How to organize a health day? The classroom hour devoted to this problem is aimed at ensuring that schoolchildren can understand how important the physical and mental health of any person is.
The importance of extracurricular activities aimed at improving the health of schoolchildren
Health is that invaluable gift that is necessary not only for every single person, but also for the whole modern society. It is no coincidence that during meetings with friends and loved ones they are always wished for health and long life.
A class hour on the theme of “Health Day” is organized to explain to the younger generation the features of maintaining a proper lifestyle.
Information provided by the results of statistical studies indicates that the majority of the adult population does not have clear ideas about proper nutrition, ways to strengthen psychological health, and maximum physical exertion, depending on age characteristics.
If certain rules are not observed, overloads are possible that negatively affect the general physical condition of a person.
An increasing number of school-age children have serious health problems, among the reasons doctors call a sedentary lifestyle, as well as inability to be distracted from everyday worries and problems, addictions, poor-quality and improper nutrition.
Script for grades 5-6
How to organize a mid-day Health Day? The classroom hour for children of this age should be thought out taking into account individual age characteristics, contain not only passive, but also active options for action.
The theme of this lesson can be made the slogan "In a healthy body - a healthy mind!"
Objectives
The class hour “World Health Day” is aimed at creating a positive attitude towards a healthy lifestyle in the younger generation . It helps to educate children in personal hygiene skills, the prevention of colds, and also stimulates the desire to play sports.
The course of the event
Such a class hour dedicated to Health Day, you can start with folk wisdom, according to which a person who will lose his health, will lose everything in his life.
Further, the teacher can connect his students to the conversation by asking them questions regarding this topic.
For class hour “World Health Day” you can prepare the following questions:
- How do you understand the term “healthy lifestyle”?
- How to observe personal hygiene?
- What habits can be considered harmful in modern man?
- How to greet each other?
Then the teacher proceeds to the analysis of the answers that will be given by his students to the questions posed. For example, speaking of a healthy lifestyle, you can invite students to participate in a small dramatization. One student will be presented as a loafer who does not like to work, spends most of his free time at the computer.
The second student will appear in the sketch as a child who knows the rules of a healthy lifestyle. Gradually, the first child increases in width, practically stops moving, while his classmate enjoys life, meets with friends. The teacher invites his students to make a choice: live or vegetate.
Joint activities
For example, the class hour “Health Day at School” can be organized together with employees of a medical institution. They will not only talk about the basic rules of personal hygiene, but also demonstrate them.
The classroom hour dedicated to World Health Day can be continued by talking about what options for greeting are used by different peoples of our country, connecting children to an active game.
The teacher tells the children that it is common for Eskimos to greet their noses, and then invites the children to greet each other as the Eskimos usually do.
Japanese residents greet friends with bows. The teacher offers to greet all who are present in the class, in Japanese. This game captures children, fully corresponds to their individual age characteristics, the desire to lead an active lifestyle.
Talking about bad habits
A special place in the classroom hours aimed at inculcating to the younger generation a positive attitude towards a healthy lifestyle is occupied by classroom hours for Health Day related to the discussion of the problem of bad habits.
It will be appropriate to use proverbs and sayings related to the harm of tobacco, alcoholism, and drug addiction. As a good example of the harm of such habits to humans, one can use presentations and videos taken from medical professionals.
The classroom hour on the theme “World Health Day” needs to be bright and energetic, so outdoor games are appropriate in its framework. For example, after children talk about the negative effects of tobacco and alcohol on the children's body, they can be involved in an outdoor game. A “healthy man” (a physical education teacher) appears in the classroom, and the guys repeat comic movements to him to the music, accompanying them with cues of “live healthy.”
What else can you think of at school on Health Day? A class hour devoted to the formation of a positive attitude of children to a healthy lifestyle can be continued with sports activities.
Sports and Health Festival
At the middle level, the teacher is trying to involve parents of students in active participation in class and school events. You can choose a team of parents and students on parallels in each class, arrange comic sport starts between them, aimed at creating a careful attitude to your state of health. Among the contests that will be offered to teams, you can take a ride on the same ski, run in "family underpants", overcome obstacles. After summing up the results of the competition, you can end the event with a joint tea party.
For example, on Health Day, classroom hours will be appropriate in nature, and children can go camping together with their parents.
Sports quiz
As part of the class hour dedicated to Health Day, you can offer students a small quiz:
- List the sports that you know;
- What sports attributes are known to you;
- as they call a challenge sports prize;
- list famous athletes;
- name those sports games in which the ball is actively used.
You can also invite students to guess the sports item that is associated with certain lines.
1 question. For strength, agility, ingenuity, I take it soon ... (jump rope).
2 question. I made friends with football ... rolled into the goal (ball).
3 question. And for a beautiful waist, the best tool ... (hoop).
Together with the teacher, at the end of the class hour, children can formulate useful habits, make a memo.
An interesting task is to make a ditty about a healthy lifestyle according to the proposed template.
1 ._________________ did not go
_________________ smoking
_________________ our
_________________ mandrage
2 ._____________________ is healthy
______________________ doctors
_______________________never
_______________________ who where!
At the end of the class hour, the teacher can use a special questionnaire to take stock. This may include questions regarding the presence of a constant daily regimen, the number of colds experienced in the past year, daily morning exercises, the use of fruits and vegetables, smoking, drinking alcohol and beer.
Class hour for elementary school
For World Health Day for elementary school graduates, you can prepare and hold the event "You are what you eat."
Its goal will be the formation of the idea of ​​proper nutrition among the younger generation, the development of the habit of observing a full regimen of the day, the development of logical thinking, creative imagination, and adaptation to various situations. During such an event, the teacher instills a sense of collectivism in his students, stimulates the development of friendly relations between the children.
First, the teacher conducts a conversation dedicated to cooking and healthy eating, asking children questions about their favorite dishes, the benefits of different products.
The teacher notes that the science of nutrition appeared only at the end of the 19th century.
Children will learn that proteins are the building material in our bodies, fats are considered energy reserves, and carbohydrates are a source of energy and performance. Next, the significance of individual dishes is analyzed, as a result, the “right lunch” appears on the table, which fully replenishes the human body with useful substances.
Conclusion
Issues related to the formation of the right attitude to nutrition, the organization of one's working time are relevant and significant. That is why they are given special attention in educational programs developed by class teachers in elementary school, middle and senior management.
Of course, one classroom hour will be clearly not enough to form a positive attitude among the younger generation towards sports, physical activity, and the inclusion of fruits and vegetables in the diet. That is why in many Russian educational institutions separate health programs are being developed, within the framework of which children are involved in various sports events, contests, quizzes.
In order to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of such events, school teachers try to connect not only parents, but also medical workers, child psychologists, and trainers of children’s sports schools. Only in the case of systematic classroom hours, holidays, health-related quizzes will it be possible to achieve the goal - to form a healthy generation of Russians with an active civic position.