Prussian-Obel
Wellheim
Klaro, the mascot of the class 2000 program, is also helping this year with health promotion and addiction and violence prevention in primary schools. The children learn the basics of a healthy life.
This includes not only healthy eating, exercise and relaxation, but also social aspects such as one’s own feelings, friendships, dealing with stress, resolving conflicts and critical thinking are the focus. The project at the Wellheim primary school is supported by the Audi BKK, which the former parents’ spokesman Michael Hartlieb was able to win as a sponsor last year.
When Class 2000 advisor Elfriede Huber visited again, before the lockdown, the third class repeated the topics from the previous year and then dealt with avoiding unpleasant feelings such as anger and fear in everyday life.
With the help of the clear traffic light – red means “stop!”, Yellow stands for “thinking”, green means “acting” – the children discussed a story of an argument and were also asked about their own feelings during an argument. Huber encouraged her to question how conflicts arise in certain situations and what options there are to resolve them.
Prussian-Obel
Wellheim
In the second grade, the topic of nutrition was on the program. Together with their teacher Beate Regulator, the pupils had designed posters with healthy food and lunch boxes full of fruit, vegetables and sandwiches they had in their own time.
“Why should I eat vegetables anyway?” Asked Regulator. The children already knew some of the answers. The teacher added that vegetables contain important nutrients and vitamins that the body urgently needs.
Nutritionist Elfriede Huber had brought her own “Klara”, a Klaro doll made by the students. Huber supported Huber in various experiments, for example with the question of how air actually gets into the body. The children were able to consciously feel the difference between breathing at rest and when they were exerting themselves.
Subsequently, the path of food in and through the body was carefully examined. “The teeth are like a chopper,” said one child. Huber discussed the role of the esophagus, the stomach and the intestine and answered the question of where the nutrients go: “These are transported via the blood and distributed throughout the body.” In this vivid lesson, the children were able to find the path of food to get to know. “You will learn a lot of things you can do to stay healthy,” Huber promised the second graders. She will visit the class again later this school year. EK
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