Meet Matilda

Have you ever seen an actual skeleton of a dead person? Well room A5 has! Her name is Matilda and she is very old and fragile. She's kind of falling apart, we found one of her fingers in the bottom of the cupboard where she lives. This week we.ve been learning about 13 bones, the cranium, mandable, scapula, vertebre, ribs, humerus, radius, ulna, pelvis, femur, patella, tibia and fibula. We pointed out these 13 bones that we learned about on matilda. Now, we are drawing our own arms, showing all the 30 bones between the fingers and the elbow. Did you know that over half the bones in your body is in your arms and legs? Also, did you know that when you are born you have over 300 bones, and when you become an adult you end up only having 206.This is because your bones join together as you get older. Babies have soft spots when they are born so that their head is able to fit down the birth canal. As they get older, their cranium joins together and fills up that soft spot. We even got to play Simon Say's Skeleton Style!