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Take care of your health!
Posted by: Jade #62438

Such a cynic, Coach! I'm certainly not in this profession for any extra appreciation I might get.

Monica, make sure you take care of your health. Don't forget to eat and when you do, don't let it be all fast food and junk. Drink LOTS of water, and while it's not easy, get plenty of sleep. You will be much better able to handle the stressed of the job if you force yourself to just put the papers down and go to bed or to make a decision to not think about things too much. Planning, as was said in an earlier post, will help you with this.

Try to eliminate unnecessary stress. I still stay later than I should and while I take work home on weekends sometimes, I absolutely, positively will NOT go back in on the weekend. Enough is enough! No lesson has to be perfect, few lessons ever...
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health
Posted by: tia #164698

wow--sounds like you have lots of time to teach health---lucky!

i have 2 hours a week to teach soc sts and science/health. my partner takes soc sts while i do s/h. she takes my kids for 2 half hour periods and then her own, while i have hers. (so 2 days at 1/2 each)

science is my priority because there will eventually be a state-mandated test for it---been promising it for years and continue to "trial" test the 5th grade--duh.

this is what i've done in health:
*nutrition
*currently doing cells/body systems/heredity (i'm giving S and H grades for this one)

what i have left to do:
*goals/self-knowledge/stress/decision making
*conflict managment
*drugs/advertising methods/refusal skills

perhaps you could do a unit on hygiene?...
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health
Posted by: Suzy #68307

Consider some bathroom time as health---remind them to wash their hands. I try to incorporate health into story time too and just have a general unit to work from every month. Feb is teeth. We will make a poster one week when other work is finished and a paper tooth puppet to review what we have learned at the end. Perhaps a video one week. Just use odd moments here and there. Try to hit the important things they need to know, add a little fun and keep concentrating on the reading, writing and math that is where you need to be most of the time. Have you considered two science times a week only make them a little longer. By the time you get everything out 3 times you have lost a lot of time. In our district Science kits go back about a month early so I can do lots of Social Studie...
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some health materials online
Posted by: Julianne #49579

Here are a couple of sites I found while looking for stuff for my first grade:

For dental health try: http://www.colgatebsbf.com/ There are links here for teachers, parents, kids and dental health professionals.

For nutrition try:
http://kidshealth.org This site has lots of free information about all kinds of kid health issues, including a link to the food pyramid.

For safety try:
http://www.mcgruff.org/ With links for teachers and parents as well as plenty for kids to do, this is a great site.

It's really easy to find stuff like this on the Internet. There's almost too much! I just did quick searches for the subject I was looking for and explored a couple...
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health violation
Posted by: laura #56064

Call your local health department and ask for advice. I had a similar situation and called my health department In my state, I am not allowed, by law, to clean feces from clothes. It must be bagged and sent home. We copied the letter our health department sent to us and sent it home to parents. (Technically we were not even allowed to flop the feces from the underwear to the toilet, but of course we did this.) It's completely unsanitary and most schools do not have the safety regs set in place to handle it.

Health
Posted by: Azure #79715

Hello! This same problem has perplexed me in the past as well. I started double counting my human body unit as a life science grade and a health grade. This unit includes all the body systems as well as nutrition.

Then, I actually take time away from the science book and we do a mini unit on childhood illnesses for a health grade. We cover chicken pox, influenza, colds, and ear aches. The kids love it because they can relate to the subject matter.

I once had a student come down with the chicken pox, and when she went to the doctor he told her not to take aspirin. My student told the doctor that she already knew that because it would give her Reye's Syndrome! The doctor was very impressed and told her she had a very good teacher! : )

If you're interested, I can dig up the website ...
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health care costs
Posted by: jupe #83599

It's often hard for parents to be sympathetic when they can't afford health care for their children or when they are paying exhorbitant health care costs themselves. I know there was a lot of grumbling in my area when teachers were complaining about a rise in the cost of health care. This is a low income area and we didn't have the support of the parents. (I paid much more for health insurance when I worked in the private sector.)

Don't forget health
Posted by: happycat #133847

Yes, I have a specific block of time (40 minutes) every day for either science, social studies, or health instruction. I teach those subjects by unit; when I finish, say, a health unit then I begin perhaps a science unit. I try to spend an equal amount of time on those three subjects over the course of the year.

I think it's a shame that health is overlooked, especially with the current health problems in our country (poor nutrition, lack of exercise, inadequate sleep, etc).
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mental health
Posted by: Jalon #136778

Like Tammynj, I am rarely sick and I use fewer sick days than most in my school, but I have a question for those of you who have taken mental health days: What do you say when you call in? Simply, "I'm taking a mental health day today."? While I feel strongly that we need to care for our mental/emotional health, I've never actually taken a "mental health" day as I really didn't know what to say when I called in!
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health concerns
Posted by: Julianne #28909

Ok, as the parent of a boy with a heart problem (which, by the way, went undiagnosed until he was in middle school) my concern here is not with the LENGTH of the run, but with the statement, "they are not allowed to stop." EVERY child, no matter whether they are physically fit, overweight, have health problems or whatever, should be allowed to stop doing a physical activity when they feel taxed beyond their personal limit. This means letting youngsters drop down to a walk or stop for a moment to get their breath. It means letting them pull themselves out of a basketball game if they are feeling lightheaded or out of a football game if they get knocked around and don't feel up to staying on the field. The coaches and/or pe teachers should respect each child's right to determine their pe...
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