10/05/2026
Emily is making a big impression!
🐷 ANIMAL SCIENCE — DIGESTION: WEEK 1!
Today we kicked off our brand-new Digestion Unit by following The Journey of Food: From Bite to Waste!
We didn’t just talk about digestion — we modeled the entire process ourselves! 🧪
The girls started by “chewing” their food through mechanical digestion, added liquid to represent saliva and digestive juices, churned everything together to create chyme, and then sent it through our very glamorous 😂 “small intestine” to model nutrient absorption.
And judging by some of these faces… the final stage of digestion was definitely memorable. 🤣
Along the way we learned about the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, re**um, and a**s, plus some BIG science words like peristalsis, chyme, villi, absorption, mechanical digestion, and chemical digestion.
We also talked about how differently God designed animals to process their food — from cows and horses to pigs and chickens — which is exactly where we’ll be heading next in this unit!
💜 “But as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted.” — 1 Corinthians 12:18 (CSB)
Every part has a purpose. Every person has a purpose.
Such a fun (and slightly disgusting 😂) way to start our Digestion Unit! 🐄🐴🐷🐔🔬