The Mitochondria, the Lysosome, and the Golgi! (More about your cells)

We are going to start with the mitochondria (my to kon drea)! A way to remember the mitochondria, is "the mighty mitochondria"!The mitochondria is the power source of a cell. Just like a power plant for a city! The mitochondria is shaped like a bean with a squiggly line across the middle. How does the mitochondria work? Well, your body digests the food you eat, turning it into smaller nutrients that go to the cell. The cell breaks some of the nutrients turning it into fluid. The fuel is then sent to the mitochondria were it is burned. When it is burned the fuel makes energy!

Cells!

You can see the nucleus, the little dot, inside the cell. You can also see the cytoplasm and the cell membrane!
 

The cells of the body are a great way to start out learning about anatomy. Many scientists thought that cells were very simple! They thought each cell was a block with a dot inside they called the nucleus. The nucleus is located in the middle of a cell. The word nucleus means center or core! A fun project you can do is draw on a piece of paper what we learn, as we learn! To help after you get done drawing, draw a line out from the parts of the cell and label it. Cells come in all different shapes and sizes, so we draw a cell that is oval because it's easier to draw. The outside area of the circle is called the cell membrane. It is a proven fact that the cell membrane is the deciding factor behind choosing what can enter and exit the cell. It is like a wall around a city. There is a jelly-like substance called cytoplasm inside. In the cell membrane, there are a lot of smaller structures called organelles. Each organelle has a job. The organelles float in the cytoplasm. Cytoplasm has nutrients in it. Together they fill the cell.

All About Senses

You have five senses and they are smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing. You can say you learned one general sense, thats your sense of touch. And you have 5 special senses, which are smell, sight, taste, hearing, and balance. See the reason your touch is a general sense is because you can touch or feel everywhere on your body, as your eye sight, special sense, you can see out of you eyes, but you can't see out of your arm or your leg but you can touch with your arm and with your leg!