Learning Your Body Parts Through Buncee

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Fairfield Elementary            Teacher: Colleen Corrigan and Mary Gaynor

Description

In this lesson, we will use various Buncee tools to teach Body Parts to our entering ELLS. We have created a Buncee to use for our mini lesson that includes a Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes sing along song, Photographs, and labels.  Then the students will be directed to their account where they will take pictures of themselves pointing to the body part and recording themselves using a provided sentence stem. For additional review, we created Buncee Vocabulary Flash Cards for the students to practice, listening, reading, and speaking these new terms.

Procedure

To introduce the topic of body parts, we will first begin with a read-aloud book title My Body from Reading A-Z.  This book introduces students to the print vocabulary for the names of familiar body parts.  As the teachers reads the books, she will have the students follow along and when a new body part is introduced, they will have to locate and point to that body part on their body.  

After we read the book, the teacher will have the students conduct some activities through which listening and speaking skills are required:  

• Have students stand up and take a step forward.  Ask what parts of their body they used to walk. (foot, leg)

• Have students sit down and pat the part of their body that makes noises when it's hungry. (belly)

• Have students take a deep breath. Ask what part of their body moves when they breathe. (chest)

• Have students wave to you. Ask what parts of their body they use to wave. (hand, arm)

• Have students look over their shoulder. Ask what part of their body they turned. (head) 

• Tell students all of these parts put together make up their body.  

• Have the students recall body parts vocabulary from the book.  Go back into the book and flip to particular images and ask: What is this? What are some of the things you use it for?  

• Review terms like belly. Some people refer to it as tummy or stomach. There are multiple phrases that we can use to describe particular parts of the body.  

• As a review, ask the students to identify various body parts by stating a new vocabulary word and having them point to it. 

• Provide students with a visual if they are having difficulty connecting the word to the specific body part.  (Can use Flashcards from Buncee) 

After reading the book, students will sing and dance along to the Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes Song.  

Buncee

Students will then log into their Buncee accounts. An assignment has been created for them and shared in which they will open in their classroom account.  The Buncee contains the sentence stems, and a specific body part in which they will need to identify on themself.  

The teacher will model for the students how to add a photograph in.  The students will take a picture through Buncee by clicking the + symbol, then click Take Photo, Next. and Upload.  Some assistance may be necessary on the first page. You can show the students how to size the image and where to place it on the page as well.  

Once the student has uploaded the picture of the matching body part, he/she will look at the provided sentence stem and record themselves reading the sentence stem.  The students can choose to do either audio voice recording or a video recording.  

Sentence Stems: This is my _______. 

For students who are progressing, you can have the sentence stem blank, for those up in need for support you can have the body part labeled or even have the sentence stem completed, This is my arm. 

The students will do this on each page for the following body parts: arm, head, leg, hand, and thumb.  

If a child is showing strength identifying the body parts, and taking pictures, they may do an additional audio recording stating something you do with that body part or how it helps you with a daily task. 

Example: I have two feet that help me walk. I have 5 fingers. My hand helps me write. 

For additional support and review, students will be given the link for the Buncee Flashcard review.  Students will access this on our PowerSchool Haiku Page, where they see read, listen, and speak these new body parts words.  

For students who complete the Buncee Body Parts lesson, you can have the students record themselves reading the flashcard words for additional review.  This will strengthen their language skills and proficiency.  

When all the students have completed the Buncee, we will share each of our creations with the class.