NATURAL U-5 Animals

In this unit we are learning how to classify animals. 

We have divided the class in groups. Each one is looking for information of one group of animals and then making a poster about it. After that, all the groups will do oral presentations to help the other children learn about that group of animals. 

Here you have a chart to compare the characteristics of each group of animals.

	INVERTEBRATES	VERTEBRATES
Bones	They  don´t have a spine	They have a skeleton with a spine
		FISH	AMPHIBIANS	REPTILES	BIRDS	MAMMALS
Breathe		Gills	Babies: gills Adults: lungs / skin	Lungs	Lungs	Lungs
Reproduction	Oviparous (They lay eggs in land)	Oviparous (They lay eggs in water)	Oviparous (They lay eggs in water)	Oviparous (They lay eggs in land)	Oviparous (They lay eggs in land)	Viviparous (the babies are born alive)
Body /Legs	None: worms 6 legs: insects 8 legs: arthropods + 8 legs: centipede	Fins Tail	Babies: no legs Adults: 4 legs	None: snakes 4 legs: most	2 legs Beak Wings	4 legs: most Fins: dolphin and whale
Skin coverings	Soft skin           Shells          Exoskeleton	Scales	Moist skin	Scales / dry skin Shells (turtle)	Feathers	Hair (fur)

You can also practice classifying animals by answering this questions

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Practice with these games:

Animals characteristics game
What do they have in common?
Quiz on plants and animals
Sort animals in categories

Depending on what they eat, we can classify animals in:

- Herbivores (animals that only eat plants)
- Carnivores (animals that eat other animals)
- Omnivores ( animals that eat plants and other animals)

Classify animals by what they eat

Physical geography of Spain

We learnt about how Spain is divided in different communities and provinces. Now we are going to learn about its relief.

The physical geography of a country includes all the natural elements of landscape, like seas, mountains, rivers and plains...

Spain is a península. It is surrounded by water except from one part.

The seas around Spain are:

- The Cantabric Sea in the north
- The Atlantic Ocean in the west
- The Mediterranean Sea in the east and south

We have also started learning about the most important rivers of our country.

You can practice in this interactive maps

Rivers of Spain (What´s the name?)

Rivers of Spain (Where is..?)

This is the map of the rivers we have studied

Last week we also learnt the most important mountains

The mountains that you have to study are:

- Macizo Galaico (in Galicia)
- Montes de León ( in León)
- Cordillera Cantábrica (under the Cantabric Sea)
- Montes Vascos (in País Vasco)
- Pirineos (they are the natural border between Spain and France)
- Cordillera Litoral or Cordillera Costero-Catalana (along the coast of Cataluña)
- Sistema Ibérico ( in Casti
lla y León, Aragón and C. Valenciana)
- Sistema Central (in the centre of the peninsula)
- Montes de Toledo (in Toledo)
- Sierra Morena ( between Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalucía)
- Sistemas Béticos (in the east of Andalucía)
- Teide (in Tenerife- Islas Canarias) It´s a volcano and it´s the highest mountain in Spain with a height of 3,718 m

You can practice the mountains in these maps:

Mountains- What´s the name?

Mountains- Where is?

We also learnt that the place where a river begins it´s called the source. It is usually near the mountains. The mouth is the place where a river flows into a sea or ocean.

RIVER	SOURCE	MOUTH	SEA/OCEAN
MIÑO	CORDILLERA CANTABRICA	Between Galicia and Portugal	Atlantic Ocean
DUERO	SISTEMA IBÉRICO	Oporto (Portugal)
TAJO	SISTEMA IBÉRICO	Lisbon (Portugal)
GUADIANA	SISTEMAS BÉTICOS	Between Portugal and Huelva
GUADALQUIVIR	SISTEMAS BÉTICOS	Cádiz
EBRO	CORDILLERA CANTABRICA	Tarragona (Cataluña)	Mediterranean Sea
JÚCAR	SISTEMA IBÉRICO	C. Valenciana
SEGURA	SISTEMAS BÉTICOS	Murcia

NATURAL U-4 How we eat

This week we have started this unit to know how we eat.
First, we have reviewed what you know and looked for information in groups with the books from 2nd and 4th grades. Today we have prepared a mini-book to study the processes in the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

WHY DO WE EAT?

We need to take food and water to be alive. If we don´t do it, we die.

WHY IS FOOD IMPORTANT TO BE ALIVE?

Food give us the nutrients our body needs to:
- Have energy
- Grow
- Be healthy

WHAT FOOD DO WE NEED TO EAT?

We have to eat food from different groups

Fruits and vegetables (For HEALTH)
Bread and cereals (For ENERGY)
Meat, fish, eggs, milk and dairy (For GROWTH)

WHEN DO WE HAVE TO EAT?

We need to eat 4/5 times a day. To have a balanced diet we have to eat food from the different groups of food.

HOW DOES OUR BODY GET THE NUTRIENTS IT NEEDS FROM FOOD?

First, we put the food in the mouth. When we chew, the teeth break down the food into small pieces. The tongue and the saliva mix these pieces to make a ball.

When we swallow, this ball goes down the esophagus (long tube) to the stomach. Here, the muscles shake the food and mixes it with gastric acids to turn it into a liquid

Then, this liquid goes into the small intestine (5 to 7 meters long tube) Here, some enzimes produced by the liver and pancreas help to dissolve the food even more. Along the small intestine, the nutrients that our body needs are absorbed and go into the blood.

The remain food goes into the large intestine, which absorbs the liquid and compacts what our body doesn´t need (waste). This is called the poop, that we push out of our bodies through the anus.

WHAT´S THE NAME OF THE BODY SYSTEM THAT HELP US TO GET NUTRIENTS FROM FOOD?

Digestive system



Here you have some videos and pages to review the unit

Digestión process

Video

HISTORY

When you looked for information of a scientist, we saw that many of them lived in the past.

Check what we learnt in this mind map

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PROVINCES OF SPAIN

You already know the communities of Spain. Let´s practice now the way they are divided in one or more provinces.

You can also prctice with the interactive maps

What´s the name?

Where is?

YOUR PROJECTS

3A:

3B:COMUNIDAD DE MADRID

3C:

SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY

Now we are becoming experts in geography. We know that we live in the planet Earth and that it has got water and land. Check out the names of the continents and the oceans in this mind map that we made together in class

Mapa Mental creado con ExamTime por lucia_elsol


We have also made a nice poster to see the path from us to this planet

 

We live in a town, that with other towns and cities make up a province. This province is part of an Autonomous Community. 17 Autonomous Communities and 2 Autonomous Cities are the way our country is organised.

Our country is Spain, that with other 49 countries, is part of the continent of Europe.

 

 

We have studied the names of all the communities in Spain and we can almost find all of them in the map.

 

We were so happy learning about places, that we decided to keep on travelling to know our continent, Europe.

Now, each student is named after one country, and we have seen where they are in the map.

 

 

On Monday we are going to have a contest in the class about the capital cities of Europe, so let´s start practising!! There are some countries that I didn´t put, and the contest will be about the ones of your class.

 

Países (español)	Countries (english)	Capitales (español)	Capitals (english)
Albania	Albania	Tirana	Tirana
Alemania	Germany	Berlín	Berlin
Andorra	Andorra	Andorra La Vieja	Andorra La Vella
Armenia	Armenia	Yerebán	Yerebán
Austria	Austria	Viena	Vienna
Bélgica	Belgium	Bruselas	Brussels
Bielorrusia	Belarus	Minsk	Minsk
Bosnia	Bosnia	Sarajevo	Sarajevo
Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Sofía	Sofía
Croacia	Croatia	Zagreb	Zagreb
Dinamarca	Denmark	Copenhague	Copenhaguen
Eslovaquia	Slovakia	Bratislava	Bratislava
Eslovenia	Slovenia	Ljubljana	Ljubljana
España	Spain	Madrid	Madrid
Estonia	Estonia	Tallin	Tallinn
Finlandia	Finland	Helsinki	Helsinki
Francia	France	París	Paris
Grecia	Greece	Atenas	Athens
Hungría	Hungary	Budapest	Budapest
Irlanda	Ireland	Dublín	Dublin
Islandia	Iceland	Reykjavik	Reykjavik
Italia	Italy	Roma	Rome
Letonia	Latvia	Riga	Ryga
Lituania	Lithuania	Vilna	Vilnius
Luxemburgo	Luxembourg	Luxemburgo	Luxembourg
Macedonia	Macedonia	Skopje	Skopje
Malta	Malta	La Valleta	Valletta
Moldavia	Moldova	Chisnau	Chisnau
Montenegro	Montenegro	Podgorica	Podgorica
Noruega	Norway	Oslo	Oslo
Países Bajos	Netherlands	Amsterdam	Amsterdam
Polonia	Poland	Varsovia	Warsaw
Portugal	Portugal	Lisboa	Lisbon
Reino Unido	United Kingdom	Londres	London
República Checa	Czech Republic	Praga	Prague
Rumanía	Romania	Bucarest	Bucharest
Rusia	Russia	Moscú	Moscow
Serbia	Serbia	Belgrado	Belgrade
Suecia	Sweden	Estocolmo	Stockholm
Suiza	Switzerland	Berna	Bern
Turquía	Turkey	Ankara	Ankara
Ucrania	Ukraine	Kiev	Kiev