand and demonstrate how to promote positive health practices within the school and community, including how to cultivate positive relationships with peers.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Understand and follow school practices relating to health.
- Identify practices that are good for the environment.
- Identify ways to share with others.
- Standard 6
The student will understand the variety of physical, mental, emotional, and social changes that occur throughout life.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Understand that living things come from other living things and have life cycles.
- Standard 7
The student will understand individual differences in growth and development.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Describe their own physical characteristics.
- Name ways in which people are similar and ways in which they are different.
- Informed Use of Health-Related Information, Products, and Services
- Standard 8
The student will identify products, services, and information that may be helpful or harmful to his or her health.
Students in kindergarten who meet this standard will be able to:
- Identify general information about the roles of health care workers.
- Recognize that not all products advertised or sold are good for them.
- Recognize that tobacco smoke is harmful to health and should be avoided.
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