Regular Meal Time
StartSmart Pilot School : Ching Chung Hing Tung Kindergarten
«Omni-Directional Chess Game»
Train your children with physical exercises and healthy eating
Stage 1 : Introduction
To maintain a healthy life, an appropriate eating habit is essential. Therefore, children should have regular and balanced diet. Punctual meals and refreshments are conducive to the proper absorption of nutrients; if we skip meals, we will be starved and then we will overeat later. Eating too frequently is also a problem; it may cause tooth decay. Children should learn that punctuality and a regular lifestyle are equally important.
In order to supply children with sufficient energy and nutrients, we should give them breakfast, lunch and dinner at an interval of 4 to 6 hours. Between meals, refreshment can only be provided once and should be at least 1.5 to 2 hours away from meals. Also, meals and refreshments should be complementary in terms of variety and quantity; this is to ensure an adequate supply of nutrients.
Ching Chung Hing Tung Kindergarten has been teaching a ‘healthy campus’ curriculum. With the implementation of the StartSmart@school.hk Pilot Project, the original curriculum was merged with other class activities which in turn brought about a greater learning outcome. The school designed a creative chess game to teach children the importance of regular diet. The game helped them practise a healthy diet and trained their motor coordination at the same time.
Stage 2 : Start Smart!
Live : Regular Diet Chess
Objective : Children learn how often they should eat so as to attain a regular diet. In the physical activity, children are instructed to do certain actions such as hopping or jumping, climbing, crawling through a hula hoop, etc. These body movements train the motor coordination of children’s major and minor muscles.
Time : 30 minutes
Materials : 36 pieces of soft mattresses (topped with pictures of breakfast, lunch and dinner), a dice (each face indicating a time and what we eat by then, e.g. 8 a.m - breakfast), a plastic basket, coloured straps, ‘food medals’, hula hoops, a music CD, and a CD player.
Let’s GO!
- Setting: Place the mattresses on the floor and form a Flying Chess board. Put the pictures of breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as the dice on the mattresses.
- The teacher starts the activity by telling the story ‘Ching Ching and Liang Liang’. He/she asks the class to think about the adverse effects of eating irregularly, such as losing appetite for meals and higher chances of tooth decay.
- Children become the chessmen. They take turns to throw the dice at the starting point. If they get ‘breakfast’ in three dice rolls, they can move forward.
- When a child gets the ‘breakfast - 8 a.m.’ face, he/she has to put on the coloured strap and clip the breakfast medal on the strap. Then he/she has to crawl to the lunch mattress and throw the dice. They will have to get a ‘lunch’ face and so on.
- Once the child arrives at the destination, he/she has to shout the slogan: ‘I am a healthy kid and eat regularly’ with creative gestures.
Flowchart
Children at the starting point need to roll the "Breakfast Dice" before setting off.
- Have breakfast at 8:00am (get the breakfast medal)
- Have lunch at noon (get the lunch medal)
Hop or jump over the mat; crawling
- Have snack at 4:00pm (get the snack medal)
Put the hoop through the body
- Get the dinner medal
After arriving the ending point, say the slogan: "I'm a healthy kid and eat regularly!"
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