Learn the Skeletal System {Grade Three Unit Study}

Thomas and I are spending a week learning all about the skeletal system.  As he is only 8, we aren’t getting too into the official science terms of the bones.  However, we will touch on them a tad – but I won’t be “testing” him on them.  So, since I am building this lesson plan, it made sense to go ahead and write the post up.  If it was that hard for me to find a plan, surely it is hard for you as well!  WARNING:  This is a long post… however, it has literally everything you need to complete the week-long Skeletal System Unit Study.

I use the Homeschool Tracker Plus to keep organized.  I have the download, but it appears as if they now have an online version.

Our Homeschool Subjects:

• Miscellaneous Activities – these are those things that we want to do that don’t really fall under any of our other subjects.  If I find that we are using this category often, we will add a new subject. LOL!  Right now, I am kind of using it for coloring pages and other things to keep his hands busy while I am reading to him.  We will be watching this Skeleton Song on Youtube every day before we start out skeletal lesson.
• Art –  Skull Puppet Pattern,
• Reading – We are reading Inside Your Outside, My First Encyclopedia, and Mini Books from Scholastic during this study
• Personal Care – This is bathing, eating, brushing teeth and the like.  However, since we are working on the skeletal system, we have also added in a bit of Yoga for Kids for now.
• Handwriting –  Over the next 26 days, we are doing a quick reinforcement of the alphabet.  Thomas has super horrible handwriting so before we can move on to cursive, we need to clean up his print a bit.  So, we are doing the Alphabet Activities worksheets from TLS Books.
• Spelling – Human Body Content Words from Scholastic Printables
• Bible –  We are reading a couple pages at a time of Great Bible Stories For Children
• History/Social Studies – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the history of X-Rays – We will use this biography form and begin a notebook about Famous Folks!
• Language Arts – Identifying Nouns using K5 Learning – I just chose 5 worksheets and numbered them 1-5 for the plan
• Math – working on measuring (the last 3 are what I am calling lesson 1, 2, 3) using bones in this printable life-sized skeleton  Also, still working on multiplication tables using Math Aids.
• Science – Basically, the entire unit is science 😉 Mr. Skeleton Printable from Scholastic, No Bones About It, Skeleton Game, What is an X-Ray?

Note:  the above items are strictly for the stuff we are doing right now.  As we do different studies, we will use different products.

Lesson Plan – Learn the Skeletal System

Now that you know all the stuff we are using this week, here is our schedule – if you click the image, you can download a printable of it.

Have fun!  After this week, we are moving to the muscular system!  With this one, I have a bit more time to plan, so I can order some fun things – or at least that is the plan. LOL!