Amazon Rainforest Animals

If you have been reading our blog, you will know that every afternoon Mrs Naden casts the book she is reading to us on our T.V. We silently read along as she reads. 

The book we are reading is called The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. It's about 4 children whose plane crashes in the Amazon jungle, the pilot dies and they have to survive. At the moment, they are coming across lots of animals, mammals and other creatures that live in the rainforest.

For Reading, we had to read articles online and watch videos of some of the Amazon rainforest animals. We had to decide which helped us learn better - the articles or the videos. Then we chose one of the animals, researched facts, made a google drawing of the animal (we had to use shapes etc and not the Explore tool), then add some interesting facts about the animal. You will find these on our individual blogs - have a look!

Here's Manvi's...

Amazon Rainforest Wildfires

We saw the Amazon Rainforest wildfires on the T.V. news last week so this week we have been reading articles and watching videos about them. It also tied in with our expositions (persuasive writing) on climate change. 

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We were shocked at how many fires there have been this year and wondered about the effects they are having on the wildlife and tribespeople who live in the rainforest. 

As part of our Reading task, we created google drawings highlighting the effects of the fires. We thought carefully about the message we wanted to convey. You can view these on our individual blogs which will be published in the next few days.