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B. Active Living
Overall Expectations
By the end of Grade 1, students will:B1. Active Participation
participate actively and regularly in a wide variety of physical activities, and demonstrate an understanding of how physical activity can be incorporated into their daily lives;
B2. Physical Fitness
demonstrate an understanding of the importance of being physically active, and apply physical fitness concepts and practices that contribute to healthy, active living;
C. Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts, and Strategies
Overall Expectations
By the end of Grade 1, students will:C1. Movement Skills and Concepts
perform movement skills, demonstrating an understanding of the basic requirements of the skills and applying movement concepts as appropriate, as they engage in a variety of physical activities;
C2. Movement Strategies
apply movement strategies appropriately, demonstrating an understanding of the components of a variety of physical activities, in order to enhance their ability to participate successfully in those activities.
D. Healthy Living
Instruction should focus on the overall expectation (D1, D2, D3 in the chart below) and should, where possible, be planned to illustrate connections across topics (listed in column 1) in an integrated way. The chart provides a brief summary of topics to support learning about health concepts, making healthy choices, and making connections for healthy living.
HEALTHY LIVING LEARNING SUMMARY BY TOPIC FOR GRADE 1
Topic D1. Understanding Health Concepts D2. Making
Healthy ChoicesD3. Making Connections
for Healthy LivingHealthy Eating D1.1 Food for healthy bodies and minds D2.1 Canada’s Food Guide
D2.2 Hunger and thirst cuesPersonal Safety and Injury
PreventionD1.2 Safe practices –
personal safetyD2.3 Caring and exploitative
behaviours and feelings
D2.4 Safety at schoolD3.1 Potential risks at home, in the community, outdoors Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours D3.2 Unhealthy habits,
healthy alternativesHuman Development
and Sexual HealthD1.3 Body parts
D1.4 Senses and functionsD2.5 Hygienic procedures Mental Health Literacy D1.5 Mental health and
overall healthD3.3 Thoughts, emotions,
actionsOverall Expectations
By the end of Grade 1, students will:D2. Making Healthy Choices
demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and social-emotional learning skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions relating to their personal health and well-being;
D3. Making Connections for Healthy Living
demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being – how their choices and behaviours affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and well-being.
A. Social-Emotional Learning Skills Link
This strand focuses on the development of students' social-emotional learning skills to foster their overall health and well-being, positive mental health, and ability to learn, build resilience, and thrive. In all grades of the health and physical education program, the learning related to this strand takes place in the context of learning related to the Active Living, Movement Competence, and Healthy Living strands, and it should be assessed and evaluated within these contexts.
Overall Expectations
A1. Social-Emotional Learning Skills Link
apply, to the best of their ability, a range of social-emotional learning skills as they acquire knowledge and skills in connection with the expectations in the Active Living, Movement Competence, and Healthy Living strands for this grade.