Harolds First Visit

To start our session we recapped on what to do in a fire.  We talked about where our safe meeting places were (this would be something to talk about at home again as well.  We also talked about ringing 111 and knowing what to say.

Following this, we moved on to talk about how all living things need some of the same things.  These are... 

Food - aim for healthy low-fat sugar and salt.  We need things that will feed our brains and help us get big and strong.  Fruit and vegetables are the best.

BREAKFAST is the most important meal of the day so you have lots of energy for the day.

Oxygen - we breathe air in with oxygen and then we breath out waste called carbon dioxide.  This is what trees need and they breathe out oxygen.

Exercise - this helps our heart.  Our heart pumps air around our bodies.  When we exercise we are making our hearts stronger and get more blood going around our body.  It also helps our lungs get stronger as well.  It is really important and it gives us energy too. 

Water - we are 80% water and we are losing it all the time so we need to keep putting it back into our bodies.  Kidneys need water to help wash the blood and the clean stuff goes back into your body and the dirty stuff is what you end up peeing out.

Sleep - helps your brain.  Your brain's job is to help you control your body and keep your heart pumping and your lungs to keep breathing.  Sleep is really important to help your brain keep everything organised

When we were talking about sleep we also did a few experiments to use both sides of the brain.

The first exercise/experiment, we had to put our left hand on our nose and our right hand on our left ear... then cross these over...

In the second exercise/experiment we had to aim our fingers at our other hand (the target), then again swap these over.

This made us have lots of giggles!

Love - this makes us feel good and gives us energy.  

Safety - keeping personal details safe while online and when out and about.  Wearing safety equipment when playing sport.  Sunblock and sun hats, seat belts. and not talking to strangers...

A quote from today that we liked was ...

"To be the best we can be, we need to make sure we are doing all these things".

Like Harold says - We are all special and unique - we are all amazing.

Harold then came out and shared a joke with us ... why do giraffes have long legs?  They have smelly feet!  And then sang us a really cool song.  

WE LOVE GOING TO VISIT HAROLD!