Parts of the Human Body

I was emailed by a reader that they had seen the parts of the body cards but it wasn't available online. I have so very many things I haven't uploaded yet that I can't remember which ones I do or do not have online.  I thank her for asking for them.

Here they are:

Parts of the Human Body Nomenclature Cards

This is the companion Blackline Master for making the booklets:

Parts of the Human Body Blackline Master

 

Parts of the Eye Nomenclature Cards and Blackline Master Free Downloads - Plus a Musings About the Sense of Sight

I created this set over the summer for our class to use while we learned about the sense of sight.  This year I have changed from doing all the senses at once to focusing on on sense in a month.  All of the senses were introduced during the 3rd week of school, but taking each sense and focusing more in depth has been rather enjoyable for the children this year.  The sense of sight was the first sense of focus.

To begin the sense of sight we took a little walk out to our community garden with a bit of prompting to pay close attention to interesting things that we could see there.  Once back inside we had a discussion about all the things they could see.  This took some time since all the children wanted to talk about more than one thing that was interesting to them that they could see.  The next question was, of course, "What part of our body do we use to see?".  At a later circle I introduced the Model of the Eye.  I have long been of the opinion that the Early Childhood through the Upper Elementary Child can benefit greatly from good quality medical models just as much as the college student.  While I would love to have inexhaustible pockets, I do not, so I purchase the best quality I can for my budget.

This model is from EISCO and was purchased from Amazon using our Prime Membership.  It ran just about $25.00.

After the children were introduced to and had some experience with the model, I introduced them to some sheep eyes and did a dissection.  Now-- I must say that there was NOT one child who was grossed out by this science work.  Quite the contrary.  Utter fascination and riveted attention is more like it.  I used these Large Line Time Cards to point out different the same parts we were seeing in the sheep's eyes.

Parts of the Eye Large Line Time Cards
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On a different day I introduced the Parts of the Eye Nomenclature Cards and the accompanying booklets.  Especially the 4's & 5's loved this work.  There were some children who loved them so well, they took them off the shelf EVERY day for two weeks.

Parts of the Eye Nomenclature Cards
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Parts of the Eye Blackline Master
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Parts of the Skeleton and Parts of the Pumpkin Nomenclature Cards with Blackline Masters

Here are two offerings that I have finished in these last couple of weeks.  These are topics we are studying right now during October and I found I didn't have either of them created yet.

An important note is that the skeleton cards are patterned after a 3-4 year old's skeleton.  I adapted them from this printable work.

I didn't like any of the Parts of the Pumpkin cards that are out there.  You might notice the same type of cutaway as the layers of the earth.

Parts of the Skeleton Nomenclature Cards
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These are the blackline Masters for both sets.  I have been learning a new way to make and use Parts of Books that I really like.  The first page in the blackline masters are just the image with no words or even a line.  The following pages are to help me in making the Parts of Control Books.  First I color in the isolated image in red and then I trace over the light gray letters with a fine sharpie pen.   I cut them apart, laminate them and plasticoil bind them.  I make sure that the plasticoil gives plenty of room for turning the page with ease.

One thing I learned years back is that whatever way you write your letters the children will copy.  Another thing I learned during one of my Practicum weekends was that a segment of the population cannot make sense of dotted or dashed letters.  Each dot looks separate and does not really create a whole letter.  This was troubling news to me and I started wondering about my oldest child with dyslexia.  Did that make things harder for her?

When the child creates the parts of books they can do one of 3 things in order to write the words.  They can copy the words because they are advanced enough to do that.  They can lay their colored parts of paper over the top of the page they are trying to create and trace over the letters, or I can write the words in a yellow highlighter for them to trace.  All three methods are regularly being employed in my classroom with great success.

Parts of the Skeleton Booklets Blackline Master
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Parts of the Pumpkin Booklets Blackline Master
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Nomenclature Cards and Parts Booklets - What a Little Child Taught Me

I have formed a new friendship with the Nomenclature and 3-Part Cards and their subsequent Parts of Booklets this year.  Last year a few of the children really loved doing the cards and the booklets, while most of others have shown no real interest in them.  This year I have been hoping to interest more children in these lovely little cards and booklets that I have spent so much time creating (literally), laminating, cutting, coloring, binding etc.  They are great works that help integrate learning across the areas of the classroom.  They can be a pre-reading, reading, writing, coloring, story-telling, show-off to parents, memory building, science, geography, math, sensorial work.  You might be getting the picture.

WELL... this year our class has had the most wonderful thing happen, AND it was child directed.  About the third week into school I had a 4 1/2 year old, who is driven by a lovely inner voice, do the Parts of the Plant and Parts of the Fruit Nomenclature Cards at the same time.  He then made the Parts of Booklets as well.  Another child saw his work and wanted to do it too.  Both were very accomplished at their work.  At the end of the day they asked if they could read their books to the class in AUTHOR'S CHAIR (they knew this from last year and Writer's Workshop).  Of course I let them, and everyone clapped for their wonderful and challenging work.  I could have chosen to save the Author's chair for books that the children had independently created, but I am so glad I didn't.  We will make an extra special note when a child makes a book All-By-Themselves for Author's Chair.

The magic happened the next day.  Multiple children asked me if they could create their own books in order to read them to the class.  One child said... "So when I finish the Nomenclature Cards I can make a booklet right?"  I said that once she had mastered the nomenclature cards she could create the booklet.  The children spread the word and the Nomenclature Cards have NOT sat on the shelf gathering dust (that a child would clean off) this year.  The valuable lesson the children taught me is this: There is such beauty in sharing your work with your friends, and such a good feeling.  As an adult I recognize this in myself.  It is one reason I have this blog.  I love to share what I have created with people who appreciate and can really use them.  Why would it be any different for children?

I just have to say... Follow the Child, they are our best teacher.

Solar System Nomenclature Cards

This is the same child doing the Nomenclature Cards and the Parts of Book in the next Picture.


Solar System Parts of Cards

This Parts of Booklet is pre-stapled because last year I noticed how frustrated the children were 
about this booklet.  They kept getting confused which planet was which.  I have some unstapled 
sets for the older kids.

Parts of the Body Nomenclature Cards

This child ended up getting one more rug out to hold all the name cards you can see at the top 
of the picture for this work.  There really are a lot of cards to this work.  Almost enough to break it 
into two sets, but they really like it together so I have kept them that way.  The Tray is from 
Montessori Research and Development.




Parts of the Plant Booklet

This child did not want to write the words to her booklet this day.  I let her know that as 
soon as she "publishes" a book - meaning that it is colored, with all the names written and 
stapled - she can read it to the group.

Taking Over a New Class

This year I have changed classrooms and responsibilities.  I moved from my safe little classroom to take over for some teachers who left our school.  It is my job to make this classroom successful.  I am in the Spanish dual language program classroom now.  It is a mixture of children from several classrooms, but there is a core group of children who were there last year.  These children have really needed retraining this year.  About 80% of them are boys.  I have spent a lot of time during the first 3 weeks of school observing all of the children, becoming emotionally available and a confidant, creating structure in the classroom, following through again and again with ground rules, and setting the stage for correct treatment of the environment and each other.  It is tiring work to be sure, but sticking to the difficult work at the beginning of the year really pays off.

For the first two weeks I pulled out over 25 different manipulative works and had several shelves dedicated to them just to give myself a pulse on the room and where the children were.  They used these works with gusto.  It has really helped to have only manipulatives in retraining the children to become careful with their work, return the work ready for another child to use, walk around and not through rugs, walk in the classroom in the first place, respect when a child has already chosen a work and not to disturb them etc.  This is certainly an ongoing process.  It seems like it can take an entire year for some of the younger children not to walk on their neighbor's rug if something grabs their attention.

During the third week I noticed that the older children were bored with the manipulatives so I began giving lessons.  Some of the record keeping was spotty so I had to test out to see where they really were in the different areas.  On Thursday, this week (being the 4th week of school), we noticed that it was 2 hours into our work time before any child chose a manipulative work.  YIPEE!  I only have one shelf of manipulatives now, and only the ones that the children find the most interesting.

These are some images from our last week of work.

Exploration of Metal Insets by a returning student

Mouse House turned into a Spanish Work.  Es el raton debajo de la casa anaranjado?

Hanging Bead Stair

Writing Words using the Large Moveable Alphabet

Initial Sound Object Sort - This is the Pink Mat
I am so excited to have these new mats.  I handmade the set I
have been using and just got these new ones this week.

Gluing noodles on apples work.  Next week we will paint these works.
This allows the work to be done in more than one step but still follow
the Montessori rule that art should be a shelf work.

Parts of the Plant Nomenclature Cards.  This child completed this work
 beautifully and could even tell me every part of the plant and later the
Fruit.  He then made the booklets for each work.

Rainbow Rings.  My children LOVE this work.  It is actually
Wine Glass Markers that I found at a kitchen store in Park City.

Using Clay Lesson.  You can see how the little one is using
his "watching arms" during this presentation.

Parts of the Snail Puzzle.  We wouldn't usually have this work
out right now, but this child found a snail in the school
garden and was really interested so I pulled it out.

Weaving with ribbons

Parts of the Flower Puzzle

Parts of the Fruit Nomenclature Cards and Magnetic Parts Puzzle 

Baby Spooning Stars.  This work is pretty challenging for this child.
She has been with me since last year and has needed this long to
be ready for this work.

Sandpaper Letters with Initial Sound Booklets.
This child was successful at all the letters in the first
set and was subsequently hiding them in the
classroom to then find them again.

Hand Transferring.  I just have to say how much I love the
elliptical shape of these wooden bowls.  There are mung beans
inside.  They sound just like rain when they hit the
wood.  Many times the child will remark about this when
they first have this lesson.

Object to Object Sorting with two Space Toobs.  Because I
have so many boys I have geared some of the Pre-reading
works to pull them in.  We are also beginning the year by
learning about our place in the universe.

The Farm Mat - a grammar work.  I made this mat as well.

Plant and Animal Cutting and Pasting Sheet

This is another cutting and pasting work that I just found in my files that I hadn't uploaded yet.  This work goes with the Plant and Animal presentation from this post.  The child cuts, sorts, and then pastes to a new sheet to complete this work.  There are two kinds of labels for you to choose which font you want to use.

Plant/Animal Cutting and Pasting Sheet
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Living Nonliving Cut and Paste Work

I have been looking around my files to see what else I have forgotten to put online.  I have found a few things.  This sheet is a companion work to the Living/Nonliving cards used in this post.  The children can cut them out, sort them, and paste them to another sheet to complete this work.

Living/Nonliving Cut and Paste Sheet
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Montessori Amphibians of the World Cards

This newest set of cards for the montessori classroom and homeschool is a great addition to an Amphibians Folder, or as a stand alone set.

Children are not usually exposed to the different kinds of amphibians that live on this earth, and as a result these cards are very interesting for them.  Even most adults do not know much about caecilians which is the 3rd order of Amphibians.  The 1st being frogs and toads, the 2nd being salamanders and newts.

These cards contain 5 amphibians from 6 different continents.  There are no amphibians found on the continent of Antarctica, which is an interesting part of the conversation when using these cards with a group.  The 6 continents are symbolized on the cards to facilitate the children in locating them on the puzzle maps or continents globe.  Each card also contains a fairly easy sentence for early readers that gives a little bit of information about each amphibian.  There is also a header card for sorting by continent.

*Note that Australia has 5 frogs since no other amphibians are found there.

Amphibians of the World Cards
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Montessori Zoology - Classes of Vertebrates Nomenclature Set Little Booklets

Breaks are so fabulous!  I have gotten a number of things taken care of during my two week break that is quickly coming to a close.  I am both excited to get back into the classroom with the children and wishing that I had a few more days to prepare a few more things.

I have finished the Little Booklets for the Zoology Nomenclature Set that I posted here.

This set focuses on the five classes of vertebrates using the following animals:

• Fish
• Bird
• Horse - mammals
• Frog - amphibians
• Turtle - reptiles

This set also includes little booklets using tracing fonts for both Print & D'nealian styles and also a blank sheet for independent writing.

Zoology Set Little Booklets
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Picture and Object Sets for Early Learning

Over the years I've had my own and other children asking me if they could see more pictures of sea slugs or kinds of houses, volcanoes or octopus - you name it, they really want a chance to see more pictures of things (especially things they don't get to see very often).  Just two weeks ago I had a child ask me if I could make a set of more pictures of sea horses for our classroom.  Other children chimed in that they would like it too, especially of daddy seahorses with babies being born.  So, I of course wanted to make them.  We had just finished reading a great book called Seahorses that showed a father seahorse with the babies popping out of his pouch.

I tend to put these picture sets out in a basket with some items, if possible, on the subject that they can explore as well.  I print, cut out and laminate the cards and then put them on a large ring.  After that I put them in the basket with the other items and set them out on the shelf to explore.  I find that this is a great way to ignite the curiosity of the youngest children that do not have reading skills.  They begin to wonder all about things that they never knew existed before.  Not only this, but a sense of awe and wonder begins to develop about the beauty of our earth.  Many times a little child will bring me the Globe of the World Parts (also called the Continents Globe), and ask me where these "things" are on the earth, and then we get to have a child initiated conversation about Great And Important Things.

This first set that I am showing you is called: Shells, Starfish and Sand Dollars.  It is the first set I  put out in the year.  This basket has a HUGE sand dollar (about 5 inches across) I found at a thrift shop, a nice sized starfish and a large hermit crab figurine along with a magnifying glass for exploration.  It also has the Photo Set which has several pictures each of shells, starfish and sand dollars.

Shells, Starfish and Sand Dollars Photo Card Set
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What frequently happens with new children in the beginning is they are just interested in the objects in the basket, but after they have worked with them a few times they will begin to look through the photos.  After a short time, a child will look at a photo and begin to make comparisons with the physical object.  I just feel tickled the first time I see them using the magnifying glass and to look at the object and then turning to a picture and using the magnifying glass to look closely at a photo card.

This is one of those baskets at the beginning of the year where the children come away feeling calmer, refreshed and happier after using.  I think it is also one of my favorite tools to begin to instill care of the items on the shelves and in the classroom.  They are really awed by the size of the sand dollar and yet, it IS breakable as well as the starfish.  When presenting to a child, I speak about these beautiful and incredible gifts that I have brought to the classroom for them.  I also speak about how these are the outsides of an animal that used to be alive.  I ask them if they would like to take VERY special care of this sand dollar and all the other things in this basket?  This sets them off in the right direction to care for them correctly.

Shells, Starfish and Sand Dollars Basket with Photo Cards

I am excited to unveil future sets for the enjoyment and learning of the little people in your lives.

Montessori Zoology - Classes of Vertebrates Nomenclature Set for ages 6-9

I am ready to unveil my next set of Nomenclature Cards. Yippee!  I worked on these over the weekend and got finished in a hurry.  I am learning how to do some fun new tricks which are helping me to get better at creating useful images for card materials.

This free downloadable set of zoology nomenclature cards is for the study of the 5 classes of vertebrates: birds, fish, amphibians, mammals, and reptiles.  They are meant for introduction AFTER the children have been exposed to real life members of these classes of vertebrates.  This is a great montessori zoology manual that I highly recommend.

Zoology is fascinating to children.  Heck, it is incredibly fascinating to me.  The first time I ever learned about the alternation of generations in the jellyfish, I was teaching my oldest child and our homeschool group about cnidarians when she was about 8 or 9.  I was simply dumbfounded that something as alien-like as that could exist on our own planet --- and that I never had had the chance to learn anything about it, even in college.  I simply LOVED every opportunity I had to explore the world of living and extinct animals with my own children.  They are some of my fondest memories from my children's homeschooling years.

You can find the Parts of Books blacklines Here.

This set comes in your choice of Print or D'nealian font and includes the following:

• Parts of the Bird - bird, head, beak, eye, body, breast, tail, wing, feet, claws
• Parts of the Fish - fish, head, eye, mouth, nostril, gills, torso, dorsal fin, caudal fin, anal fin, pelvic fin, pectoral fin, lateral line, scales
• Parts of the Frog - frog, head, eye, nostrils, mouth, ear, neck, trunk, forelegs, hind legs, feet
• Parts of the Horse - horse, head, eye, forehead, nostril, mouth, neck, forelegs, hooves, shoulder, hind legs, tail, torso, mane, hindquarters, ears
• Parts of the Turtle - turtle, head, eye, nostrils, mouth, neck, carapace, plastron, tail, fore limbs, hind limbs, claws

Zoology Nomenclature Set - Print
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Zoology Nomenclature Set - D'nealian
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Parts of the Fish Nomenclature Cards

Now that I have gotten the BASICS covered in Botany nomenclature.  I want to move on to Zoology for a little while.

This FREE download of the Parts of the Fish Nomenclature Cards are lovely (it does feel a little funny to be saying that about my own creations, but I really do believe it).  They include the following parts:

• Fish
• Torso
• Head
• Eye
• Nostril
• Mouth
• Gills
• Lateral Line
• Scales
• Caudal Fin
• Pectoral Fin
• Anal Fin
• Pelvic Fin
• Dorsal Fin

Later I will get the Little Books up, but I've only got just a few minutes today for posting :).

I hope you and yours LOVE them too!

Parts of the Fish Nomenclature Cards
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This is the picture file that I based the Drawing on.  Just in case any of you find it useful.

Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sorting Cards

This free set of vertebrate and invertebrate sorting cards includes the following:

• a header card for each of the two categories
• 11 cards for each of the two categories

Vertebrate and Invertebrate Sorting Cards
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To make these cards do the following:

• print all of the sheets
• cut out
• mark on the back with a colored sticker or dot
• laminate for durability
• place in an attractive basket

For more ideas on vertebrates and invertebrates look at this earlier post.

Classes of Vertebrates Cards and Little Booklet

I am having so much fun making all these cards for our classroom, and I am having so much fun sharing them with all of you.

Classes of Vertebrates Introduction Cards
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This set of cards belongs with one of the beginning zoology presentations.  For a great idea on the presentation look here.  I recommend this source for purchasing albums.  This is also a great place for free culture albums.

Here is a file for making the Little Booklets to go along with the cards.The children can use the cards to help them color in just the spinal column on the little booklet.  The teacher can pre-make them into books, or the children can cut on the dotted lines and staple when finished.  Some classes like to hole punch and put rings in their little booklets.

Classes of Vertebrates Little Book
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The second page of this booklet include two copies each of birds and the front cover.  Make half as many copies of that sheet.

Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore Sorting Cards

I am having fun here making and updating all the cards for the beginning of the year.  This free download set of sorting cards for the Herbivore, Carnivore and Omnivore presentation includes the following:

• a heading card for each of the categories of herbivore, carnivore and omnivore
• 18 cards for each category
• a control card that lists all of the animals correctly in their group (I have not included a picture control card so that you may choose the animals you want to include in your presentation)

Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore Sorting Cards
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This is a great link of an Herbivore, Carnivore, and Omnivore presentation.

Life Cycle of the Ladybug Nomenclature Cards and Control Chart

I have had these for a while and didn't realize that they were not up yet.  ENJOY!

Life Cycle of the Ladybug Nomenclature Cards
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Life Cycle of the Ladybug Control Chart
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Life Cycle of the Frog Nomenclature Cards and Control Chart

This is a very nice set of Nomenclature Cards for the Life Cycle of the Frog.  I have not included the tadpole with only on pair of legs on this set.

Life Cycle of the Frog Nomenclature Cards
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This Control Chart matches with these cards and are different from the control chart for the Matching Cards.

Life Cycle of the Frog Control Chart
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