Them bones, them bones, them dancing bones

Today we talked about bones and we sang a dancing bones song.

We know we can see our bones if we use an x-ray machine. We made x-ray pictures of our hands. Did you know there are 206 bones in your body? Babies have 270 bones in their bodies. Altogether in our classroom, there are 8858 bones. That's a lot of bones! There are over 90,000 bones in our whole school.

We counted the bones in our fingers - there are three bones in each finger, and two in our thumb, so that makes fourteen altogether. We know that there are three bones in our leg - and we know Tyler broke his leg, but we don't know which bone. We will ask Tyler to show us his real x-ray, and we might be able to put a picture of it on our blog!

We thought bones were made of wood, or perhaps metal or plastic, but actually they are made from calcium. You get calcium from milk or yoghurt or cheese, so we need to eat lots of those things to make our bones grow strong. And look at all the other things that have calcium in them too!