Healthy Eating Activity Preschool and Kindergarten

Grouping Foods for a Healthy Lifestyle. This teaching resource helps children with grouping foods to encourage a healthy lifestyle. Includes four activities and an assessment activity.

 1.Group the foods into ALWAYS and SOMETIMES foods.

2.Group the foods into the five food groups

3.Group the foods into tried and untried

4.Record if students have reached the recommended daily amounts in each food group.

5.Check for understanding with an assessment where children plate up to include foods from each food group.

 CURRICULUM LINKS AUSTRALIA

 Australian Curriculum

Foundation Year

Personal, Social and Community Health

Contributing to healthy and active communities

Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing ACPPS006

- grouping foods into categories such as food groups and ‘always’ and ‘sometimes’ foods

Early Years Learning Framework

OUTCOME 3: CHILDREN HAVE A STRONG SENSE OF WELLBEING

Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing

This is evident: show an increasing awareness of healthy lifestyles and good nutrition

Example: engage children in experiences, conversations and routines that promote healthy lifestyles and good nutrition