Kindergarten Health Mississippi Standards

Identify positive and negative ways to get attention.

Demonstrate ability to work in group settings without interfering with others.

Identify ways families meet the needs and wants of each family member.

Identify healthy activity choices.

Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Explain how childhood injuries and illnesses can be prevented or treated.

Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health.

Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Identify characteristics of a friend.

Explain how to set personal health goals and track progress toward achievement.

Identify characteristics of a healthy home and community.

Describe the functions of the five senses.

Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Recognize health services in the community that promote health and safety (e.g., firefighter, sanitation worker, police officer, paramedic).

Demonstrate healthy behavior in daily activities.

Describe relationships between personal health behaviors and individual well-being.

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Identify healthy foods to include snacks and drinks.

Recognize strangers and how to respond.

Understand the differences among peers and how they relate to culture.

Understand procedures in the case of an emergency.

Define germs and list methods of protection from illness.

Identify healthy helpers in the community.

Identify the food groups of the Choose My Plate.

Explain healthy ways to express feelings.

Demonstrate the ability to access valid health information and products and services to enhance health.

Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.