Skeletons and Muscles

 For science, we learned about skeletons. Dustin actuall bought me an entire skeleton to help me teach, and that was super fun. We learned about the make up of bones, the different kinds of joints, and we made a "Back-bone" that had a balloon as a head, and vertebras from rolled up paper and intervertebral discs from soft candy discs. 

Then we learned about muscles. I was not as prepared for this class as I wish I had been. I had made this muscle model every time I've taught biology, but this time, I didn't give myself enough time to make it so it was a sloppy job and didn't work, which is a shame because it really shows how muscles work. I tried to explain it, and maybe they got it. 

We focused a lot on tendons, and I had a hand for every kids where they could pull their "tendons" to close their hands.

And....that's it for science.