☰ Year plan · English

Senses and clean hands

Week 2 · Unit 1: Two Little Hands · 3 lessons
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Wash your hands

Mridang: Unit 1, Chapter 1
GoalSay the steps for washing hands.
New words
soap · you use it to get cleantap · water comes out of itrub · move your hands again and again on somethingrinse · wash the soap away with waterdry · take the water off
Explanation

Clean hands keep us well. First, wet your hands. Then, rub soap and make bubbles. Next, rub your fingers and nails. Last, rinse and dry your hands.

Worked examples

First, wet your hands.
Then, rub soap and make bubbles.
Next, rub your fingers and your nails.
Last, rinse and dry.

Listen to the steps.
Mother

Time to wash your hands, Kiran.

Kiran

I rub the soap. Look, bubbles!

Mother

Now rinse them.

Listen. A mother and a child at the tap.
When do we wash our hands? Before we eat and after we play.
Class activity

Wash and sing. Wash your hands with a grown-up. Count slowly to ten while you rub. Say each step: wet, soap, rub, rinse, dry.

Practice
1
Look at the picture. Water comes out of it. What is it?
2
Say the missing word: Rub the ___ on your hands. (soap / shoe)
3
Listen. What is the last step?

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4
Say the steps in order: rinse, wet, rub.
5
Writing: copy ‘I wash my hands.’