Unit 1: Look Out! We Are Careful Kids

• Careless and careful behavior

• Predicting consequences of actions

• Being responsible

• Rules of safe play

• Safe and unsafe fire prevention routines

• Community Safety Helpers

• Knowing Name, Address and Phone Numbers

Unit 2:Head To Toe

• Identifying body parts and functions: heart, lungs, liver, teeth, five senses, brain, skin, ears, mouth, blood, stomach, and intestines.

• Safety routines to protect the body

• Heeding body signals

• Talking and listening

• Speaking and hearing problems

• Special Qualities of Individuals

• Respecting differences

Unit 3: Why Do We Eat?

• Role of food

• Effects of healthful and unhealthful food

• Setting dietary goals

• Decision-making steps for healthy meals

• How foods turn into energy

• Learning about digestion

• Food handling methods

• Food groups

• Influence of culture and family

Unit 4: All About Medicines

• What is a medicine versus what is not a medicine

• Dangers of taking others’ medicines

• Candy versus chewable medicines

• Appropriate adults to give medicine

• Saying “no” to those not allowed to give medicine

• Consequences of taking medicine not prescribed to you

• How medicine helps the body

• Caring for someone who is ill

• Medicines as drugs

• Safe places to keep medicines

Unit 5: Talk and Listen

• Body parts that help us talk and hear

• Respecting people with hearing and seeing problems

• Taking care of your ears

• What is communication?

• Good communication skill (good listening)

• Ways to communicate

• Respect for a variety of languages to communicate

• Differences in how you talk when you are happy, sad, mad, etc.

• Talking/sharing feelings with people you trust

Unit 6: Happy, Sad and In-Between

• Identify a variety of feelings

• Paying attention to the feelings of others

• Recognizing emotions

• Identifying opposite emotions (happy versus sad)

• Talking to someone about your problems and how it helps

• Showing appreciation to those trusted individuals

• Situations that may evoke anger

• How to deal with anger

• Thinking before acting when you are mad

• Talking things out

• Meaning of the word private

• Identify private body parts

• Personal safety skills for risky situations

• Telling and yelling when someone doesn’t respect privacy

• Safe, unsafe and confusing touches

Unit 7:Drugs Are Trouble

• Meaning of word drug and substances that are drugs

• Importance of rules and laws related to drugs

• How to use rules to decide if something is safe to eat or drink

• What are tobacco and nicotine

• Community helpers who try and uphold the laws and rules for drugs

• Keeping your lungs healthy

• Advertisements about smoking (pro- and con-)

• Why alcohol is a drug

• What alcohol does to your body

• Why people drink alcohol

• Responding when someone “dares” you

• What happens when you don’t use good refusal skills

• Pride in saying “no”

• Help to keep community safe and healthy