Homeschool bodies: Heart & Blood

You can't talk about the heart without talking about blood - so we combined the two subjects into one week. The gnomes learned that our heart is the size of our fists, and that it pumps oxygenated blood to our body through arteries, and veins carry oxygen-low blood back.

 Nice coloring in the lines, E!

Then we made our own blood (thank you Pinterest), with red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. The kiddos know that white fight (germs); red are made of a protein called hemoglobin, carry oxygen and are what makes blood red; platelets help scab and plasma carries it all together.

It was difficult to resist eating the blood ... ;) but the bowls sat on our table for a few days (until one bowl spilled and broke). Every visitor got a quick lesson about what's in our blood - which I love, because every time they teach someone else, those bits of knowledge plant deeper into their absorbing brains.

 

Big Sis devised a heart for our bodies which could actually be pumped! Pretty creative!

Though it looks like they're lined up to the wall in trouble ... or maybe kissing their paper bodies ... they're really just getting their paper bodyies' hearts pumping. :) ha ha.