Last week we had a visit from Dr Margaret. She was talking to the children in Rooms 5 and 6 about the organs in our body.
She brought along some plastic organs and we were able to hold hearts, lungs, a stomach, a liver and a small intestine.
She also brought her friend - the skeleton! He had a few bones missing but we thought he was awesome.
Dr Margaret explained how we can take care of our insides - wear protective clothing when we're riding bikes, exercise and not get too fat, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, drink lots of water and not to eat too many salty foods.
Dr Margaret is teaching Jasmine how to check her reflexes and now David is ha
ving a go. Don't sit too close or you might get kicked in the face!Dr Margaret let us use a stethoscope to hear our heart beat. We worked with a buddy and we checked our buddy's heart rate. Our heart goes lub-dub, lub-dub. Our ear canals face forwards so we had to put the ear plugs in a special way or we wouldn't hear our heart so well.
We were able to check our pulse with a little clip thing that went on to our finger. A digital read-out told us what our pulse was. Some of us went for a run and checked our pulse again - it was way faster!
Nicole and Khali have found a new friend.
Here are Sydney and Brin checking their pulse. Brin's pulse at rest was 82 and after he had run around it was 106.
Thank you Dr Margaret for coming to visit us and thank you for answering all our questions.
2 comments:
To Room 5
We like how you listened to each other's hearts and we liked how we could see the skeleton's brain because we have been learning about that.
From Taylor and Isabella in Room 2
Wow - was that a real skeleton? Ms D-R
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