A special visit!

We started this week learning about babies and how we have grown and changed since we were babies. Then we started looking forward, thinking about how we will change as we grow older. We set some goals for ourselves that we would like to achieve by the summer term and thought about all the things the bigger children in school can do that we'll be able to do when we're a bit bigger! Then we started learning about different jobs. Yesterday we learnt about a lot of jobs and how people can help us through the work they do. We learnt that police officers keep us safe, doctors and nurses look after us if we're poorly, vets take care of animals, postal workers deliver the mail, firefighters put out fires and rescue people - and lots more!

Today we had another special visitor - it was Dexter's mummy again! This time she came in to talk to us about her job. She is an osteopath, which means she looks after people who have hurt their bones or their muscles. She brought in a model of a spine to show us and taught us lots of things about our body and how to take care of it. We learnt that we have 206 bones in our body, the smallest bone is in our ear and the biggest bone is our femur (thigh bone). Things like milk and cheese contain calcium which helps keep our bones strong and healthy, and it's important to get lots of exercise and sit up nice and straight!

We all learnt a lot and really enjoyed looking at the model of the spine. A big thank you (again!) to Dexter's mum for coming to visit us and help us with our learning!