The children in the Orchard room have been learning about the human body. The children had been talking about their bodies and taking turns to share their knowledge on the different parts of their bodies. We began by getting one of our peers to lie down on paper so we could draw around them. This would be the shape for our body. We then took turns to say what we had on our faces and draw it into our paper body.
“Eyes.”
“Nose.”
“ Ears.”
“ We wear clothes on our bodies.”
From this activity we moved on to have a look at what was inside our bodies. We used a doll to explore this area.
“We have a heart.”
“What helps us to think?”
“Our brain.”
The children decided they would like to build a skeleton using our body jigsaw puzzle.
“We need a head.”
“The body is next.”
“ The hips go onto the body.”
We can’t wait to expand on this topic and do more activities about our body.
