Circulatory, Digestive, Lymphatic, and Endocrine Systems
This chapter was divided into 2 parts, and we have 2 classes per 'part,' one class every other week.
So this was our third class for this chapter, and we studied the circulatory and endocrine systems.
This time we had a game within a game. I asked questions, they earned points, and then their team got to move based on how many on their team knew the answer.
Even though this was a game about the circulation system, we also learned and had questions about the endocrine system.
The Circulation Game (printables and instructions)
In this game, there were 2 types of waste product tokens to be taken out of the body (CO2 goes to the lungs, other waste goes to the kidneys in this game), and O2 and sugar & protein tokens get taken to 5 designated cells on our little man here. Both CO2 and O2 can only "ride" on red blood cells.
We were talking about the alveoli at the ends of the bronchioles, and I told them on some videos it was pronounced al-VEE-oh-lie, and on others, ahl-vee-OH-lee. They liked the second because it sounds like "ravioli." So they promptly decided his name was Chef Boyardee. LOL! They name everything, and I love it. =D
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| Team Orange moving their playing piece, Team Blue still counting, deciding on the best move. |
Two teams of three, all six kids gave an answer, and for each one on their team that had the correct answer, they got to move 10 spaces. (Seems like a lot of spaces for one turn, but this is a long game!) And even with an hour, because of the questions we still didn't finish the game, but tallied the points to determine the winner.
Individual points won candy, and the winning team got extra. =) Blue team won! =) 24-26
And they were so funny. One of the girls said she just couldn't think today, and somehow something was mentioned about tacos, and they were saying she ate too many tacos (although she didn't even eat a taco at all!) and no one really knows how that got started... so when someone got an answer wrong, or didn't know the answer, they would all say, Taco!
And once, JohnDavid didn't know an answer, so he drew a taco on his answer board, lol.
4th class for this chapter - digestive system and lymphatic system.
The kids had to name and label the digestive system, as well as distinguish which organs were part of the actual digestive tract (where food actually passes through).
Again, they brought up tacos when someone couldn't remember something, lol. These kids are a lot of fun. One more chapter....
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