The Skeletal System: Part 4 of 5 Breakfast Biscuits Meets Skeletal System Our children love to help out in the kitchen. We had a treat one day during our skeletal system study and decided to bake a cinnamon sugar biscuit hand. This was so much fun to do with them! They quickly learned all of the parts of the hand from the phalanges to the metacarpals all the way down to the carpals. Please note that I may receive compensation from affiliate marketing in this blog post. After

The Skeletal System: Part 3 of 5 This is one of may favorite activities within our skeletal system series. I actually held this activity off to the side for a while before we were able to get to it. The kids were so eager to figure out what Mama had been working on and preparing for a special homeschool day. Joints Our children were fascinated with the kinds of joints God created for us to move. By playing with each model, they were able to see the difference between the join

The Skeletal System: Part 2 of 5 Our children have been absolutely fascinated with learning about the human body. Who wouldn't be? Our Creator in His mighty power, made our bodies so beautiful and so complex. Through this activity, we had the opportunity to talk about how God created all creatures, however when he made man in His own image. "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." Genesis 1:27. I'm happy to sh

The Skeletal System: Part 1 of 5 I'm constantly in awe of the complexity of the human body. It's interesting how as moms, we plan and plan the curriculum for our homeschool year, yet sometimes it just doesn't go as we thought it might. As I've mentioned in a previous blog post, at the beginning of our school year we decided that most of our studies would be centered around astronomy. I decorated our homeschool room with spaceships and telescopes to make it interesting for the