Create a doctor's office in your classroom. Gather white lab coats, scrub shirts, a play doctor's kit, ace bandages, latex-free bandages, tongue depressors, towels, blankets and real x-ray films. Invite preschoolers to bring their stuffed animals and dolls to school for a check-up at the doctor's office. Encourage students to take turns being the doctor, nurse, mommy, daddy or patients. Show them how to hang x-ray films in the window to read them better or how to use an ace bandage to wrap a broken arm or leg.
Make an eye chart using shapes instead of letters. Hang the shape eye chart on a wall and invite preschoolers to open an eye doctor clinic. Provide pointers for the doctor to use when conducting eye exams on classmates, stuffed animals or dolls. Let students write prescriptions for eyeglasses on clipboards with scrap pieces of paper. Include fun play eyeglasses or sunglasses that can be handed out after an appointment if the patient needs glasses.
Invite preschoolers to take each other's height and weight at the classroom doctor's office. Hang a tape measure along the wall so the "0" starts at the bottom of the wall. Provide a digital bathroom scale for weight measurements. Copy simple height and weight cards for your preschool doctors to record measurements for each patient. Provide extra tape measures if students want to measure each other's head circumference.
Read any version of "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" to students. When preschoolers pick up the repeated rhyme, invite them to read parts of the story, especially when the doctor is called and gives his advice about jumping on the bed. Provide play phones and stuffed monkeys for students to act out the story. Create felt characters for the story so students can retell the story on a felt board. Encourage students to come up with a dance for the story that they can perform when you reread the story.