Knowledge About Our Bodies

Daily Question: Do You Know What Your Cranium Is? The skull, bone enclosing your brain.

Name writing practice.

Toys: Play foods, phone, play kitchen, Potato Heads.

As the students came in, they hurried to the books laid out about our bodies and began to read! Instead of playing, we sat and read several books at the beginning of our day. We looked at the fascinating pictures in the Dr. Frankenstein Body Book (by DK), we read and acted out Eric Carle's Head to Toe, we read (and sort of understood with some explanation) Tedd Arnolds Parts and Even More Parts (about idioms).

Olivia's Mom reads to us.

Outside fun with cat Boo.

Creating our Kicking Karate letter K.

Olivia looked down at her pink and purple Kangaroo and said in awe, "Oh my. Mine is beautiful!" Later, she came up to me after comforting baby Eva and said, "I made her happy!" This made me smile because our class is looking out for one another and trying to help each other be happy.

Olivia practices moving her K the Kangaroo practices his karate kicks "k-k-k."

Snacks: Simply Fruit Leather, string cheese and pretzels, fruit snacks and animal crackers.


Arts and crafts Project: We worked on our Kicking Kangaroos art project. K is a Kangaroo who practices Karate and says "k-k-k" while kicking. This was a fun letter to work on because it used a brad and had moveable parts!


Silly Body and Turkey Songs:

• Tony Chest-Nut Knows I Love You (Point to your Toe/knee/chest/nut-brain/nose/eye Love You...)

• Hokey Pokey
  

• Tom Turkey

• Gobble Strut Strut by Janeen brady
  

Books About Our Bodies:
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
Hooray for Hands! (Begin Smart)Books for Smart Babies Fm Eighteen Months - Two Yrs
The Hair Book by Graham Tether, Ill. by Roy McKie
The Eye Book by Dr. Seuss (Theo LeSieg), Ill. by Joe Mathieu
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
The Tooth Book by Theo LeSieg (Dr. Seuss), Ill. by Joe Mathieu
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins, ill. by Eric Gurney
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff by Dr. Seuss
Giggle Belly (A Rookie Reader) by Page Sakelaris, Ill. by Richard L. Torrey
Dr. Frankensteins Human Body Book: The Monstrous Truth About How Your Body Works (DK)
Parts by Tedd Arnold
Even More Parts by Tedd Arnold
All About You (With Inspector McQ from World Craft--Childcraft)
Wonderful You! by Linda and Alan Parry
Ouch! How Your Body Makes it Through a Very Bad Day (DK--CD Rom)
The Human Body (Reader's Digest, Pathfinders, Large book).