Questions about our bodies

Today Lance knocked a scab off the top of his toe and while cleaning up the blood he asked several questions...

"How did the blood get there?"

"Where did it come from?" 

"Why is it red?"

We had a quick conversation about blood being inside our bodies and only coming out when we get a cut or a graze, while together we put a plaster on Lance's toe and that was that off he went back to play. 

As a teacher I made the most of Lance showing an interest in the blood that was coming out of his toe, and gathered some books about human bodies and approached Lance with them. Immediately he stopoed his play on the swing and sat down in the stones engrosed in the first page of the book, Lincoln sat alongside him and looked at the pictures while asking questions about the skeleton in the book.

"Thats like my arm that I broke" lance shared pointing the the arm on a skeleton.

Together Lance and Lincoln read two body books from the front cover to the back, looking at fine details on each page - asking questions about the different parts of our bodies that were looked into on each page. Together the boys found a page, with images of knees with blood on them... this brought Lance back to his questions - "How did the blood get there?" he asked. Together we read the text which explained about blood coming out of a cut or a graze to stop germs from getting inside our bodies. Both boys were clearly motivated to explore and question what they were seeing in the book to find more out about their very own bodies

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advances..." - Albert Einstein.