We have been talking about healthy foods and exercise keeping our bodies healthy. We looked at and painted with all sorts of fruits and vegetables. A great Bible example would be Daniel eating healthy foods in the book of Daniel chapter 1: vs. 3-20.
We made skeletons out of q tips and a set of teeth out of marshmallows. I got the skeleton idea off a a favorite website, but can't remember which one, and a friend gave me the teeth idea. We also had a dentist table with plaster egg carton shaped teeth and play dough scrapers, and tooth brushes. I would color little cavities and plaque on their teeth with a washable marker and they had to get them off. A great dentist experiment is to use a boiled egg and soak the shell in cola or coffee and then let the children use tooth paste to clean it off. Works great, You can also leave the egg soaking for several days and the cola will begin dissolving the shell which shows how it is so bad for your teeth enamel.
Our last day is germ day and we will put glitter in a balloon and blow the balloon up and pop it to show how your sneeze spreads. We also made cover your sneeze puppets by tracing a hand, gluing tissue to it and stapling it to our paper plate that we have drawn our face on. Only have my teacher example for pictures this week. Thanks Mrs. Wendy for making this crazy puppet!
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The best part of the week was two moms that are nurses came. One talked to us about healthy bodies and nurses. The other shared about germs and brought a black light and soap that showed if you did not get it all washed off under the black light. Get those germs away!!!!! WASH WASH WASH!!!! We cleaned the home living center, we pretended to be doctors and nurses caring for our baby dolls.
A great science experiment for germs is to show how germs spread and bacteria grows. We did not do this because we ran out of time this year, but it is GROSS to see when we have done it. I take 2 pieces of white bread and put one in a paper bag labeled clean and the other we rubbed on the floor and on the chair and just had a kid rub their hand on it. We bag that one in a bag labeled dirty. When I have done the experiment I put the bags up and we check them in about a week to see that the dirty piece has grown many disgusting bacterias. The clean one will have bacteria to, just because bread does mold but nothing like the dirty piece. I have read that you can also use potato slices, but have never tried that. VISUALS ARE SO IMPORTANT,
Fun and very important week. .Favorite resource this week was a book about muscles that one of my moms got at the half price book store and gave to me. IT WAS COOL! Title: YOU CAN'T MAKE A MOVE WITHOUT YOUR MUSCLES We also used the beginning sight word booklet I Can Move from http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/ .
