Fitness & Health Education

Healthy Living Concepts for Early Childhood

Not a fitness guru? No worries! The Hatch Fit4You kit includes everything you need to incorporate health and fitness lessons into your curriculum. Designed by early learning experts, hundreds of activities and materials help preschool teachers nurture core skill development, while promoting a healthy lifestyle for children. From school-to-home activities, to lessons that span across all learning centers and outside the classroom, this kit will get your kids moving!

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Inside & Outside the Classroom

Encourage Activity & Promote Healthy Foods

Allow kids to engage in regular physical activity in Henry’s Fitness Gym or outside, and understand early health education activities during both free and structured play. Active games and fun games creating healthy menus are fun and easy. Fit4You provides all the counters, games, play food, books and CDs required to execute and plan with ease.

Fit4You includes a large collection of manipulatives including dumbbell, water bottle, gym bag, soccer ball, basketball, jump rope, numbers ball, exercise dice, healthy play food, fruit counters & more!

The Healthy Choice

Integrate Fitness & Health Across Every Center

We give you everything you need to create a single fitness learning center or to integrate fitness throughout existing interest areas. Activity plans are split into three core groups for indoor learning centers, outside fun, and school-to-home wellness activities.

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Meet Henry

Henry Hatch guides children through play-based exercises & activities, making Fit4You fun & engaging!

A Holistic Approach to Learning

Research-Based & Correlates to Standards

Fit4You activities are engaging, developmentally appropriate, based on research and correlate with NAEYC and Head Start standards. The program not only promotes fitness, but gives teachers the tools to encourage growth across all development areas including:

• nutrition awareness
• physical and motor skills
• cognitive
• social/emotional skills

The program is dedicated to developing the whole child—mind, body & emotion. Physical exercise is paired with language & literacy activities, library read aloud lessons, mathematics & more!

Jump into Fitness Fun!

Hatch early learning experts have woven gross and fine motor exercises with activities that promote early math, literacy and social/emotional development concepts.

Outside Activities

Play over & under, host a healthy foods relay race, body poetry lessons & more gross motor activities.

At-Home Activities

Start a book of the month club, family fitness check ups, play I spy healthy foods & more at-home activities.

Circle Time

Read books such as “Being Active,” discuss what to expect in the gym, introduce healthy foods & more group activities.

Writing & Literacy

Create healthy class books, food shopping lists, “write aloud” activities, learn the ABC’s of nutrition, read aloud activities & more ways to develop language skills.

Dramatic Play

Open a fitness gym in your dramatic play center with Welcome to the gym poster, workout posters and a variety of fitness equipment with fun ways for children to explore.

Math

Sort and count with healthy foods, go grocery shopping, add and subtract food sets & number ball games & more.

Teacher Tips & Guides

Includes Step-By-Step Instructions

From ideas for opening the new learning center gym, to integrating activities into existing curriculum, Fit4You takes away the guesswork and makes planning easy. The program includes:

• Step-by-step instructions for every activity
• Read Aloud Labels with conversation guides
• Activity assessment suggestions
• Extension activities ideas and instructions
• Easy-to-follow correlations to NAEYC & Head Start Framework

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Designed to Last for Years

Fit4You is Durable & Created by Experts

In addition to writing activities, Hatch experts design materials and select quality products to last for years in the early childhood classroom, so teachers can really get a lot of use out of their investment. The lesson plans provide ideas that make great use of all included manipulatives, books, CDs and games. Extension activities provide even more ways for teachers to help children learn more advanced concepts as they master early knowledge.

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