Lesson 3 - Healthy Habits

• What healthy habits are.
• Why healthy habits are important.

Healthy, unhealthy, habits, activity, routines, behaviours, organised, eating, sleeping, exercise and hygiene.

• Supports pupils understanding of why healthy habits are important both physically and mentally.
• Supports pupils understanding of what a healthy habit is.

• Lesson PPT, paper, pen and colours.

• Introduce the session with the lesson objectives.
• Explain what being healthy means to the class.
• Circle activity – Pupils take it in turns to talk about ways they can be healthy. E.g. I can be healthy by keeping fit. Carry on the circle time using the following questions.
  • What fruits did you eat today?
  • What vegetables do you like to eat?
  • How did you move your body today?
  • How much water do you drink every day?
  • What games have you played outside today?

• Word sort activity - Print out sets of the word and picture cards on slide 2. In pairs pupils must sort the cards into two groups – healthy and unhealthy habits.
• Charades – In small groups pupils must choose a healthy or unhealthy habit to act out. The remainder of the group must guess what it is and pupils can swap over.
• I can be healthy by…. Print out slide 3 for each pupil. They must draw or paint a picture of all the ways they can be healthy.
• Show the video about being healthy to the class and remind them about the importance of being healthy and fit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnEuj1c0sw

• Healthy happy song – using slides 5 – 10 sing the healthy happy song with the class and make up actions for each verse.
• Reflection time: Ask pupils which two healthy habits they are going to work on over the next week.