Our Bodies

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes (repeat).....eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.  This song was a perfect start to our lesson on our body.  This week we talked about our bodies, both inside and out! 

We talked about our bones, and how bones and muscles help our body to be strong and give us shape.  Our skeleton also protects our organs.

We made our own skeleton using Q-tips. 

We talked about our different organs, and what each organs function is.  We each got to have a turn wearing our body vest and correctly placing the organs on our bodies.

For a math center, we used our "hands" to do some simple addition problems.  We hid all of the fingers, unfolded the first number of fingers, then unfolded the second number and counted them together to get the total.  The gloves were filled with flour and the kids loved the feel of them. 

For a writing center, we wrote thank you notes to the dentist office for letting us visit, and to firefighter Tom for visiting our school.

For a math center, we used lima bean manupulatives to count to ten.  I had them recite the numbers as they placed the beans on the stickers so they practiced both sequencial order along with number recognition.

We also had a vocab center where we had pictures of a boy with arrows pointing to his hands, and another one with arrows pointing to his feet.  Then we had different aerobic and non-aerobic activities that were done with our hands or our feet and we had to place them under the correct body part. 


We also talked about how important exercise is for our bodies.  Our bodies need food, water, and exercise.   We discussed how exercise makes our heart beat faster and ran around the room until we could feel our heart beating quickly.  We also had an aerobic center:

Where we stretched, did some sit-ups, lifted some weights and did some jumping jacks.  We were tired!

For a writing center this week we did stamping.  We had a column of letters that we searched for the matching letter and stamped it in the next row.  Then, in the last row we took a pencil and practiced making that letter. 

We also made our own body books to bring home to tell you about our bodies.  We saw some real x-rays and even a real cast from when my daughter broke her arm.   And, speaking of broken bones, stay tuned for next week as we learn about how to stay healthy and strong by following the food pyramid and maintaining healthy habits!