Exploring Our World

The Year 4’s have had an exciting first 3 weeks of school. We’ve started with an interesting topic  in Science: Habitats.

We’ve learned some new scientific terminology such as habitat, micro habitats and adaptations. Last week we got the chance to practically apply our knowledge by exploring the school’s garden. We found loads of animals and insects such as doves, swallows, beetles, butterflies, ants, moths and spiders! Once back in class, we had to draw the habitats and list all the animals we found.

Mrs Schoots also spoke about her class’s pet rats and how they are adapted to live in a cage and what makes them different from rats living in nature. It really helped us to understand how some animals might be able to survive in more than one habitat. We will continue with this topic for the next few weeks.

We are so blessed to live in a country with such a vast variety of animals and plants. It is important that we respect these animals and their habitats – no matter how small they are!

“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” –George Eliot

Ria du Plessis
Year 4 Teacher