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Literature
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Dem Bones by Bob Barner
Shake Dem Halloween Bones by W.
Nicola-Lisa
Skeleton Hiccups by Margery
Cuyler
The Skeleton Inside You by
Phillip Balestino
Funny Bones by Janet and Allen
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Poems/Songs
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Bones
(to the tune of "Home on the Range")
Oh, give me some bones
That are sturdy as stones,
That connect from my head to my toes.
My bones help me out,
Help my body about,
They protect it wherever it goes!
Chorus: Bones, bones
hard and strong,
All connected so nothing goes wrong.
My bones help me out,
Help my body about,
Bones protect me as I go along!
The bones in my spine
Help me stand up just fine,
While the bones in my ribs guard my heart.
The bones in my hips
Let me sit or do dips.
Without bones, I would just fall apart!
Chorus
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The Bony Hokey Pokey
Put your right phalanges in,
Put your right phalanges out,
Put your right phalanges in
And you shake them all about.
You do the bony hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around,
That's what it's all about!
Repeat for left phalanges, pelvic bone,
cranium, etc.
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X-Ray
by Joan
Horton
”This is your x-ray,”
Said young Doctor Jones.
As he held up a picture
And showed me my bones.
My eyes opened wide
At this curious sight...
It looks like I’m ready
For Halloween night!
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Being a Skeleton Isn't So Easy
Being a skeleton isn't so easy
When wintertime comes
And the weather gets freezy.
It shivers my bones
From my front to my back:
I shake and I rattle,
Click, clickety-clack.
Click, clickety-clack,
Clack, clackety-click,
Somebody throw me an overcoat---
Quick! |
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Science
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Put Dem Bones in a water table filled with corn meal. Provide
sifters and let the children sift for bones. Make a model skeleton
by gluing the Dem Bones candy pieces to cardstock to form a skeleton body.
Place this model close to the water table so the children can refer
to it as they sift for bones. Then they will be able to assemble
their bone pieces to look like the model--one skull, one chest, two arms, two
legs, two hands, etc. Once they have found all the parts they need,
they can go to their tables and glue their skeletons to cardstock. |
Use the overhead
projector to enlarge a skeleton blackline to average
kindergarten child-size. Trace it on white poster board, cut it
apart and write a capital and lower case letter on the joints that
match. Assemble it with brads. They like putting it together
and holding it up to each other to see how the bones fit. (Your
could "cheat" by buying a plastic jointed skeleton at a party store
and taking it apart.)
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Give each child a surgical rubber glove and have them place it on
the hand they do not write with. For younger children, tell them to
draw a line from the tip of their finger to the first fold, then
from that fold to the second fold and then to the palm, For older
children, give them a black marker and have them feel their bones and
trace them. They look like their own personal hand x-rays. |
Animals with Skeletons Book
Find pictures of
animals and their skeletons. Copy the skeletons on transparency
film. The children can match the skeleton to the correct animal
body. You can cut apart the transparencies and place them in order
over the animal pictures to make a book. |
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Copy an outline of a person on one side of
a paper and a skeleton on the back side of the paper. (They
have to be aligned one behind the other.) When you hold it up to the
light, you can see the bones inside.
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If
you have one of those tall housekeeping mirrors, you can
project a skeleton onto it and trace it with a dry-erase marker.
When the kids look into the mirror, they see the approximate
location of the bones in their own reflection. |
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Look at real X-rays.
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Skeleton Pieces to
assemble
http://www.benjerry.com/assets/images/fun_stuff/holidays/halloween/crafts/skeleton.gif
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Art
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Q tip skeleton
http://www.ibiblio.org/mturner/seawell/legos2/susan/skeletons.html |
Pasta
Skeleton
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Dog Bone
Skeleton
Paint
small dog bones white and then the children glue them to black paper
in the shape of a skeleton. |
Milk Jug
Skeleton
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/skeletonprojects/
Click on Milk Jug
Skeleton, then on 40 Spooktacular Crafts
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Math
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Dem Bones Candy
counting, sorting and graphing
A graph can be found in the Oct/Nov 2003
Kindergarten issue of The Mailbox magazine. |
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Dem
bones sorted by color |
Dem
Bones sorted by shape (bone types) |
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Dem
bones graphed |
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Other
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Skeleton Fries
Boil
a small potato for 25 minutes. Let it cool. To make the skull, peel
the skin from the potato and press in 2 cloves for eyes, 2
peppercorns for nostrils and 4 peppercorns for teeth. For the bones,
use either baked frozen french fries or potato sticks. |
Skeleton
Game
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/skeleton_game.htm
This game is similar to Roll-a Snowman.
Students roll a die to accumulate skeleton body parts and assemble a
skeleton. |
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Hidden Skeletons
Announce at
the beginning of the morning. There are "20" skeletons
hidden in our room right at this moment.. and they are
alive. The kids search and search before they realize that
it is them. |
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