This is a lesson for preschool students. In this lesson, students will learn about the importance of eating healthy and how to make good food choices. They will learn about the five food groups and be able to categorize food into the correct food groups. This lesson follows the following core standards: Strand 4: Nutritions- Students will understand why food choices are important, Standard HE 4.1 Identify a variety of healthy foods, Standard HE 4.2-Identify healthy food and begin to categorize into food groups, Standard 4.3  Try new foods from a variety of food groups.Image Citation: food healthy flyer landscape by yellow bananas from Canva created by Suzanne McMillan

In this lesson plan, students will analyze and describe the relationships among healthy eating, physical activity, and chronic diseases through different physical activities.

Many foods tie into traditions within the months of November and December. Children will talk about eating food to fuel the body.  Examples of healthy and not so healthy food items will be discussed.  Once you have completed the discussion with your child(ren), allow them to sort foods by healthy or not so healthy.