Programa Aprendiendo Juntos/
Learning Together Program
Student Activities- Health and Nutrition
Discussion Topic- Healthy Habits
Materials:
 Dry-erase markers/chalk or chart paper and markers
Talk about ways for staying healthy- eating good foods, exercising every day, and
visiting the doctor. Brainstorm healthy foods that the students like to eat and ways they
enjoy exercising and record their responses where they can be displayed in the
classroom.
Optional: Create a chart to organize healthy and not healthy foods on the board.
Have the students draw different kinds of foods into the correct category. Ask them to
circle their favorite foods.
~ Alex Heide and Carolyn Milburn, volunteers at North End Elementary
Group Activity- Simon Says “Exercise!”
Students will participate in a game that requires them move about the room as they
mimic the motions of different kinds of exercise and physical activity.
1. Introduce the activity: tell them they will be playing a game that requires some
physical activity. The game is similar to ‘Simon Says’: the teacher will name a
certain kind of sport, exercise, or physical activity and the students will have to
mimic that activity.
2. To begin game, have students stand in an open area of the classroom, name an
exercise to do and model the exercise with the students. Allow students to
engage in each exercise for approx. 20 seconds.
3. Use these categories:
 Shooting Basketball hoops
 Specific Stretches
 Jogging in place
 Kicking a soccer ball
 Golfing
 Ice Skating or rollerblading
 Swimming- backstroke,
 Throwing a football or
freestyle, breaststroke,
Frisbee
doggie paddle
 Hitting a baseball with a
 Jumping rope
bat
 Jumping Jacks
4. Ask students if they can think of any other categories and use these categories
as well.
Programa Aprendiendo Juntos/
Learning Together Program
Craft Activity
MyPyramid Food Group Coloring
Materials:
 MyPyramid Coloring Sheets
 Markers/Crayons
Students will learn about the different food groups as they color the food pyramid.
1. Introduce the food pyramid to the students and ask them questions to see if
they’ve heard of it before and if they know of the different food groups.
2. Talk about the food groups on the pyramid sheets with the students and
brainstorm different foods that belong in each group.
3. Optional: create lists on the board of each food group.
4. Allow students to color the pyramid sheets and some of the ‘Go Fish’ cards that
show pictures of their favorite healthy foods.
MyPyramid ‘Go Fish’ Cards Game
Materials:
 decks of MyPyramid ‘Go Fish’ Cards
Students will learn about the different food groups as they participate in card game
‘Go Fish’ using cards from different food categories of the food pyramid.
1. Introduce the activity and explain card game ‘Go Fish’ for students who are
unfamiliar.
2. The game can be played with 2- 5 players. Each student begins with four cards.
Students take turns asking one another for a certain card. If the student has the
card, they must give it to the other student. If not, they respond ‘Go Fish!’ and
the student will choose a card from the deck. The goal of the game is to obtain
the greatest number of paired cards by asking other players and drawing from
the deck. The students will continue playing until all the cards in the deck are
gone and have been paired. This game of ‘Go Fish’ will be played with their
food group cards.
3. Allow students to play multiple rounds of ‘Go Fish’ and guide them as necessary.