Young Toddlers: Body Parts

Over the past two weeks, the Young Toddlers learned about Body Parts.

The Young Todders learned "head," "eyes," "ears," "mouth," "nose," "hair," "arms," "legs," "hands," "feet," "belly" and "belly button" through the Classroom Rules, posters, Velcro body part dolls and diagrams, stories and songs.

Each day during Circle Time, the Young Toddlers enjoyed literature related to body parts, including "Fingers and Toes," "Toes, Ears and Nose," "Kippur's Sticky Paws," and "Hands, Hands, Fingers, Thumb." 

The Young Toddlers also sang body parts songs and rhymes, including "The Hokey, Pokey," "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, "If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands," "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Fingers and Thumb," and "The Touch Game." Each song and rhyme corresponded with body movements that helped the Young Toddlers learn their body parts.

"Fee, Fi, Fo Fum: Fingers and Thumb" Lyrics

Fee, Fi, Fo Fum!
See my fingers!
See my thumb!

Fee, Fi, Fo Fum!
Goodbye, fingers!
Goodbye, thumb!

"The Touch Game" Lyrics

Touch your nose,
Touch your chin.
That's the way this game begins.

Touch your eyes,
Touch your knees.
Now pretend you're going to sneeze!

Touch your eyes,
Touch one ear.
Touch two red lips right here.
Touch your elbow where it bends.
That's the way this touch game ends.

The Young Toddlers also learned about body parts through art.

Through expressive art, the Young Toddlers created bodies using glue, googly eyes, pom-poms, feathers and pipe cleaners. The Young Toddlers explored with different textures and choose which materials to use for each body part.

The Young Toddlers colored in a diagram of a head, eyes, ears, nose and mouth. The Young Toddler teachers cut out each body part and the Young Toddlers glued the eyes, ears, nose and mouth onto the head in their respective places - for the most part!

The Young Toddlers also decorated a Mr. Potato Head coloring page.