Lucy Dissection

Lucy, Dissection

On Friday the 6th of June Pat came down to the school with a lamb (Lucy) that he had killed because it had eczema. He first skinned it and cut it open around the shoulder blade. Then he showed us a ball and socket joint and told us how it worked. Then he told us that if you put out a hip it is a serious injury because it breaks the ligament in the ball and socket. Then he cut it down the middle to show us the “GUTS” first he showed us where everything is set out and explained that we are very similar to a sheep on the inside. Then some of us got some gloves on and held a piece of lung. Then he got out the liver and we passed that round. The liver really stunk! After that he showed us that the lungs have air in them and they float and the liver doesn’t. Even try it! Some time after we had been looking at the liver he showed us where the heart lived. He opened up the heart and showed us the arteries and all of the chambers that the heart has. Then came the smelly bit. He opened up the stomach and Lucy had just had a feed! There was heaps off munted grass that the stomach had been processing. After we had done that we had an experiment at finding how long the small intestine was. It measured it as 14 steps running. Then he opened the head/cranium. He cut the jaw open so we could see that Lucy had not been brushing her teeth! Then he showed us the Lens in the eyeball. He opened it up and it squirted liquid at him. When he opened it up more you could see this really cool greeny, bluey colour. It looked really effective when it was shining in the sunlight. After we had finished we put Lucy to rest in the peaceful (smelly) offal hole!

Taranaki Netball Trail

On Sunday me and Connie got to go to a netball trail, for the year 7 Taranaki.
When we got there we were freezing cold in the frost at half past nine in the morning.
At first we had to get our number ton our leg. Mine was 4, Connie’s was 5.
Me and Connie pasted the ball around.
There were about 70 kids there and they had to narrow it down to 35 really.
The first thing we had to do was get in to groups of Shooting, mid court and defence. Then we got in to five. And we got a group of five from the mid and the defence and they were the groups for the day.
The first skill we did was dodging and to get the hang of that we played ball tag. When the 20 minutes were up we went to the next rotation which was really, really boring and so were the next 2.
When finally finished we got back all together to have a couple of fun netball games. To show the selectors what we got.
Me and Connie had only got to play two games.
The first game I went GA and then the second I went my favourite position GS.
At least I was getting all my goals in.
When every body had a couple games they called us in to tell us if we are in the top 35.
The lady beside Rachel said that they weren’t going to call the names out in a particular order but they did the called it from the order of your number. So I didn’t have to wait very long because I was number four and Connie was five.
When they had finished calling out the girls that go in to the next trail, we had to go and make sure that they had our right positions.
When it was all over I was very relived that I might have a chance in the Taranaki team and hopefully I do get in with Connie as well.