You can be any doctor you want to be!
Literacy Objectives
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Spotlight Vocabulary
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Materials and Props
Materials that will help the children play the role.
Written language
Creativity (connecting everyday objects to doctor related objects) – While creating these objects, teachers can interact with the students and ask them what they might be making. Students are able to practice describing objects and using vocabulary that has been taught. They are also able to reflect on what they have made by writing down a sentence to a paragraph about the items they have created.
Materials that will help the children play the role.
- Doctors coat (thin, white coat)
- Toy stethoscope
- Popsicle sticks to serve as the tongue depressor
- Eye glasses
- Floss
- First aid kit
- Oral Language
- Dolls (stuffed animals or small to medium sized dolls) – Children will be able to talk to the dolls as if they are their patients. They will be able to use new words as they speak to their “patients”.
Written language
- Snellen Chart (Make out of construction paper and markers) – alphabet
- Small bottles of water with different labels of medicine or rubbing alcohol – reading the labels aloud and recognizing the letters used to create the words
Creativity (connecting everyday objects to doctor related objects) – While creating these objects, teachers can interact with the students and ask them what they might be making. Students are able to practice describing objects and using vocabulary that has been taught. They are also able to reflect on what they have made by writing down a sentence to a paragraph about the items they have created.
- Cotton balls
- Paper bags
- Pipe cleaners
- Glue
- Markers
- Construction paper
Questions
- What are some of the senses (touch, smell, sight, hear, taste) that doctors can help improve? How do these doctors help improve these senses?
- What can you do with your eyes? What do you think it feels like for people who cannot see?
- What can you do with your ears? What do you think it feels like for people who cannot hear?
- Why do you think some people are not able to _____ (include any parts of bodies, five senses, etc.)?
- Why do you think we need doctors? What do they do for people?
- Have you ever been to the doctors? Why did you go? How did you feel?
- What experiences have you had with different kinds of doctors?
Activities
- Partner game: Create one set of cards that have the images and words of the different kinds of doctors. Create another set of cards that have the images and words of the body part that these different doctors specialize in. The two children can take half of each set of cards (Half of them being the types of doctors and the other half being the body parts) and play to match the cards with the correct type of doctor and body part.
- Individual games
- Crossword Puzzle: http://www.stlouischildrens.org/patients-families/just-kids/crossword-puzzle
- Hospital Alphabet: write as many words as you can using the letters of the alphabet http://www.stlouischildrens.org/patients-families/just-kids/hospital-alphabet
- Group game
- Simon says (body parts)
Songs and finger-plays
- Here are my ears - http://wiki.kcls.org/tellmeastory/index.php/Here_are_my_ears
- Head and Shoulders, knees and toes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_0HWkYnJ20
- 5 senses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb0sEwpWjo
- http://www.preschooleducation.com/shospital.shtml
- http://www.childfun.com/index.php/activity-themes/community-helpers/131-doctor-activity-theme.html#sthash.gcdYrjcs.dpbs
Books
- Stan and Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, Random House, Inc (1981)
- Catherine Hapka, All Stuffed Up, Disney Press (2013)
- Megan McDonald & Peter H. Reynolds (illustrator), Judy Moody, M.D.: The Doctor is In!, Candlewick Press (2010)
- Emily Gale, Doctor Pig, Parragon, Incorporated (2011)
- Herman Parish and Lynn Sweat (Illustrator), Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia, HarperCollins Publishers (2004)
- Kathryn Jackson & Corinne Malvern (Illustrator), Nurse Nancy, Random House Children’s Books (2005)
- North Parade Publishing, If I Were A….Doctor: The Medical in Pictures!, North Parade Publishing (2011)
- Marilyn Singer & David Milgrim (Illustrator), I’m Getting a Checkup, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2009)