January 18-22, 2016
Bone Bonanza!
We had a spine-tingling good time in Nutrition Expedition! It was a bone bonanza!
I set up 3 bone discovery centers for the children: a large skeleton foam puzzle, x-ray painting, and real chicken leg bones to investigate! They've been very fascinated with bones this month :) For the skeleton puzzle, they had to try to piece together all the bones to make a whole skeleton. They're really beginning to learn all the bones of the human body, and where they are located. For the x-ray painting, they painted their forearm, hand and fingers with white paint and pressed them onto black paper, making a print that resembles an x-ray. Finally, they loved checking out the chicken bones with a magnifying glass, and trying to figure out where they came from (most of the children thought they might be dinosaur bones)! See the photos below!
Super Sleuth Questions
1. What part of your body did you paint to make an x-ray? (answer: arm)
2. Where did the bone come from that you looked at with a magnifying glass? (answer: a chicken leg)
Them Dancin' Bones!
