Hand Hand fingers thumb

Looking for a fantastic read aloud to accompany your lessons about body parts? HAND HAND FINGERS THUMB by Al Perkins is the perfect book. This book was one of my childhood favorites, and it’s lost nothing over the last 30-odd years since I was a kid. My students asked to hear this over and over again— literally 7 or 8 times— and I happily abliged! After all, repetition is the key to learning.

Suggestions - this book has a great beat. Get your students clapping, stomping, or drumming along.

We followed this book with a FIND THE HAND game. I placed hands, thumbs, and fingers all over the floor, then called out a word. Students had to run and find the right picture as quickly as possible.

With "i piccoli", we played a modified version of musical chairs, with the hands, fingers, and thumbs. 

For our paper activity which will eventually end up in their English journals, we made hand, finger, and thumbprints on this fun worksheet I made.

​I hope you have as much fun with this read aloud as I did!