Experiments with skin - receptors and nerve endings Part 2

We were blindfolded while mom drew a dot on our foot. We had to take the pen and draw a dot exactly where mom drew hers.
There are not many receptors on the top of the foot, so look how far away our mark is from moms.
Our fingertips have the most nerve endings and receptors, so we managed to hit the mark exactly where mom had.
Our pen mark was right on top of the one mom made. We use our fingers to feel everything and discover the world around us, so they have so many receptors - we don't use the tops of our feet to feel things, and so they don't have many receptors.

Learning about the skin - Eden

This is my first drawing of a cross section - it is the skin, I had loads of fun drawing this.
My poster on the skin.

We love Ms Frizzle

We have quite a few of these books that cover many aspects of Science in a unique way, so it was quite nice to get hold of one on the human body, we are looking out for the dvd. It makes quite a nice change for the younger ones from all the reference books on the body, and Eden loves the imaginative side of it too.

Niamh reciting Psalm 8

We are really enjoying memorizing portions of the bible, even Jude is picking up parts of the verses - we have started learning chapters, or parts of chapters. This is Niamh reciting the whole of Psalm 8.

Jude learning about the body.

Since the girls are learning about the human body, I thought it would be a good idea for Jude and his friends to join in too.

Jude painting an full sized outline of himself - he is extremely careful in his painting and colouring in, very nice fine motor control Jude ;)
Ciara could not keep away from the paints for one second.
Our first lesson was the sense of taste, this is Jude most probably tasting very concentrated unsweetened coffee - it is bitter.

We are learning about the human body !

We have started learning about the human body, and I started by building this model(Eden was too busy reading, so I got to do it all myself).

Sunset pastel by Eden

(The join down the middle is because the paper is too big for the scanner so we have to scan it in sections and merge it)