Visit from a product builder

 We have a mammy in our class who is a product builder with Boston Scientific.

Monica is not a scientist but she uses science in her work each day.

Monica explained to us how she works with the little metal components that are used by doctors to help make patients with cancer better.

She explained how each little piece must be well made and must be really really clean so it can be used in the patients bodies.

We think that Monica has a very interesting and very important job.

Thank you Monica for such an interesting talk today.

Working in a hospital

We had a wonderful visit from a health care assistant working in the dialysis unit of our local hospital.

Helena explained all about how our kidneys work, how kidneys filter out toxins from our body and keep us very healthy.  We learned about how important it is for us to drink lots of water each day, and not to drink too many fizzy drinks. We learned how important it is for us to go to the toilet when we need to go, and how our urine (our wee) looks darker in the mornings when all the toxins are being flushed out of our bodies.

Helena showed us where are kidneys are in our bodies (but we couldn't feel them because our rib cages are protecting them).

 Helena showed us some of the instruments that doctors and nurses in the hospitals use. She also told us all about her uniform (which she has to leave in the hospital so it can stay extra clean).

 We also learned what happens when kidneys don't work too well. Helena works with patients whose kidneys don't work well at all.  These patients need to have kidney dialysis three times every week.  They need to spend about 4 hours hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine.  This machine filters out the toxins from their blood and keeps their blood clean from toxins.

We heard about how doctors and nurses are very nice and how a visit to a hospital can make us better. Helena works in the hospital and uses science every day in her work.
We really enjoyed Helena's visit.
Thank you so much for telling us all about your job in the hospital!

Our daily weather recording

Every day we keep a record of our weather.

We record the kind of weather each day on our weather calendar.

Our daily class leader is responsible each day for putting out our weather stick and taking the rainfall reading from our rain gauge and the temperature reading from our thermometer.

It was cloudy,16 degrees and no rain at 11am today and yesterday.

When we were babies

We are in Senior Infants now.  We have grown a lot since we were babies.  We are so much bigger now, we know so much more and we are able to do so many more things.

Today we brought in baby photos to show teacher, and we also brought in clothes and toys from when we were young.  We talked about all the objects and then teacher hung them on our washing line for all to see.

Vikings

We have been learning about Vikings -where they came from , how they were very skilled but very fierce.We learned about the types of boats they sailed and where they sailed to.
We also learned about runes -the alphabet they used ,and we painted runes onto stones.

 

Fireman's visit

We had a visit from two firemen last week. They came in their big red fire engine. We all got to take a turn using the hose, which we loved! We also got to climb inside the fire engine!