Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals StorytimeTalk:
Visiting the doctor can be scary and traumatic for a child! Here are some great options to share about what might happen at the doctor to take away the fear!
If you are interested in my other posts about Sick/get well storytime or ouches and boos (click link)
READ/SHARE BOOKS:
Corduroy Goes to The Doctor By Don Freeman
Doctor Maisy By Lucy Cousins Froggy Goes to the Doctor By Johnathan London
Berenstain Bears Go To The Doctor By Stan Berenstain
Curious George Goes to the Hospital By H.A. ReyClifford Visits the Hospital By Norman Bridwell
A Visit To Dr. Duck By Rosemary Wells Daniel Visits the Doctor By Becky Freedman
Here Comes Doctor
Sarah and Duck Visit The Doctor By Sarah Gomes Harris
My Friend the Doctor By Joanna Cole
If I Were a Doctor By Bettina Takacs
SING/RHYMES:
Doctor in the Clinic :
to the tune of ”The Farmer in the Dell”
to the tune of ”The Farmer in the Dell”
The doctor in the clinic.
The doctor in the clinic.
Hi-ho the derry-o,
The doctor in the clinic.
The doctor takes a nurse…The doctor in the clinic.
Hi-ho the derry-o,
The doctor in the clinic.
The nurse takes a patient…
The patient gets help…
The patient gets better…
Credit: Understorytime.com
Miss Polly Had a Dolly Rhyme
Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick.
So she phoned for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick.
The doctor came with his bag and his hat,
And knocked at the door with a rat-a-tat-tat.
He looked at the dolly and shook his head,
And said “Miss Polly, put her straight to bed.”
He wrote a paper for a pill, pill, pill.
I’ll be back in the morning with the bill, bill, bill.
Credit:Cockburn Libraries
The Bandage Song (from Making Learning Fun)
The basic idea is you move the bandage to different body parts.
Sing to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell:Put a bandage on my knee,
Put a bandage on my knee
Oh please take care of me
Put bandage on my knee.
Put a bandage on my head,
Put a bandage on my head
Oh please put me to bed
Put bandage on my head.
I added some silliness to this story by trying to put the bandage on the WRONG body part while asking "Is this his knee?" and everyone would yell "NO!!!" I also replaced the word "nurse" with "please" since I wasn't really mentioning nurses today.
Credit: One Little Librarian Blogspot
The Hand Washing Song By Jbrary (youtube)
EXPLORE/PLAY/CRAFT:
Create a Doctors Bag Craft-- Credit One Little Librarian Blogspot
