Kindergarten - Physical and Health Education

Big Ideas

Curricular Competencies

Content

Daily physical activity helps us develop movement skills and physical literacy, and is an important part of healthy living.

Learning about ourselves and others helps us develop a positive attitude and caring behaviours, which helps us build healthy relationships.

Knowing about our bodies and making healthy choices helps us look after ourselves.

Good health comprises physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Physical literacy

Healthy and active living

Social and community health

Mental well-being

proper technique for fundamental movement skills, including non-locomotor, locomotor, and manipulative skills

how to participate in different types of physical activities, including individual and dual activities, rhythmic activities, and games

relationships between food, hydration, and health

practices that promote health and well-being

names for parts of the body, including male and female private parts

appropriate and inappropriate ways of being touched

different types of substances

hazards and potentially unsafe situations

caring behaviours in groups and families

emotions and their causes and effects

reliable sources of health information

Develop and demonstrate a variety of fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments

Describe the body's reaction to participating in physical activity in a variety of environments

Develop and demonstrate safety, fair play, and leadership in physical activities

Participate daily in physical activity at moderate to vigorous intensity levels

Identify opportunities to be physically active at school, at home, and in the community

Identify and explore a variety of foods and describe how they contribute to health

Identify opportunities to make choices that contribute to health and well-being

Identify sources of health information

Identify and describe a variety of unsafe and/or uncomfortable situations

Develop and demonstrate respectful behaviour when participating in activities with others

Identify caring behaviours among classmates and within families

Identify and describe practices that promote mental well-being

Identify and describe feelings and worries

Identify personal skills, interests, and preferences