So what a busy week we have had, we celebrated National Science Day on the 10th November by mixing food colouring to see if we could make the colours in the rainbow. There was lots of exploring investigating!
There was also a grand opening this week…Florence Nightingale’s hospital. We’ve been helping all the patients that came to the hospital, mixing our own medicines just like Mary Seacole herself. We also had a very special visit from Dr Whitehead who taught us that ‘the most important medicine is soap and that washing our hands would help prevent the spread of germs.’ Thank you, Dr Whitehead, we appreciate your time to come along and help us learn. I wonder if anyone was inspired to be a doctor themselves one day!
This week the children have been super scientists this week and have been on a gripping adventure learning about our digestive system! The children were so impressed with how hard our body works without us realising and couldn’t believe how long our intestines are and how hard they work to keep us healthy! We put our knowledge to the test and recreated the digestive system using socks and tights for the intestines, a bag for the stomach, diet coke for our stomach acid and our favourite carb, bread for our, ‘stomachs,’ to consume and turn into chyme! It was very messy, sloppy and fun!
We have started building and constructing models of our favourite types of mountains. It is lovely to see so many variations of mountain types and thought going into the mountain formation as they are being built. We can’t wait to get them painted next week!.
This week we invited Phoebe’s Mum into school to help us to learn all about our Immune System. It is so clever! It hunts down the germs and makes special antibodies to attach to the germs to clump them together before sending out phagocytes to kill them! We also learned that foreign blood cells can be attacked by our immune system and that this is very dangerous. It means that when we have a blood transfusion we MUST get the right blood. We tested different blood types on 3 patients and the results were fascinating. Medical school here we come!