Junior 4 HTC: November 2007

Thursday, 29 November 2007

ORAL EXAM LEVEL 4

Hello children, I hope you are preparing your TOPIC FORMS to show me tomorrow, together with the information about it. If you can't find much about a topic, feel free to change it... You must decide what you are going to talk about on Monday, and I need to see that tomorrow! Good luck, see you! Marcela

Tuesday, 27 November 2007

ROMULUS AND REMUS

Remember we talked about the founding of the city of Rome? And some of us read that a group of archaeologists had found the place where the legendary wolf had fed the twin brothers... Here goes a link to the article in La Nación, for those who could not read it. http://www.lanacion.com.ar/964154 I hope you enjoy it! Marcela

Monday, 5 November 2007

RESEARCH GUIDE VIKINGS

Click on the questions you see in this site, and find out the following:

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/vikings.htm

ORIGINS, BELIEFS

1. Who were the Vikings?

2. Where did they come from?

3. Did they believe in one or many gods? Name the most important ones.

4. How did the Vikings travel from one place to another? Find a picture of a longship and describe it.

Now click on the picture of Snayfwickby, and answer these questions about

EVERYDAY LIFE

5. How did the Vikings live? Describe a longhouse.

6. What type of clothes did they wear?

7. Did they use any metals?

8. Did the Vikings keep any animals? What did they use them for?

9. What was the smoke house? And the bake house?

10. How did the Vikings write? Click on this site, and you will be able to write your name in runes:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/runes.html

Now click on the next site, and find the answers to these questions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/vikings/index.shtml

12. Viking invasion: What weapons did the Vikings use to fight?

13. Viking Life: Describe a Viking house.

14. Viking Life: What clothes did they wear?

15. Travel, trade, etc: What goods did the Vikings buy and sell?

Now that you have found a lot of information about Vikings, can you draw a chart to summarize all you have learnt?

REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS

Hello! This time we’ll learn about REPTILES and AMPHIBIANS.

Click on this link and find out!

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/default.cfm?nzps=bc

1. Can you mention the four groups of reptiles?

2. Can you mention the four groups of amphibians?

3. What is a reptile’s body covered by?

4. What does ectothermic mean?

5. Do reptiles lay eggs?

6. Where are amphibians born?

7. How are they born?

8. What does metamorphosis mean?

9. How do they breathe when they are born? And later on?

10. Are amphibians warm or cold blooded?

REPTILES

a) What do reptiles eat? Find the answer, and then, try the quiz “Carnivore or herbivore?”!

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/reptile_diet.cfm?nzps=sec

a) How do some reptiles defend themselves?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/lizard_defense.cfm?nzps=sec

b) How do reptiles move?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/reptile_moves.cfm?nzps=sec

c) What do reptiles see?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/reptile_vision.cfm?nzps=sec

d) What is venom?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/venom.cfm?nzps=sec

AMPHIBIANS

a) What does amphibian mean?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/amphibian_conservation.cfm?nzps=sec

b) Why is an amphibian’s skin so important?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/amphibian_conservation.cfm?nzps=sec

c) Can you describe the different stages of “metamorphosis”?

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/amphibian_conservation.cfm?nzps=sec

Finish your project by doing the following quiz:

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Exhibit/Topics/quiz.cfm?nzps=sec

Use the answers in the quiz to draw a chart or a Venn Diagram to compare REPTILES and AMPHIBIANS.

Friday, 2 November 2007

CIRCLE OF LIFE

Here goes a video clip with the Broadway performance of "Circle of Life"... Look at the costumes! Don't they look "gorgeous"!!! I hope you like it, and remember to sing along.