Wow! What a treat to have 'Jumping with Jill' come teach us all about healthy food and exercising! We had a full hour of singing and dancing with everyone in the school. Thanks to our awesome chef Jonathan and PE teacher Erika for a great time!
We learned all about several different organs in our body from the outside in. To start we needed to have some models. We broke up into seven groups and added different organs as we learned about each one.
We learned: The skeleton is made up by our bones. Our bones gives us shape and protects our organs. Did you know we are born with 300 bones but as adults we only have 206 bones? They fuse together and get hard. Muscles allow us to move. There are more than 600 muscles in our bodies, some are muscles we can control where other are involuntary. Brain is made up of three parts, the cerebrum, cerebellum and the brain stem. The brain controls our thoughts, movement, our breathing and our emotions. Lungs help us breathe air. They expand when we inhale and return to their normal size when we exhale. They are protected by our rib cage. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood through our bodies. The more we exercise the faster our hearts will beat. The stomach breaks down our food into a liquid so our body can give us the nutrients it needs. Intestines are very long. They get the nutrients from the stomach then stores it to help your body absorb it. Kidneys are in the shape of a kidney bean. They clean the waste out of our blood. We got right into learning from the first week of school. Each week we took on a new animal group; amphibians, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals and insects. It was awesome to see what we already knew about them and learn more interesting facts. We even got to see some of these animals up close and personal on the playground... yuck :) When it came time to learn about mammals, we decided to conduct our own research projects. After choosing which mammal we wanted to learn more about, we looked through books, pictures and even got a day to research on our Chrome books! All week long we have been dressing up and having fun with our spirit days to celebrate Homecoming. To end the week, we walked down to watch the high school parade. Not only did we get to collect so much candy, but we also got to cheer on the high school sport teams and classes as they passed. :) |
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February 2016
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