Kindergarten Health Colorado standards Standards

Physical and Personal Wellness

Identify the major food groups and the benefits of eating a variety of foods.

Recognize major food groups.

Identify foods and beverages that are healthy choices.

Explain how food is fuel and that different activities need different fuel.

Explain the health benefits of choosing healthy foods and beverages.

Explain how personal hygiene and cleanliness affect wellness.

Describe how proper hand washing is important to being healthy.

Explain why bathing and hygiene are important for good health.

Explain positive outcomes from brushing and flossing teeth daily.

Demonstrate steps for proper hand washing, brushing, and flossing of teeth.

Explain why sleep and rest are important for proper growth and good health.

Social and Emotional Wellness

Recognize the relationship between emotions and actions.

Demonstrate ways to show respect, consideration, and care for others, such as saying please, thank you, and I’m sorry.

Identify a variety of emotions.

Recognize that feelings influence actions.

Identify and demonstrate appropriate ways to express emotions and cope with strong feelings.

Demonstrate how to effectively communicate and cooperate with others.

Demonstrate effective listening skills.

Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills.

Demonstrate sharing with peers.

Demonstrate strategies to cooperate with others.

Prevention and Risk Management

Explain the importance of respecting the personal space and boundaries of self and others.

Identify “appropriate” and “inappropriate” touches.

Identify characteristics of a trusted adult.

Demonstrate how to tell a parent or trusted adult if inappropriate touching occurs to self or others.

Explain the importance of personal space in the classroom and around others.

Explain safe behavior as a pedestrian and with motor vehicles.

Explain safe behavior when getting on and off and while riding on school buses.

Explain the importance of riding in the back seat and using safety belts and motor vehicle booster seats when one is a passenger in a motor vehicle.

Recognize and describe the meaning of traffic signs.

Describe how rules at school can help to prevent injuries.

Demonstrate safe pedestrian behaviors.

Demonstrate effective communication skills in unsafe situations.

Demonstrate verbal and nonverbal ways to ask a parent or trusted adult for help about an unsafe situation.

Describe how to call 911 or other emergency numbers for help.

Define and explain the dangerous use of weapons and how to tell a trusted adult if you see or hear about someone having a weapon.

Identify unsafe or risky situations around the home, school, and community.