2026 Summer Camp · Week 5 Day 4

A Sentence Has a Skeleton 🦴
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JC After School · Coquitlam, BC · July 30, 2026 (Thu)

Analogies & the Body 🧠

Today the middle school students learned about the concept of analogies — and about how the body, or the skeleton, is an analogy for a sentence. A sentence is a complete thought or idea, written or spoken; a skeleton is what holds a body together and gives it its shape. Once you see it that way, the two start to look remarkably alike. 🦴

A young student kneeling on the floor drawing a skull onto a large traced body outline, with a Name the Bones worksheet beside her — Drawing the skeleton into a life-size body outline 💀

🔗 What Is an Analogy? This is to that, as this is to that

An analogy is a bridge between two pairs of things: tree is to leaf as human is to cell, heart is to beat as drum is to rhythm, shoes are to feet as gloves are to hands. The students worked through the examples one by one, and the margins of the worksheet filled up with their own additions — rice : water, apples : bananas, verbs : sentences, nouns : sentences — along with the words that go with the idea: ratio, proportional, hypothesis. 🧩

An Analogy Examples for Students worksheet covered in handwritten notes including rice to water, ratio, proportional and hypothesis — The worksheet, and everything written around it ✏️

Middle school students seated around the table, one reading aloud from a sheet of paper while the others listen — Reading it out and talking it through 🗣️

Middle school students working through math problem-solving worksheets at the table with pencils in hand — Curriculum math problem-solving, alongside 📐

The whole day was mapped out on the board: finish the idiom books, handwriting, science — the skeletal system, analogy, sentences, writing. And off to one side, the long words broken into pieces to be read out loud: a-n-a-l-o-g-y, s-e-n-t-e-n-c-e, s-k-e-l-e-t-o-n. 📋

A whiteboard listing the day's plan — finish idiom books, handwriting, science skeletal system, analogy, sentences, writing — with a drawn figure labelled skull, arm, ribs, hand and foot — “Happy Thursday” — the whole day on one board 📝

🔬 Science experiment

Can a person eat while standing on their hands or head — completely upside down?

Yes — of course!

Because our throat (esophageal) muscles work against gravity to move food down to the stomach. Food does not simply “fall” — it is squeezed along, whichever way up you happen to be.

Ian, Minwoo and Sua volunteered to put it to the test. 🙌

🦴 A Body, Traced Life-Size The primary class

Meanwhile the primary students worked on learning to write the words related to a body or skeleton — the start of their worksheet packs on building sentences, from the most basic all the way up to the more detailed. And to get there, they needed a body to look at. Leah was our model for the outline. ✏️

A student lying still on a long sheet of white paper on the floor while her body outline is traced around her — Lie still — Leah, our model for the outline 🙂

A student leaning over the large traced body outline on the table, writing on it with a black marker — Filling in the outline, part by part 🖊️

The finished life-size body outline stretched across the table with a face drawn in and a name written beside it — Life-size, and starting to look like somebody 🙂

Then the words themselves. Skull, ribs, pelvis, arm, hand, foot — read them, write them, and draw an arrow to exactly the right place on the skeleton. Every word learned here becomes a word they can use in a sentence later. 🔤

A young student working on a skeleton worksheet at her desk with pencils and cut-out labels spread around — Matching the labels to the bones 🔍

A completed Name the Bones worksheet with skull, ribs, arm, hand, foot and pelvis written in and ticked off — “Name the Bones” — all six, checked off ✅

Two finished skeleton worksheets stacked on the desk, one with cut-out bone name labels arranged around a skeleton diagram — Finished sheets, stacking up 📚

🏅 Minwoo’s Record The most idioms in the class

And there was one more thing to finish today. Minwoo completed his compilation of idioms in his little flip-book — and in doing it, broke the class record for the most idioms in a book. 🎉

A small stapled flip-book with the handwritten cover Minwoo's book of idioms — “Minwoo’s book of idioms” 📕

A student in a bright yellow shirt leaning over the table, writing carefully in his small flip-book — Down to the very last page ✍️

Flip it open and every page turns out the same way: the idiom on top, the meaning underneath, written out in his own words. “Let the cat out of the bag — accidentally told the secret.” “In hot water — in trouble, going to be punished.” “The apple of my eye — my most adored person.” Page after page after page. 📖

A flip-book page reading Let the cat out of the bag, accidentally told the secret — “Accidentally told the secret” 🐱

A flip-book page reading Don't bite off more than you chew, don't promise to do something too hard — “Don’t promise to do something too hard” 😅

A flip-book page reading Time flies, time goes by quickly — “Time goes by quickly” ⏳

A flip-book page reading The apple of my eye, my most adored person — “My most adored person” 🍎

A flip-book page reading Hold your horses, control yourself, to be patient — “Control yourself — be patient” 🐴

A flip-book page reading On cloud 9, extremely happy — “On cloud 9 — extremely happy” ☁️

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And something new: today we also introduced cursive to the students who were interested. Joined-up handwriting, one letter flowing into the next — an optional extra on the board, and there were takers straight away.

🍱 Lunch Katsu, gim and kimchi

Lunch today was crispy pork cutlet, cut into bite-size pieces, with sheets of gim (roasted seaweed) and kimchi to go with it. Rolled up in seaweed, dipped, stacked — everyone had their own method. 😋

A tray of golden crispy pork cutlet cut into bite-size pieces — Crispy cutlet, cut to size 🍤

Sheets of roasted seaweed laid out on a round plate on the wooden table — Sheets of gim, ready to go 🍙

A container of kimchi on the wooden lunch table — Kimchi on the side 🥬

A teacher serving lunch at the counter while a student waits beside her with a plate — Plates coming up 🍽️

Three middle school students sitting in a row along the wall bench, eating lunch from their plates — The bench, at full capacity 😄

Three younger students sitting together at the lunch table, one making a peace sign at the camera — Lunch, with a peace sign ✌️

A young student taking a bite of a piece of roasted seaweed at the table — One big bite of gim 🍘

A young student eating fruit from a bowl at the table, plate cleared beside her — Fruit to finish 🍎

🎨 The Rest of the Day Markers, colours and a full table

After all that, the little ones had the table to themselves — modelling clay in one corner, and a long row of markers laid out at the other end for drawing rainbows, suns and whatever else came to mind. None of this was on the board; it just happens. 🌈

Two students standing at the table working with modelling clay and small cups — Hands busy, as usual 🙌

A young student turning around from her chair to smile at the camera — A smile from the table 😊

Three students drawing at the table with a long row of coloured markers laid out in front of them — Every colour, all at once 🖍️

💬 A message from teacher

The intermediate and middle school students have also been working on curriculum math problem-solving worksheets. And I also introduced cursive today, to students who were interested. It was an interesting day ❤️

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Today’s learning: analogies — and the body as an analogy for a sentence, a complete thought. The middle school class explored it through analogy examples, a science experiment on eating upside down, and curriculum math problem-solving. The primary class traced a life-size body outline and learned to write the bone words, opening their sentence-building worksheet packs. Plus cursive for anyone interested — and a new class record for idioms. 💖

Ask them tonight: “What holds a sentence together?” Today they would tell you — the same thing that holds you together. Hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon. Happy Thursday! ❤️

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