Topic overview: Human body (September, wk 1)

Here's what I have planned, created, or checked out for this week. It's a lot; I don't know how much we'll get through, but we'll use what we can. In addition to this, I'll have a couple of Practical Life activities out, the basic Sensorial (Pink Tower, Cylinder Blocks), and some early literacy (sequencing).

Day 1: Bones and muscles

• Skeleton puzzle
• Weighted containers to pair/sort (yogurt smoothie containers filled with sand & glue)
• Cards to match animal to skeleton (available on my Box -- see sidebar)
• Dissolve chicken bone in vinegar
• Glue uncooked pasta onto body outline to form "skeleton"
• (hopefully) an x-ray of her stuffed Bullseye with metal skeleton
• "Jessica's X-Ray", Pat Zonta
• "The Skeleton Inside You", Philip Balestrino
• "The Visual Dictionary of the Skeleton"
  
• "Funnybones", Janet and Allan Ahlberg
• "My Muscles", "My Bones", Carol Lindeen
  

Day 2: Heart, lungs, brain

• Appropriate felt organs on body cut-out
• Appropriate cards to match organ to location in body
• Blowing bubbles
• Simon says
• "My Brain", "My Heart", Carol Lindeen

Day 3: Digestion

• Digestion demonstration
• Appropriate felt organs
• Appropriate organ cards
• "My Stomach", Carol Lindeen
• "What Happens to a Hamburger", Paul Showers

Day 4: Staying healthy (food, exercise, cleanliness)

• Hand washing demonstration (cover hands in cinnamon, demonstrate washing)
• Healthy/not healthy food cards
• Vegetable printing
• "My Amazing Body", Pat Thomas
• "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", Eric Carle
• "You Are What You Eat", Melvin Berger