Lungs

Today we learned about the lungs.

Here is Luke's body.  I love it how his bladder is falling out the crotch.  Isabel's is pretty funny too since she used girly decorative scissors to cut out her lungs.  Sylvia has only one of her lungs for some reason and she drew a happy face on it.   As you can see we still have some more main body parts to go but we are getting there.

Today Luke finished his Super Bouncy Ball Two and is already planning a third Bouncy Ball story.  Who knew a bouncy ball could have so many adventures.  Isabel takes forever to do her math, the sole reason being she insists on drawing each number in a pretty bubbly way.  I still need to do more reading with both of them today.  Maybe Joey will be up to it.  Does anyone have any suggestions on books for boys?  I have trouble keeping Luke supplied with books to read.  He is too fast.  He likes fantasy or adventure.  Let me know.

Our Artificial Stomachs

Today we each got a stomach (plastic sandwich bag) put some acid and juices in them (water with green food coloring.) We then chewed up a saltine cracker (smashed it in our hands) and swallowed (jammed it down a funnel.) Sometimes we had to make sure we had enough saliva (water) to get the crackers down our throats (the dry crumbles of crackers would get stuck in the funnel.) We then used our hands to help our stomachs churn the bolus (chunks of food) into chyme (mashed up food and stomach juices.) Afterward they colored a paper stomach and glued it onto their paper bodies.

Isabel wanted to "throw up" in the sink, but I was not in the mood to be that much fun.

Luke and I did some Mad Libs together while Isabel practiced writing the letter "G." They then did their math worksheets and now Isabel and I are having reading time. We will watch the movie Planet Earth later this afternoon.