Year Do I live Here? Year Do I live Here? 1 Knowledge Organiser:

Top 5 Facts
1. 1. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton is best known as a explorer who was associated with four expeditions exploring Antarctica.
2. Polar animals survive freezing temperatures for months at a time by developing some specialized features that help them stay warm, including insulating fur, layers of fat, and oily skin coatings.
3. Since water is so scarce, most desert animals get their water from the food they eat: succulent plants, seeds, or their prey.
4. Every year, Children’s Mental Health Week takes place during February. Children’s Mental Health Week can get people talking about their thoughts and feelings and helps us all to help ourselves and each other feel good on the inside.
5. Fiction is any story made up by an author. It is a creation of the author's imagination. It is not based strictly on history or facts.

Key Vocabulary
Continents	Capital City
There are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia. Europe, and	A capital is a city where a region's government is located.
Carnivore	Herbivore
An animal that feeds on other animals.	An animal that feeds on plants.
Omnivore	Arctic
An animal that feeds on plants and other animals.	The Arctic is the area around the earth’s north pole.
Antarctic	Sahara Desert
The Antarctic is the earth’s most southern continent; it is the icy region around the south pole.	The Sahara is the largest desert on earth. It is located in northern Africa.
Adaptation	Sacred
An adaptation is a special skill which helps an animal to survive in its environment.	Something sacred is holy, devoted to a religious ceremony, or simply worthy of awe and respect.
Emotions	Endangered Animal
An emotion is a person’s inner feeling. Some examples of emotions are anger, fear, joy and guilt.	A species considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter. Many people think he was the first abstract artist. He was the first painter to stop painting pictures of things and instead paint just using colours and shapes. He believed that this let him paint honestly about his feelings.

Colour Studies: Squares with C oncentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky

Exploring Emotions We learn to recognise a range of emotions in ourselves and others by talking about our feelings. We recognise different emotions by recognising how we show emotions, how we should respond to emotions and how emotions can change the behaviou r of ourselves and others. We learn different skills to help manage our behaviour and learn the importance of communicating with others.

Our Key Texts this term are: H anda’s Surprise By Eileen Browne L ost and Found By Oliver Jeffers

The United Kingdom (UK) The United Kingdom is a unique country made up of four nations: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. capital Each of the four countries of the UK has its own city. Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland. Cardiff is the capital city of Wales Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. London is the capital city of England.

Classifying Animals There are lots of different types of animals, for example; fish, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. We can identify which animals belong to these groups by looking at their structure and where they live. Animals can also be put into groups based on the types of food they eat.