Introduction

Hi,

My name is Katie Brooks. I’m a senior at Bridgewater State and majoring in Early Childhood Education and Care with a minor in childhood studies. This has ways been my passion since I was a child to work with young child to expand their learning and skills in life. I have worked as babysitter since the age of 14 and still do it but now as a nanny and I also work at a daycare as a teacher for over three years now.

 I have one more year here at Bridgewater with my major and minor has enough credits to graduate but found out not that long ago that I’m 6 credits shy for credits. From this happening I have to do free electives. I choose this course as one of the electives because I thought it was interesting to learn more about health and wellness for myself and to educate my family members or even the young children I work with. This is my first summer course that’s online so I will take me some time to get use to this because its much more different from being in class.

I hope to learn from this course is to educate myself in more information on health and wellness of eating health and exercise. My health aspect I’m choosing for this course is to eat healthier and important of exercise on a daily base. I want to work on these for myself to better my health. I do like to eat health meals and snacks like salad, and fruit for example but there are times I go out and eat everything and anything. One thing is that there are certain foods that are healthy that I don’t like or haven’t even tried I would like to try new foods that are healthy for your body.

The other one is how important exercise is for your body. I work out at the gym now but I’m not liking it anymore because I don’t think it’s doing anything for me so I’m trying out a cardio sport workout for a different workout to better my life. With these health aspects I would include them into my work with the young child by teaching the child which foods are healthier and getting them outside more to exercise more often.