Madeline

Fletcher and his classmates are still studying about France this week. They've read several of the Madeline books. Remember those? The little girls who live in an orphanage? In the original book, Madeline has to get her appendix taken out so in honor of that story, the kids talked about various body parts and made body "aprons". They also talked about germs and keeping their bodies healthy.

The straws are to fill his lungs (plastic bags) with air. The paper towel roll is his esophagus and the bag at the end (with the smashed crackers and whole almonds) is his stomach.

I think he might be having some lung issues since they wouldn't inflate. His intestines are drawn on there and he informed me that they would stretch really, really far if we took them out of his body and straightened them out.

My favorite is his spine (egg carton).

The circles are good cells and bad cells fighting each other.

Thankfully, we still have a few years before they get into the reproductive organs.