This term in Mahoe we have become researchers! We have been working hard in buddies and on our own to measure body parts using string.  We measured our height, hands, feet, around our heads, our pinkies and ears.  We have been estimating which body parts we think will be longer and then measuring and checking to see if we were right.  We found out that all the way around your head is a lot longer than we thought! We worked as a whole class and put the string showing our height into height order from shortest to tallest.  We realised that we may have made some mistakes with our measurements because some people’s string was a lot taller than they were! We also found out that your ear is about the same length as your pinky.

We have also been researching information about the human body.  We are working in groups and on our own to find out interesting information about different systems within the body.  Fortunately, we have had a parent expert come in and talk to us about bodies, x-rays and surgery!  In addition to that we have been using the laptops and searching on cool sites like Kidshealth and Scholastic Kids.  We have been finding information and keeping track of what we are learning with note-taking sheets and organised group research folders.  It’s been exciting to explore all the intricacies of the human body and to be real researchers asking questions, making predictions and hypotheses and gathering information to answer our questions! It’s been very fun and I can’t want to hear about all of the neat things Mahoe has learned about their topics!  Gillian Menaker