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Deer Park Pre-K Students Get Creative with Heart Health
Abraham Lincoln School students design hearts for sock snowmen and learn how heart rates change with activity.
Pre-kindergartners at Abraham Lincoln School in Deer Park recently participated in a workshop called “You Gotta Have Heart.”
The program focused on heart health and was inspired by Steven Kellogg’s “Mystery of Missing Mitten,” a book the students read that tells a tale of a young girl, her favorite mitten and a snowman’s heart.
“Teachers read a story to students about a lost mitten, and we incorporated that literacy lesson into a seasonal activity,” Abraham Lincoln Principal Dr. Christine Criscione said. “In addition, students completed exercises that taught them about their heart rate while working with a family member.”
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Students created their own snowman out of a sock and designed a heart for him. Students also listened to the rhythmic beats of their heart and their adult helper’s heart using a stethoscope and then completed an aerobic activity to track how their heartbeats change after activity.
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