Let's try using our amazing brains on things that challenge them.

Milo brought a huge bag of Science books for us to share. Thanks.

Hey what's this Brain Chatterbox we see in the challenge boxes... can we do it? Can we? Can we?

 Now where is that app?

More of Milo's favourite Science books!

How does your brain get the information into it we wondered. We googled it to find out.

5 Senses part 1

5 Senses part 2

How does this taste sense work?

We were learning about seeing hearing smelling and tasting... I liked the taste of blueberries best", said Taylor

" I was thinking that lime tastes more sour than lemon" said Nicky.

" Yuck that is yucky I don't want to eat it, " said Daryna.

We read that you you lose one of your senses the others make up for it so we took away our sight to see what happens.

 Tama says, "That you have to put on a scarf  on your eyes and another person holds you on the hand and tells you how many steps you have to go so you won't  bump into anything."

 I was enjoying this it felt sort of scary to not be able to see but when I stood still it was ok', said Amelia.

Here's how we start our TAG sessions... with Milo! We love this bit a lot.

We thought brains and walnuts looked a lot the same so decided to eat some with our milo!

We so love these Science books full of facts for us to suck up.
Some kind people have brought their own from home or got some from the public library - Thanks for sharing!

What do real brains look like... we take a close up look at pig brains thanks to Piper and her nana Lione at New World.

"This is gross and the brains were squishy and I when I touched it it was awesome," said Kfir.

 Hugo said, " I was thinking ooo yuck that is disgusting. I touched the pig brain with my gloves and I got brain juice on my gloves." 

 Georgia was thinking... "This is exciting because I have never seen pig brains before. When I touched it, it was gross because it was all squishy".

Let's find out more about what the Left and Right side of out brain controls.

 We can see that the brain has two halves - we made our model have different coloured "brain juice" in each side so we could really see the different sides.

          Ralph thought this model was pretty cool.

                  Next we watched these great clips to explain more about the brain.

Click to learn lots about the Brain!


Find out even more about the parts of the brain.

We also looked at images for parts of the brain on Google. Have a look at what we found. We want to know what to look for as tomorrow we are doing something VERY EXCITING. Come back here to see more!

    This shows a baby's brain growing while it is still inside it's mummy's tummy. It changes so much!

After that we got a left and right side of a brain and cut and folded and stuck until...

Then we had a brain hat. It shows us what each part is and what it controls.
 We found it funny that your sight is at the back!

   We then went on to do some challenging work to test these "outside brains" ... they seemed to work fine!

Click here to download your own black and white or coloured brain hat.