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[CasperTheFriendlyGhost]

I need to come up some activities for a hospital themed day for students aged 4-6. I need to fill about 2 hours. So far I've thought of an admittance desk: "What's wrong with him?" "He has a sore thoat." kind of thing. That and some hospital/medical vocab.

Anyone done something like this before, or have any ideas to help?

[mumblebee]

I think those sentences might be too hard for a 4-6 year old.


Why not teach them body parts, and teach them to say "My ___ hurts."

I have a large-size body puzzle made of felt. I made it by making my coworker lie down on some felt, and tracing around them. I then cut out the outline, and cut the outline into peices. Then the kids have to put it together, and we go over the body part names together. You could do something similar, by putting them into "doctor" teams, to 'fix' the patient.

Vocabulary: shot, sick, itch, blood, bleed, bandaid, break, sneeze, cough, hurt, rest, medicine

Try and get some bandaids, rolls of woven bandage, and some empty and needleless srynges. They will have fun role playing with them. Oh yeah, and some 'medicine" in the form of candy or tablespoons of juice or something like that.

If you need a song, I could probably find a teaching song about the body or sickness that I could send you.

[CasperTheFriendlyGhost]

That was some fast help, my friend. Good ideas. I'd appreciate any songs you might have.

[heydelores]

Just a word of caution: I wouldn't use candy or juice for medicine. It's important for very young children to learn that medicine isn't candy. You might also want to have someone explain in Korean that while they're taking imaginary medicine in the role-play, they should never take medicine unless an adult gives it to them. It may seem pretty obvious to us, but very young children don't know this yet and could potentially overdose if they happened to find medicine while unattended at home and decide to mimic the classroom activitiy on their own.

[heydelores]

Another activity for hospital day . . .


First, I preteach body parts vocabulary. Next the kids color a picture of a monkey. Then we do the "Five Little Monkeys" chant, but each time the monkey falls off the bed, it hits a different part of its body (i.e, not always its head). We stop at the end of each verse and glue a paper bandage to that body part on the monkey. I do this for as long as the kids are interested or until we run out of paper bandages. The poor monkeys are usually covered in bandages by the end of the chant. Then we review the names of body parts by pointing to the bandages and saying "His (head, arm, leg, tail, stomach . . . ) hurts." We also have a safety lesson about why it's dangerous to jump on the bed, climb on furniture, etc.

[spliff]

Beat a kid up and then practice patching him up.

[Missile Command Kid]

[susmin]

Go to preschooleducation.com.

This website has songs, arts and crafts, snacks, and games based on different themes. They have one on health and safery, and another on community helpers which would include doctors and nurses. The songs are mostly to familiar tunes with new wors.

[kat2]

When I was a kid, I remember we each brought our favorite stuffed animal one day to the hospital and watched him get "shots" and check ups. (Obviously, this was to make it not so scary when we had to go for the real thing next week!). Anyway, it was really fun putting bandaids all over your sutffed animal.

[tomato]

I like the idea of translating songs which the children are already likely to be familiar with.
They might know this one:



Here is my translation.
You can probably make some improvements:

Hello, hello, hello, hello, my poor tummy aches.
What shall I take, what shall I take, when my tummyaches?
We shall all go to the doctor, let's all go right now.

Hello, hello, hello, hello, how are you today?
Can you help me, can you help me, my poor tummy aches.
We can help you, we can help you, let's go right this way.

You can also fit this song with Mumblebee's suggestion,
substituting other parts of the body for "stomach."