Objective
Students will discuss various forms of screen time.
Students will brainstorm imaginary adventures that highlight their creativity and innate need to play!
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Healthy Habits – The Power of Play – RL.2.3
Healthy Habits Afterschool Booklist:
- The Food Parade: Healthy Eating with the Nutritious Food Groups by Elicia Castaldi
- The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) by Philomen Sturges
- The Quickest Kid in Clarksville by Pat Zietlow Miller
- What Happens to a Hamburger? by Paul Showers
- Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
- Poem “Jimmy Jet and His TV Set” from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
- Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson
Supplemental Booklist:
- How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? The Story of Food by Chris Butterworth
- Gazpacho for Nacho by Tracey Kyle
- I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
- The Heart: Our Circulatory System by Steven Simon
- Bones: Our Skeletal System by Steven Jenkins
- A Drop of Blood by Paul Showers
- Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Time to Sleep by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Website Links:
- Choosemyplate.org
- My Plate blank coloring sheet
- Kidshealth.org
- American Academy of Pediatrics Energy Out
- American Academy of Pediatrics Sleep Guidelines
- Cleveland Clinic: Importance of Sleep for Kids and Teens
- Why Your Child Can’t Skip Their Twenty Minutes of Reading Tonight
- Alliance for Childhood: Time for Play, Everyday
- Playworks