Detailed Lesson Plan—Kindergarten Body Parts (Language and Culture)

Topic: Body parts

Grade Level: Kindergarten Estimated Time Required:
30 minutes/ day. It lasts for 2 weeks.
Learning Objectives:
The students have the ability to…
1) Name 9 body parts.[Knowledge] [Intrapersonal Communication]
2) Know the Panda bear. [Comprehension] [Culture][Connection]
3) Perform singing the song: Panda bears. [Synthesis] [Presentational Communication]
4) Describe “I have two eyes and one nose.” [Analysis] [Presentational Communication]
5) Apply/ Role play “My belly hurt” [Application] [Interpersonal Communication]
Content:
Key Vocabulary—
Nose, eyes, ears, mouth, head, hands, belly, legs, and feet.
Sentence Pattern—
1. This is my nose.
2. I have one nose. I have two eyes.
3. My belly/ leg… hurts.
Grammar –
1. Chinese has measure words between numbers and nouns. For example, instead of saying
yi(1) bizi(nose),we need to say yi ge bizi (1+measuer word+nose). Ge is a measure word.
2. While we count er for number 2, such as yi, er, san (1, 2, 3), we use liang instead of er when
the number comes with a noun.
Assessments: Observational (Checklist)
Differentiated Instruction:
Discussion [logical-mathematical]
Teacher’s Instruction [logical-
mathematical] Games [Bodily-Kinesthetic]
TPR [Bodily-Kinesthetic] [Visual]
Projects [Bodily-Kinesthetic]
Group work+ pair work
[Interpersonal] Competition
[Interpersonal],
Role-plays [Interpersonal]
Videos [Visual]
Songs [Musical]
Reading [Verbal/Linguistic]
Online games [Intrapersonal]
Learning outcomes:
Song, role-play, project, presentation
Resources & Materials:
 Books Better Chinese; Chinese Treasure Chest

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 Worksheet
 Online games http://howdoilearnchinese.com
 Flashcards
 DVD—Hello, China No. 90
 Crayons
Day 1
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
1. Bring a panda bear toy to share. Ask the
students what color is the panda’s eyes, ears,
Review the colors from
belly, hands, and feet.
Connection previous unit: Panda
2. Summarize them in Chinese and have the
bear’s color
students to listen to the words. Tell them
we are coming to learn the body parts.
1. The students play the game with me. They
put their fingers on their noses first. I say
“nose, nose, nose.” They point at their nose. I
say “nose, nose, eyes.” They point at their
eyes. When they play, they need to say the
Introduction
words with me.
Game to nose, eyes, mouth, and
2. We play this for three times. Then the students
ears.
face their partners and see who is faster.
3. We closed our eyes and see if the students
can figure out by themselves. (It is easy for
me to observe how well the students can
identify the
words through listening.)
1. Ask the students to say these words with
me and point at them.
2. I point at my own nose/eyes/mouth/ears, and
TPR Learn the words:
ask them to say what body parts I am
Scaffolding Nose, eyes, mouth,
pointing.
Group work and ears.
3. Have 2 or 3 students to be the teacher and play
this game.
4. Have students work in a group of 4 and take
turns to check on others.
1. Listen to me sing the song: Giant panda.
Giant panda, giant panda, (you have) black
Singing Introduction to a song. eyes and big body. (You) swing your body
when you walk. We all love you.
2. Have the students to hum and dance with me.
Day 2

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ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS

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Play the game again: nose, nose, nose.

1. Practice for several times and have the students
to close their eyes and play it.
2. Have the students to play in a group of 4. They
take turns to be the teacher to say “nose, nose,
nose”.
Game Review nose, eyes, 3. Have 2 or 3 students to be the teacher and
Group work mouth, and ears. say “nose, nose, nose” while others point at
their noses.
4. I point at my nose/eyes/mouth/ears. They
need to name them.
5. Have students work in a group of 4. They take
turns to be the teachers and the rest of them
need to say the body parts.
The students are already familiar with the melody
from yesterday’s hum and dance.
1. Take out some pictures of panda bear. Ask
what they can see from the panda bear:
eyes, nose, mouth, ears, legs, arms, hands,
feet, belly.
2. Ask them if they have seen panda bear before.
Introduce that panda bears only live in China.
Chinese people send panda bears to other
countries as gift. Panda bear is considered to be
Learn the song: Giant a symbol of peace and friendship.
Singing
Panda 3. Listen to the song: Giant panda. Ask them if
they can understand some words, such as giant
panda (we mentioned that before), black eyes,
love.
4. Ask them to repeat with me sentence by
sentence. Have a competition to see if boys or
girls learn fast. (Just a way to motivate the
students to focus.)
5. Have some students to sing and dance with
me in front of others.
6. Have several groups to sing for others.
1. Review nose, eyes, mouth, and ears.
Wrap-up and learn a little 2. Have the students to do this with me
TPR
bit about next class. and prepare for the next class:
Clap your hands, touch your belly, touch your

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head, touch your leg, and stamp your feet.

Day 3
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
TPR: clap your hands.
1. Have the students to stand up and do some
actions with me: clap your hands, touch your
belly, touch your head, touch your leg, and
Learn head, hands, belly, stamp your feet.
TPR
leg, and feet. 2. Have students to practice for several times
and have them to close their eyes to do it. I
remind them when they finish their action,
such as “Did you clap your hands just now?”
“Is that
touch your belly?”
1. Have students to sit in a big circle, so we can
all see each other.
2. Have students to say head/hands/belly/leg/feet
with me and tap their body parts when they
say them.
3. Remind them that belly is duzi, starts with a
D. Bunny is tuzi (they learned bunny before),
starts with a T. So the students can remember
both words and pay attention to the consonant.
Game 4. Have the students to repeat faster and faster.
Learn head, hands, belly,
Competition 5. I point at a body part and have them to say
leg, and feet.
Group work it out.
6. Have a boy challenge a girl/ or a girl challenge
a boy. I point at a body part, and see if the
boy/ or the girl can say it out first.
7. Have the students to work in a group of 4. I
assign them with the first caption. The caption
point at his/her body part, the first team
member say it out will be the next caption to
point at his/her body part. I just walk around
to
see if any team needs help.

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1. Have students review the

head/hands/belly/leg/feet for the last time.
Singing and 2. Ask the students if they still remember
Song: giant panda
Dancing the song: Giant Panda.
3. Ask the students to sing with me if they still
remember.

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4. Ask them to sing with panda bear’s voice (low

and bold), dance like a panda bear (big, furry,
and heavy).
5. Have some students to perform to sing and
dance like a panda bear.
Day 4
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
1. Ask them to sing the song: Giant Panda
with the piano. (I shared a room with music,
so I have a piano in the classroom).
Singing Song: Giant Panda
2. Ask them to sing faster and faster, slower
and slower, higher and higher, lower and
lower.
3. Have them to perform by groups.
1. Ask them if they still remember how to say
these body parts.
2. Play the online game
Online-games Review the body parts. http://howdoilearnchinese.com/learnchinesepar
tsoftheface.shtml
3. Have the students to click the smart board and
match the words.
1. Read the book from BetterChinese-Lesson 13
What is in there? What is in There? There is a
hand. There is a foot. There is a leg. There is a
nose. There are two ears. There are two eyes.
There is a rag doll.
2. Bring out the book. Ask the students what they
can see through the cover. Ask them what this
Reading Book
book will be about.
3. Read the title and explain the title.
4. Describe each page and have the students
to repeat some words.
5. Read sentences on each page and have the
students to read.
6. Ask them what this book is about.
Day 5
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
Review the book.
1. Have students to discuss what is inside the
Reading Review the book
book.
2. Have the students to read the book with me.

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Find out the best reader.

3. Go to online website and read with the speaker.
4. Record their reading and play back. Have them
to listen to their own reading.
5. Have some students to read by themselves.
1. Have the students to stand up, or sit in a circle.
TPR Review body parts 2. Lead the students to say the body parts and tap
their body parts while they say it.
Ask them to guess some riddles.
“I have eyes. I don’t have hands. I don’t have feet. I
Get students familiar
Riddles like swimming. Who am I? (Fish)” “I have black eyes,
with Have/ Have not.
black ears, black hands and feet. I have white belly. I
like bamboo. Who am I? (Panda bear)”
Sing Song Sing the song: Giant Panda
Day 6
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
Singing Song Sing the song: panda bear.
1. Ask them what they know about panda bear.
2. Put them down as facts.
3. Ask them some question and ask them if they
have some questions about panda bear, such
as, what do panda bears eat? Where do panda
bears live, in the forest, jungle, or occean?
4. Play a video from Hello, China No. 90, talking
about panda bears. You can also find the link
from Youtube
Multi-media Learn about panda bears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyikgV67L
sY&list=PLCFDD3F76245D00A9&index=90.
5. Stop when necessary to ask questions.
6. Ask them if they know more about the
panda bear.
7. Watch the video again.
8. Put down students’ thought in a sticky note,
and put them up as What I’ve known about
Panda Bears.
1. Color the page of Pandas living in the
bamboo forest and eat bamboo.
Project Color the page
2. They need to color the panda bear and bamboo
in the right colors.
Day 7

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ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS

Inquiry Review pandas Review some facts about panda bear.
[Copy the panda bear’s eyes, nose, hands and feet
from Chinese Treasure Chest Volume I page 216
before class begins. Also make a panda’s head and
belly by myself and copy them for the students.
Make several pandas with different gestures before
class. ]
1. Show the students that we are going make
a panda bear.
Project: make a panda
Project 2. Demonstrate how to make a panda bear.
bear.
3. Cut out the head and belly first.
4. Cut an eye/ ear and glue it in the right place.
(Remind the students to cut just one piece and
glue them, so that they won’t lose some
pieces if they cut out all of them at one time.)
5. The first ones who finish the pandas will
walk around the tables to see if anyone needs
help.
6. They write down the Chinese numbers on the
panda’s belly or back.
Day 8
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
Review the body parts through TPR (Total Physical
TPR Review the body parts
Response).
1. Have students to sit in a circle.
2. If I say “I have one nose”, which is true, so
they follow me to say “I have one nose”. If I
say “I have two bellies”, which is false, so the
students zip their mouth. If some students
speak out with me when the sentence is
Game: Learn how to say “I
wrong, they are the monsters.
Monsters. have one/ two…”
3. Play this game for several times. Then have
1 or 2 students to be the teacher and the rest
of them, including me are going to see who
can always be right.
4. Have the students work in groups of 4 and take
turns to be the teacher.

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1. Gather the students back in lines.

Learn the grammar: liang 2. Ask them how to say “I have a nose” “I
Scaffolding
and er have two ears.”
3. Remind them that we use liang instead of er

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when the number 2 comes with a noun.

4. Remind them with the sentence “two yellow
balloons” in the book The balloon flew
away (Better Chinese Lesson 5)
1. Ask the students to pair-up and
describe themselves.
2. Have some pairs to come to the front and
demonstrate how they can describe themselves.
Day 9
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
Review the body parts 1. Review the body parts with TPR method.
Game
and I have… 2. Play the monster game for “I have a nose”.
1. Pretend that my belly hurt all of a sudden.
2. Have the students to guess what is wrong.
3. Have them to pretend that their belly hurt
and say “My belly hurt” with me.
4. Have several students to come to the front to
pretend that their belly hurt. The audience
needs to judge if they believe them or not. (For
Game Learn how to say “My
example, speaking with a happy smiling face
Role-play belly hurt.”
must be a fake belly-hurt.)
5. Tell them that wo is I, duzi is belly, teng is
hurt. Ask them if wo duzi teng is my belly hurt,
then how to say my head hurt (wo tou teng).
6. Continue to teach “My head hurt” “My leg
hurt”. And have several students to perform
that in front of the class.
1. Have students to sit in a big circle and play
this out. So the students can see each other.
2. Have the whole class to perform and
have some individuals to perform.
Game Practice “my…hurts”
3. Now I pretend that my… hurts, and they
need to tell me the sentence.
4. Have the students to work in groups, and take
turns to work this out.
Day 10
ACTIVITIES CONTENT PROCESS
1. Review I have a nose.
Game Review “I have…”
2. Have students to play monster game in groups.
Game Learn “my … hurt” 1. Review how to say “my belly hurt.”

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2. Say and play them out with me.

3. I do the action and have the students to guess
what that is.
Play the online game My…hurts.
(Optional) Online game (Optional)
http://howdoilearnchinese.com/chinesbodyparts.shtml
Role-play: my belly hurt.
A: Ouch, my belly hurt.
B: Let’s go to the office.
A: Thank you.
B: You are welcome.
1. Have a volunteer to come to the front.
Demonstrate. Preset the situation. I get a
bellyache and he need to send me to the
Role-play Learn “My… hurt.”
office.
2. Demonstrate for 2 times. Have 2 students to
come to the front and play this out. (I need to
remind them.)
3. Have students to work in pairs and they can
make up their own role-play, such as
changing my belly hurt to my leg hurt.
4. Have several pairs to come to the front and
play this out.

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