A couple weeks ago I bought a children's book from Barnes and Noble called "My Body." I got it knowing that Aislin was interested in bones/the skeletal system, so I had planned to use it for a home preschool lesson and wondered if it would be as successful as the flower anatomy lesson we had last spring. It took me forever to get around to this lesson! This brand new book sat in its B&N bag for weeks, and then after I had cleaned the desk a couple days ago, it sat on top of a shelf. It wasn't until Aislin saw it on the shelf that I remembered it was there...and that something I had paid for was going unused! Sometimes that's all the motivation one needs ;)
So today we finally did the lesson.
The book is broken up into several different topics related to the body, from its senses to its skeleton, so I just showed the kids the few pages related to the skeleton. (At least I'll have tons of material to use for different lessons later on!) The kids stayed engaged throughout group time because they got to poke themselves and feel their different bones. Afterwards, we went upstairs for the art activity, which was putting a skeleton together, identifying the parts we had just learned about, and then coloring those parts with the same color of their labels.
It was a lot of work! Still, Aislin got through it without whining or getting distracted.
I had given Des something to color, but he, on the other hand, doesn't care as much for art lol. Go figure ;) Tim and I have thought about getting him legos or blocks of different shapes (since the kids have long since grown tired of the square alphabet/number blocks that they've had since Aislin was a year old), so that'll be another experiment ;)
Conclusion: YES, Aislin's strongest interests are rooted in science and art. Yes, she can focus on something without being totally annoying, and usually that focus is at its best when she's learning from her two favorite subjects. And yes, this lesson was as successful as the one on flower anatomy!
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