This Little Piggy Went To Market...

The best classroom in the world took place in our pasture today.

The butcher just left with our hogs hanging in the back of his truck.

A good day.

He had a new, young assistant with him.

Super nice.

We are studying human anatomy in school so I started pointing out the different parts as they came off ;)

The young guy pulled everything out, laid out on the ground & they both pointed out different parts.

He even separated the large intestines out so the kids could see how long they actually are.

We blew up the bladder ala Little House in the Big Woods.

We blew up the lungs to show how they work.

We followed food on it's journey thru the digestive tract: we sliced open the stomach & saw the just chewed, not digested grass & corn. Moved down to the intestines to see it mushy & slimy & half way done. And then moved further, uh, down to see the "end product" on it's way out. :)

We take our anatomy seriously around here...

We sliced open the heart to see the ventricles & chambers.

Sliced open the kidney & the liver & the spleen (did you know a pigs spleen looks remarkably like a tongue? It even feels like one. Way weird.)

They even pulled out some beef eyeballs from an earlier job & after showing my 6 & 4 year olds how to make a puppet with them (shudder) we sliced those open to examine the lens, the nerves & the truly gross jelly like substance known as vitreous.

Homeschool science lab rocks.

Blessings.