August 05, 2015 : Be Well!

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Make a “Stay Healthy” poster . On a piece of paper, paste newspaper words and pictures of items and activities that help you stay healthy.

2. In the newspaper, circle products that help you take care of your teeth.

3. Find three people in the newspaper w ho could help you stay healthy. Explain your choices.

4. How might these be important to your back-to-school routine: (a) nurse, (b) vaccination, (c) dentist, and (d) stethoscope?

5. Make a list of the things you already do to stay healthy. Then make a list of changes you can make in your life to do more to take care of your health.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Describe relationships between personal health behaviors and individual well-being. (Heath promotion and disease prevention)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)