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What My Body Parts Do

Explore how your hands, feet and eyes help with different jobs. Try actions like holding, hopping and looking. Then show a job with your body and name the body part doing the work.

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    1 - Getting Started ~3 mins

    A closed red drawstring bag with a big question mark on it.What is in the mystery bag? When we see each thing, which part of your body would use it?

    What else can our body parts help us do?

    2 - What Jobs Can Body Parts Do? ~3 mins

    Here is our special word for today. Job means what a part of our body helps us do.

    Our hands can hold a ball. Our feet can hop on the spot. Our eyes can look across the room. What can your hands help you do?

    3 - Point to the Part ~3 mins

    Look at the child on the board. Listen to the job, then point to the part on your own body that does it.

    Then we put its name on the child.

    Our body parts and their jobs

    4 - Hands, Feet and Eyes at Work ~13 mins

    Let's stand in a big circle and find out what our hands, feet and eyes can do!

    1. Hands: hold the beanbag. Pass it to your partner. Clap, clap, clap!
    2. Feet: hop, hop, hop! Walk on tiptoe. March on the spot!
    3. Eyes: look up high. Find something red. Follow the ball with your eyes.

    After each job, one of us puts its picture in a hoop on the board: hands, feet or eyes. Then we try each job the tricky way. Which part is best at the job?

    Which part does the job?

    5 - Which Part Did the Job? ~4 mins

    Roll the job dice! Everyone does the job for that number, all together.

    The job dice: 1 wave hello, 2 kick a ball, 3 blink, 4 catch a ball, 5 jump up high, 6 look for blue.

    Then point to the part of your body that did the job.

    6 - Share What We Found ~2 mins

    What jobs did your hands do today? What jobs did your feet do? What jobs did your eyes do?

    A county footballer trains her feet to kick and her eyes to watch the ball. Our body parts did their jobs today too!

    7 - Tidy Up ~2 mins

    A child aged 4 to 5 holding a soft ball up high in both hands, smiling, on a plain background.
    job what a body part does
    A child aged 4 to 5, whole body in view, clapping with hands held up high and just apart, mid-clap, with a big smile, on a plain background.
    hands they hold and clap
    A child aged 4 to 5, whole body in view, hopping on one foot on the spot, on a plain background.
    feet they help us hop
    A child aged 4 to 5, whole body in view, shading their eyes with one flat hand and looking far away, on a plain background.
    eyes they help us look

    Let's tidy up. Every beanbag and soft ball goes back in the basket.

    Well done, body helpers!

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