Science
The circulatory system.
We explored how blood travels through our body.
Deoxygenated blood travels into the right atrium of our heart, then through the right ventricle. It leaves the heart through the pulmonic valve and pulmonary artery to the lungs. In the lungs the blood cells collect oxygen and travel back to the heart. The oxygenated blood re-enters the heart into the left atrium then travels to the left ventricle before leaving via the aortic valve. From the aorta the oxygenated blood travels around the body releasing oxygen and collecting carbon dioxide. The deoxygenated blood then travels back to the heart and the system starts again.
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In Science, we have been learning about the components of blood and the children absolutely loved consolidating their knowledge by making their own bottle of blood.
Parts of the heart retrieval - the children worked really hard to remember the parts of the heart before checking their labelled diagram against the one in their science book from the previous lesson.
