Preschool Week 4 - "Our Amazing Bodies" - and what better way to kick off October than by learning about our skeletons?  We practiced writing letters to make the words for different body parts and then drew a line from the word to the picture of that part.  Then we played "build a body".  For number recognition we rolled the die and each number had a corresponding body part.  The first player to get their skeleton together was the winner.  During circle time we read a spooky story called "The Soup Bone" about a little old lady and a skeleton that chases her around.  We also sang "B-O-N-E-S" (to the tune of "B-I-N-G-O") and used our maracas and triangles (thank you Target dollar corner!).  

At snack time we ate cheese and crackers and drank milk; we talked about how our bones need calcium in order to stay healthy and strong and what kinds of foods have calcium.  For wiggle time we did the skeleton dance! The girls LOVED this and we did it MANY times.  The link for the video we watched is here - http://supersimplelearning.com/songs/themes-series/halloween/the-skeleton-dance/ 

Thanks to Kyle's anatomy books, we looked at pictures of our bones and discussed how they help us move, how they protect our organs, and how they connect together.  The girls found this very fascinating.  We talked about how sometimes bones can get broken and that then a doctor takes a special picture of our bones called an x-ray.  We then moved to the kitchen for craft time and made our own x-rays of our hands and skeletons using q-tips.  Then we practiced writing the letter X all over our x-rays.  I think it's safe to say this week's lesson was a big success.