Fifth Grade Class Materials

This Nurture Curriculum is designed to allow schools to provide their students with highly interactive wellness lessons appropriate for the students’ developmental stages. Students explore how to apply nutrition, fitness, and relaxation concepts to their lives. The fifth grade curriculum takes the knowledge students have developed and applies it to more sophisticated topics: Portion Distortion, Fast Food Choices, Analyzing Advertising, and Sleep Cycles.

The curriculum is designed to minimize the amount of extra workload for teachers. All activities are linked to Common Core Learning Standards for English or Math. There are 3 activities every month:

Lesson – this is a 15 to 20 minute lesson on the topic of the month
PE Activity – this activity reinforces the monthly topic through physical games
Supplemental Activity – this classroom activity reinforces the topic through English or Math Common Core Learning Standards

We recommend spacing these activities so the students receive no more than one activity a week. This will require them to expend more effort to recall the concepts, thus helping to reinforce them.

Fifth Grade		Topic	Visuals	Teaching Aids	Handouts
October	Lesson	Sugar Sugar	Sugar Sugar Visual . Sugar Sugar Visual Spanish	Sugar Sugar Handout . Sugar Sugar Handout Spanish	Sweets Parent Handout . Sweets Parent Handout Spanish
	PE Activity	Sugar Circuit	.	Sugar Circuit Signs . Sugar Circuit Signs Spanish	.
	Supp Activity	Halloween Candy	.	.	.
November	Lesson	Food and Culture	Food and Culture Visual	Internet, LCD Projector Screen or Promethean Board	Food and Culture Parent Handout . Food and Culture Parent Handout Spanish
	PE Activity	Playing with Food	..	One set Playing with Food Country Signs, 10 sets of Playing with Food Food Cards Color coded by set , Whistle, 6 hula hoops or mats	..
	Supp Activity	My Favorite Recipe	..	..	..
December	Lesson	Portion Distortion	Portion Distortion Visuals	.	Portion Distortion Parent Handout . Portion Distortion Parent Handout Spanish
	PE Activity	Four Square Switch	.	Extra large rubber balls, Medium rubber balls, Very small rubber balls, 4-square courts, Whistle	.
	Supp Activity	Plates and Portions	.	.	.
January	Lesson	Fast Food	Fast Food Visuals	Optional: Eat This, Not That for Kids	Fast Food Parent Handout . Fast Food Parent Handout Spanish
	PE Activity	Fit with Fast Food	..	..	..
	Supp Activity	Fast Food Menu	..	..	..
February	Lesson	Fitness is for Me	.	Pencil .Healthy Heart Log.Healthy Heart Log Spanish	Fitness is Fun – Especially when you do it together!!.Hacer Ejercicio es Divertido – Sobre Todo Cuando lo Hace en Familia!!
	PE Activity	Dance Party	.	Dance Party Handout.Dance Party Handout Spanish	.
	Supp Activity	Fitness Ideas	.	.	.
March	Lesson	Stress	Stress Visuals	Pencil, Stress Brainstorming Worksheet (in lesson)	Stress Management Parent Handout.Stress Management Parent Hanout Spanish
	PE Activity	Yoga Tag	..	..	..
	Supp Activity	..	..	..	..
April	Lesson	Ad Smart	Ad Smart Visuals	.	Ad Smart Parent HandoutAd Smart Parent Handout Spanish
	PE Activity	Bandwagon Tag	.	.	.
	Supp Activity	Ad Critic	.	.	.
May	Lesson	Public Service Announcement	..	..	..
	PE Activity	..	..	..	..
	Supp Activity	Share PSA	..	..	..