
Welcome to Our Nourishing Nuggets Homeschool Health and Fitness Curriculum
What are your family’s favorite foods? Do they include pizza, chocolate, and fried chicken? When your students (or family!) proceed through the sixteen weeks of Nourishing Nuggets, they will learn what human bodies need to receive through their food and drink—and they will learn how to make decisions to ensure that those nutrients are a part of their diet. Through reading, activities, modeled interactions, and more, your students will learn how to feed their bodies for top performance!
Getting Started with Our Nourishing Nuggets Homeschool Health and Fitness Course
The Nourishing Nuggets homeschool health and fitness course by Wendy Stoller is for the entire family. Lessons explore the basics of nutrition, such as macro- and micronutrients, moving into food choices for various meals and snacks throughout the day. Many teaching tips and suggestions are given to help the homeschool parent lead their family on a mission to make healthier meal plans and choices together.
Overview
- 16 weeks, 2 days a week
- Includes text-based lessons and activities
- Grades Family
Supplies Needed
Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking and research
What to Do
Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and the first lesson. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.
Course Sample for Our Nourishing Nuggets Homeschool Health and Fitness Course
Nourishing Nuggets Introduction/”Let Your Food Be Your Medicine”
Welcome to Nourishing Nuggets! I am so thankful you have decided to join us! There seems to be no end to the number of books written annually about what is truly healthy. It is no secret that many of them conflict. One can easily become discouraged and give up all together!! I have been tempted to! While Nourishing Nuggets is not intended to be a comprehensive course, it is designed to give you small Nuggets introducing some of the basic concepts of health!
During our busy homeschool days it is sometimes difficult to fit “Health” into our already numerous subjects! Perhaps if like me, you have tried to find a good health course and found that after a few taxing workbook pages yet another workbook tossed, never completed due to its ill fit! It is my hope that Nourishing Nuggets will deliver you brief, yet helpful lessons in health that you can use with any type of home educating style.
I intend to introduce topics and provide information in a manner that will give you a good foundation to pursue further, should you or your children choose to do so. I am writing from a Biblical perspective and hope to present a balanced view without taking you down a path into any extreme recommendations! Thank you so much for joining me and if you have questions or comments feel free to e-mail them to me [wstoller@msn.com]! Please place Nourishing Nuggets Question/Comment in the subject line for easy identification. I hope to include a Q & A and answer as much as I am able in one of the later lessons!! I want this to be helpful to you!
The writer of Ecclesiastes says, “Of making many books there is no end and much study wearies the body! (Ecc 12:12)” This could be written on the subject of health specifically, I think we could all agree! So what is truly healthy – what is the best way to feed our families to promote health and create strong immune systems? What then should we eat -one might ask after seeing the plethora of angles from which various authors encourage you to build your menus. I hope to instead give you keys that you can use to unlock areas of nutritional study. After which YOU might to make those choices based on your own individual needs vs someone else’s wide brushed opinion! God created each person differently. Just as you use discipline for your children but it may vary according to their needs or the particular situation, so does health. Your path to maintain health may meander through different options based on particular deficiencies, stress, age, or even seasons of your life. I hope to give you the keys to apply some basic overall principles -and yet tailor your health choices to fit your individual family. Let’s learn to be aware of what some of our health needs entail.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates. This is the main premise from which I will write. We will first discuss the building blocks of food – I will go over what makes up our foods, I will discuss each block. I will make it practical and share a few of our favorite recipes. Not for you to copy our format but to give you ideas, and as a spring board to develop your own. I’ll spend a chapter on supplementation and explore its value. Prevalence of food allergies also affects our diet and need to be explored. Perhaps you may not deal with these – but you have a friend that does and would love to bless her – I duly note this and hope to include some recipes and links here to assist you. Each chapter is intended to be read aloud and discussed with your children, so there should be little prep in this lesson for you! Let’s keep this easy! Some lessons include a simple attention hook and so take time to pre-read for easy prep. All additional activities, research, recipes, and application can be done throughout your day and incorporated into meals, family discussions, grocery shopping, etc. to help learning flow throughout the day! Discuss the ideas with your children, bring them up during meals – ponder them aloud during outings. When the children help own the ideas and understand they will embrace the needed changes more readily. Let’s build our family where health isn’t a subject that we check off our list but instead an approach that we weave throughout our daily journey.
Let your food be your medicine – ponder this extensively. A gentleman long ago observed this, long before what we call modern science existed. My challenge (weekly nugget!) for you in these next two weeks is this; as you plan your menus or grab a snack stop and think – is this building my body nutritionally! Challenge your children with this. Is this the most nutritious option I have available to me? If I can grab an apple instead of a bag of chips – which is healthier for me? Stop by a local food stand and have your kids each pick up an interesting home grown treat to eat in the following days. We recently purchased apples freshly picked by a local Mennonite family. All the children grabbed one as we pulled out of their drive. My daughter confidently proclaimed after only a few bites, “This is the best apple I have EVER eaten!” Fresh does taste better! Consider what crosses your lips – the first step towards making changes that will help us all build healthier families for greater service to our Lord! Make better choices more readily available in a bowl on your counter or at eye level shelf in your fridge.
Again, I welcome you to Nourishing Nuggets and hope you enjoy our journey! Blessings to you and your crew. I must close with some housekeeping notes. So, a gentle reminder that: Nothing in this course is intended as medical advice or to replace the treatment or recommendations of your doctor or other health professional. Please consult your doctor for any health or medical related questions concerns you may have.
Course Outline for Our Nourishing Nuggets Homeschool Health and Fitness Course
- Lesson One: Introduction
- Lesson Two: Building Blocks of Food
- Lesson Three: Macro-Nutrients
- Lesson Four: Micro-Nutrients
- Lesson Five: Wrap-Up
- Lesson Six: Applying the Use of Whole Foods
- Lesson Seven: What We Drink
- Lesson Eight: Snacks
- Lesson Nine: Side Dishes
- Lesson Ten: Our Grains
- Lesson Eleven: Proteins
- Lesson Twelve: Our Sweets and Desserts
- Lesson Thirteen: Living the Whole Food Life with Allergies
- Lesson Fourteen: Supplementation
- Lesson Fifteen: Putting it All Together – Menu Planning and Balance
- Lesson Sixteen: Conclusion
More About Our Nourishing Nuggets Homeschool Health and Fitness Course
Welcome to the Nourishing Nuggets homeschool health and fitness course for the entire family! There seems to be no end to the number of books written annually about what is truly healthy. It is no secret that many of them conflict. One can easily become discouraged and give up altogether. While Nourishing Nuggets is not intended to be a comprehensive health course, it is designed to give homeschool families small nuggets of important information about some of the basic concepts of health.
During busy homeschool days it is sometimes difficult to fit “health” into the list of subjects to cover. Parents may have tried to find a good health course and never completed one due to its ill fit. Wendy Stoller designed Nourishing Nuggets to deliver brief, yet helpful lessons in health that homeschool families can use with any type of home educating style.
Topics and information are presented in a manner that can give families a good foundation to pursue further, should they choose to do so. Written from a Biblical perspective with a balanced view, lessons won’t take students down a path into any extreme recommendations.
Or, go straight to the lesson plan or course lessons.
Nourishing Nuggets
Length: 16 Weeks
Includes: Printable Lessons
Age: Family

Wendy Stoller
Lesson Designer
Wendy Stoller grew up in Colombia, South America, as the child of a missionary and was…
Quick Start
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