Post: Animals at night.

1.- Life at night 
1.- complete the chart

dark-hotter- nocturnal animals don't sleep-  colder- nocturnal animals sleep- light 
 in the day   : Hotter; nocturnal animals sleep; light       
at night: dark; nocturnal animals don't sleep; colder

2.-match. Then write complete sentences

-armadillos-------at night 
-tigers-------- come out in the day and at night
-rabbits -------only come in the morning and in the evening
-opossums------- come out at night.

3.-write true or false

    1.-false:the armadillo sleeps for lessthan 6 hours in the day 
    2.- false:the tiger only comes out at night    
    3.- false:  the rabbit is a nocturnal animal 
    4.- true: some animals are nocturnal because there are not so many predators at night 

4.-Complete the sentences

    predator- nocturnal evening- hides 
1.- the opossum hides  and goes to sleep in the day.
2.- the opossum and the armadillo are nocturnal  animals
3.- the rabbit usually goes out in the morning and in the evening 
4.- a predator  is an animal that wants to hunt and eat another animal 

5.- Circle the correct words  
many animals are nocturnal because....
1.- at night there are more / not so many predators 
2.- at night there's more / less food 
3.- in the day, sometimes it's too cold / hot 

      5.- Minibeasts 
1.- Write the minibeasts. Then write the numbers 
    1.-tomh ----- moth    

    2.-dripse----spider 
    3.-glus-------slug
    4.- lasin-----snail
    5.- reffily-----firefly 

   
3-1-5-2-4


 2.- Complete the sentences. 
       patterns- lights- antennae- poison- sun- hairs
   1.- slugs and snails hunt for food at night so that they do not dry out in the sun.
   2.- moths have special antennae   that help them to find their way in the dark.
   3.- moths have patterns on their wings that hepl them to hide 
   4.- tarantulas have special hairs  on their body 
   5.- tarantulas put poison  in to the body of their prey to kill it 
   6.- fireflies make lights in their body 

3.- write about moths and tarantulas 

three things that i read about moths on page 12.-
   1.-they have a special antennae on their head 
   2.-have patterns on their wings that help them to hide in trees 
   3.-the antennae help them to look for food 

another thing that i know about moths 
- belonging to the order lepidoptera

three things that i read about tarantulas on page 13.-
   1.-they are spiders 
   2.-the hairs on their body help them to feel when another animal is near 
   3.-they hide and then jump on their prey 

another thing that i know about tarantulas 
- The biggest tarantulas can kill animals as large as lizards, mice, birds and small snakes

    4.- answer the questions.

1.-why do many minibeasts come out at night?
because  are not so many predators 

2.- what do moths antennae do?
help them to look for food and  find their way in the dark.

3.-what helps moths to hide in threes in the day?
patterns on their wings

4.-when do tarantulas hunt for their prey?
at night 





  7.- African animals 

     1.- Write the words.
             leopard-aardvark-hippo-bushbaby
         

     1.- aardvark 
     2.- bushbaby
     3.- leopard
     4.- hippo












         2.- Find and write the words from pages 16-17

1.- two big things that aardvark have 

ears and nose
2.- three very good senses that big cats have 

see, hearing and smell
3.- four things that bushbabies eat 

insects, flowers, seeds and eggs

       3.- complete the sentences 
tongue- trees- grass- tapetum- insects- cooler

1.- big cats hunt for food at night because it's cooler
2.- an aardvark can eat 50,000 insects  in one night 
3.- hippos come out at night to eat grass
4.- bushbabies hunt for food in trees
5.- aardvark have a sticky tongue 
6.- cats can see in the dark because their eyes have a special part called the tapetum


4.- complete the puzzle 

1.-bushbaby

2.-hippo 

3.-aardvark

4.-leopard

5.-ants