Transcript humanskeleton

Welcome to our special
assembly
We are going to talk to you
about our bodies and how to
stay healthy
Facts about the Human Skeleton
Our Skeleton helps us to move about and
holds us up.
When you are a baby you have over 300
bones.
When you are an adult you have 206
bones because some bones fuse (join)
together.
We have been learning all the names of
the bones in our body. We would like to
teach you some of these now and play a
quick game.
Joints in your skeleton
Joints help you to move your body
There are 3 different types of joints.
Please could we have a few nursery boys
and girls to help us demonstrate each
joint.
1. Hinge joint – this is like the hinge on a
door. It allows the bones to move back
and fourth
2. Ball and Socket joint – this lets your
bones swing in almost any direction
3. Gliding joint – where one part of a bone
slides over another bone
All about our muscles
You have more than 600 muscles in your body,
they always work in pairs.
Muscles enable us to move our bones by pulling
on them, with special messages sent from our
brain.
Tens of thousands of small fibres make up each
muscle.
Did you know? The jaw muscle can give about
200 pounds of weight to force the back teeth
together and help you break up your food. It is
the strongest muscle in your body!
Does anyone know which muscle is the most
important in your body?
Does anyone know which muscle is the hardest
working in your body?
Now we would like to sing a song all about
muscles and bones, join in if you would like to!
Chorus:
When you nod your head
Manoeuvre your cranium
Or stamp your feet
Twenty six bones each
When you clap your hands
A clash of the phalanges
(clap) There’s a lot going on underneath.
Oh your skin is a fabulous thing to be in
But it can’t get around on it’s own
Every action needs a muscle contraction
And a lot of support from your bones
Now the average newborn baby has over three hundred bones.
And then some will fuse together on the way to being totally grown.
So the average adult human has only two hundred and six,
But there are still enough of them to hold you up,
And do some pretty impressive tricks.
The longest is the femur, in the thigh is where you'll find it;
The strongest is the tibia, and the fibula is behind it.
Oh it's great to know you're a vertebrate,
It's divine to have a spine.
So let's celebrate the fact that our backbone's stacked
And give it ten out of nine for design. (backslap)
Keeping healthy
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We have been learning all about food groups.
You need to eat a range of foods to get all of the
nutrients and fibre your body needs.
The main food groups are :
Fruit and vegetables
Meat and protein
Bread pasta and cereal
Fats and Sugary foods
Dairy
What do different foods do for us?
Did you know? Eating well could be good for your
brain new research has found.
Vitamin A - helps you see in the dark so eat lots of orange
and yellow vegetables
Vitamin C – also found in fruit and vegetables. They help
your body to fight infection
Iron - found in chocolate, tomatoes and sunflower seeds.
It is needed to produce the red blood cells that make up
most of your blood and it moves oxygen round your body
Carbohydrates - your body uses these for energy. They are
found in almost all food types but especially in bread, pasta
and rice
Proteins - protein is needed for healthy growth of muscles
including your heart. It is found in all red meats.
Calcium – helps to keep bones healthy and strong. It is
found in dairy product such as milk, cheese and yoghurts.
Fats – a little can be good for you. It helps to cushion your
internal organs and is a store of energy. Fats are found in
butter, sugary cakes and peanut butter. WARNING - More
than half of teachers surveyed said students behaviour got worse
if they ate sugary or fatty foods.
Now help us to design a healthy lunch
box that will keep your brain working
all day long!
Kirkcowan’s Healthy Code
We thought about lots of buzz words to do with being happy and healthy.
Then we put them into a Healthy code.
We will demonstrate the actions and then you can
all join in.
Kirkcowan is an active healthy school
That’s what makes us happy and cool
Doing lots of sport and energetic play
Helping others
That’s the way!
Our ideas for promoting health and
wellbeing in the whole school…
We are suggesting that we could do a Wake up Shake up
every Friday morning for the whole school. If it is successful
we could try it on a Friday afternoon too for the nursery.
Selling stars- we would like to put up a big
paper Christmas tree in the corridor. We are
proposing to sell stars for people to write their Christmas
wishes on to each other instead of writing Christmas cards
for each person. The stars would cost 20p and you would
only be able to buy one star each. P3/4/5 would help
nursery and P1/2 to write their Christmas messages. The
stars would be on sale every afternoon from 5th December.
What do you think?
Thanks for Listening!
Stay Happy and Healthy!