Michael! I can't believe our parents are coming to school (today)! - FrannieWhat is an expert? It means really good at something - Lily What would doctors be experts at? Good at making people feel good when they’re sick. - Wilder Check their bodies. - Bea Or do a X-ray. - Finlay Today we welcomed three of our parents (Ali and Cisco Espinel and Diana Hung) to join us for an expert talk about being doctors! In the previous weeks as our investigation about the body continued to expand and we made the decision to turn an area of our classroom into a doctor's office, Frannie informed us that both of her parents are doctors! He (dad) take care of grown-ups and my mom take care of kids and babies. One time my mom took care of a baby and a kid and her head hurted. She had to break into the kids head. And she take out the brain and then she put it back in. And then she closed it up. Done! - Frannie This information sparked more intrigue amongst the children who had questions about being a doctor and the work that is involved with the profession, so we were grateful and excited to have our parent doctors visit us today! We prepared questions for them and learned a lot through an exciting discussion.   Frannie's dad, Cisco, began the conversation by describing some of the work he does as a surgeon. He also brought special medical instruments called "needle drivers" that he uses in surgery to show us how they work. We use this instrument to sew the skin closed. And do you know what we sew it with? - Cisco Needles. - Finlay And at the end of the needle is what? - Cisco Rope. - Daniel Thread. - Remy Yes, like string. And do you think we leave the thread open or tie it? - Cisco Tie it! - Luke Let me guess … those are called stitches? - Finlay These are called needle drivers. - Cisco (pointing to the medical instrument) And just like you guys sew with your hands, you can use those (needle driver) to hold the needle. - Ali
So can you tell us why you use this special tool and not your fingers for sewing on a body? - Sam (to Cisco) Because you can’t sew through the skin. - Finlay We don’t want to use our fingers because they might be dirty so we use this instrument to keep everything clean. - Cisco But I have a question. Couldn’t you just have a bath? - Finlay Or shower. - Wilder When you cut yourself what’s the first thing you need to do to take care of it? - Cisco A bandaid. - Luke You put cream on it. - Daniel And you need to wash it with soap and water to keep it clean, so clean it first and then put the bandaid on. - Cisco And I usually just wait for it to heal. - Finlay And put lotion. - Remy And those (needle drivers) help us reach places that are deeper in the body that our fingers might not be able to reach. - Ali Discussion about surgery, sewing, and stitches then led into another discussion about scars. Some children made personal connections to having their own scars, or knowing that family members have them.
Looking at our bodies for scars led into a discussion about other things we can see through our skin, like veins! If you make a fist do you see those lines in there and the colors? Do you know what those are called? - Cisco Veins! - Hugh (and many others) Does everybody have veins? - Cisco Yep. - Finlay And what’s inside those veins? - Cisco Uhhh cells? - Finlay Blood. - Hugh Yeah. And cells. - Finlay And the other ones is arteries. - Wilder (after asking Ines for support in recalling the difference between veins and arteries) We talked about arteries in our class. - Finlay And you know what’s important about those blood cells? There’s oxygen in those blood cells that we get from the air we breathe. - Cisco And if your oxygen stops and your heart stops then you die. - Wilder Throughout the visit, the children were eager and proud to demonstrate their knowledge of the body and recalled lots of information that we have been discussing together as at class over the past few weeks. Next, Michael's mom Diana (a radiologist) had some x-ray images to show us. We were able to observe the difference in appearance between broken and intact bones as well as between healthy and sick lungs.
Why do you think we have bones? What would happen to our body without any bones? - Cisco You would be too squishy and then it would be easier for other animals to eat us. - Wilder We would be flat. - Hugh We would just be laying down if we wouldn't have any bones. - Daniel  To wrap up our discussion we learned that it takes a really long time and lots of hard work to become a doctor! When you’re older and you go to school you can learn how to be a doctor and different kinds of doctors. Someone taught me how to open the body and fix things inside the body using the instruments there (needle drivers) and sewing. - Cisco Me and Michael’s mommy and Frannie’s dad went to school for over 10 years to learn how to be doctors. - Ali That’s more than 100! - Finlay And Michael’s mommy knows how to read x-rays. It's like she has super powers to see inside your body. - Ali Sometimes I ask Michael’s mommy to help me and then we can work together to help fix the problem. - Cisco Remember Frannie told us that her mommy and daddy have different doctor jobs and Michael’s mommy has a different doctor job? They’re all doctors, but they all do different important things. - Sam Thank you to our parent doctors for your time and for support our learning! And thank you to all doctors for the very important work that you do to take care of others!
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