Dear
Mead families and friends,
This week we have continued to investigate the skeletal system and
introduced a Doctors Surgery into the room. The children have extremely enjoyed
dressing up as doctors, checking temperatures, administering medication and
making appointments at the desk.
Tom - Let me take your temperature, oh no - you're too hot!
Cody - I need to get you an injection.
Ronnie - That's for your blood pressure.
Vivienne - Let me check your ear okay, I'm just
going to look.
Scout - I can hear your heart, boom, boom, boom.
We have also been looking at x-ray's on the light table. On
Wednesday, Zahli, Grace-Marie and Owen looked at each x-ray, identifying which
part of the body it was.
Zahli - It's a head, it has teeth.
Grace-Marie - Look, it's skeleton toes, it's a foot!
Owen - A mouth, it has a mouth too (pointing to the x-ray and his own
mouth too)
Stuart the Skeleton has been very useful in helping us to see
where all of the bones are in our body, the children have also enjoyed looking
through our body books. Did you know, we have 206 bones in the human body?
On Tuesday, Brooke and Riley from UniSA came in to explore colours
in the Mead Room. Grace-Marie, Cody, Tom, Isla B and Harry enjoyed sorting
coloured feathers into the correct groups. We also went on a colour hunt,
collecting items from each colour of the rainbow and sorting them into groups.
Continuing on from our pet investigation last week, we have begun
to make a graph to show how many children have dogs, cats, fish, frogs or no
pets at home. We would love for you to bring in a photo of your pet, to add to
our graph.
Have a lovely weekend,
Georgia and Melissa
