Your Body
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Your Skin and Hair
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2 Read & Listen
You have skin everywhere on your body. Your skin helps you to touch things. It helps you to know when things are hot or cold. Skin stops dirt getting into your body. It stops water getting into your body when it's raining and when you swim.
Hair grows out of your skin. Hair on your arms and legs stands up when you're cold. This stops your body getting too cold. Your skin makes sweat when you're hot. This stops your body getting too hot.
Protect your body! Wash every day, so you can get dirt and sweat off your skin and hair.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Picture 1: Write the word.
2. Picture 2: Write the word.
3. Picture 3: Write the word.
4. Picture 4: Write the word.
5. You have skin everywhere on your ____.
6. Your skin helps you to ____ things.
7. It helps you to know when things are hot or ____.
8. Skin stops ____ getting into your body.
9. It stops ____ getting into your body when it's rainy.
10. Hair grows out of your skin.
11. Hair on your arms and legs stands up when you're hot.
12. Hair stops your body getting too cold.
13. Your skin makes sweat when you're cold.
14. Sweat stops your body getting too hot.
15. How does your skin help you?
16. How does your hair help you?
17. How can you protect your skin and hair?
Your Bones
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2 Read & Listen
There are bones under your skin. These bones make your skeleton. Your skeleton helps you to stand up.
There are joints in your skeleton, too. Bones meet at joints. Elbows and knees are joints. Joints help you to move. Knee joints help you to jump and kick.
A baby has small bones. Bones grow and they make you big and tall.
Your bones stop growing when you are about 20 years old. Then there are 206 bones in your body!
Protect your bones! When you ride a skateboard, wear pads to protect your bones and joints. Wear a helmet to protect your head, too.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Picture 1: Write the word.
2. Picture 2: Write the word.
3. Picture 3: Write the word.
4. Picture 4: Write the word.
5. Picture 5: Write the word.
6. Picture 6: Write the word.
7. ____ make your skeleton.
8. Your ____ helps you to stand up.
9. Elbows and knees are ____.
10. ____ meet at joints.
11. A baby has …
12. Bones grow and …
13. Your bones stop growing …
14. There are 206 bones …
15. Odd one out: skin / baby / bones
16. Odd one out: joints / bones / under
17. Odd one out: elbows / you / knees
18. Odd one out: small / bones / body
19. Odd one out: joints / bones / tall
20. Odd one out: pads / skateboard / wear
Your Muscles
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2 Read & Listen
What helps your bones and joints to walk, run, dance, and jump? Muscles! Muscles pull your bones to move your body. Muscles in your legs help you to ride a bicycle. Muscles in your arms help you to row a boat.
There are more than 600 muscles in your body!
Running, swimming, dancing, and riding a bicycle are types of exercise. Exercise makes your muscles, bones, and joints strong. Your heart is a type of muscle. Exercise makes your heart strong, too.
Protect your body! Do exercise every day. What is your favorite type of exercise?
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Order: bones. / your / Muscles / pull
2. Order: help / Muscles / you / a bicycle. / to ride
3. Order: a boat. / Muscles / you / help / to row
4. Order: in / 600 / There / body. / more than / are / your / muscles
5. Find and write word 1.
6. Find and write word 2.
7. Find and write word 3.
8. Find and write word 4.
9. Find and write word 5.
10. Find and write word 6.
11. Exercise picture 1: Write the words.
12. Exercise picture 2: Write the words.
13. Exercise picture 3: Write the words.
14. Exercise picture 4: Write the words.
15. Exercise picture 5: Write the words.
16. Exercise picture 6: Write the words.
17. How can you protect your body?
18. The heart is a type of joint.
19. What makes your heart strong?
20. What is your favorite type of exercise?
Personal/open response – not included in the score.Your Eyes and Ears
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Your eyes help you to see the world around you. They open and close many times every day. This is called blinking. When your eyes blink, they wash dirt out of your eyes.
At night your eyes close so you can sleep.
Eyes blink about 15 times every minute!
Your ears help you to listen to music. They help you to listen for cars in the street. Your ears can hear things when you sleep, too!
Protect your eyes and ears! On sunny days, wear sunglasses to protect your eyes. Don't listen to very loud music – it's bad for your ears.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Your eyes help you …
2. They open and …
3. When your eyes blink, …
4. How many times do you blink every minute?
5. How do your eyes help you to sleep?
6. How can you protect your eyes?
7. Your ears help you to ____ to music.
8. Your ears help you to listen for / move cars in the street.
9. Your ____ can hear things when you sleep.
10. Very loud music is ____ for your ears.
11. Unscramble word 1.
12. Unscramble word 2.
13. Unscramble word 3.
14. Unscramble word 4.
15. Unscramble word 5.
16. Unscramble word 6.
17. Unscramble word 7.
18. Unscramble word 8.
19. Unscramble word 9.
20. Unscramble word 10.
21. Secret word from the puzzle.
Your Nose and Mouth
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You breathe through your nose and mouth. Your nose and mouth take air into your body. You breathe about 15 times every minute.
After exercise, people breathe fast. They can breathe 40 times every minute!
Your nose helps you to smell things. Your mouth helps you to talk and eat. Your teeth bite food so you can eat it. Your body uses food to live and grow.
Protect your teeth! Brush your teeth after breakfast and after dinner, and don't eat lots of candy.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Your ____ helps you to smell things.
2. Your teeth bite ____ so you can eat it.
3. You ____ through your nose and mouth.
4. After exercise …
5. Your nose and mouth take …
6. People breathe …
7. After exercise people can breathe …
8. Your nose helps you to talk and eat.
9. Your teeth smell food.
10. Your body uses food to live and grow.
11. Brush your teeth to protect them.
12. Puzzle picture 1: Write the word.
13. Puzzle picture 2: Write the word.
14. Puzzle picture 3: Write the word.
15. Puzzle picture 4: Write the word.
16. Puzzle picture 5: Write the word.
17. Puzzle picture 6: Write the word.
Your Brain
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2 Read & Listen
Do you know how you read these words? Your brain tells you what your eyes see! Your brain tells you what you see, hear, and touch. It tells your muscles when to move. It helps you to write, speak, draw, and do puzzles. Your brain is amazing!
Your brain works all day and at night when you sleep! At night it makes you breathe and it makes your heart work. At night your brain helps you to remember things that you learn in the day.
Protect your brain! Wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Picture 1: Write the word.
2. Picture 2: Write the word.
3. Picture 3: Write the word.
4. Picture 4: Write the word.
5. Picture 5: Write the word.
6. Picture 6: Write the word.
7. Your brain tells you what your eyes ____.
8. Your ____ tells you what you see, hear, and touch.
9. Your brain tells your muscles when to ____.
10. Your ____ helps you to write and speak.
11. Order: and at night. / Your brain / works all day
12. Order: your brain / you breathe. / At night / makes
13. Order: makes / At night / your heart / your brain / work.
14. Order: remembers things / that you learn. / Your brain
15. Order: a bicycle. / When you ride / Wear a helmet
16. Odd one out: brain / eyes / day
17. Odd one out: bicycle / hand / brain
18. Odd one out: day / night / work
19. Odd one out: hot / brain / heart
20. Odd one out: muscles / learn / read
21. Odd one out: helmet / bicycle / eyes
Getting Sick
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2 Read & Listen
Do you get sick? Germs are things that can make you sick. Germs can get in your body when you breathe and when you eat. Germs can get in your mouth from your fingers, too. Some germs get in your body when you get a cut in your skin.
Wash your hands with soap and water to get germs off your fingers. Wash your hands when it's time to eat, after you go to the toilet, after you touch animals, and after you play outside.
Stop germs! There are germs in a sneeze. Catch sneezes in a tissue. Then throw the tissue in a wastebasket.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Find and write word 1.
2. Find and write word 2.
3. Find and write word 3.
4. Find and write word 4.
5. Find and write word 5.
6. Find and write word 6.
7. Find and write word 7.
8. Find and write word 8.
9. Germs are things that can make you ____.
10. Germs can get in your body when you ____.
11. Germs can get in your body when you ____.
12. Germs can get in your mouth on your ____.
13. Germs get in your ____ when you get a cut in your skin.
14. Wash hands with ____ and water to get germs off your fingers.
15. It's good to wash your ____ when it's time to eat and after you go to the toilet.
16. Wash hands after you ____ animals.
17. There are germs in a ____.
18. Catch sneezes in a ____. Then throw the tissue in a ____.
Protect Your Body
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2 Read & Listen
Eat food that's good for you. Good food helps your bones to grow. It makes you strong, and it stops you getting sick.
There's lots of water in your body. You lose water when you go to the toilet and when your body makes sweat. Drink water every day to protect your body.
Go to the doctor when you get sick, and go to the dentist every year. Do exercise every day. It's good to do exercise and it makes you happy. It's good to sleep when you are tired, too.
It's important to protect your body.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Picture 1: Write the word.
2. Picture 2: Write the word.
3. Picture 3: Write the word.
4. Picture 4: Write the word.
5. Picture 5: Write the word.
6. Picture 6: Write the word.
7. What food is good for you?
8. How does good food help your bones?
9. What is your favorite food?
Personal/open response – not included in the score.10. There's lots of …
11. You lose water …
12. You lose …
13. Drink water …
14. Eat ____ that's good for you.
15. Drink ____ every day.
16. Go to the ____ when you get sick.
17. Go to the ____ every year.
18. Do ____ every day.
19. It's good to ____ when you are tired.
Projects
Project page
Project 1: My Body Poster β choose a part of the body, write notes about what it is, where it is, how it helps you, and how to protect it; then make and display a poster. Project 2: An Exercise Graph β ask four friends what exercise they do, complete the chart, and draw a graph.
Picture Dictionary
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