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Lesson 17 of 144 · Monday · 🩺 The Human Body

Touch each one, count it once

I can touch and count each thing just once.

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Warm-up

2 min

Count to 20 by ones while marching, then by tens to 100. Flash 3 fingers: kid says how many, fast.

Start here

Say this

At a checkup, the nurse counts your heartbeats, and she can’t skip one or count one twice! Put your hand on your chest. Feel that thump? Today you’re a careful counter too: touch each thing once and say one number for each touch.

Teach it: touch it, draw it, write it

7 min
  1. 1 · Hands on

    Set out 7 cotton balls. Kid slides each one onto a plate while saying one number. One touch, one number, no skipping.

  2. 2 · Draw it

    Grown-up draws 6 hearts in a row. Kid counts left to right, making a dot in each heart as they say its number.

  3. 3 · Numbers

    Grown-up writes the number counted, 6, under the row. Kid traces it and reads it out loud.

Try it together

  1. 1

    Count the dots: ● ● ● ● ●

    Show answer

    5

  2. 2

    Count the bandages: 🩹 🩹 🩹 🩹 🩹 🩹 🩹

    Show answer

    7

  3. 3

    Tap your chest 8 times like a heartbeat. Count the taps.

    Show answer

    8 taps

  4. 4

    Grown-up sets out 9 cotton balls. How many?

    Show answer

    9

On their own

6 min

✏️ Touch each picture as you count it. Say or write how many.

  1. 1

    Count the hearts: ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

  2. 2

    Count the bandages: 🩹 🩹 🩹 🩹 🩹

  3. 3

    Count the dots: ● ● ● ● ● ●

  4. 4

    Count the doctor’s listening tools (stethoscopes): 🩺 🩺 🩺 🩺 🩺 🩺 🩺

  5. 5

    Your lungs fill up like balloons! Count the balloons: 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈

  6. 6

    Take 5 big, slow breaths. Count each one out loud. How many breaths?

  7. 7

    Count the dots: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

  8. 8

    Max counted ● ● ● and said “1, 2, 3, 4.” Is he right? How many dots are there?

Play it

5 min

Heartbeat Drum: roll one die. Drum that many beats on an upside-down pot with a wooden spoon, counting each beat out loud: one beat, one number. Then the grown-up rolls and drums, and sometimes sneaks in an extra beat on purpose. Kid shouts “Oops!” when the beats and the numbers don’t match. Play for 5 minutes.

In real life

Nurses and doctors count heartbeats and breaths at every checkup to see how your body is doing. Try it today: put your ear gently on a grown-up’s chest, listen for the lub-dub, and count 6 thumps out loud, one number for each thump.

Exit ticket

One question, no help. It tells you it stuck.

  1. Count the cotton balls: ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪. How many?

    Show answer

    7 cotton balls

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