This half term in Science we are learning all about ourselves.
We started the topic by thinking about the names of some of our different body parts. We played ‘Simon says’ and drew around some of our friends and labelled the different parts of their bodies. We made sure to include lots of body parts like ankles, wrists and elbows.
Then we looked carefully at our faces and identified some of the parts of our face; we noticed eyebrows, eyelashes, chins and foreheads. We worked hard to draw ourselves and then used the word bank to help us label the different parts. Can you tell who is who by looking at the pictures?
This week we have been thinking about the enquiry question ‘Do older children have bigger feet?’. We had great fun drawing around each others’ feet and we are looking forward to using these drawings to help us find out the answer to our enquiry next week.
Here are some of our predictions:
- Yes because J**** is already 6 and other people are so small because they don’t have their birthday yet.
- No because babies have 300 bones and when you’re an adult those bones fuse together and you have 206 bones.
- Yes because my dad’s feet are about this big so it must have been like that. I think they go forward a bit then backward a bit then more forward.
- Yes because babies inside their mummy’s tummy have feet that are like that small (showing size with hands). When they come out they look bigger but when they get bigger their feet get bigger and bigger and bigger.
How to help at home:
- Encourage your child to ask questions and think about how they can find out the answer to them.
- Visit the library and see if you can find some books about humans.
- Draw around a family member and label their body parts.
- Compare yourself to your grown up or a younger brother or sister. What is the same? What is different?