Hello community! 💜
If you remember, a few posts ago I mentioned about the fact we've been doing some learning activities at home on Human Body Theme.
I'll try explain in a few words and pictures what exactly did we do and how we worked with the available education tools and materials. Caleb is 3yrs and 8mo old and he's really into this topic. The whole week (even one week after) he only talked about "my body", "muscles", "bones". All he did was related to "BONES" and "MUSCLES". The cutting, the drawings, the stories...🙄 For some reason (as I noticed), he likes especially the part with muscles and bones. 🤔
This is not our first time talking or reading about The Human Body. By the age of three, we've read all the books we had at home, designed for little kids and their understanding. Most of the books (designed to deepen knowledge) we have at home are supposed to be for 3-5 or 5-7 yrs old kids. I buy these because I can already use them in our everyday learning.
If there is information too vast and complex for Caleb, then I simply skip it or I try to explain to him the best I can. Usually skiping content is not an option 😁 because my son is really focused when we're reading a book and there's no chance to skip pages or images. He always ask questions on what he sees and always waits for an explanation until he's happy understood it.
I usually buy Usborne Books which are just great! We love them. They are very well structured and they have captivating illustrations to stimulate children's desire on discovering things.
As you may noticed in many of my posts, there's always a book on the table when we're doing some activities, working on some crafts or when we're learning something new. I use books everytime I get the chance. Luckily, my son is a passionate little book worm and can stay 1 or 2 hours without moving if I'm reading to him. Thats something I cherish. A lot! I'm very happy for this because all that my son knows (science, math, words and dictionary, English, nature, shapes etc) is mainly from books.
All right; so, for this activity we used many books on this topic to show, observe and explain how our body works, how the body is build, the internal organs, the muscle and bone systems, the brain, the circualtory system. The last one he didnt understand it well so I just leave it for now. Some other time. I insisted mostly on organs, muscles and bones.
And mostly, we have this book from the series "Raspundel Istetel" which is FABULOUS! Caleb adores these books. We have 9 books and one intelligent pen. They are amazing. My son is really a fan using these books. I have it always in the car when driving. He's very happy with the books and doesnt need a toy or a smartphone to keep him active and avoid becoming tired and bored.
"Raspundel Istetel" is a unique educational concept that allows children to accumulate a lot of interesting and useful information in a fun and dynamic way. Thanks to special technology, even preschool children who cannot read yet can fully use the books. The pen talks alone when touching the book. The books usually have 2000+ words, poems, stories, concepts, science words, animals, etc.
We started with this 4 layers puzzle: Internal Organs, Bones, Muscles and Skin.
Afterwards, I found online these easy worksheets to work on. They're really easy but efficient for learning if you only have a printer.
We reproduced the Bone System with its main bones. I think its enough for a small child even though my son knows the names of many many bones in our bodies and how the bones are part of the body to keep it stand. He knows that femurus is the longest bone and that its strong because it has the function to support the weight of the body. And many more facts like this.
I attach all the pictures to show you how we worked on this one.
Another cool thing we have are those cards, Montessori Cards they as they are called. They're really nice and we have maybe 30 pachages on different topics. They are really helpful and are especially a good visual resource to use when teaching kids.
The "Human Body" package familiarizes the child with the internal organs and the main bones of the human skeleton. The notions are presented in pairs consisting of a card with the illustrated element and a card with its position in the body.
This simple exercise is the simplest out there. I found many like this using all sort of materials to represent the organs. Maybe we'll do something in the future but for now I had energy only for this.
Still it was efficient. Besides this, I put Caleb to try show on his/my body the organs and where they're placed.
We named every organ and we used the book to find it. He already knew them but still, there's only something new to learn and to this age, repetition is the key for success.
This is another great thing I found on Twinkl. I use Twinkl to download worksheets. I pay for the service, but I dont know to tell you how much. I pay it anually and its automatic. Thats why I forgot how much it costs but they have a lot of good resources there. A LOT!
This activity has a bit harder and Caleb had to learn this time by paying attention and try reproduce the content he just learned.
Because the topic wasnt new for him, it was pretty easy but maybe this is not recommanded for every child, especially the ones which are only in the begining of human body's learning.
Still you can try and repeat it many times. It involves kid's memory, attentions and learning capacity.
We had to match the flash cards. The Organs and their Functions.
For example.
I have to end this post as already I feel its a bit too long but I can't do it other way. I hope this is useful for you too.
Basically, I tried share with you everything we've been doing 2 weeks ago on "My body" theme. Still some content to share though. 😏
I'll be posting another one - Part 2 - in the upcoming days. Stay tunned if you're interested! 🙂🤔
love, Missdeli 💛
