Sunday 10 August 2014

Swap, Share Give!




I am so excited that it's time for round two of the Swap, Share, Give linky!  A bunch of Aussie bloggers have teamed up to bring you honest reviews of products to help kick off your school year in style, or for us Aussies - to finish off the year well.  We've also got freebies to share and a huge GIVEAWAY!





I was very lucky to be paired up with the lovely Brooke from Teachable Moments for a product swap.  I absolutely love her products and use many of them in my classroom - they are always top quality, effective and cute!


As I scrolled through her store one product caught my eye.  All year I have been wanting to spend more time teaching Health - it's part of our curriculum but has been pushed to the bottom of the priority list most weeks.  There's so important many real-life skills that are learnt in discussions about food and activity choices, and I just didn't feel I was doing this subject justice.  Until now!


Brooke sent me her awesome Healthy Choices unit and straight away I knew that my health lessons were sorted - probably for the rest of the year!  This pack includes a tonne of options to use with your kidlets - charts, posters, information passages with matching activities, cut & paste worksheets, meal design tasks, a writing prompt... phew! Let me show you what I've used so far. 

We started by discussing healthy foods vs. sometimes foods using the pie chart guide in the pack.  We listed foods on a chart that I blew up to A3 size to use with the whole class.  



In our next lesson we revised our charts and then completed the cut & paste activity to sort healthy foods and sometimes foods.




Brooke has provided a cute template for each meal - breakfast, lunch and dinner - for kidlets to design a healthy plateful of food.  Instead of drawing foods, we did a magazine search.  My class loved this because their plates were so bright and colourful when they were done!




I'm so excited to keep using this pack!  I plan to print the information passages and posters and add them to a display folder for our class library - and I can't wait for my kidlets to design a Super Fruit Man!  Check out the Healthy Choices unit in Brooke's store.

Now it's my turn to share a freebie!!  If you're starting back for a new school year I'm sure you will be spending lots of time teaching behaviour expectations.  I love using dollar store bubbles to teach kidlets what it feels like to use self-control.  I do this activity at the start of the year, and then again whenever we need a little reminder! :)  Click on the picture to download this for FREE!


Is there anything better than an awesome giveaway?  Nope, didn't think so!  Enter for a chance to win ALL of the products swapped as part of our Swap, Share, Give linky.

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I hope you have time to check out the linky hosted by the lovely Bec to find a heap of wonderful products made by my very clever Aussie blogger friends!  I'm off to walk the Noosa National Park path  in the glorious sunshine. :)

6 comments:

  1. I actually LOVE this packet and am putting it on my wishlist! :)

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  2. Sounds like an awesome packet! I'm like you when it comes to the health curriculum, it doesn't always get the time that it deserves. I love your self-control bubbles activity!!

    Jemima
    Luck's Little Learners

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  3. I love Brooke's Healthy Choices pack - it's just awesome! And your self-control bubbles are fantastic - I even had the Grad I mentor tell me all about it a little while back (and I was all 'Yup, Lauren is awesome!'). Thanks for sharing!

    Stef
    Miss Galvin Learns

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  4. Healthy food can be so hard for kids to understand these days. The variety in this pack would certainly help us to explore this.
    Paula from Paula’s Place and iSURF Maths

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  5. I'm glad you enjoyed the unit Lauren :)

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  6. I love the look of this! Thanks for the tip, I will have to check it out :) Plus the self-control bubbles is already a fav! Thanks for starting this Lauren.
    Books, Bugs and Boxes

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