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James Hargest Interschool Reflection

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Oh. My. Gosh. I heard them before I saw them. It had been three years since I'd seen them last, but I couldn't forget that sound. I turned around and there tshe was. She caused me all that pain three years ago. I moved towns because of her. And she was now within 10 metres of me. I was preparing myself for a beating, I was just about to open my mouth when.........a hug.
"I'm sorry." she said.
I was about to give a rude answer back, but then I realised, she was really sorry, and she'd changed.
"Thank you."

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Every year in New Zealand, on average 1600 people die of lung cancer, and 2200 people are diagnosed. This makes lung cancer the deadliest disease in New Zealand. Lungs are a vital part of a human’s respiratory system, they allow you to breathe, there are ways we can damage and potentially stop our lungs from working, and there are some ways to help prevent lung failure.

Lungs are a very important part of the respiratory system. Our lungs allow us to inhale and exhale carbon dioxide molecules in the air. When inhaling the oxygen, it carries through the mouth and down the trachea, also known as the windpipe. The average length of a windpipe is ten centimetres. After travelling down the trachea, the oxygen will then be divided into smaller airways, also known as the bronchial tubes. The bronchial tubes lead into each of the lungs, storing the carbon dioxide and oxygens for when you will need to exhale. A person usually breathes on average 2 litres of air every minute. When exhaling, the different oxygens will go out the bronchial tubes and up the windpipe, the same way it did when inhaling. The lungs also pump air throughout the body, as well as pumping air into the heart and allowing it to transfer blood around the body. Without both of your lungs you would not be able to breathe, causing death.

Smokers are 12 to 13 times more likely to die from lung disease than non smokers. The most common reason behind lung cancer is smoking. Even though anybody can get lung cancer, you have a much higher chance of getting a lung disease if you smoke. Four in five cases of lung cancer are due to smoking. Lung failure may be caused by damage to the tissue and ribs around the lungs. Some lung diseases and conditions are lung cancer, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) ARDS (acute respiratory disease syndrome) pulmonary embolism, and cystic fibrosis.

Although there is no way you can be immune from lung diseases, there are ways to help decrease the chances. The most common and important way to prevent your chances of getting lung cancer is to not smoke. By smoking you are doing tremendous damage to your lungs. Your lungs may start to get covered in tar, you will get bad breath and a dry throat, your esophagus will start to burn, causing you to cough, and you will start to get chest pains. Some other ways to help prevent the chances of getting lung cancer is to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, avoid secondhand smoke and polluted areas, and exercise most days of the week. By doing these simple tasks you chances of getting a lung disease are highly decreased.

Lung cancer is the deadliest disease in New Zealand, killing 1600 people every year. Lungs are a vital part of the respiratory system, there are ways we can damage and potentially stop our lungs from working, and there are some ways to help prevent the chances of getting lung cancer.

How Does the Digestive System Work?

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The Digestive System works by moving food and water from your mouth to your rectum. It
breaks down the food, takes what the body needs, like fats, proteins, carbs and vitamins,
absorb the water, then creates waste to dispose of.

The first part of the digestive system brings the food from the mouth to the stomach.
While chewing food in your mouth, saliva, which contains enzymes, will mix in with the food.
Once you’ve swallowed the food or water it will go down through the esophagus to the
stomach. Food only takes 7 seconds to go down the esophagus. The food will then land in
the stomach and stay there for 2-5 hours. In the stomach the gastric juices (which are made
up of acids, enzymes, mucus and other substances) will break down the food.

From the stomach the food substance will be directly moved into the small intestine. Here is
where 90% of absorption and digestion occurs. The small intestine absorbs all the nutrients,
vitamins and minerals from the food. It then stores all of this to give your body energy. With
the help of the pancreas providing enzymes, the small intestine adds bile to help dissolve and
break down fat. The big fat droplets turn into smaller droplets, which are easier to be made
into waste. Although the small intestine is thinner than the large intestine, it is actually the
longest section of your digestive tube. The average length of a teenager’s small intestine
is 7 metres. That’s almost four and a half times the height of the average teenager!

From the small intestine the food directly moves into the large intestine. Despite its
name, the large intestine is on average 1.5 metres long. The large intestine absorbs all the
water from the food to create a hard texture of waste to dispose of. This is the final part of the
digestive system before the food waste leaves the body through the rectum.

The Digestive System is made to move food from your mouth to the rectum. By breaking
down food, adding enzymes and other substances, absorbing water then disposing of excess.

Term 2 Reflection

The past term in Room 14 has been a busy one! Some of the big events from this term is Student Led Conferences, Technology, Algrego the Magician, James Hargest Trials, Winter Sports and Practices, House Choir's Practice, Our Human Body Unit, ePro8 Practice and much more. We are also about to start our Puberty Unit and Self Defence.

My Highlight so far From Term 2

My Highlight in Term 2 so far has probably been House Choirs Practice, I am so excited for the final show (GO RATA!)! I also really enjoyed Algrego the Magician (although I was SSOOOO terrified of the birds!). One of my biggest fears is being with a flying animal in enclosed spaces so when Algrego was using birds in his magic act, I was SO scared when they might have flown around the hall, especially when one big bird kept chirping very loud (they didn't thank goodness!)!

This term I have also enjoyed Student Led Conferences and organizing ourselves for the presentation. Something else that was interesting and fun was Literacy Circles in Reading and working on our independent learning in Room 14.

Thanks everybody for reading my reflection! Thanks to Miss Taylor and Mrs Garrett for helping us learn! If anyone reading this has a blog they would like me to check out feel free to leave them below!

Here are a couple of my classmates AWESOME blogs:
ASHOK'S BLOG  
PIERA'S BLOG
MONICA'S BLOG

Thanks,
allie xoxo :)

Eyeball Dissection - Learning about The Human Body

Last Friday to start off our human body inquiry we dissected sheep's eyeballs. Each group of three got one eyeball to dissect and we had to watch a tutorial on how to do it properly. To help us dissect the eyeball we had a set of forceps (they look like nail scissors except one end is sharp and one is blunt) and tweezers. After we put our gloves on we had to work together to cut off the extra muscle around the eyeball. Then we had to make a cut into the eyeball and make a bigger cut around the eyeball from that slit. We then had to squeeze out all the different things inside the eyeball. There was a lot of black gunky stuff which we got out with the tweezers, we had to find the lens and put it to the side. If we wanted to we could also cut open the pupil part of the eye. Lots of blue stuff came out. My favorite part of doing this was seeing what is inside a sheep's eye (sheep's eye's are VERY similar to human eye's) as well as cutting off the muscle. My least favorite part was thinking that these could of been my neighbor's pet lambs! I am very proud of myself for getting stuck in as I'm usually grossed out by this stuff. I'm not looking forward to when we have to dissect a heart! If you have any recommendations, cool ideas, questions, or anything feel free to leave a comment down below! Thanks for reading!

Allie xoxo