Human Body Activities

 

In science we have been learning about the human body in Connor’s science book. (I LOVE this book!)

Here are some of the activities we’ve done to go along with this theme (note: the activities were on my own and didn't come from the book):

I cut out and laminated Mr. Silly Bones and Connor put him together.

He then labeled him. With help from mommy :)

He also did some worksheets from his Preschool Fun book.

Here is a picture of himself he made.

With drool.

Nice.

We recently went to our local science museum where we saw real human and animal brains! I was totally fascinated by this! Connor… not so much.

Connor drew ‘healthy’ and ‘non-healthy’ foods.

On the healthy side he made broccoli, peas, a peach, bread, a cup of milk and a banana. On the non-healthy side he drew a potato chip, lollipop, cupcake and a mint (lol for candy).

We did a super easy experiment called The Tapping Finger. Connor sat at the table and tapped his finger loudly on the table.

Then he put his ear to the table and loudly tapped it again. The result? The sound is much louder when your ear is pressed to the table. Solids carry sound much better than air because the molecules in wood are closer together than molecules in the air.

You can also go HERE to see our germ experiment.

We read these GREAT books:

 (The Glow-In-The-Dark Book Of Human Skeletons, by Michael Novak)

The Magic School Bus also has some great books and videos about the human body. We read and watched a bunch and my kids LOVED them.

I'm linking up to:

• A Mommy’s Adventures
• Homeschool Creations

Apple Activities

We have been working on some apple activities the past couple of weeks. Here’s what we’ve done:

Connor did math with these fake apples. I would give him an addition problem (2+1) and he would get out the apples and count them to find the answer. We did every problem you can do with 4 apples.

He did a math worksheet.

We tasted 3 different kinds of apples and picked which we like best. We used Granny Smith, Honeycrisp and Red Delicious.

The verdict all around with both kids (and mom and dad!) was Honeycrisp!

We made an apple pie craft i saw here. I hole punched 2 paper plates and cut the design in the top of one.

The kids painted the top brown,

and glued torn red paper to the bottom.

They then sprinkled cinnamon the leftover glue spots.

After it dried (we did ours the following day), i stapled the plates together and the kids laced them together with brown ribbon.

To go with our pretend apple pies…

a REAL one!

Here’s the recipe i used.

We also read these 3 books:

I will be linking up to:

stART@ A Mommy’s Adventures

Preschool Corner@ Homeschool Creations

(A More Real) Love Story

A good laugh for you mommies of little ones!

Germ Experiment

Try this experiment to see why you should wash your hands, even if they look clean!

What You Will Need:

• Hand lotion
• Glitter
• Sink or large bucket
• Paper towels
• Soap
• Water
• A helper

What To Do:

1. Put a drop of lotion on your hands and rub them together to spread the lotion out evenly.
2. With your hands over a sink or large bucket, have your helper put a pinch of glitter in the palm of one of your hands.
3. With your hands still over the sink, make a fist with the hand that has glitter on it, then spread your fingers out. What do you see?
4. Now press the palms of your hands together and pull them apart. What do you notice about your hands?
5. Touch your helper's hand. Now do you see anything on it?
6. Get a paper towel and use it to wipe your hands clean of all the glitter. Is it working?
7. After using the paper towel, try using soap and water to wash your hands. Did the glitter come off?

What's Happening?

After getting the glitter on your hands, you should have noticed it spreading very easily to anything you touched, even your helper's hand. When you tried to use a paper towel to remove the glitter, some of the glitter probably came off, but most of it stayed on your hands. But when you used soap and water to wash your hands, the glitter came off pretty easily. The glitter is acting the same way that the germs on your hands act - there are a lot of them, they spread around easily, and it can be tough to get them off. The difference is that germs are so small you can't see them without a microscope, so you have to know when you may have come into contact with germs and wash your hands often.

If you accidently touched your mouth, nose, or eyes while doing this experiment, you may have found glitter getting left behind near these areas. Germs travel the same way and can easily enter your body if you touch your face with dirty hands, which can make you sick. That's why it's important to wash your hands before you eat. It is also important to wash your hands after touching something that might have germs, such as when you use the bathroom or play outside. If you don't, the germs can easily spread to more places and to other people and cause sickness.

* I love how the kids got the visual of germs from this experiment! Very cool! I copied and pasted all the directions from here. The pictures are my own of course :)

Tot School: Family

For our first 2 ‘official’ weeks of back to school, we worked on a family theme:

Brianna looked at her scrapbook and we pointed out different family members. Mommy, daddy, Connor, grandparents, aunts and uncles etc.

I also made a few puzzles out of photos and she put them together.

I traced daddy’s hand and her hand and we talked about the difference.

Also to do with ‘daddy’, i mixed equal parts shaving cream and glue and added some green food coloring and let her fingerpaint with it.

She went a little overboard. This took forever to dry.

Bri also sorted items by whether or not they are for a baby, child or adult.

And speaking of family, did you see our big news yet??

Yup, in May Brianna will be a big sister! Thanks for all the congratulations from that post!

Music:

I said a color and Brianna played that colored key. This was so simple yet she loved it.

Other School:

She started her first Kumon book! Its a sticker/paste one. Here she is doing stickers.

She played in the rain in the backyard and loved it!

She put whale erasers (dollar store) in the boxes and we counted them.

She played with our new little foam blocks from Targets dollar section.

She played in the new autumn sensory bin.

She worked on her small motor skills when she buckled these 2 monkeys into her and her brothers car seats when they were inside the house one day. I loved walking in to see this :)

Our next theme is going to be “My Home”.

Thanks for stopping by!