After we did the jungle puzzle the kids got the plastic animals out and were matching them to the animals on the puzzle. Davies suddenly asked me about a giraffe’s skeleton, we have been doing various bits on skeletons ever since the last London trip to the science museum when we bought a little bones kit. We have done stuff like naming the main bones, made the cotton bud skeletons, looked in our human body books for more details, played the game Jax mentioned and so on. It’s all been totally Davies led and I have merely answered his questions or if I can’t then we have found them together.
So I googled and found a site with various animal skeleton pictures, and printed out a giraffe one for him. It also had frogs, fish, camels, snakes, emus, turtles and a couple of others. He was excellent at working out what the animal was from its skeleton and we talked a bit about how their skeletons are different to ours. In all I suppose it was a ten minute exercise, totally based on his interest and at his request. It’s really hard not to leap on it and start some big bone based project tomorrow but as that seems to be a sure fire way of ceasing his interest in stuff I will abstain and hope his next question is not too far away.
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Ooh, I want that link, we are still very into bones and skeletons!
Nic, I’ve got the DK CD_ROM Dinosaur Hunter which Kieran used to love – part of it is looking at bones of dinosaurs and working out which one goes where – you then build the dinosaurs and they roam around. Its aimed at much older children but he loved it at 4/5 ish. LMK if you want you can borrow it as Carys isn’t interested and F is too young yet.
Jenny