Do Octopus have bones?
We greeted our friends in the morning and then continued our crafts from yesterday then either played with some letters or did puzzles until all of our friends were ready to go to the park. Once everyone arrived and got prepared, we took a vote to see where we would go. We could either, A) Go to Step Park and have long play time, or B) Go to Kogai Park, but have short play time. We all wanted to have a longer time at the park, so A won by unanimous decision. We had Maryna coming later for Ballet so there was no time to waste! We hurried to the park and ran around in the green area to our hearts content. We had a ton of fun playing games with our friends or making “salad” with leaves, grass, and sand. Some of us found a nice sturdy vine to do jump rope with. Maybe next time we will take our ropes from Gym class to practice jump roping.
We headed back to school to make sure we wouldn’t keep Maryna from waiting too long. We did our usual post-park routine and then gathered into a circle to sing some songs as we waited for Maryna to come. We divided the class into two groups, group one did ballet with Maryna first, and group two sat down to have snacks. Maryna prepared lots of songs for us to dance to!
After our Ballet class we began our circle time. We started with our Question of the Day, “Do octopus have bones?” with a few pictures of octopus on our QotD wall. “Wait a minute…” we thought. This question sounded awfully familiar, and we were right! It was the same exact question our teachers asked us last week. Last week we all said yes, all animals must have bones, but this time most of our friends said “No”. Nimo asked us why we think octopus don’t have bones.
C: Because every time I eat octopus there are no bones. When I eat chicken there are bones, and when I eat salmon there are some bones.
A: Because when you eat, you cannot take the bones out from your mouth, because of Corona
L: When octopus is in the water it can move and when the octopus is on land it cannot move. But people can move in water and on land.
Ad: Octopus can’t walk on land because they don’t have bones.
K: Because if they have bones they can’t move in the water
K: The octopus move like this *wiggles her body*
Nimo: Why cant we move like an octopus?
K: People have knee and this *points to elbow*, it cannot move this way
Ke: The bones are hard
Nimo: I wonder what moves the bones?
Kt: The muscles
Am: The muscles are on our bones!
Nimo: Where else do we have muscles?
L and C: Our hearts!
We also knew that some of our organs had muscles in them too. Nimo then asked us to stick our tongue out and move it around. We quickly noticed it can move in any direction, up, down, left, and right. We can even roll it up into a circle. We thought about it and our light bulbs in our heads lit up. A raised his hand and said, ”I think tongue inside is muscles!”.
Our tongues don’t have bones, and the muscles are strong enough to move by itself. If our tongues can do it, maybe that’s how the octopus can move so freely?!
We wrapped up our discussion and played a quick game together, an all-time classic, “Simon Says”. Simon Says is a fun game that develops our listening skills and our reflexes! The game started easy, but as it went on, Nimo started to speed it up and tossed in some cheeky tricks to fool us. We had to really listen and act quickly, however we were caught off guard several times in the beginning. By the time we were on our 4th round, we were starting to get a hang of the game and thus, we lasted much longer! Nimo had to pull everything out from his pockets to end the game. We all finished the game with good sportsmanship, and we sat down to have our lunch.
Have a good evening and good night! See you all again tomorrow!
Love,
Flowers