Thursday, October 23, 2014

Short U and the Spine

The girls reviewed the short u sound today during language arts.  We watched a short Starfall video and then matched up short u words with pictures.


The girls returned to their seats to create suns with beams of short u words streaming out of them.

We continued learning about the skeleton today during science and we focused on the spine.  The girls took a straw and thread a pipe cleaner through it.  They tried to bend the pipe cleaner and found that it was difficult to make the straw move.  We then took the straw and cut it into several pieces and re-thread the pipe cleaner back through it.  The girls discovered that the pipe cleaner now could easily bend, just as the vertebrae allow our backs to bend.