The Digestive System Extension

In the past few weeks we have been learning about a healthy persons body. We have been looking at what our food does when we eat it and what it goes through. Next we might look at what a unhealthy persons body.

Our extension group had to get into a group but we all had to have different body systems. So our group was Me, Jonita, Isara, Crusader, Makerita and Wyatt. My part was the stomach and in the stomach it is where the acid is mixed with food. Find out more by watching our movie! We hope you enjoy!

The Liver

Do you know what the liver is? Well, the liver is where the food gets broken down. It gets broken down so the food can proceed. But the liver doesn't just have 1 job, it has over 500 jobs! Another job is warming the blood.

The liver is also known as the biggest organ in our body. Some people say it can look like a small melon. In a humans body it is on the right-hand side.

20 Hour Famine

A variety of people all round the world are particapating in the 40 hour famine. Tonight kids are here at school to discover what the other kids from the other side of the world have to deal with. We are going 20 hours with no food. We are also here to fundraise some money that will get donated to them. Another challenge that my friends and I set for ourselves is to try and not talk! It's been nearly a whole day and we haven't really succeeded. Some of us are really hungry.

Over on the other side of the world people don't have clean water and barely have enough food. So they are always hungry and thirsty. Most of the food they get are the food on the ground. Plus they can catch diseases from the food on the ground. That means they might die. But that isn't even half of the problem! Sometimes they have to eat raw food to survive and some of the food are rice. Have you ever had to eat raw food!? Well these people sometimes have to eat food to survive. Did you know that every day a kid dies! Well what would you do if you lived somewhere where you only got food 2-3 times a week. For Me, Horrible!

Well now you have got an example of what it would be like living with no food." Go hard out for the Hungry!"

By Gloria and Kaycee