Our "Growing" Body Study and More!

Our five senses study that began the year has fueled a "growing" kindergarten interest in the human body. A variety of fiction and non-fiction books has helped us to raise and gather questions as we begin this new study.

• What body part is that? 
• Why do we have that...?"
• How does it work?
• What bone is that?
• What is made out of?
• How do we grow? 
• Why do we grow?
• What does the brain do?

Our time together outside has also created space for children to bake and cook and sell delicious food- at exorbitant prices by the way. One $58 cake was especially yummy! The children have been working together creating recipes and taking information from library cookbooks to add to their imaginative ideas as they open restaurants and grocery stores outside.

"Would you like some food to eat?
It's good and healthy! Have some pasta cake."

Some pasta and sushi
for the animals

While we will look at the various body systems, our hope is to delve even deeper and think about  other important questions such as: 

• How am I the same and how am I different from others?
• What can I do with my body?
• When do I feel my best? Why?
• What can I do to help my body to grow and be stronger? 

One of the many things
we can do with our body

Creating our skeleton costumes

 for our annual Halloween Parade

"I know what that is! Those are muscles...
and that's blood..that part sends
messages to your brain."

The kindergarten students and teachers have become very intrigued about the possibilities for our human body study. We have been witnessing the class molding this study with their keen observations and very thoughtful and invested questions about the exploration before them. If you or anyone in your family have any age appropriate resources about the human body (books, songs, pictures, activities, etc) or know of anyone who would like to come in to share with our classrooms about their work with the human body (nurse, doctor, yoga, physical therapy, dentist, nutrition, etc), please let us know! Do you know a place or person we could visit? We value our families' input and resources for our work together only strengthens the lives and learning of the children. Thank you for your support as we embark on our new human body study!