My body Friday

 

Theme:	My body
Date:	Friday
	Description:	Aim:
Greetings	News Weather chart
Theme discussion	Privacy of my body NO ONE is allowed to touch my private parts. The parts that my swimwear cover. If it happens I MUST TELL my teacher or mommy. May I undress myself in front of other people?NO Only at the doctor,my mother… Everyone says together: It is MY body.	My body is private
Literacy	Clap the name of the person next to you. Teacher points to a body part and the learners need to say what each body part is. Things that interest you and me.	Listening skills
Numeracy	Mental maths Flashcards from 1-20 Data handling: sort beads etc into groups.	Develop mental skills
Play outside	I wrote a letter to my friend game (vroteier)	Gross motor
Creative	Play dough/ Free play
Play outside
Music/Drama	Teacher says a sentence,learners repeat the sentence and act it out. We lay in our beds fast asleep. Up we wake and stretch our arms. We get up and get dressed. We eat our breakfast. We brush our teeth We brush our hair Off to school.	Learn new song and the school concert
Home time
Other/ Materials needed

 

 

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My body Thursday

Theme:	My body
Date:	Thursday
	Description:	Aim:
8:30-8:50	News Weather chart
8:50-9:10	How do I look after my body? Your body works for you you must keep it hygienic. Bath/shower every day Wash my hair Brush my teeth Wash my hands regularly (after I eat, toilet use) Eat healthy food. Exercise	Learn how to look after your body
9:10-9:30	Auditory discrimination Hide your mouth behind a paper. Say two words that sound the same. Learners must listen and say if the words are the same or different. Book-dog     big-bag   dot-dog Book-look man-pan dot-dot Hen-men man-pan fin-win Big-big  man-man  mat-cat Things I can do well. Tell your friends about things you can do well.	Begins to demonstrate phonetic awareness.
9:30-10:30	Mental maths  Shapes flash cards Measurement: learners organise daily activities.	Show awareness of time concepts
10:45-11:30	Obstacle course	Coordinates movements to perform a task
11:30-12:00	Draw a picture of yourself	Fine motor skills

 

My body Wednesday

 

Theme:	My body
Date:	Wednesday
	Description:	Aim:
Greetings	News Weather chart
Theme discussion	How does my body work? Head: turn, nod Lungs: breathe Arms: turn, bend, swing (swing arms as wide as you can) Hands: touch, wiggle,clap Legs: bend, twist Organs: Lungs Organs: heart- live (pulse) Organs: brain- think (tells your body what to do and how.	Familiarise with your body.
	Listening game. Clap your hands every time you hear the word ‘hand’ Nose, eye, ear, hand, thumb. Foot, toe, hand, ear. Ankle, hand, finger, hand. What makes me special. Ask learners to identify differences between themselves and their friends. We are all special in our own way.	Listening and memory skills
Numeracy	Mental maths Dot flash cards  Count 1-10 Identify shapes. (Flash cards)	Develop mental skills
Play outside	Hopping bag race	Gross motor skills
Creative	Play dough/Free play
Play outside
Music/Drama	High and low notes. When you hear a high note stretch out as high as you can. When you hear a low note go down on the floor.	Learn new song and the school concert

 

 

My Body Tuesday

Theme:	My body
Date:	Tuesday
	Description:	Aim:
Greetings	News Weather chart
Theme discussion	I am unique. Respect and accept each other for who we are. What is your name/surname? What is the colour of your hair? Is it curly or straight? Long or short? Are you a boy or a girl? Tall or short? Do you like your body? Which parts do you like? Which parts don’t you like?	Learn that everyone is unique.
Literacy	Play the game “Simon Says	Familiarise with the classroom. Language development
Numeracy	Mental maths Count 1-10 on abacus Let learners make a pattern while sitting in a circle on the mat. One sits and one stands.	Develop mental skills
Play outside	Skipping rope snakes. Learners walk on skipping ropes without falling off.
Creative	Play dough/ Free play
Music/Drama	Learn a new song: Head and shoulders Learners dramatise parts of a story.	Learn new song and the school concert

 

My body

 

Theme:	My Body
Date:	Monday
	Description:	Aim:
8:30-8:50 Greetings	News Weather chart
8:50-9:10 Theme discussion	My Body Parts. Name and show all body parts. Head/Body/Arms/legs Learn a new song: Head,shoulders,knees and toes	Familiarise the learner with his/her body.
9:10-9:30 Literacy	Teacher points to a body part and the learners need to say what each body part is.	To introduce each child.
9:30-10:30 Numeracy	Mental maths: Teacher uses flash cards of the different colours. Learners name the colours. Let the learners group themselves according to the colour of the clothes they are wearing. Let learners sit opposite each other. Let them count how many noses,mouths,hands etc. everyone has.	Learn colours and hand eye coordination.
10:45-11:30 Play outside	Activity 1: Learners hop in a hopping bag from start to cone. Activity 2: Throw a bean bag to your friend.	Balance
11:30-12:00 Creative	Teacher traces the body of one of the learners the others colour it in. Free play with play dough. Build yourself	Gross motor skills

 

 

Lesson ideas for Highveld theme suitable for 4-6 year olds.

Johannesburg is in the Highveld region. Little ones in this area will find this especially interesting.

Lesson ideas for Highveld theme suitable for 4-6 year olds.

• Discuss the Highveld. Where is it? The Higveld is usually grassland. Past grass on a paper to create a grassland.

• Discuss the straw coloured fruit bat found in the Highveld. Colour in a picture of the bat.

• Discuss all the animals of the Highveld and paste pictures of them.

• Discuss mining in the Highveld.

• Talk about big cities on the Highveld eg. Johannesburg and Pretoria.

 

Lesson plans

Here is a tool for the weekly overview of lesson plans. This way at the beginning of each week you can see what you’ll need for the rest of that week.

Weekly planning

Term __ Week:___________________                              Theme: _________________ Teacher: ________

Class:___________

	Focus of the day	Resources
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

This table can also be downloaded from: http://filegooi.co.za/get2/a8800cd0b0eb8c26de7106374c798853/Weekly+planning1.docx