All About Me Unit


I use the All About Me unit at the beginning of the school year, and I intergrate it with a "Welcome to School" theme. The idea is that it gives students a chance to share a little bit of themselves with their classmate, and find out what special qualities they all have!

Duration: 2 Weeks

Objective: Students discover special qualities that they posess. Foster self esteem and acceptance. Introduce students to cencepts of "me", including body parts, the 5 senses, and families. I also introduce shapes at this time.

Books
David's Father (Robert Munsch)
Show and Tell (Robert Munsch)
The Paper Bag Princess (Robert Munsch)
A Brave Little Princess (Beatrice Masini)
I Want to be Somebody New (Robert Lopshire)
Big and Little, Same and Different (Walt Disney)
All About You (Walt Disney)
Chika Chika Boom Boom

Songs
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Do Your Ears Hang Low

Activities
1. The first day of school the students make self portraits for their portfollios.
2. We make picture frames for a picture of themselves using jumbo popsicle sticks. They are decorated with stickers, sequins, and paint. I attach magnetic tape on the back to it can hang from the fridge.
3. I measure the height of the students. I make a graph to put into our Class Graph Book. I remeasure and add to the graph throughout the year.
4. The students make thumbprint pictures, using washable paint. We examine their thumbprints with magnifying glasses, and they compare their prints to other students'.
5. Chika Chika Boom Boom trees - make greem handprints with paint and paint the underside of teh forearm brown, press doen to make the tree trunk. When dry, glue on ABC pasta.
6. Pop popcorn to show how we use all 5 senses. Hear and smell it pop, taste, touch, and see it.
7. Age, hair, and eye colour graphs.
8. Pictures of boys and girls, label the body parts.
9. Name game: say name, chant, spell twice. Cut one of the name tags into individual letters, give one to each student, rearange the students, and have the class put them back in order.

Letters
1. Introduce the letters of the alphabet using the Chika Chika Boom Boom book. Put up felt tree, have the students attach the letters.
I will often put the tree and book out as a center after it's been introduced. The students really enjoy the chance to act the book out themselves.
2. Beginning letter assessment - use initial letter assessment form.

Journal
Make a Me booklet (shaped like a person).

  • My name is _________ and I am _____ years old.
  • I like to __________ at school.
  • My best friend is ___________.
  • I like to ____________ at home.
  • I have ________ hair and __________ eyes.

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