Skeletons & Bones Theme Pre-Grade 3 (UPDATED)

Skeletons& Bones Theme
Pre-Grade 3

TALK: Share some skeleton and bone pictures with the kids- give a couple examples of the names of these bones. Today we are going to learn about skeletons and Bones in our stories!

READ: BOOKS

Our Bones By Charlotte Guillain (Pre-2)
Dem Bones Book By Bob Barner(Pre-3)
Dry Bones By Kate Edmunds (toddler-prek)
Mr. Bones By Charles Reasoner (toddler-prek)

Bonaparte Falls Apart By Margery Cuyler (Pre-2)
Halloween Hustle By Charlotte Gunnufson
Skeleton Hiccups By Margery Cuyler (Pre-3)
Samira and the Skeletons By Camilla Kuhn (Pre-2) 
Me and My Amazing Body By Joan Sweeney (Pre-2)

Skelly's Halloween By David Martin
Skeleton Meets the Mummy By
  Steve Metzger 
Skeleton for Dinner By Margery Cuyler 


Inside Your Outside: All about The Human Body By Trish Rabe

Bones By Stephen Krensky (Pre-1)
Silly Skeletons By Janet Lawler
You Can't See Your Bones with Binoculars By Harriet Ziefert
Bend and Stretch By Pamela Hill Needleton 
Bones By Steve Jenkins (Grades 3-6)
The Skeleton Inside You By Philip Balestrino (Prek-3)
 
RHYMES AND SONGS: Credit- Preschool Education.com
Show Me If You Can
Sung to: "In and Out The Window"

Where is your finger?
Where is your finger?
Where is your finger?
Show me if you can.
Good, now where's your nose?
Now, where is your nose?
Now, where is your nose?
Show me if you can. (Use other body parts.)

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Me 
My hands upon my head I place, (Do actions as described, then bring hands
down slowly & place them in lap.)
On my shoulders, on my face,
On my knees, & at my side,
Then behind me they will hide.
Then I raise them up So high
'Till they almost reach the sky.
Swiftly count them-1,2,3,
And see how quietly they can be.

Hands On Shoulders
Hands on shoulders, hands on knees,
Hands behind you if you please.
Touch your shoulders, now your nose,
Now your chin and now your toes.
Hands up high in the air,
Down at your sides and touch your hair.
Hands up high as before,
Now clap your hands--one, two, three, four.

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Head, Shoulders, Knees, Toes   Unknown Head, shoulders, knees, and toes,
Knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes,
And eyes and ears,
And mouth and nose.
Head, shoulders, knees, and toes,
Knees and toes.
 

B-O-N-E-S 

Sung to: "B-I-N-G-O"

Once there was a skeleton,
And Bones was his name, oh!
B-O-N-E-S, B-O-N-E-S, B-O-N-E-S,
And Bones was his name, oh!

Once there was a skeleton,
And Bones was his name, oh!
B-O-N-E-(clap), B-O-N-E-(clap), B-O-N-E-(clap),
And Bones was his name, oh!

(Continue to repeat the verse--each time dropping one more letter from and adding a clap to B-O-N-E-S--until the entire name is clapped.)

 CRAFTS/ PLAY:
Printable Skeleton Pieces

Skeleton Crafts & Activities Link 

Make a Skeleton

Cheetos Bag of Bones Printable Sorting and Skeleton Activity

Why Do We Have Bones Activity

Playdough X-ray Skeleton Exploring
 

Cotton Swab Skeleton Building

Coloring Sheet Skeleton with Bats 

My Body System Emergent Reader- (Pre-k)

Spelling words with cotton swab/ q-tip

Pasta Skeletons

Dem Bones Book and Skeleton Bone Puzzle activity printable