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Murray & Bird - Children's Storybooks

The Murray & Bird storybooks support curriculum connections and teach health literacy in a fun and engaging way to encourage healthy behaviours in children. Each Murray & Bird storybook has a theme: the benefits of drinking water (Water Works!), encouraging outdoor play (Murray’s Outdoor Adventure) and school connectedness (The Search for the Missing Hat).

Each storybook has accompanying activities that support the Foundations for a Healthy School. Murray & Bird is part of a comprehensive strategy that includes having a variety of activities to use in the classroom, schoolwide and at home. When activities are done both in the school and at home, students see the messages as they live, learn and play.

 

Table of Contents

The Search for the Missing Hat

Murray's Outdoor Adventure

Water Works!

Curriculum Connections

  • FDK: OE4-Problem-solving skills, OE6-Health and well-being awareness, OE9-Literacy behaviours, OE28-Awareness of surroundings
  • Grade 1: Healthy Eating D1.1, D2.2; Personal Safety and Injury Prevention D1.2, D2.4; Mental Health Literacy D3.3
  • Grade 2: Healthy Eating D1.2, D2.2; Personal Safety and Injury Prevention D3.1; Mental Health Literacy D3.1
  • In addition to Physical and Health Education, the activities and stories link to Social Studies, Art, Science and Technology curricula 

Contact Us

To contact the School Health Team at the Middlesex-London Health Unit, please call 519-663-5317 ext. 9010 or email healthyschools@mlhu.on.ca. Share your experiences by tagging @ML_SchoolHealth on Twitter and Instagram!

 

Foundations for a Healthy School

Foundations for a Healthy School

Queen's Printer for Ontario, 2014. Reproduced with permission.

 

The Search for the Missing Hat

In The Search for the Missing Hat, Murray makes a new friend Sam. They work together to find Sam’s missing hat. Will they find it in time for Silly Hat day at school? See how Murray and his friends work together and meet their schools’ helpers along the way.

 

 

Murray and Bird: The Search for the Missing Hat

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A La Recherche Du Chapeau Perdu

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Murray's Outdoor Adventure

In Murray's Outdoor Adventure, see how Murray and his friends take a break from the television to head outside to explore the outdoors. The best part is how they discover a cool surprise along the way.

 

Murray's Outdoor Adventure

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L'aventure en plein air de Murray

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Water Works!

In Water Works!, Murray learns how to take care of his bean plant. In the process he discovers how important it is to drink water and eat vegetables and fruit to help him grow like the bean plant.

 

Water Works!

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La Magie de L'eau!

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Date of creation: March 25, 2014
Last modified on: October 17, 2023