Facts About The Rainforest

This is my "facts about the rainforest" app. We made this before we made our dioramas. Mine was about the rainforest. In the rainforest the water can get up to 10 cm of rain each month. There are many different animals in the rainforest, for example, there are so many types of colourful and tropical birds. How do animals survive in the rainforest? Animals survive by their adaptations, such as the poison dart frog. The poison dart frog seeps poison out of its skin when it is scared. I think I would like to go to the Amazon rainforest.

My Rainforest Diorama

Yesterday I finished my diorama. It was about the rainforest. In the bottom corner there is a frog jumping out of a bush, a bird perched on a branch and a snake slithering along the branch.
We made these dioramas because we were learning about habitats and what is in it. We chose a habitat and made a diorama about it and I chose a rainforest as you can see. They were loads of fun and i really wanted to do one again.

Animal Classification

Today we learned about how animals are classified into groups. Animals are either vertebrates (which means they have a spine) or invertebrates (which don't have a spine).

Invertebrates are animals such as jellyfish, crabs, octopus and insects.

Vertebrates are put into five groups. They are mammals, birds, reptiles,fish and amphibians. Mammals have fur or hair and give birth to live young. Birds have feathers and lay hard eggs. Reptiles are cold-blooded and lay soft eggs. Amphibians breathe through their skin and need to keep their skin moist. Fish breathe through gills and have fins.

Here are five examples of each type:

Mammals: Tiger, Dog, Zebra, Chimpanzee and Otter

Birds: Goose, Swan, Turkey, Parrot and woodpecker

Fish: Goldfish, Eels, Sharks, Seahorses and Stingray

Reptiles: Crocodile, Tuatara, Snake, Tortoise, Chameleon
Amphibians: Frogs, Toads, Newts, Salamanders and Caecilians

Health

In class we are learning about the body and what food we should eat but this is about which body part goes where. I learnt that your lungs and your heart are protected by your rib cage.