EHS The Human Body

Changes to Environment

Doctor kit X-Rays Skeleton Poster Poster of Human Body People Puzzles People Stamps Pictures of a foot, hand, leg, head, etc Ruler Playdough Human body file folder game Books about the human body Water Table: x-rays, magnifying glasses, plastic child tweezers, etc Sensory Table: multicultural colored sand, ruler, pictures of body parts, etc 

Teaching Concepts for Indoor Experiences

1. Look at pictures of healthy exercises and talk about the importance of exercising and how good it is for your body. 2. Look at pictures of healthy foods and talk about the importance of eating healthy. 3. Self Portrait 4. Stamp paper with people stamps. 5. Examine xrays using a magnifying glass 6. Make a person using playdough 7. Mix and match parts of the face

8. Haircut (allow children to glue crinkle paper onto a pre-drawn face or a face that they drew, then practice cutting the crinkle paper to give the person a "haircut")

9. Look in the mirror, make faces, look at parts of the face point and name them

10. Modeling with Playdough

Get kids to make fun 3-D figures of bodies. Show them how to take pieces of dough and roll them to make limbs, or into a round ball for a head.

They can also form large, flatter models of faces with the appropriate features affixed.

11. Sorting Body Parts

Children cut/tear out pictures of various body parts from magazines.

They can then glue them into pre-set categories (heads, arms, hands, legs, feet, etc.) on a large, labelled sheet of paper to form a collage.

Teaching Concepts for Outdoor Experiences

1. Roll/throw the ball and talk about what body parts you use. 2. Jumping Jacks (stretching for babies). 3. Walk, crawl, hop on foot prints cut out of construction paper. 4. Play Simon Says (assist babies) 5. Crawl under and over 6. Tissue dance (Have everyone put a tissue on their head before you play any music. Then start the music and begin dancing, but don’t let the tissue hit the ground. If the tissue starts to fall, allow your little ones to catch the tissue and put it back on your head.) ​

Teaching Concepts for Music Movement Wellness IMIL

1. This is my Body-Choosy 2. Show Me If You Can (tune: In and Out the Window) Where is your finger? Where is your finger? Where is your finger? Show me if you can. Good, now where’s your nose? Now, where is your nose? Now, where is your nose? Show me if you can. (Continue singing song using other body parts) 3. Touch I’ll touch my hair, my lips, my eyes I’ll sit up straight and then I’ll rise I’ll touch my ears, my nose, my chin Then I’ll quietly sit down again. 4. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes 5. Hokey Pokey 6. Scrub A Dub-Dub Song (tune: The Mulberry Bush) This is the way we scrub our hands, Scrub our hands, scrub our hands, This is the way we scrub our hands, So early in the morning. This is the way we scrub our faces Scrub our faces, scrub our faces, This is the way we scrub our faces So early in the morning. This is the way we scrub our elbows, Scrub our elbows, scrub our elbows, This is the way we scrub our elbows, So early in the morning. This is the way we scrub our stomachs Scrub our stomachs, scrub our stomachs, This is the way we scrub our stomachs, So early in the morning. (Continue singing using other body parts) 7. Parts That Bend (tune: B-I-N-G-O) My arms have parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand And this is how I move them! My legs have parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Knee, ankle, heel and foot Knee, ankle, heel and foot Knee, ankle, heel and foot And this is how I move them! My trunk has parts that bend and move Every time I use them Neck, back, waist and hips Neck, back, waist and hips Neck, back, waist and hips And this is how I move them! I’m made of parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand Knee, ankle, heel and foot Neck, back, waist and hips And this is how I use them! 8. If You’re Happy and You Know It 9. Swing your Arms Swing, swing, swing your arms Swing them just like this Swing, swing, swing your arms Swing them both and stop. March, march, march your feet March them just like this March, march, march your feet March them now and stop. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle your fingers Wiggle them just like this Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle your fingers Wiggle then make them stop. 10. Do Your Ears Hang Low? 11. Washing We’re gonna wash that dirt right Off of our hands, We’re gonna wash that dirt right Off of our hands, We’re gonna wash that dirt right Off of our hands, And send it on its way. (reapeat with…..off of our face……..out of our hair…,etc)

Teaching Concepts for Fingerplays

1. Ten Little Fingers I have ten little fingers, And they all belong to me. I can make them do things Would you like to see? I can shut them up tight, Or open them wide. I can put them together, Or make them all hide. I can make them jump high, I can make them jump low, I can fold them up quietly, And hold them just so. 2. Eye Winker Eye Winker (point to eyes) Tom Tinker (point to ears) Nose Smeller (point to nose) Mouth Eater (point to mouth) Chin Chopper (tap chin) Chin Chopper, Chin Chopper, Chin Chopper, Chin. 3. Touch Your Nose Touch your nose, Touch your chin, That’s the way this game begins. Touch your eyes, Touch your knees, Now pretend to sneeze. Touch your hair, Touch your ear, Touch your two lips right here. Touch your elbows, Where they bend, That’s the way this touch game ends. 4. Where is Thumbkin? 5. Point to the Right  Point to the right of me Point to the left of me Point up above me Point down below Right, left, up (increase speed in pointing) And down so slow. 6. This Little Piggy 7. Couch Potato Pokey (by Dr. Jean) You put your thumbs in, you take your thumbs out. You put your thumbs in and you wiggle them all about. You do the Couch Potato Pokey and roll your arms around. That’s (tap knees) what it’s all (clap) about. (snap) (Continue the same with) You put your noses in… You put your elbows in… You put your chins in… You put your pinkes in, you take your pinkies out. You put your pinkies in and you wiggle them all about. Give a micro-wave with your pinkies (that’s a tiny wave) and say good-bye today. Cause that’s all we’re going to play. 8. I’ve Got A Body Words I’ve Got a body, a very busy body, And it goes everywhere with me! And on my body, I’ve got some hands, And they go everywhere with me! With a clap, clap here, clap, clap there, Clap, clap , clap , clap everywhere! I’ve got a body, a very busy body, And it goes everywhere with me!  (repeat with stamping feet, nodding head, clicking tongue, ssshhing lips, blinking eyes etc.)