Children investigate the work of doctors and nurses, the places where they work, and the tools they use to care for people. Craft, a guest interaction, clinic dramatic play, pre-writing practice, and positional games provide hands-on ways to consolidate the topic.
What children learn
- Describe how doctors and nurses care for sick or injured people in clinics, hospitals, schools, and homes.
- Recognise common medical tools and explain simple uses for items such as a stethoscope, thermometer, bandage, and tongue depressor.
- Recognise and form sleeping lines and combine standing and sleeping lines.
- Use positional language to identify and place objects inside or outside.
Key activities
- Make a model stethoscope and a doctor's-kit craft.
- Use bandages on a person outline while learning about nurses.
- Meet a doctor and nurse and present paper-plate flowers.
- Visit or recreate a clinic for dramatic play and rhyme recitation.
- Make fruit kebabs and play inside/outside movement and aiming games.
You’ll need
Stethoscopes and other doctor tools, doctor and nurse dress-up clothes, bandages, paper and paper plates, crayons, glue sticks, ice-cream sticks, boxes and blocks, seasonal fruit and lollipop sticks.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, integrated cognition/literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.