Health & WELLNESS
Disclaimer: Please take the necessary steps in completing these exercises safely by doing a proper warm-up and cool down and drink water before any vigorous activity to prevent injury. If the activity becomes to difficult please stop immediately and have an adult help you.
Check out the Health & Wellness Website of the Week below (scroll to the bottom)!
What is mental health? A breakdown of the basics of mental health.
Government of Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/about-mental-health.html#a1
There is FREE book that explains CoronaVirus to young children. It is drawn by the illustrator of The Gruffalo books. Here is the article and a link to the book and other resources can be found at the bottom of the article.
SickKids - Mental Health resources for parents and teachers
https://www.sickkidscmh.ca/ABC/Welcome
Youth Zone
This Toronto based website offers information and resources for youth that provide insight, tips and suggestions on how to cope with mental illness and enjoy success in school and in life.
https://toronto.cmha.ca/youth-zone/
Students that may have questions or need assistance
TDSB website with resources to help cope during this time
https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Remote-Learning/Resources-During-Covid-19
Mindfulness videos and activities for students and teachers
https://positivepsychology.com/mindfulness-for-children-kids-activities/
A great collection of Multimedia Mindfulness materials for students and teachers!
ABC's of Health - Sick Kids Parent and Teacher Resource to Mental Health. - check out the teacher resource.
https://www.sickkidscmh.ca/ABC/Welcome
*Great mindfulness video JUST BREATHE presented by students and other Multi Media materials/activities for teachers
https://positivepsychology.com/mindfulness-for-children-kids-activities/
This animated video is great for when we are back in the classroom and sitting at their desks!!!
As you can imagine there are many great ones on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0S54yAgEg
Free Yoga Videos for you Teachers and Parents!
https://www.youtube.com/user/lesleyfightmaster
Parents! (and students) Free Yoga classes via YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/lesleyfightmaster
Cosmic Kids Yoga through movies! Great for your mental health as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxg1Sp4Q0g
Health benefits for children and teenagers poster
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152302810@N07/37681977436
5 Mindfulness Exercises for Kids brought to you by Cosmic Kids and other wonderful website with great videos on mindfulness fo for you to try!
NEW! PrevNet - Canada's authority on bullying
NEW! Social network safety/resources for students and parents
https://mediasmarts.ca/category/categories/social-networking
NEW! CYBERBULLYING RESEARCH CENTRE - excellent resource for parents, students and teachers
NEW! Parents guide to social media platforms like Tik Tok
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/parents-ultimate-guide-to-tiktok
Video - What is cyberbullying?
https://learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=266336&xtid=71480
Cyber safe. From the Government of Canada.
Quick healthy food recipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzJsUW4xV7k
Recipes around the world
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/86/world-cuisine/
Canada's food Guide. Great for meal preparation and of course making healthy choices!
67 kids recipes! Come on kids we know you can cook!
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/kids-cooking
Want to know the nutritional value of a food or foods?
Check out https://www.healthline.com/
A guide to Canada's new food guide!
Below are healthy eating quizzes students AND parents can do!
Brought to you by the Dieticians of Canada
resource of the week!
This is great break down of Canada's Food Guide. It's making me hungry already. Happy healthy eating!