Welcome to our class unit on skeletons.  We hope that you enjoy and learn  a lot!

         Our class made an outline of each other.  We studied all the body parts and added them to the outline.

                                   Braxton and Boone with their bodies.

                             April and Chase with the big book of the body parts.

         I brought a beef liver to school for the children to a body organ.  It was a very funny learning experience for them.   Needless to say, they didn't enjoy the smell.

                                             Braxton is not liking the odor.

                                               Kendrianna was trying her best.

                                        Olivia  and Shyanna learn a lot about the liver.    

                             Literature

•    The Skeleton Inside You  by  Philip Balestriano
•     The Bones Book and Skeleton  by Stephen Cumbaa
•     The Glow-in-the-Dark Book of the Human Skeleton  By Michael Novak
•     Skeleton by Jackie Glassman
•     A Magic Skeleton Book by Janet Sacks & Jan Smith
•     Skeletons by Steve Parker
•     Skeletons  by Deana Noonan
•     The Human Body by Seymour   Simon
•     Skeletons by Lily Wood
•     You Can't See Your Bones with Binoculars by Harriet Ziefert
•     A Book About Your Skeleton by Ruth Belov Gross
•     The Human Body by Janet Sacks, Jan Smith, & Peter Bull
•     Dem Bones by Bob Barner
•     Bones: Our Skeletal System  by Seymour Simon
•     Skelly the Skeleton Girl by Jimmy Pickering
•     How the Body Works by Steve Parker
•     My Bones by Carol K. Lindeen
•     Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Cugler
•     Funnybones by Allan & Janet Ahlberg
•     Spooky Hour by Tony Mitton
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•                          Facts
• There are 27 bones in each hand.
•  All bones have jobs.
•  The skull bones protect the brain.
•  The neck has seven bones.
•  There are more than 20 small bones in the backbone or spine.
•  Each bone has a hole in it for the spinal cord.
•  The hip bone or pelvis is six bones joined together.  It is shaped like
•  a bowl.  
•  The thigh bone is called a femur.
•  It is the strongest, heaviest, and longest bone in the body.
•  The leg bone is really two bones.
•  The fibula is on the side and the tibia is in the front.
•  There are more than 20 bones in each foot.  The foot bones grow
•  faster than any other bones in the body.     

                                                 Links

    Skeletons   Little Giffares

           Ben and Jerry's Fun Stuff

           Children's Museum

           Harcourt skeleton activity

           Body

           BBC bones

             Bones

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