Have you had a chance to teach your kids about their own body? How it works? Or had an experience to be asked so many questions about their body by the kids? Children are curious, and asking us
"Where the poop come from?" "Why we need to eat?" like these questions a lot!
It is very important for kids to learn about their own body during childhood. Then it would help for taking care their own body by themselves!
I will introduce some of the activities that I have done, and you can see how I teach How Our Body Works!
Ayumi’s first class this season was about what is inside our bodies. I showed a body picture, gave some picture of the organs, and asked the kids what they are.
I was so amazed that some of our buddies already know about that and even how they works as well!
”A heart is like a pump to send your blood to your whole body!” I told them.
Then a kid said ”Oh! I didn’t know that. That’s why I have blood in my body!”
That’s right! We learned so many parts in our body!
The other day, we learned about Brain!
“When your bladder is getting full, the bladder will send the sign to the brain, then the brain will tell us that we need to go to the bathroom! So the brain is very important!” I said.
Then a kid said “No! I think heart is the most important thing!”
“Yes, it is. But if the brain got damaged, the brain can stop your heart. If your heart got damaged, the pomp to send the blood doesn’t work anymore, then the brain will stop working as well. So heart and brain both are very important!”
“Oh. I didn’t know that” The kid said. Can you believe what we are talking about? How smart they are!
Our buddies were very interested in how our body works which was great!
Then we made the own brain with some strings!
The another topic was about POOP! 💩
I don't know why children really like to talk about poop! But I know how funny it is.haha
I told the children that poop shows you how healthy you are.
I showed them how your body make your poop through making play dough poop together!
“When you eat foods, what do you do?” I asked.
“Chew!” The kids said. Yes! We need to make the foods small to swallow them.
“Let’s pretend to see the flour as foods you chewed!” Then put the flour in a bowl.
“What do you drink if it was hard to swallow?” I asked again.
Yes! Put the water in the flour.
We also put the green paint as spinach, red one as strawberries, yellow one as bananas...then
“See? It became brawn color like poop💩 That’s what’s happening in your intestines!“
“Ewww! It’s yucky!”
“Right! That’s why you shouldn’t keep your poop in your tummy!”
“Also if you had too much milk, water, or ice cream, it makes you sick. And you might get stomachache and diarrhea😭”
We also made the yucky diarrhea🙏, and learned how your poop show us your health.
Je, umewahi kuwafundisha watoto wako kuhusu mwili wao? Inafanya kazije? Au una uzoefu wa kuwa na maswali mengi juu ya mwili wako na watoto? Watoto wana hamu ya kujua, na kutuuliza "Mchanga hutoka wapi?" "Kwa nini tunahitaji kula?" kama maswali haya sana! Ni muhimu sana kwa watoto kujifunza kuhusu mwili wao wenyewe wakati wa utoto. Kisha ingesaidia kutunza mwili wao wenyewe wenyewe! Nitaanzisha baadhi ya shughuli ambazo nimefanya, na unaweza kuona jinsi ninavyofundisha Jinsi Mwili Wetu Unavyofanya Kazi! Darasa la kwanza la Ayumi msimu huu lilikuwa kuhusu kile kilicho ndani ya miili yetu. Nilikuwa na picha ya mwili na sehemu za mwili, na nikawauliza watoto ni nini. Nilishangaa sana kwamba baadhi ya marafiki wetu tayari wanajua kuhusu hilo na hata jinsi linavyofanya kazi pia! "Moyo ni kama pampu ya kutuma damu yako kwa mwili wako wote!" Niliwaambia. Kisha mtoto mmoja akasema <unk>Oh! Sikujua hilo. Hiyo ndiyo sababu nina damu mwilini mwangu! Tulijifunza sehemu nyingi sana za mwili wetu! Siku nyingine, tulijifunza kuhusu Ubongo! <unk> Wakati kibofu chako cha mkojo kinapojaa, kibofu cha mkojo hutuma ishara kwa ubongo, kisha ubongo utatuambia kwamba tunahitaji kwenda choo! Kwa hiyo ubongo ni muhimu sana! <unk> Mimi alisema. Kisha mtoto mmoja akasema <unk>Hapana! Nadhani moyo ni kitu muhimu zaidi! <unk> <unk>Ndiyo, ni. Lakini ikiwa ubongo umeharibiwa, ubongo unaweza kusimamisha moyo wako. Kama moyo wako got kuharibiwa, pomp kutuma damu haina kazi tena, basi ubongo itaacha kufanya kazi pia. Kwa hiyo moyo na ubongo wote ni muhimu sana! Sikujua kwamba <unk> mtoto alisema. Je, unaweza kuamini kile tunachozungumza juu yake? Wao ni wenye akili kama nini! Marafiki wetu walipendezwa sana na jinsi mwili wetu unavyofanya kazi ambayo ilikuwa nzuri! Kisha tukafanya ubongo wetu wenyewe kwa kutumia nyuzi! Mada nyingine ilikuwa kuhusu POOP! <unk> Sijui ni kwa nini watoto wanapenda sana kuzungumza juu ya kinyesi! "Hata hivyo, ni jambo la kushangaza kwamba, kama nilivyoeleza hapo awali, ""mchanga huonyesha jinsi ulivyo na afya.""" Niliwaonyesha jinsi mwili wako unavyofanya poop yako kwa kufanya mchezo wa dough poop pamoja! "Unapokula vyakula, unafanya nini?" nikauliza. "Chew!" Watoto walisema. Ndio! Tunahitaji kufanya vyakula vidogo ili viweze kumezwa. <unk>Hebu tufanye kana kwamba unaona unga kama chakula ulichokula!<unk> Kisha weka unga ndani ya bakuli. "Una kunywa nini ikiwa ni vigumu kumeza?" Niliuliza tena. Ndio! Weka maji ndani ya unga. Pia tunaweka rangi ya kijani kama mchicha, nyekundu kama jordgubbar, manjano kama ndizi... halafu <unk>Unaona? Ilikuwa rangi ya kahawia kama poop <unk> Hiyo ni nini <unk>kinatokea katika matumbo yako! <unk> <unk>Ewww! Ni ya kuchukiza! <unk> <unk> Haki! <unk>Hiyo ndiyo sababu hupaswi <unk>kuweka poop yako tumboni mwako! <unk> <unk>Pia ikiwa umekuwa na maziwa mengi, maji, au aiskrimu, inakufanya uwe mgonjwa. Na unaweza kupata maumivu ya tumbo na kuhara <unk> Pia tulifanya kuhara ya kuchukiza <unk>, na tulijifunza jinsi kinyesi chako kinavyoonyesha afya yako.