A 5-day lesson plan exploring personal features, names, and identity. Includes circle-themed numeracy hunts, reading Rapunzel, and fine-motor activities like paper-tearing and fabric collages.
What children learn
- Identify and name personal body parts and facial features.
- Observe how people share similar features while differing in appearance.
- Recognise and say one’s own name and identify classmates by name.
- Revisit body-part functions and represent the body through portraits, outlines, and collage.
- Recognise and explore circles through movement, objects, lacing, and craft.
Key activities
- Constructing and labelling a My Body Book
- Mirror Reflection Activity and self-portrait drawing
- My Name song, name-slip recognition game, and paper hair-cutting activity
- Life-size body outline with body-part flashcards and a fabric collage
- Self-portrait Show and Tell with body-part rhymes
- Circle walk, circle hunt, lacing, doughnut craft, and Magical Circles rubbing art
You’ll need
white card and coloured paper, body-part flashcards, mirrors, crayons and markers, dolls and name tags, body outlines, fabric scraps, glue, scissors, yarn and paper strips, circle flashcards and cut-outs, rope, paper plates and laces
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, GMD, Cognition/Literacy, FMD, and Numeracy activities.