Body Parts

                 2nd Grade Language (English): Our Body
Chapter: 7 – Page: 104 (Turkish Educational System)

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Materials for the lesson

Body flash cards. More than three or four cards for each body part. Black or white board and piece of chalk and glue tag

Layout of the classroom

An empty space for all children to sit on the floor facing the front of the class.

Phase 1

The teacher gets the students to sit on the floor and explains the activity. The teacher gives out body flash cards so that each student has at least one card but two is better. The teacher also has one body flash card for each body part and when she shouts out randomly a body part for example nose with an action (e.g. noses point out the board!). All the students with nose flash cards have to do the action. They continue with other words and actions (e.g. eyes close the window!; ears turn right!; hands touch your friend!, etc.)

Phase 2

The students sit on the floor facing the black or white board. The teacher gives out one or two flash cards for each student also has a flash card for each body part and chooses a card randomly and shouts out ‘’heads stand up’’ All the students who have the head flash cards stand up. When the students who have the head flash card do not stand up is warned and gets corrected by the other students. The activity continues until all the body flash cards are called twice or three times.

Phase 3

This time the teacher divides the board in columns and writes the body parts on each column. S/he plays the music and asks the students to stick the body flash cards on the right column. When the music is finished all the students must stick their cards on the correct column. They look at the columns and if there is a mistake the teacher and the students make the corrections.