Having fun with scales!

 About a year ago I received a free lapbook from A Journey Through Learning, a great site by the way, on My Body.  Mouse was still a bit too young to do some of the activities and I decided to save it until now.  I printed out the first section of the lapbook, it is a HUGE lapbook and I think it is real value for money, and we started on that.

The first section covers:

• Birthdate (year, date, age, name)
• Weight
• Lenght
• Body features (to draw in eyes, etc on blank body template)
• Drawing of real body features via tracing

 She loved adding the details to the body template, I ended up drawing a few more templates for her to complete.

She also stamped some details on the templates with the birthday stamps that I made for her!

We weighed her and completed the section in the lapbook.  I then gave her some items from the kitchen cupboard to explore weights some more.  We weighed all the items determining which was the heaviest and which was the lightest.  I explained the working of the scale and weights to her.

She loved watching the needle move on the scale!

To make it even more fun I asked her to fetch 4 items of her choice to weigh.  We weighed each item and wrote down our findings next to a drawing of the object.  We determined which one was the lightest and which one the heaviest.  I gave her both items to physically feel the difference.

She laughed herself silly when she saw my drawings!

We will continue with the lapbook as well as measurements, the human body and some other fun activities!