The Boo Boo Book by Joy Masoff and Jack Dickason is a favorite in our classroom. It's the kind of book that kids love. There are lots of flaps to lift up (under the cast there is an x-ray of a broken bone!) and things to feel (a scratchy scab!) It has been in one of our book baskets for quite awhile and always gets a lot of love but recently it seemed to be extra popular. Due to its popularity, I decided I should probably read it at circle time and do an activity around it. This one book (that my mom bought at a yard sale, thanks mom!) blossomed into a few weeks of studying our bodies. We learned so much and had a great time doing it! We shared a few boo boo stories too...
One of our circle time facts was: "The human body has 206 bones." We talked about this for awhile and tried to feel some of our bones. We especially liked feeling our friends spines. Then, we made skeletons out of cotton swabs after reading a halloween story about a skeleton and a mummy. We liked how our white crayons showed up on the black paper. In the story, the friendly skeleton's name is Sammy. Every skeleton we looked at after reading the book was most certainly named Sammy!
Using tape was great for our fine motor muscles and also a lot of fun. Putting this skeleton together took team work!
At another circle time we learned the names of a few bones. We focused on the femur, our largest bone and the stapes, our smallest bone. After circle time, friends visited the carpet to try putting "Sammy's" bones together. "He has a femur!"
X is for X-ray. After learning about x-rays we painted our palms and made x-rays of our own.
A great spatial awareness activity! We laid down on large packing paper and traced our bodies. We added clothes just like we were wearing that day. We really liked standing next to our traced bodies once they were hung up on the wall. "I'm big!"
Most definitely our favorite body activity of the unit! We learned about the insides of our body (esophagus, heart, lungs and stomach) and then made paper bag suits so we could see how they work. The interactive design of this activity proved to be such a great learning tool. We dropped uncooked pasta down the esophagus and could see it landing in the stomach! When we blew into the straws the lungs expanded! Amazing! When I reviewed these parts later in the week, we remembered them all! Interactive learning sticks!
"David has a body like me."
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