During our summer vacation, we got the tiny opportunity to learn a bit about our body. Pinky has been asking to do activities about this topic for quite a time now. However, it seems that something always got in our way.

 

Not wanting to keep it longer, here are a few things we did.

 

First, we put this skeleton puzzle together. I am not sure where’s from because I bought it at Goodwill a couple of years ago.

The next activity was to write the bones names on index cards and match to the correct bone.

Meet your bones!

 

So cute together!

These are other puzzles we got to use. The brain is from Staples, and I think the others are from a dollar store. I know for sure they were $1 each!!!

 

Then, I made some organs using felt. I used an Anatomy book as a reference and draw the organs by sight.

I used cheap felt (busted!) so I had to fold it in half and glue the sides together with a hot glue gun. As a result, the felted organs are stronger which I think is good if small and busy hands are the ones using them.

The stomach. As you can see, the felt sheet is folded in half.

 

Here they are!!!

(Brain, lungs, heart, liver, gallbladder, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, urinary bladder, small and long intestines)

 

Another activity was to use doctor’s related stickers from Michaels to create art.

Isn’t that so cute?

 

We also watched a few videos from YouTube and the Magic school bus on Netflix (The Human body).

 

Finally, we read lots of books!

These books are ours. I mostly got them for 0.39 cents up to $1 at a Thrifty store nearby.

So far she just looked at the pictures and we read anything that called her attention at the moment.

We read the magic school bus (Spanish) and then watched the movie on Netflix.

 

Finally, no unit can’t be completed without some dramatic play time or field trip.

Actually, we have 3 physicians at home!

 

 

Visit our Pinterest board: Anatomy for more amazing ideas!

 

 

I believe it wasn’t a short unit after all!

Here are other things we included on our All about me unit.

I am special poem plus a drawing of myself. I am Special poem idea and more from here. Pinky is at that stage were she loves to draw people. Our fridge door is full of her family drawings….She loves to draw daddy between mommy and her most of the time…

• All about me mini book. All about me mini-book is from here.

• Draw a face.

• All about ME silhouette collage idea is from here.

• Girl and Boy shapes. From this pack we got The shape bodies activity, Which is different?, Pre-writing exercises, alphabet letter match and the number puzzles.

• Matching upper/lower case letters. Boys and girls.

  

• Number puzzles.

  

• All about me poem #2.

• Body parts mini book From Kidz club here. She colored these and we practiced our body parts in English/Spanish/French.

• What I can do mini book is from here.There is a recompilation about LOTS of All about me activities and a lesson plan. We used these to practice cutting for the first time…she did good but we still need lots of more practice with the scissors.

• Rainbow hair mini book. For practicing colors! Rainbow hair poem is from here.

• What does he'/she looks like? from Kidz club here.

• Also we had fun doing some puzzles, including one about community helpers. She wants to be all of them…but when we are riding on the taxi she wants to be a taxi driver so she could take me everywhere (so cute!) and when we take the bus she wants to be a bus driver. I think it will be fun to be all of them, too! A little bit tired but fun!

Have fun!

These past days was All About Me activities. We did lots of the same themes but trying to change the way we were learning about them. As for example, we did many activities about our body parts but using file folder games, books, worksheets, paint, songs and Montessori inspired activities, too. It seems too much for a 3 years old one but Pinky love it. She thought these were “homework” and was so happy to find a different activity every day. We were doing this theme since is what she is doing at school, too. I will try to follow their schedule so she can practice at home. (I am just following my child desire to do “school” at home, too….of course, after she comes back from school, she plays with her toys, watches tv, dances, sings, rest and when she feels like doing “homework” she just tells mommy).

Here’s our week in review (just the Montessori part for now):

• My body book: I did this one a while ago with the body parts in English/Spanish so she could use it with magnetic letters. This time we just looked at the pictures and named them.

• My body file folder game. I did this one but don’t remember where I got these printables. The front and back pictures are from magazines.

• Body puzzle- got this one at Target a long time ago. It’s a little hard for her so I wrote upper and lower case letters for her to match.

• Fine motor activity. Fingers cake: Kind of Montessori inspired activity. It’s a foam where we added golf tees and she had to use tongs to transfer the fingers (from the dollar spot at Target) over each golf tee. (Does it make sense?)

• Fine motor activity. I have eyes on my feet!!! Practicing pincer grasp by putting gloogly eyes on a feet suction shower holder.

• Dot your name.

• What are those lines??? Explore your fingerprints!

• Dora’s life stages. Will need a pregnant doll and an old lady!!! The life stages of a woman is from here plus here you can find a body lapbook idea in Spanish. Great blog!She loved it but told me that the last one was Barbie and NOT Dora..lololo

• Taking care of our body! Match the picture with the product.

• DIY Hand book. The parts of a hand: Just trace your baby hand (He/she will be very excited as mine was) and photocopy many times so in each page he/she can just color each part of the hand as: right hand, left hand, thumb finger, index, middle, ring, pinky, wrist, palm of the hand, back of the hand and, the most excited one, finger nail which you can color using nail polish! Also, this will be great as a 3-part cards activity.

That’s all….FOR NOW!!!

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