Aim to learn to keep our body healthy and strong

Aims
* To learn to keep our body healthy and strong
* To learn to use our body to help others

Materials
*Picture of healthy food
*Picture of someone running
*Poem and pictures of Happyville and Grumpytown
*A picture to colour

Lesson Outline
1. Introduction
2. Keep your body healthy and strong
3. Use your body to help others
4. Activities – healthy actions, Heads & Shoulders, Freeze, colour a picture
5. Review aims
6. Prayer

1) Introduction
*Talk about our body. God gave us a head, hands and arms, feet and legs, lungs to breathe, a stomach to digest food. We can do many things with our body. We can walk and run and jump with our legs. We can catch and carry and lift with our hands. We can turn and nod and shake our head. We can bend and twist and stretch our whole body.

*Do some exercises together

2) Keep your body healthy and strong
What can we do to keep our body healthy and strong? What does our body need? We need water, healthy food, fresh air and sunlight everyday. Look at the picture of healthy food. We also need to sleep well. And we need to move our body and do exercise everyday to keep it healthy and strong.

Look at the picture of a girl running and jumping on a beach.

3) Use your body to help others
* Read the poem “Happyville and Grumpytown” and look at the pictures
* What good things are the children doing in Happyville?

How do they look? How do they feel? When we do good things with our body we feel happy.

*What bad things are the children doing in Grumptown?
How do they look? How do they feel? When we do bad things with our body we feel unhappy, bad-tempered or sour.

* What work can you do at home to keep it clean and tidy? What can you do to help your parents? 
When we help others our body is full of energy and we feel happy in our hearts.

4) Activities
* Practise doing all the things that are good for your body
* Play “Heads and Shoulders, Knees and Toes”
* Play a game of freeze.
* Colour picture of a child helping

5) Review the aims of the lesson
* To learn to keep our body healthy and strong
* To learn to use our body to help others

6) Prayer
Say a prayer to thank God for giving us our body that we can do so many things with. Promise to take care of it by. Promise to help others.