Children explore the world of doctors and nurses, their tools, and roles through engaging activities. They learn about sleeping lines, spatial awareness, and participate in dramatic play and creative crafts.
What children learn
- Describe how doctors and nurses care for sick or injured people in clinics, hospitals, schools, and homes.
- Recognise common medical tools and explain simple uses for items such as a stethoscope, thermometer, bandage, and tongue depressor.
- Recognise and form sleeping lines and combine standing and sleeping lines.
- Use positional language to identify and place objects inside or outside.
Key activities
- Make a model stethoscope and a doctor's-kit craft.
- Use bandages on a person outline while learning about nurses.
- Meet a doctor and nurse and present paper-plate flowers.
- Visit or recreate a clinic for dramatic play and rhyme recitation.
- Make fruit kebabs and play inside/outside movement and aiming games.
You’ll need
Stethoscopes and other doctor tools, doctor and nurse dress-up clothes, bandages, paper and paper plates, crayons, glue sticks, ice-cream sticks, boxes and blocks, seasonal fruit and lollipop sticks.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, integrated cognition/literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.