Keeping Our Body Healthy

What Are We Learning This Week?

Exercise helps our bones, muscles, and lungs to be strong.

This Week’s Big Questions

How does exercising help our bones, muscles, and lungs?

Fun at Home

Invite children to draw and describe 3 kinds of exercise and how they help our hearts, lungs, muscles, and bones to be strong. Tell me about these exercises.

Show Me! Our Words of the Week

Say It:
Stretch

Explain It:
To stretch is to pull something to its full length. Stretch your arms and reach for the sky.

Talk About It:
What are you doing with your body when you stretch?

Say It:
Sweat

Explain It:
Sweat is the water that seeps through your skin to cool you off. We sweat when we exercise.

Talk About It:
What kinds of exercises make you sweat?

Say It:
Lungs

Explain It:
Lungs are the body parts inside your chest that help you to breathe. We take air into our lungs when we breathe.

Talk About It:
What do our lungs do?