I asked, "What is a body?"
Jalie: "Our bodies are ourselves."
Damon: "It's our skin."
Gwen: :"We need our bodies to live."
Allie: "Our bodies are really growing"
Mia Gleinser: "Our bodies are GREAT! My muscles are SO STRONG, I eat food to keep my body strong!!"
Corbin: "We have muscles and connective tissue in there."
I asked, "What is your favorite part of your body?"
Mia S: "These things that make my fingers bend (knuckles), but usually it's my skeleton."
Alaira: "My tongue because I use it to taste."
Natalie: "My skeleton."
Corbin: "My brain because I use it to think."
McKenna: "My mouth AND my hands!"
Allie: "My muscles and my teeth...my abuela can take her teeth out!!!"
Body Tracing:
I traced the children's bodies, cut them out and then offered the opportunity to add their features. I encouraged them to use the mirror as a reference. Everyone narrated as they drew, and most returned to the mirror repeatedly.
Corbin: "Oooh, I can draw in my brain!"
Natalie: "And stomach! Food goes down down down into the tummy and that's really a stomach!"
Alaira: "I want to draw the things that make my fingers bend...what are those?"
Anika: "I am drawing my fur and here are my teeth and here is more nail polish and here is my brain..."
Lucca: "These are my ribs in my body. They're pink"
Sophia: "I want to do this, I want to draw hair." (Mia G. helped her draw in her hair after a careful assessment)
Mia G: (Returning to the mirror repeatedly as she filled in her organs and features) "And HERE are my chongos (pigtails) and HERE are my eyes--they're blue and nice, and HERE are my toes...what are these called? Oh yes! toenails!"
Jalie: "It's important to get my cheeks just right or everything won't look right on my face"
Damon: "This is my mask and here is my skin and that's my foot."
Jason: (Observing himself in the mirror) "I've got black hair and black eyes."
Atticus; "Here is my body, right guys?"
Eddie, "This is MY body too, and LOOK! It's my hair...I got a hair cut, it's part of my body, too."
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