Kindergarten Health North Carolina standards Standards

Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, and other Drugs

Nutrition and Physical Activity

Interpersonal Communications and Healthy Relationships

Personal and Consumer Health

Mental and Emotional Health

Understand household safety procedures for products and medicines with adult supervision.

Explain what is likely to happen if harmful household products are ingested or inhaled.

Recognize that some medications look like candy.

Identify a parent, guardian, or trusted adult and professionals who can be trusted to provide safety information about household products and medicines.

Use appropriate strategies to access help when needed in emergencies involving household products and medicines.

Recognize healthy and effective interpersonal communication and relationships.

Explain reasons for sharing.

Recognize that all people have inherent value and dignity regardless of differences.

Give examples of protective behaviors to use when approached by someone who you don't know or someone who makes you feel unsafe

Recognize bullying, teasing, and aggressive behaviors and how to respond.

Remember the association of healthy expression of emotions, mental health, and healthy behavior.

Identify a variety of feelings that people experience and ways of expressing them.

Demonstrate personal responsibilities for actions and possessions.

Identify that effort and practice lead to improved skills.

Remember that mistakes are important for learning.

Remember that practice is needed to improve performance.

Identify sources of food and water and their importance to the body.

Recognize that food gives us energy.

Identify that fruits and vegetables come from plants.

State the importance of physical activity for the body.

List ways to be physically active.

Demonstrate age-appropriate personal behaviors that promote health and prevent disease.

Identify that healthy behaviors impact personal health.

Use steps of correct hand washing at appropriate times throughout the day.

Model proper tooth brushing techniques.

Explain rationale for not sharing hygiene products (combs, brushes, toothbrushes).

Select and use appropriate clothing according to the weather.

Understand necessary steps to prevent and respond to unintentional injury.

Recognize the meanings of traffic signs and safe practices for being a pedestrian and bicyclist.

Explain the benefits of safety equipment including seat belts, booster seats, helmets, mouth guards, shin guards, and flotation devices.

Illustrate how to get help in an emergency.

Identify appropriate responses to warning signs, sounds, and labels.