In science this week we re-capped our understanding of the human body and focussed on the enquiry ‘are animal’s bodies the same as ours?’. To start off our lesson we looked at a variety of photographs of different animals. I asked the children to identify their different features and characteristics.

After that we created two groups. One group of features we share with animals and one that we don’t. Here are some of the similarities and differences.

             Similarities                                                                             Differences

Eyes, mouth, head, legs and ears.                                    Tusks, trunks, hooves, fur, scales                                                                                                 and fins.

We had some great discussions about animal body parts and why they might have certain characteristics. We can’t wait to learn more about this next week!