All About Me

All About Me!

Me Books:

Poems & Songs:

Everybody Says

Everybody says I look just like my mother. Everybody says I'm the image of Aunt Bee. Everybody says My nose is like my father's. But I want to look like ME!

I'm Glad I'm Me

No one looks the way I do. I have noticed that is true! No one walks the way I walk. No one talks the way I talk. No one plays the way I play. No one says the things I say. I am special! I am ME! There's no one else I'd rather be!

In My Mirror

In my mirror I can see Two little eyes that look at me. Two little ears, one little nose, Ten little fingers, ten little toes. One little mouth I open wide Two little rows of teeth hidden inside. A tongue that pops both in and out, Lots of joints that bend about. When I look in the mirror, what do I see? A beautiful person looking back at me!

Here are my fingers and here is my nose. Here are my ears and here are my toes. Here are my eyes that open wide. Here is my mouth with my white teeth inside. Here is my pink tongue that helps me speak. Here are my shoulders and here is my cheek. Here are my hands that help me play. Here are my feet that go walking each day.

"Me" Activities:

Take each child's picture and frame it with craft sticks (jumbo). Each child will decorate the frame with sequins or stickers. Add piece of magnet tape on back for parents to hang on refrigerator.

Color, cut out, and put together miniature people. Shirt pattern, arms pattern, pants patterns, shoes pattern. Use a small paper plate for the face. Child will decorate to look like self.

Read All About Me by Mercer Mayer. Read the story. Have children create little books about what they can do all by themselves.

Name Clouds: Cut a sheet of white construction paper or tagboard into a cloud shape. Glue each of six 1x12" tissue-paper strips near the bottom of the cloud. Write, copy, or trace your name using different colors of markers. Punch a hole in the top of the cloud. Tie yarn through the hole and suspend the cloud and rainbow from the ceiling.

Give each child a white paper plate. As them to draw and color a self-portrait. Instruct them to fill the entire plate with the drawing of their face.

Read The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. Talk about determination. The attitude of "I Can Do!" Give each child a train engine pattern and have him glue on paper. Dictate a sentence about what they can try to do eventhough they think they cannot.

Make a Handprint Bulletin Board - "A Handful of Marvelous Students." Have child put a handprint on the bulletin board in primary colors. Cute!

All About Me Bulletin Board set. Send home an information sheet to parents about their child being selected. Have them fill out and return to school with the information/items needed.

Make Tactile Names. Write each child's name on tagboard or construction paper. Let the children glue beans, sequins, macaroni, etc. on the letters of their name.

Use a person cutout to make individual me books about each child. On each of the pages, write and illustrate something to go with the sentence. My name is______________ My birthday is_______________ I am _____ years old. My favorite food is______________. My favorite color is _______________. My favorite toy is ______________. My family is made up of __________________. At home I like to __________________.

Handprint Poem: Here are my fingerprints For everyone to see. No one else has these prints; They belong to just me.
Children will write their name at the top of a 12x18 sheet of construction paper. Trace both hands on the paper. Child will press each finger (including thumbs) one at a time on a stamp pad, then onto the corresponding finger on each hand outline. Glue a copy of the poem on the paper. Date the bottom. [Angie Mrowiec, Niles Park District, Niles, IL]

Make Rice Cake Faces. Spread with peanut butter, use raisins, cinnamon hearts, chocolate chips, nuts, to make own face for a yummy snack. [A World of Kindergartens]

Make a "Me Box" from a shoebox or a "Me Bag" from a paper bag. Decorate the outside any way that you wish. (This would be done as a homework project.) Inside the box or the bag, put 4 or 5 things that tell about yourself. Share the me boxes and bags throughout the week.[A World of Kindergartens]

Share baby pictures and have the children try to guess who each baby is. Display on a bulletin board. Include yourself and your teaching assistant. (if you're lucky enough to have one!)

After reading Leo the Late Bloomer, give each child a circle and 5 petals to make a flower. Discuss the ways that Leo "bloomed" in the story, and the things he could do after he bloomed. With each child, help them dictate ways in which they have begun to bloom like Leo did. Have child write his/her name on the circle of the flower. Write academic and fun things on each flower. Display on a bulletin board, "Kindergarteners in Bloom!"

Compare and Contrast When I Get Bigger with Leo the Late Bloomer.What things do the main characters have in common? How are they different? Make a Venn diagram to organize and display your findings. [From Kinder Korner]

Have children take off one of their shoes. See how many ways you can sort the shoes.

Make a quick graph of boys & girls in the classroom. Count how many. Discuss the results.

Send home a piece of construction paper with "All About ________." The children work at home with their parents creating a page all about themselves. Combine all the pages together to make an all about us class book.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Mystery Box: Put items that are four self-care in the box and see if the children can identify them by touch.

Frank Schaffer (FS-3933) 4-scene sequencing sheet. Sequence the events that show how you might get ready for school in the morning.

Time Capsule. Record beginning of the year answers to such questions as favorite color, best friend, favorite game, favorite tv show, and favorite food. Put away in time capsules (paper towel rolls) and pull out toward the last week of school. Record answers to the same questions at the end of the year. Compare the results.

Pictures - Names - Decorate outlined nametags (using sequins, mini stickers, dot-stamps, etc.) with the heading, "My name is my first gift from my parents."

Graph favorites. Use a pocket chart to graph any of the children's favorite things. Once a graph is complete, have the children compare two columns at a time to figure more and less, to add, and to subtract information. Also, have students find the most and the least and see if any are equal.

All About Me Writing - This wonderful graphic organizer from edhelper.com will assist your students with organizing thoughts about themselves. About Me Storytelling Graphic Organizer

Human Body Books:

Human Body Poems & Songs:

Moveable Me [tune: B-I-N-G-O]
My arms have parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand. Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand. Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand. And this is how I move them.
My legs have parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Knee, ankle, heel, and foot. Knee, ankle, heel, and foot. Knee, ankle, heel, and foot. And this is how I move them!
My trunk has parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Neck, back, waist, and hips. Neck, back, waist, and hips. Neck, back, waist, and hips. And this is how I move them!
I'm made of parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand. Knee, ankle, heel, and foot. Neck, back, waist, and hips. And this is how I move them!

All By Myself [tune:"Three Blind Mice"]
All by myself. All by myself. See what I can do! See what I can do! I can brush my teeth and my hair so neat. I can put my socks and shoes on my feet. I can get my napkin and snack to eat. All by myself. All by myself.
All by myself. All by myself. See what I can do! See what I can do! I can clean up my toys. I can ride my bike. I can kick a ball and match pictures alike. I can read a book and sing songs that I like. All by myself. All by myself.

I See Me

- Vicki Witcher

I see my head. I see my shoulder. I see my arm. I see my elbow. I see my wrist. I see my knee. I see my ankle. I see all of me!

This Is Me

This is me, from my head to my toes. I have two eyes and one little nose. I can wiggle my ears and stamp my feet. From my head to my toes, I'm really neat!

My Body Activities:

Graph eye color. AIMS - Fall Into Math & Science book.

Fingerprints. Outline hand. Add a fingerprint to each finger. (AIMS - January 1998 Newsletter) Examine the fingerprints with magnifying lenses.

Graph each child's fingerprints according to the particular type. (arch, loop, whorl)

Body part riddles on sentence strips. Body part pictures to match / answer the riddle.

Using the story, Hands, Hands, Hands make a chart of all the good things and bad things that hands can do.

Invite a nurse or healthcare provider to come and talk to the children about things inside their bodies. (blood, heart, lungs, etc.)

After reading I Like Me by Nancy Carlson, have each child think about some of the things that he likes about himself. Give each child a sheet of art paper that is labeled with "I like me becasue ________________." Have each child illustrate to complete the sentence starter; then record each child's dictation on his page.

I'm A Poster Child. Duplicate pages 23, 24, 25 for eachc hild. Cut out and assemble the pages into a poster for each child. Have each child bring a picture of himself. Each child will color the body section of the self-portrait his favorite colors. Have him glue his picture of himself between the child's hands on the poster. Help each child complete the statements on the bottom of page 25. Display for Open House! [TEC202 - September - 1996]

Color and cut out pictures of healthy things for our bodies.

What a Funny Face! Art Project. You will need 1 piece of 9x12 construction paper in a skin tone, magazines to sharek, short lengths of yarn, pencils, glue.

Directions: Teacher cuts pictures of facial features from several different magazines. Draw a simple face outline on a sheet of construction paper. (Or une a pattern, if necessary). Glue your torn-out features inside the outline to create a wildly wacky face! If desired, glue on yarn pieces for hair.

Body parts listening activity. Give clues for each body part. Color the body part the correct color or follow the correct directions to match the clue.

Books About Feelings & Manners:

Feelings Activities:

Chart things that make you happy and things that make you sad.

Talk about times when we are angry. Discuss appropriate ways to act and react when mad.

Sing: "If You're Happy and You Know It"

If you're happy and you know it (clap your hands) silly - shake your head angry - stamp your feet sad - say boo-hoo hungry - rub your tummy sleepy - close your eyes excited - yell hooray scared - hide your eyes

Family Books:

Family Activities:

Read The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant.

Read Clifford's Family by Norman Bridwell.

Draw a picture of your family. Dictate a sentence about your family.

Graph the number of people in your family.

Make a family tree.

Bring in pictures of each child's family. Compare the different types.

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