Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Parts of a city or a town.

A neighbourhood is a localised area in a city or a town.

                    This is New York City neighbourhood map:



The Old Quarter is the oldest neighbourhood of a city or a town.



New parts of the city: there are parks, shopping centers, offices and appartment buildings.



The outskirts: areas outside the city or the town. There are hospitals, factories, airports or recycling facilities.



Thursday, 18 April 2013

Urban and rural life.





Cities are large urban areas where lots of people live.










Urban communities smaller than a city are towns. They haven´t got a cathedral.




A village is smaller than a town. Villages are located in rural areas.


A hamlet is a very small rural kind of place.



If you want to see something interesting this is your link.

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

What do you eat?


Plants make their own food.
Animals have to eat in order to grow and reproduce.

Some animals eat other animals, they are carnivore animals.



Other animals eat plants, they are herbivore:




We, human beings, are omnivore. We eat both plants and animals.


Enjoy your food hungry omnivore!!

What do you know about bats?

Print, read and colour!



Birds.

Birds are vertebrate and oviparous.













They have a beak and wings.

Finally, most of them can fly:

What a wonderful world!

Have a look and enjoy yourselves!

Remember...

Living things are born, grow, reproduce and die.

We can divide the living things into plants, animals and human beings.

We know a lot about plants after the last unit.

What about animals?

Welcome to unit 3: The animals.

Can you remember what the backbone is?





Can you touch your backbone?

If an amimal has got a backbone it is a vertebrate animal.
The opposite: invertebrate animals haven't got a backbone.
Think about your favourite animal... has it got a backbone? is it vertebrate or invertebrate?
Do you want have a look around an exiciting museum? This is the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

The alien!

Have fun with this alien!

Another animal classification!

Animals that are born from an egg are oviparous.

Animals that are born from their mother's womb are viviparous. The embryo is developed in the mothe´r's body.

Can you remember The very hungry caterpillar.?

Is the butterfly a viviparous or oviparous animal? And you?

Mammals:

They are vertebrate
The mothers feed their babies with milk.
They have hair (or fur)
Most of them are viviparous.



Can you recognize any other mammal around you?
Look at a mirror! We, human beings, are mammals!

The mammals.

Characteristics of Mammals:


  • They are vertebrate

  • Most mammals are viviparous.

  • They have lungs to breath and get oxygen.

  • They have hair, or fur.

  • Female mammals produce milk to feed their children.



Classify them!!

Try to catch and classify them!!

Click here and quiz yourself!

Fish.

They are vertebrate.



They are aquatic. They live in the water.





They are covered with scales.