Our First Post!

Hi there, we are super excited to be making our first ever post on our brand new class blog! We have had a busy start to year two and three and have learnt SO MUCH already! In Science this week we have been investigating the human body, and we are seriously loving this topic!

We began by discussing all the things we already knew about the human body. We found that we knew plenty about the outside of our bodies....but not much about our insides! Next, we made a list of all the things we wanted to find out this term about the human body. Mrs M was really impressed with some of the questions we came up with! Check out Connor, Abby and Charli's KWL charts.....

After this, we had a chat about our five senses. Did you know that we have five senses to help us learn about our world? These are:

• The sense of sight
• The sense of smell
• The sense of touch
• The sense of taste
• The sense of sound or hearing

We decided to take a closer look at the human eye and found it pretty exciting! We watched an interesting video clip for closer look at how the eye works, check it out!

 Here are ten interesting facts we found out about our eyes:

1) Eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts
2) The average person blinks 12 times per minute - about 10,000 blinks in an average day
3) Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
4) Only 1/6th of the eyeball is exposed to the outside world
5) Eyelashes have an average life span of 5 months.
6) The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
7) Your eye will focus on about 50 things per second.
8) About half of our brain is involved in the seeing process. Humans are very much visual animals.
9) Under the right conditions, the human eye can see the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.
10) The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.

We just can't wait for the next lesson!