Mealtime Manners, Yes or No?

Use the pages around a real meal or snack: wash a piece of fruit together, or count the colors on your child's plate. Ask about hungry and full at the start and end of a meal. Let your child help pack a real lunch after drawing one.

Six mealtime pages for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Children choose water or milk from each pair of drinks, plan and draw a healthy lunchbox, tell hungry from full, and spot good mealtime manners. They also put the steps for washing fruit in order and count the colors on a rainbow tray of food. Five pages have an answer key. For food groups, healthy foods and fruits and vegetables, use the Kindergarten Food and Nutrition worksheets.

Yes, both. We made it for Kindergarten health and safety, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with healthy habits at mealtime. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Eating fruits and vegetables of many colors, like red strawberries, orange carrots and green peas. The rainbow tray page has children count the colors on a plate of food.

Ask before and during a meal how their tummy feels, and let them stop when they say full. The hungry or full page shows children in both states so they can name the feeling.

Most kindergarten health lessons cover washing hands and brushing teeth, covering coughs and sneezes, safety at home and on the street, getting enough sleep, staying active and making healthy food choices. These worksheets group them into five sets: hygiene and handwashing, safety, sleep, exercise and healthy habits at mealtime.

Show the steps in order: wet your hands, add soap, scrub the front, back and between your fingers, rinse and dry. Many families sing a short song while scrubbing so children keep going long enough. The handwashing steps cut and paste page lets children put the steps in order themselves, which helps them remember the routine at the sink.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends 10 to 13 hours in every 24 hours, naps included, for children ages 3 to 5, and 9 to 12 hours for ages 6 to 12. A steady bedtime routine helps most. The sleep pages have children put a bedtime routine in order, sort day and night activities and count the hours between a bedtime clock and a wake-up clock.

They cover healthy habits at mealtime: choosing water or milk, packing a healthy lunchbox, listening for hungry or full, mealtime manners and washing fruit. For food groups, healthy foods and fruits and vegetables, use the Kindergarten Food and Nutrition worksheets, which pair well with these pages.