Life Education - Brainy bunch

This week we have had two sessions with Michelle, Harold and Tam learning that .....

• the different organs in our bodies like intestines (Cooper)
• the brain feels like an avocado (Dominic)
• if you need to scratch the nerves send a message to the brain saying 'you need to scratch' (Ella)
• messages run at 200 - 250 km/phr (Louis)
• your brain gets 200,000 messages per second (Kaiya) 
• if you tie all your veins together they stretch for 75km (Toby)
• Everyone has a brain even if it is the size of a peanut (Miranda)
• the spinal cord is like a highway (Kushang)
• if you get surprised your nerves run at 500- 560km/phr (Kate)
• messages can travel up to 560km/phr (Daena)
• the brain sends messages to the nerves (Lucia)
• the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body and the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body (Baden)

We had great fun learning all these cool facts.  Thank you Michelle!