Enrichment Activities

Parents/caregivers: Over the course of the 2019-2020 school year, your Early Care and Education Center

received nutrition and physical education lessons through the Healthy Schools, Healthy CommunitiesTM

program, delivered by your child’s classroom teachers in partnership with the National Kidney Foundation of

Michigan (NKFM). NKFM staff are committed to connecting your family with activities and resources

through virtual learning during these uncertain times. This is the third and last week that NKFM will post

activities on www.nkfm.org/HSHC that you can do with your child(ren). The activities will have prompts like

“Say” and “Ask” for you to share information and ask questions with your child(ren). We hope you find these

activities fun and educational. Please send any feedback or requests to: swesolek-greenson@nkfm.org.

Week Three: This week your child(ren) will learn about the importance of handwashing and trying new

foods! Each page in this document contains information for you to share with your child(ren), videos for your

child to watch, and activities for them to complete. All activities are from the Healthy Schools, Healthy

CommunitiesTM curriculum.

Click on the activities below to go directly to the lesson for that day (or just keep scrolling down):

Monday

Healthy Me:

Wash Your

Hands!

Tuesday

Fruits and

Veggies for Me:

Name It, Touch It

Wednesday

Physical activity

FitBitTM:

Balance It

Thursday

Health Through

LiteracyTM:

The Two Bite

Club

Friday

Recipe Tasting:

Tasting Bites

This project was funded in whole or in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education through the Michi-

gan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Fitness Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Activity One: Wash Your Hands! MONDAY

Adult directions: Use the prompts “Say” and “Ask” to share information and ask questions with your child(ren).

Say: We know washing our hands is important. Look at your hands—do you see anything? There are

germs on our hands that are too small to see. We don’t want germs on our hands because they can make

us sick.

Ask: What can we do to get rid of germs? Answer: We can wash our hands for 20 seconds to keep bad

germs away.

Say: It’s also important to know how to wash our hands the right way. First, we go to a sink and turn on

warm water. Then we get hands wet. Then put soap on our hands. Scrub your hands, fingernails,

between fingers, and wrists as you sing the ABCs (which takes about 20 seconds). Finally rinse hands with

water and dry with a paper towel.

Student explore: Click on the book for the read aloud video Germs Are Not for Sharing!

Student directions:

1. Ask someone in your family to go with you to the sink. Work together to wash your hands the right

way! Remember:

Step One: Go to a sink and turn on warm water

Step Two: Get your hands wet

Step Three: Put soap on your hands and scrub your hands, fingernails, between fingers, and wrists

for 20 seconds as you sing the ABCs (which takes about 20 seconds).

Step Four: Rinse your hands with warm water and dry with a towel

2. Now, show someone else in your family how we wash our hands!

This project was funded in whole or in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education through the Michi-

gan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Fitness Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Activity Two: Name It, Touch It TUESDAY

Adult directions: Use the prompts “Say” and “Ask” to share information and ask questions with your child

(ren).

Ask: Do you like to try new foods?

Say: We know it’s important to try new foods. Because when you try new foods, you discover new

ones you like and you increase the variety in the foods you eat. If you eat lots of different fruits and

vegetables, you have a better chance of giving your body what it needs to be healthy.

Student directions: For this activity, you will need a blank piece of paper and a pencil (optional: computer

access).

1. Think of fruits and vegetables you like to eat. Make a list with an adult.

2. Are there fruits and vegetables you haven’t tried before? Help your adult write them down.

3. If you can, go on an online scavenger hunt and look up pictures of the fruits and vegetables you

want to try. Maybe you’ve only seen a fruit when it’s cut up and not what it looks like when it’s

whole and you buy it at the store. Some fruits and vegetables might come in different colors too!

4. Pick 3 fruits and 3 vegetables you would like to try and circle them on your list.

This project was funded in whole or in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education through the Michi-

gan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Fitness Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Activity Three: FitBitTM: Balance It WEDNESDAY

Adult directions: Use the prompts “Say” and “Ask” to share information and ask questions

with your child(ren).

Ask: What is physical activity? Answer: Anything that gets your body moving; it could

be dancing, running, or even taking out the garbage!

Ask: What is your favorite way to get physical activity?

Say: We know it’s important to get our bodies moving. It’s also good to try new ways to

get physical activity. One way we can move our bodies when we’re inside is following

along with fun videos.

Student Directions: Click on the picture below to get your body moving in the FitBitTM

Balance It [*NOTE: This video is not uploaded to YouTube yet*]

This project was funded in whole or in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education through the Michi-

gan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Fitness Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Activity Four: The Two Bite Club THURSDAY

Adult directions: Use the prompts “Say” to share information with your child(ren).

Say: Today we have a short video of the book The Two Bite Club.

Ask (during/after video): Are there any foods from the book that you would like to

try?

Student directions:

Think about if you would like to try any foods that Anna and Will tried in the book.

Click on the book for the read aloud video The Two Bite Club

This project was funded in whole or in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education through the Michi-

gan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Fitness Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Activity Five: Recipe Tasting FRIDAY

Adult directions: Use the prompts “Say” and “Ask” to share information and ask questions

with your child(ren).

Say: We learned that it is important to try new healthy foods—like fruits and vegetables. MyPlate teaches us to cover half of our plate with fruits and veggies. They are healthy foods to have for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.

Tasting Bites

Today we encourage you to create your own tasting bites to try some new fruits and vegetables that you might’ve added to your list earlier this week.

Remember:

When we try new fruits and vegetables, it’s important that they are all colors of the rainbow. Different colored foods have different things (nutrients) in them that we need to be healthy.

We should also try different varieties of fruits and vegetables—fresh, frozen, canned, and dried. We can enjoy healthy foods in all of their forms.

Click on the video below to watch your nutrition educators try some different fruits and vegetables:

Nutrition Educators tried dried cranberry, frozen peas, clementine, cucumber, frozen strawberry, bell pepper, lettuce, and dried banana

This project was funded in whole or in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education through the Michi-

gan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Fitness Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.