1. Growing Up Fit Together for 1st grade
Lesson 4
Growing Up Fit Together for 1st grade

2. Our Heart What is this a picture of ?
It is a heart. Do you think this is what our heart really looks like?

3. Our Heart This is what our heart really looks like.
Your heart is the most important muscle in your body. Without it you would not be alive.
Your heart is the size of your fist. Can everyone make a fist?

4. Involuntary Muscle Our heart is an involuntary muscles.
This means that you do not have to think in order to move this muscle.
We talked about these types of muscles in the last lesson.

5. Our Heart Our heart pumps blood throughout our entire body.
You can find your heart by placing your hand in the middle of your chest.
Can you feel it beating? .

6. Heart Healthy Rules Eat a variety of healthy foods.
Be active and move!! Exercise for at least 60 minutes a day.
Breathe smoke free air and don’t smoke.

7. Finding Your Pulse
Take two fingers (pointer and middle finger) and put it on your chin.
Slide your finger down until you feel a bump in the middle of your neck.
Now slide your fingers towards your ears.
You should feel little beats on your fingers. This is your pulse.

8. Try This!!! Follow the movements Push Pull Bend Turn Right, Turn Left
March in place
Stretch to the sky
Twist
Reach high, Reach low

9. Newsletters
Be sure to take the newsletter home and share it with your parents and family.