Health Education Standards - Age 3 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Strand 3: MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Students will identify emotions and react appropriately to different emotions.

Standard HE 3 yr.3.3

With prompting and support, begin to develop self-control by regulating one's own impulses and feelings, following simple directions, waiting for turns, transitioning between activities, and complying with limitations.

• Freeze Dance
  Children will listen to music and stop their bodies from moving when the music pauses.  This allows students to explore movement through dance and also helps build self-control as they start and stop activities.  
• Persistence Through Movement
  Set up an obstacle course while playing in a large space while using materials such as cones, balls, hoops, scarfs, etc.  Children will be asked to perform challenging actions at different stations throughout the course such as jumping jacks, running a specific distance, balancing on a balance beam, etc.  
• Persistence Through Movement 2
  Set up an obstacle course while playing in a large space while using materials such as cones, balls, hoops, scarfs, etc.  Children will be asked to perform challenging actions at different stations throughout the course such as hopping on one foot, jumping over yarn for a specific distance, climbing up a ladder of playground equipment, etc.  
• Read - Strictly No Elephants
  Child(ren) will read the book Strictly No Elephants with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.

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