Eyeball Dissection And Piggy Bank Painting

EYE DISSECTION
Last week in the must do's and picks, there was animal rights, egg drop and eyeball dissection. I did, eye dissection which was so much fun! I learnt the parts of the eye like the aqueous, the sclera the iris, the retina and so much more! First we learnt about the eye itself which is the iris and the parts I just told you. Darryn told us that we all have a blind spot at the back of our eye! If you rub your fingers beside you eyes you really can't see them but you know that its there. When we were actually dissecting the eye itself we learnt more about the anatomy of the eye. Like, your cornea is actually very strong and tough so it is very hard to cut. Afterwards we had to fill out an anatomy of an eye.

PIGGY BANK PAINTING

A few weeks ago we made a piggy bank with Marie Washbourne. First we made two balls of clay and then we made then hollow and joined them together. Afterwards we decorated them with eyes and legs and that, Marie took them home and baked them in a special oven. When the piggy banks got back we painted them, I did a horse. I painted it brown with a black mane, tail and feet. I gave it light blue and dark blue eyes and a pink muzzle and ears. I also wrote Toby on the side without the mane because I made it look like my horse Toby so I wrote his name on the side with a white blaze down his face. It was super fun.

BYE!!!!!

Plant Dissection

Last week at Enrich I did a pick with Darryn it was plant dissecting and you had to rip apart a plant and take pictures on a dinoscope. I learned a whole boat load of stuff like, Darryn asked us if insects or plants came first. Everyone said that plants came first expect me. I said that insects came first because they were around when the dinosaurs were.  Darryn said that there were dragonflies with a 1 meter wing span. After we discussed how plants evolved we pulled plants apart and took pictures. 
Here are mine. :)

Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy is a very big storm in the USA. It has effected New Jersey and New York but New York had the biggest effect. We watched a clip when the storm first hit.  It had flooded out New York's subway and had taken away 11 lives at that stage. It has caused over 80 billion dollars worth of damage and has caused power out all around the city. We used De Bono's hats to talk about Hurricane Sandy.  There were 6 hats with different meanings. One for facts, here are some: a crane snapped in half and New York was prepared with a 1 meter flood wall. Feelings: Sadness is caused by death, Scared because they might die of lack of food and supplies. Problems: losing your house, insurance, the clean up, short on petrol. Solutions: Being ready and building stronger bottoms of buildings. Benefits: Getting ready if another storm comes and less power bills. Thinking: (these are my thoughts) Did it effect The Statue Of Liberty? So those are all the hats. It was a very interesting must do for my must do's and picks sheet.