Our Skeleton!

Today in First Grade we learned about the Skeleton! 

The children learned:

• to describe what the inner and outer parts of the bone looks like
• 3 jobs the skeleton does - protect organs, give shape to the body and that the long bones make blood cell
• a skeleton has 206 bones
• the spine has 26 bones that protect the spinal cord
• to locate where their spine is
• how the spine moves
• to identify the largest bone in their body as well and the smallest
• bones meet at places called joints

Morah brought in diagrams for the children to see as we went along. To review, we played a game show review game and labeled a diagram of a skeleton. The children also made their own spinal cords! Morah handed out pipe cleaners to act as the spinal cord. Then each child was given cut up pieces of straw to act as the bones that protect the spinal cord. The children placed the cut straws on the pipe cleaner and bent them in all directions. This demonstrates the idea of small bones protecting the spinal cord and allowing us to bend at the same time.