Nursery World - 3: Body bits

ADULT-LED Develop children's understanding of our internal organs.

Develop children's understanding of our internal organs.

Planned learning intention

To identify the features of living things and human beings

Resources

Lengths of paper large enough for a child to lie on, Nursery Topics poster, small caption-sized slips of card or paper, drawing and writing materials.

Step by step

* In small groups, refer to the Nursery Topics poster and name the different parts of the body. Encourage children who speak a first language other than English to name them in their home language and a monolingual practitioner can learn from them.

* Ask one of the children to lie on the paper and draw round them. Ask the group to add eyes, hair, etc.

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