Topic 7 DQ 2
Healthy habits are fostered both in the home and in the classroom. How do you plan to encourage family involvement in active, healthy lifestyles? Provide an example.
I think think a great way to involve parents is to send news letters home. The letters allow parents to see what their child is learning along with what goals you are wanting them to reach.
Keeping parents informed about the goings-on in their child's week creates an additional level of connection between the parent and the school (Giblett, 2020). As the teacher you can add activities for them to do such as make a healthy meal together, talk about and plan a physical activity to do together at home and give parents links, and other tools to help talk about it at home. If you give your students time to share about it they will often go home more excited to do these activities so they can share with their peers.
