February is Children’s Dental Health Month. This would be a good opportunity to find a source for free dental kits like Delta Dental’s Smile Kits. A Smile Kit includes a toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss in a reusable plastic pouch. Check your state’s Delta Dental website for information on ordering.  

iSOSY has some wonderful resources to support dental health and engage students in dental health awareness. Check out Bilingual Clip Sheets: Dental Health; A Healthy Mouth Life Skills Lesson and English for Daily Life - Your Health: A Healthy Mouth including 10 Ways to Kill a Toothache, What Causes Cavities, and Dental Vocabulary.

February is also National Hot Breakfast Month. Typically, people who skip breakfast are more likely to consume unhealthy foods and beverages and tend to overeat during the day.  Think about it...you have been asleep for 6 to 8 hours with nothing to eat. Breakfast provides that jump start we need to get our metabolism going and fuels the body with nutrients we may not get any other time during the day. Do you know where the food banks are in your communities? This site can help you. 

You can use iSOSY's English for Daily Life: Community Resources page to explain what community resources are and how to find them - including food banks. You can also tie in a lesson to the idea of nutrition by taking a closer look at grocery shopping with iSOSY's English for Daily Life: Grocery Stores & Shopping that includes helpful tools like flashcards of various grocery items. You could work with students to identify nutritious breakfast items with lessons that review Items in the Grocery, Healthy Shopping and Shopping the Perimeter. Students can engage interactively with these lessons using the Quizlet, Quia, and Ed Puzzle links.

Find even more helpful information to support National Hot Breakfast month:

6 Tips for a Better Breakfast

My Plate - School Breakfast (for those enrolled in school)



Finally, the third week of February is Random Acts of Kindness week.  

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation site contains kindness ideas for work, school, and home. You can find kindness quotes, stories, videos, and games to share. Additionally, the site has book lists, coloring pages, bookmarks, posters, and award certificates!

This is also great opportunity to review Relationship Building resources available on the iSOSY website. You will find useful materials on the Professional Learning page, in the OSY Relationship Building Manual and in several presentations in the Webinar Archives.

Challenge your colleagues and students to participate in random acts of kindness week and see what difference it can make.