FunnyBones - My Body
We have been learning about our bodies with the spooky and imaginative story FunnyBones, written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. On small world, we used the skeleton characters to retell the story and, if we were brave enough, we added our mini-me characters into the dark, dark adventures too.
We created skeletons in every area of our Bears classroom, on chalkboards, with chalk on black paper, cotton bud skeletons, pipe cleaner skeletons, playdough skeletons, skeletons drawn on the playground, loose part skeletons and even large jigsaw skeletons too. Please take a look at the skeletons on display in our book area.
On our blue writing table, we shared the story in groups.
Then we sequenced pictures from the story to make our own concertina FunnyBones book, and used our books to help us retell the FunnyBones story. Next, we created a new page for the book and thought about what the Big Skeleton and Little Skeleton might say in their new adventure.
On the practical table, we explored our senses with flavoured teas, herbs, spices, coffee beans, and citrus fruits. We were encouraged to look closely, smell, taste and describe them. We thought about what the aromas reminded us of - toothpaste, curry and chocolate.
We explored different textures of cotton wool, pine cones, pebbles and pasta and tried to visualise objects by touching and not seeing them, then thinking of words to describe them. We continued our sensory play with a soundtracks game, and sound eggs filled with different things to make a noise when we shook them. We looked at some picture cards to help us guess what was inside.
In our outside provision, we drew around a friend, then constructed a skeleton with sticks inside our outline. We searched the sand area for bones to reconstruct a skeleton. In the FunnyBones story the dog skeleton isn't put together correctly and he looks rather funny. Some of our skeletons looked rather funny too! We created chalk skeletons on our large chalkboards and floated boats in our water area. We made some spooky recipes in our mud kitchen and played in our large and small dark, dark street scenes.
In outdoor learning, we continued our Funny Bones theme by making skeletons using sticks and logs. We had a little competition between the colour teams in the Antelopes and Bears. Great teamwork as we worked together to find different sized sticks and logs and talked about which parts we needed. We had a spine, ribs, skull, arms and legs. Our skeletons were super!
Next time, Super Me with Supertato.