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Developed in 2010, HealthStart’s comprehensive preschool curriculum teaches young children about being and staying healthy. Our Health Education for Youngsters (HEY!) curriculum helps preschoolers learn about how their bodies work. HEY! goes beyond just explaining what fuel (food) and activities are needed to keep their bodies strong by teaching children how the world around them – plants, animals, water, and air – affects their health. HEY! is a comprehensive health curriculum, starting with the child’s body and working outward to the world around them. In all, HEY! contains nine units – a full school year's worth of lessons. For each unit HealthStart has identified weekly goals and objectives. Each unit includes math, language arts, and “grace and courtesy” components. For an outline of our curriculum click on the Curriculum Outline tab.FlexibleNeed a comprehensive curriculum to ensure youngsters at your preschool are prepared to enter Kindergarten? HEY! can give you that. HealthStart’s curriculum covers letter recognition, counting and sorting, and graphomotor (writing) skills that help preschoolers prepare for public school all while learning about themselves, what foods and activities help them be and stay healthy and how the world around them affect's our health.
Already have an academic curriculum in place? HEY! can blend easily with an existing curriculum. HEY! includes a variety of activities such as circle time activities, poetry recitation, and shelf work that will complement existing lessons plans while enabling teachers to introduce concepts of health and wellness. A win-win for the children and the school! Easy to useKim Longacre is a former preschool director and teacher who brings almost 20 years experience to her role as HealthStart’s Education Director. She has studied Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio Emilio techniques and uses these methods to inform her curriculum development practice. Perhaps even more importantly Kim’s been where you are. She knows the limits and demands of effectively teaching preschoolers.
A complete lesson plan and teacher training guide accompanies each week’s lessons. We will clearly explain how activities work, provide instructions for shelf work (i.e. independent student work) and include traceable or xeroxable blackline masters for use in supporting activities. Further, our teacher training program on HEY! can be used to help preschool staff meet continuing education requirements. Teacher training will be available soon. For more information click here. MeasuredHealthStart is committed to developing and implementing a curriculum that has a measurable impact on the children participating in the program and their families. HealthStart is in the process of developing an evaluation strategy to measure what the children learn from each unit and how we can improve the effectiveness of our materials. Further, we are creating evaluation tools that will help us measure the impact our program has on HealthStart kids’ families. We plan to measure the effect the curriculum has had on family eating habits and activity levels. Our evaluation strategy will be in place by fall 2010.
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