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The Unique Human BodyByLeticia Sefia

(Age 5)

I love to read and learn about the human body, the parts that I see, likethe mouth, the hands, the feet, the nose, the ears, the nails, the eyes,the chin, the legs, the neck, and the parts I cannot see like the stomach,the large intestine, the small intestine, the brain, the rectum, the lungs,the heart, the bladder, the muscles, the kidneys and the bones.Every day, my sister Paula and I read a lot of books about the human bodyand we also see a lot of stories on the computer. We sometimes watchsome videos on television that are very interesting. Most times I ask mymom so many questions like, “Where are the kidneys? What happens whenthe bladder is full? What happens when the large intestine is so full? Andtoday the question I asked was about my teeth. Today, I am becoming abig girl. For about one week my front tooth has been shaking. I read inthe books that my mom got from the library that my 20 milk teeth willfall and then I will begin to have 32 adult teeth. I was very happy whenmy tooth started shaking. Everyone says the tooth fairy will come when Iam asleep and take my tooth and give me some money. I have asked forTen Dollars, so by tomorrow I will also be very rich, although I think thetooth fairy story is fiction, but let’s see anyway.One day, I asked my mom, “What happens to all the food I eat?” My momsaid she would tell me a story about the Digestive System. She said,“Once upon a time there was a big girl named Emily. She was hungry allthe time and she liked to eat a lot of food. When she ate food, the foodwent through her esophagus, which is a long muscle that pushes the fooddown to the stomach”. Then I asked my mom what happens in the stomachand she said, “The food mixes with acid which kills the germs and turnsthe food to Mr. Liquid. Then the good part goes into the small intestineand gets crushed to smaller bits, the blood takes the food and supplies it

to the body. The left over moves to the large intestine that takes all thewater. The bad part then goes to the rectum and gets pushed out aspoopy, yuck! I used my schema to smell the poopy and I told my mom, “Itsmells like chicken mixed with stinky peanut butter and jelly.” Mom saidEmily’s small intestine is very long and it is about 26 feet of tubes allcoiled up. I wanted to also know how my drink gets to my bladder but mymom said that’s for tomorrow. I wonder why Emily is always hungry, Iknow I am now, and I wish I could see my food travel down my body but Icannot because my skeleton and my skin covers all the parts inside me.Today I am thinking about the work of the lungs and the heart and howthey work together as a team. Just looking back at what my mom teachesme, I can use my schema to make a connection between the heart and thelungs and my soccer team. When I play soccer, I remember that I cannotdo it all by myself, I have to work with my team all the time to win thegame. So it is the same for my heart and my lungs. What makes them ateam? Well, first we breathe in air into our lungs, the lungs collect theoxygen from the air. Then we breathe out the air we do not need. Theoxygen waits for the blood to come and pick it up. Oxygen is veryimportant in the human body because our brain needs oxygen so we canthink, our muscles need oxygen so we can do exercises and move. Theheart pumps blood round the body. In the body there are 2 blood vesselswith 2 different colors, the blue color is the vein that you can see on yourskin, the red color is the artery that you cannot see. The blue vessels areoutside, the red vessels are inside and they go all round the body. Did youknow that all the blood vessels in the body are so long that they can goround the earth twice? Anyway, blue blood rushes out from the heart andgoes to pick oxygen from the lungs then turns red and carries the oxygento the muscles and the brain and all the parts of the body. The heart is abig pump that works even when you are sleeping. The heart beats slowlywhen you are sleeping but beats fast when you are playing or exercising.When I am playing soccer, my heart begins to beat faster like a fast bodymachine that sounds like this, “bogum, bogum, bogum” and sometimes Ihave to stop to rest when my heart is beating too fast. One day I thoughtI was going to throw up because the sun was burning my skin, and mixed

with my heart beating so fast, so I had to stop for a while and drink somewater and oranges.When my sister and I are playing pretend games at home we sometimeshave to stop when our hearts are beating too fast, mom says it’s thepulse, if you have good pulse then your heart is working fine, but somepeople do not have good pulse and have to go to the doctor. One day I waswatching Spongebob square pants and he looked at Squidward’s heart as itwas beating when he was so excited, so your heart also beats faster when you are excited. I wonder if the heart ever gets tired because it does notrest at all, but we need the heart to always work for us to be alive evenwhen we are sleeping. I think the heart is the most important part of mybody, but it would not be able to get oxygen if it was not working with itsfriends, the lungs. What teamwork!Today I was thinking about the brain. The brain is the boss of the humanbody, without the brain, we cannot think, we cannot move, we cannot knowthe answers to questions, we cannot taste or smell or touch or hear orsee. There are so many things we cannot do without the boss, the brain.So how does the brain work? Well I read some books from the library andI did my research. The brain has many parts that do different things. Theone I like best is the cerebellum. From the pictures I see, it is in the backof the head. The cerebellum tells my body when and how to move. It talksto my muscles by sending my nerves messages. “Body move!” the nervesrun fast down my spine to my legs and I move. The brain is pink and softand looks like worms, plenty of worms or it looks like a yucky water hose. Iguess it must be slimy but I cannot do anything without it. I wonder whatmy brain does when I am sleeping. I got a book from the library in myschool from my teacher that tells what the brain does when you aresleeping. The brain tells the body to rest and it tells the heart to keepbeating but slowly, very slowly, like in slow motion. The brain also tells mylungs and nose to breath softly so I can still have oxygen in my body evenwhen I sleep. The cerebrum is in the front of the brain. It is veryhumongous and has 2 different parts. My senses are from the cerebrum,so I can see, smell, touch, taste and hear because of my cerebrum. There

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The Unique Human Body

I am always curious about what happens with my body, so with the help of my mom, my teacher, my sister and the lady at the library who showed me so many books to use, I tried to... (More)

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Category:	Research > Science
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Upload Date:	01/25/2009
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