Muscles and Making Bias Tape

Science: The Muscular System!

What is cool about the muscular system? We have been asking this question this week. What I really wanted to know was.. How do you strengthen a muscle??

You strengthen a muscle by using it often and by lifting weights. An unused muscle does no good and actually gets weaker.

In addition to the Mix It (baking) club, we are also in a running club. We are setting goals and encouraging each other to run. Running gives us a great opportunity to strengthen our muscles!

Our family went on the treadmill this week and we learned that it is important to not only stretch our muscles before running but also warm them up first. We did the warming up steps that mom showed us. Then we did the stretching exercises that dad showed us. After running I did some cool down exercise with mom.

We also colored, cut and glued our muscles onto our bodies.

October Crates Part 2, a Bones Test and more Pajamas Pants!

Science:

We studied and studied and then we took our test on the names of the bones!

Score system: For every ten bone names we label and get correct, we will get one dollar to spend at Dollar Tree. Mom will pay all costs, including tax. Mom looked at our Skeleton book and saw that there were about 31 specific bone sections. If we got all of them we could get three dollars, (or three items at Dollar Tree.) 

First, we assembled our skeleton with super cool glue tape from my scrapbooking supplies! It is much easier to apply than glue, plus no drying time, and it doesn't explode out of the sides and wrinkle the papers from being super duper wet! 

October Kiwi Crates and Names of the Bones Part 2

Science: Names of the Bones Part 2

This week was all about studying the names of the bones. We did this every day because we have a test coming up and next week we are moving onto a new body system!

Bone Humor: haha!