Monday, June 09, 2008

When we dissected a sheep

On Friday morning Mr Chapman told us that pat was coming to school, he said that he was going to dissect a sheep to see all of the body parts because we are learning about the muscles of the body, we dissected a sheep because a sheep almost has the same body parts as the human body. After morning tea me went back inside and then pat arrived and we went outside by the offal hole bought a sheep over and Mr Chapman said that we have to wear gloves if we wanted to hold some parts of the sheep. Then pat got his knife and cut the sheep open first he showed us the Stomach and then he cut the ribs off and cut the kidneys out and put them on the ground he also cut out the small intestine and we stretched it out and it was 14 meters long, and Pat said that a humans small intestine is about 30 meters long, then he cut open the rumen and it was full of digested grass and Mr Chapman felt the inside edge of it and he said that it was the weirdest thing that he had ever felt. Then Mr Chapman told us to all put some gloves so that we could hold some of the sheep’s body parts, First pat handed out the liver and we all had a feel of it and it felt really slimy and then we all had another feel of the small intestine then he cut out the bottom of its mouth and then he showed us the wind pipe and how the ear gets to the heart and how the heart pumps the blood around the body. Then he cut out the eye and the lens of the eye came out and we felt it and it felt like hard jelly, After that we went back in school and the sheep went down the offal hole.

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