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Human Bones Unit Study

26 Wednesday Oct 2011

Posted by sarahssweeties in Elementary Roundup, Homeschooling, Unit Studies

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It’s a great time to learn about the bones of the body!  Halloween time offers lots of fun skeleton goodies!  We don’t do the ugly part of Halloween, but happy skeletons are a fun way to get my boys excited about what they are learning!

We have had a blast doing this one.  My boys really have been interested and excited about this one.  I think it has been one of the most loved unit studies yet!

The most fun was our two “Bones Classes” we had with another homeschooling friend.  We both gathered ideas and had more than enough to do during each class.  I will give you ideas of what we did during our class and at home.

I made these memory verse cards for the children to learn.  They earned a prize for learning it, and for having pleasant words!

Some books I have, bought from Amazon or checked out from the library:

The Skeleton Inside You
Jessica’s Xray
Dem Bones
The School Skeleton (A to Z Mysteries)  Andrew loves these!
MSB – The Search for the Missing Bones  We read a few chapters each night with this.  Love it!
Your Bones – An Inside Look at Skeletons  We really liked this one, available from the library.
A Magic Skeleton Book – The Human Body
Uncover the Human Body

Websites that are great for learning games and printables:

Label the Bones
Build Mr Bones
Skeleton Game
Mr Bones Relay Race– we did this at our co-op party!
Teacher’s Clubhouse worksheets were very fun and helpful!

I made a sensory bin for the kids to play with.  The rubber skeletons were $1 at Target.  Nothing super fancy, but my boys always love these bins!

For science we got ideas from the book Play and Find Out about the Human Body.

We made a vertebrae.

We stripped calcium from chicken bones to make them rubbery (yuck!)

For some art, we made “x-rays” of our hands.

Andrew also showed us how to make an x-ray on paper.  Draw a person on one side of the paper.  The other side you would draw his skeleton (draw it darker).  Shining light through it will reveal his bones!

Snacks for our classes were fun.  For the breadsticks, I just made a sweet dough, rolled them into a long rope, tied each end and put butter and cinnamon sugar on top.

Bone ice cubes in their drinks from a mold bought from the dollar store.

We also had some Funny Bones made from pretzel sticks and mini marshmallows,  dipped in white chocolate.  Yum!

We got several Dollar Tree skeleton goodies.  Other stores like Walmart and Target were good resources for prizes!

Several You Tube Videos were used.  Here are some of them:

Dem Bones – just like the book!
The Skeleton Dance – get them up to dance!
Stanley the Skeleton
School House Rock – Dem Bones
 

We played a game called “Tickle the Bone” that I made up.  I think it was very effective!  I would tickle a bone and they would name it.  Easy, but a good and fun way to laugh and learn.

Human Anatomy Puzzle by Melissa & Doug I found at a yard sale for $1!!

A neighbor bought this for us to use.  It’s a cute foam puzzle from a dollar store, just not sure where!

So a great unit study that I would totally recommend doing!  After Halloween would be a great time to do it, too!  Grab those bones on clearance!

Linking to the Round-Up!

Elementary Round-Up

20 Thursday Oct 2011

Posted by sarahssweeties in Elementary Roundup, Homeschooling

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I am finally linking up again to the Elementary Round-Up hosted by Granola Mom 4 God.  It has been way too long. Even this post is almost a week late.  It’s been a busy week, and this post has been sitting here waiting for some attention.

School has been going well here, mostly.  Of course we all have our hard days.  But all in all we are in the routine of things.  I guess we should be since it’s the middle of October already.  Is it, really!!?!

I haven’t posted a whole lot of what we have been doing at our school at home.  I feel Samuel is past the Preschool Corner link up.  That’s sad.  But it was fun while it lasted!  He’s doing a “Letter of the Week” program that I have organized for him.  And anything else that’s going on around here, he is a part of.  We’re almost always all together in the same room.  I like that.

So here are a few things that my boys have been up to in the previous week:

The weather has been so nice here.  Andrew is always making something with paper, it seems.  This time he made a weather vane.  He gets so excited about such things.  It’s pretty cute.  The pop-up cards are super cute.  The solar hat, umm, not as much.  Here’s my boy’s creation…

We are studying the bones of the human body, and that has been super fun!!!  My boys are really enjoying it.  We have read a lot of books and have learned so much.  It’s a great time to do it, too, with Halloween here.  Skeletons are everywhere.  You just have to find the happy ones!

We had a “Bones Class” with some friends and had a great time. We had another one this week.  I can’t wait to share all of our ideas in a unit study post!!

I love watching Ethan work so hard on his spelling tests.  Treasure box prizes are always the best motivators!

Surprise visits from Mamaw are always a fun way to brighten our day!

My heart melts when I see this little preschooler boy like this.  I’m not sure why, but you will always find him up on tables, desks, and kitchen islands.  I think maybe he’s like a cat and wants to perch above everyone else?  I don’t know, but it’s cute.

We are preparing to shine the light of Jesus during our upcoming annual Halloween Camping trip.  I love getting this book out each year.

School at home is fun.  I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Snow Days

14 Friday Jan 2011

Posted by sarahssweeties in Elementary Roundup, Homeschooling, Preschool Corner

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We’ve been playing with snow!  We are in the middle of our studies on Italy.  We had to pretend we were living in the Alps, I guess!  This little mini study was sparked by our canceled co-op day on Wednesday!

We have about 6-7  inches of snow here in Indiana.  I like the snow, and my boys love it!  We’ve done a lot of playing in it…

I love all the squinty noses.  And my hot husband working hard snowblowing the driveway.  Do you see our attempt at a snowman?  He’s so little, but oh so cute.  The snow was a dry one this time.  A friend gave us the snowman kit for Christmas.  He was too small to use the carrot nose and the pipe this time!

We cut many a  snowflakes and made a whole lot of mess.  Chad and I both did one, too.  Something about cutting a snowflake reminds me of being a kid again.

Samuel’s trays had some snow related fun to them.  He enjoyed transferring “snow balls” into bowls…

He also enjoyed putting little snowflake table scatter on the Power Magnet Counting Cards.

We made some snow cream.  The boys love, love, love to do this!  This time it was their idea to make it blue.  It turned out so pretty, and quite delicious! (Ethan was a kitty that day!)

As if we didn’t have enough snow around here, we made some Insta-Snow Powder.  That’s always some messy fun!

We made another Winter Sun Catcher since it was a big hit last year.  No worries of it melting around here!

Ethan even learned “sn” words this week!  How appropriate!

And it’s always so special to have conversations with my boys on the topic of how very unique and special they are, just like the snowflake!  The Bible tells us how we are fearfully and wonderfully made.  We are made in the image of the One who created us!

Books we read…

The Snowy Day

Little Snowflakes Big Adventure

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

Millions of Snowflakes

I’m also linked up to Kids Get Crafty!

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