We are still really enjoying it... These 2 weeks were spent on the skeleton ~an amazing frame with tons of incredible features.
Here are some of the book we used:
I still think the journals have been one of the best additions to our science studies and I would reccomend them to everyone... They have made it so much easier to keep up with notebooking, narration, activities, and copywork...
DS's Notes...
DS's labeled bone...
DD's copywork with her labeled bone...DS's color-coded notes
One of the fun things we did, was to have some chicken wings for dinner ~ we then boiled the bones to remove the excess meat and used them for an experiment to see how pliable the bones could be using vinegar...
This experiment cam from the book Blood and Guts.
I love this book ~ it has all kinds of fantastic experiments and information about the human body...We taped out first finger to our middle finger and tried to do our schoolwork ~ they both complained how difficult it was to write ~ proof to them that God knew exactly what he was doing when he created fingers (or "phalangeeeees" as DD said)...
We used some minibook pages�I had gotten a while back and made a page to go along with the skeltal system workbook that discussed the hinges and hometcomb bone...
We looked at a chicken bone and talked about�the tendon/ligaments.�
We did a neat experiment with eggs�that showed how the skull protects our brain.
�we took the eggs and place them in a container ~ ran around the house and they broke but with a cushion of water, they stayed intact ~ no matter how rough the kids got with them....
We watched several videos�from BrainPop and a great DK Eyewitness video on�"Skeletons"
The kids played�"Operation"
and�made some art by using pasta and gluing it in the shape of the skeleton.
The also enjoyed playing our new�card game "Professor�Noggin's Human Body"....
See ya' next week!!
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