Safe and Healthy Enviroments
Safe and Healthy Environments
Alisha Sperline
Kaplan University
CE220: Child Safety, Nutrition and Health
Bonnie Hurless
May 23, 2014
Safe and Healthy Environments Children learn though listening, speaking, seeing and discovering the environment that surrounds them. Providing a healthy positive environment for children ages 2-4 both indoors and outdoors will help them to learn, grow and develop to the best of their ability (Marotz, 2015, p.9-10). The environment should include positive health, safety and nutrition components. Health, Safety and Nutrition are all interrelated and dependent on one another, if one is lacking it will affect the other areas (Marotz, 2015, p.8). An example is if a child is lacking nutrition it can cause their health to become poor, they may become week causing the child to have safety issues such as balancing, walking, playing and learning. There are many activities and toys that are age appropriate for 2-4 year olds that reinforce the importance of health, nutrition and safety. Taking children to the grocery store and including them in the food shopping process is an activity that will help them to learn about nutritious foods and ways they help to keep the body healthy. Creating foods is an activity that teaches children about nutrition. Allow them to cut with safety scissors, images of nutritious foods out of magazines and glue them to paper. Discuss why each food they have chosen provides good nutrition. An activity that teaches children about safety is practice fire drills. Talk about fire safety and step by step demonstrate the actions needed in case of fire, allow the children to also demonstrate step by step. Creating an obstacle course with balls, trikes, hula hoops, etc. is an activity that will promote physical health for young children. Talk with the children about how each activity helps their body and minds. Toys that reinforce the importance of health, safety and nutrition are important so that
Alisha Sperline
Kaplan University
CE220: Child Safety, Nutrition and Health
Bonnie Hurless
May 23, 2014
Safe and Healthy Environments Children learn though listening, speaking, seeing and discovering the environment that surrounds them. Providing a healthy positive environment for children ages 2-4 both indoors and outdoors will help them to learn, grow and develop to the best of their ability (Marotz, 2015, p.9-10). The environment should include positive health, safety and nutrition components. Health, Safety and Nutrition are all interrelated and dependent on one another, if one is lacking it will affect the other areas (Marotz, 2015, p.8). An example is if a child is lacking nutrition it can cause their health to become poor, they may become week causing the child to have safety issues such as balancing, walking, playing and learning. There are many activities and toys that are age appropriate for 2-4 year olds that reinforce the importance of health, nutrition and safety. Taking children to the grocery store and including them in the food shopping process is an activity that will help them to learn about nutritious foods and ways they help to keep the body healthy. Creating foods is an activity that teaches children about nutrition. Allow them to cut with safety scissors, images of nutritious foods out of magazines and glue them to paper. Discuss why each food they have chosen provides good nutrition. An activity that teaches children about safety is practice fire drills. Talk about fire safety and step by step demonstrate the actions needed in case of fire, allow the children to also demonstrate step by step. Creating an obstacle course with balls, trikes, hula hoops, etc. is an activity that will promote physical health for young children. Talk with the children about how each activity helps their body and minds. Toys that reinforce the importance of health, safety and nutrition are important so that
References: Hallinan, P. K. (2007). Let 's Be Safe. ldeals Children 's Books. Marotz, L. (2015). Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child (8th ed.). Retrieved from http://online.vitalsource.com/books/9781133890058