My Body Paperback – June 1, 1999

The media could not be loaded. I homeschool my 4 year old and we love this material as our main book for our human anatomy lesson. I love how the book was worded so my son can understand them. My son found it challenging to color and cut the pictures (he didn’t have lot of cutting and coloring activity prior to this) but he was so persistent because he loves to stick the organ picture on the his body poster. Also this activity made him soooo much better at cutting and coloring pictures. He understood the difference between male and female reproductive systems and he learned where his organs are located in his body. Highly recommended material!Side notes: I used two white posters which I got from the dollar store to trace his body on to. We copied/scanned the book pages to my computer so we don’t have to cut from the book and we can reuse it for my younger son later. I had to reduce the printing of the body parts around 75% (we printed them on cardstock) because my son is smaller than usual 4 year olds. After he colors and cut them, I laminate them so they can be more durable.Tip: if your child understands this book it will be great to supplement it with The Magic School Bud (Human Anatomy) DVD. All the 3 episodes reinforce what was thought in this book.

I am homeschooling two first grade boys this fall and this has been a wonderful project. We have been doing a couple of items each week. The boys read the description pages of each organ together- the vocabulary is just right for first grade, good for a newer reader (they need a little help, they have also just starting reading the Dogman cartoon book series for reading level refeence).I traced their bodies on cardstock sheets that I taped together. We read the pages together and then they color in the organ. While they color we watch a youtube video for kids on that body organ. We have found many great videos, under 10 minutes each. The combination of all 3 activities is really great. I try to incorporate little extras, like we used a stethoscope to listen to our hearts when we did the heart. The cut outs are large and simple enough for them. I'm really pleased with this book!

We used this book for science, health, and art components of homeschooling for my special needs daughter's first school year. She's more medically minded than the average kindergarten student and loved compiling "her body" throughout the year because she got to see and learn about organs she hadn't dealt with yet and how they fit together to function as one. The stomach and intestines were especially interesting to see go together.The only difficulty we had was fitting the organs into her actual body we traced because she's tiny, but for the regular student it shouldn't be a problem.The supporting material is written simply so children easily understand new concepts, yet in a way that engages them in the material so they think about how each part applies to their own bodies. I learned new things about some of my organs, and remembered a few things I'd forgotten. I liked that it included lesser known parts, like the gall bladder.

This book does a fantastic job talking about the organs in the body and describes each one and its function in good kid language. It is encouraged to copy and print extra pages so it can be used again for next year or for multiple children. The pages are double sided so if you cut them directly out of the book, you will ruin the description of the organ. I rated four stars because I had hoped for a full body view of the skeleton and muscular system as well as the organs. You get a brief glimpse of them for the legs; one leg has bones to add and the other leg offers muscles to paste onto it. I had hoped for a visual in the book of the rest of those systems, but it's not a huge deal. We use this supplemented with other books. Great resource!

Did this with my Homeschooled children (kindergarten and pre-K3) and they had a blast. It's broken down into kid language, so it's great for little ones. I copied and pasted a picture of their faces to a word document, blew it up, and cut them out and went ahead and stuck them on the body the first day. For the body I got a roll of brown wrapping paper from Michaels and traced their bodies and cut them out. We just taped them to the wall, and taped their life-sized heads on there. Once they realized it was them and their body they were thrilled to actually learn about the parts and put them on.All you do is what I've mentioned so far, but take the book to a copy machine and make a copy or copies of each page (body part). That way instead of cutting out of the book, you can use it for multiple children. Then you just read the description to them out of the book and answer their questions while they color and cut out their body parts. We did one organ/bone per day for several weeks and it worked out perfectly!

My children loved using this book. Rather than simply learning about anatomy, this book has children create their own body outline and fill in the various parts as you work through the book. I like that this creates a life size visual aid for kids and understand the how various parts of their body work together to create the whole. Hanging on the wall, it was also a great conversation starter with guests who came by, and the kids had an opportunity to talk about what they had learned. :)The text is rather light, so feel free to add more information if your children want a more in-depth lesson on the various parts of the body, but my kids were 4 & 6, so I didn't feel the need to do that. I may do this again with them when they are little older and add more information. Overall, a good intro to anatomy for young learners!