Health and Wellness Lessons | Full Year Bundle Grades 1-3

Get your whole year of health lessons planned out in minutes with this entire year of lessons for your wellness class. Lessons for managing feelings, bullying, communication, nutrition, financial literacy and conflict resolution through role-playing, drawing, writing, reading and talking.

Each unit includes:

• complete lesson plans with modifications for differentiation that don't take extra time for you to prepare.
• variety of activities including group work, writing, colouring and collaborating.
• background information for sensitive conversations.
• a digital version that uses Google Slides for the reading and writing activities. It contains loose text that can be read by your assistive technology to help support your students.
• student pages and templates in a variety of formats to make differentiation easy.
• answer keys and suggested answers.
• student-appropriate scenarios for role-playing and discussions.
• photographs of student examples.
• lesson alignment guide for Alberta teachers.
• Canadian spellings for all the activities.

A bonus year plan is included in the full-year bundle!

This full-year bundle includes:

Managing Feelings

• Feeling Words: common vocabulary and feeling descriptors.
• Feeling Targets: different types of emotions and the variances of intensity.
• How Feelings Feel: physical effects of emotions.
• What Influences Emotions?: factors that impact our emotions.
• How Big is This Problem?: emotions are connected to problems.
• What is Self-Talk?: how thinking and feelings are connected.
• Managing Self-Talk: positive thinking can regulate emotions.
• Fight, Flight or Freeze: fear responses.

Expected and Unexpected Behaviours

• What are Expected and Unexpected Behaviours?
• Thoughts and Feelings
• Behaviours and Positive Responses
• Why People Behave Unexpectedly

Building Positive Relationships

• What are Friends?
• Kindness Begins With You
• What is Bullying?
• Types of Bullying
• Reporting Versus Tattling
• Preventing Bullying
• Conflict Resolution

Wellness Choices

• sleep and rest
• exercise and movement
• staying clean (Hygiene)
• making food choices (including water) refers to the Canada Food Guide, Australian Food Guide and Choose My Plate (US Food Guide)
• natural and processed food
• how food connects people
• making personal food choices
• water and hydration
• stress and worrying
• personal gifts and self-image
• belonging and roles
• growing and changing

Safety and Consent

• community helpers
• container safety symbols
• basic safety rules (home, school and community)
• fire safety
• personal boundaries and consent
• getting help in an emergency
• basic First Aid
• review activities

Financial Literacy:

• Canadian currency, coins, bills (bank notes), debit, and credit; ways to pay
• goods and services
• jobs and volunteering
• needs and wants
• saving money; ways to share, spend or save money
• decisions about money

Ninja Note: To access the digital version, download the PDF and click on the link in that file once it is downloaded to your computer. The link may not work properly if you are in preview mode.

This resource aligns with:

• Alberta Physical Education and Wellness Curriculum ©2022 for Grades 1-3.

This resource supports:

• Ontario Health Curriculum.
• British Columbia Physical and Health Education competencies.
• Saskatchewan Health and Wellness Curriculum
• any health and wellness curriculum for Canada.

We also have a complete wellness bundle for Grades 4-6:

• Expected and Unexpected Behaviours
• Classroom Community
• Group Roles and Processes
• Managing Feelings (Emotional Regulation)
• Emotional Regulation Bingo
• Managing Feelings Word Wall
• Building Positive Relationships
• Wellness Choices
• Safety and Responsibility
• Life-Long Learning
• Financial Literacy
• Digital Citizenship & Online Safety

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