Happy Halloween finishes. . .

On Friday, we finished Happy Halloween with poetry and art.  In the morning, we wrote  the 'Skeleton Parade' poem in our poetry books.  We illustrated the poem by cutting out our own skeleton and glueing it in.

Here is Nicole cutting out her skeleton.

To make our x-ray hand, first we drew around our buddies hand and then they did the same for us.  Next we bent our fingers and looked to see exactly where they bent.  We found a really good clue - own skin was wrinkly, like our knees, where there was a joint which made our fingers bend.  

We drew a little line wherever we could see a join on our hand outline,  It took a long time to work them all out, and then to mark them on the page.  When we had all the joints in place, we made the lines thicker and more distinct with black wax crayons.  Finally we dabbed vegetable oil very carefully on the 'bones', the parts between each joint.  When they were dry, we could put them up to the window and and see the picture we had made of all the bones in a human hand.  

If you look closely, you can see that our drawn wax and oil hands are nearly the same as the x-ray of a hand from a medical book.  There are 27 bones in a human hand.  Painstaking work,  Room 2.  Lots of perseverance evident here.