As you cook together or eat dinner, talk about how foods help all of our bodies grow.

∑• Explain that eating fresh fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains makes a body strong and healthy.

• Discuss how important exercise is in building the body’s bones and muscles. Ask for suggestions—which exercise does your child like best? Why?

 

Eating Well By Melanie Mitchell Photos and text teach children to choose the best foods for a healthy diet.

 

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Try This Act like a crab and crawl. Try playing a game of crab soccer. Demonstrate what it means to scuttle. Then both of you scuttle on hands and feet like crabs while trying to move a ball.

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A Joke to Share

Q. What do you call cheese that is not yours to eat?

A. Nacho cheese!

Wash Your Hands! By Tony Ross The reasons why a little princess must always wash her hands are nicely spelled out in this story.

Rhyme Time
How I Stay Healthy

I wash my hands and face each day I scrub, scrub, scrub the dirt away.

(Mime hand washing.)

Fruits and vegetables are good for me I chew, chew, chew them carefully. (Mime chewing.)

—Diane Ohanesian

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On the Web This is the way I get ready for school, so early in the morning! Let your child put the pictures in order with an online activity at http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jeux.lulu/html/ anglais/sequent/ sEcole.htm#.

How to Make-a-Book Print out the pages of this issue. Have your child cut them out and put them in order. Then tape or staple the spine, and ask him or her to lead you through the book.