After School Science Club

this is the first year that 2Z are able to attend after school clubs. both of them chose to go to science. there are six club meetings for each session. for the first session, the kids got to learn about the human body, from the skeleton to our internal organs. after each lesson, they brought home things that reinforced the lessons. it was great to see them learning stuff that i would've found difficult teaching them myself. the take home stuff, though, were less to be desired.

the first week, the kids brought home glow-in-the-dark skeletons. they had a blast with these things and took them everywhere. they only stopped playing with them when they started losing pieces of bones.

then, the kids brought home very realistic looking hearts. they were squishy and sticky, and when thrown against the wall, left very obvious red marks. we had to throw out Z boy's fake heart after he got all sorts of nasty grime stuck on it. amazingly, Z girl's little heart is still intact, sitting on top of her dresser in the little box she made for it.

the nastiest thing they brought home were the little tubs of large and small intestines. the more they sat in the tub of water, the bigger and more orange the model got. 2Z put these tubs in our breakfast area so that everytime we sat down to eat, we got a full view of them. after about 2 weeks, i finally asked them to throw it out. they parted with them very unwillingly!

in the final week, the kids had a review of all the lessons they learned. they put together a puzzle of the human body. the heart, the lungs, the stomach, and intestines are all underneath the rib cage. this picture doesn't show the true size of the puzzle. they are actually kid-sized posters.

the kids had a blast attending the science club. they always came out of the lessons with huge smiles. it's so great to see their interest in science piqued at this young age. the next session will start soon. we can't wait to see what they'll learn next!