Nevada Pre-Kindergarten Standards

Content Standard 3.0: Self-management
Indicator HE=Health Examples: Children will/may... Supportive Practice: Practitioner/Adult will…
3.PK.1 Identify and express basic feelings (e.g., happy,
sad, angry, frightened, etc.).
3.PK.3 Identify potential hazards at home, school, and
community.etc.).
Physical Development
Share their feelings and are able to express
how they feel.
Understand the reasons behind
their feelings.
Describe safely issues that they need
to be aware of ( e.g., crossing the street,
touching hot surfaces).
Talk about and post a visual chart of safety
rules for the classroom.
Read and discuss books about fire safety,
traffic safety, and keeping safe from danger.
Take a walk around the neighborhood and
model safety rules.
Model and post visual charts of basic disease
prevention skills (e.g., hand washing).
Read and talk about germs and how
they spread.
Have children help with clean up routines.
Read books about community helpers and
talk about what they do.
Invite community helpers to visit your
classroom.
Put community helper dress up clothes and
props in the dramatic play area and outdoors.
Read and talk about what our bodies need
to be strong and healthy.
Sort pictures or make a graph of things
that we need and don’t need to be healthy
(e.g., food vs. video games).
Talk about air and how we need to breathe
clean air to be healthy.
Include water play indoors and out and talk
about how we need water to live.
Talk about feelings and have children
demonstrate the appropriate facial
expressions and body language.
Read books about expressing feelings,
then discuss them, and role play situations.
Sing songs that express emotions such
as “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”
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