Teaching Kids to Read and Write

  Why is the sun hot? The sun is a burning ball of gases. We feel its heat, even though it's 93 million miles away. Hot stuff! The sun's heat brings changes in the weather. Why can't I look at the sun? The sun is much too bright for our delicate eyes and could cause blindness. It's rude to stare - and in this case, it's very dangerous. Why does it feel cold when a cloud covers the sun? Clouds soak up most of the sun's warm rays, just like a sponge soaks up water. The air near the ground soon cools - and this can spoil your fun in the sun. Why do rainbows appear? Rainbows appear when the sun's behind you and there's rain ahead because sunlight splits into colors as it passes through water droplets. Why are rainbows full of color? White sunlight is a perfect blend of seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. So these are the colors that appear when a ray of sunlight passes through a raindrop and splits up. Why is this rainbow whit

  In the river, hidden under a rock, sits a crab. He is looking out for some food. He sees a floating scrap of fish, and nip! He grabs it. The fish floats up, with the crab hanging on to it. Up, up, up floats the crab with the scrap of fish. Then, suddenly, the crab is not in the river at all. He is not floating. He is dangling from some string. "Get him, get him!" the children shout. "Do not let him drop back into the river." The crab is dropped, not into the river but into a net. From the net he can see a bucket, with lots of crabs clambering about in it. The crab is added to the bucket. "We did it!" yell the children. "We are the winners!"' "We were the quickest to catch a hundred crabs!" they shout, jumping about. Then the children empty the bucket of crabs. The crabs all scatter and run along the muddy river bank. Back in the river, hidden under a rock, sits the crab. He is looking out for some food. https://drive.google.com/fi

  Mushrooms and toadstools are a sort of fungus. Some are edible, but some are poisonous. It is very difficult to tell them apart. Mushrooms and toadstools have a stem that comes up from the ground with a cap on top. Under the cap, there are lines running out from the middle. These lines are called gills. On the gills are spores. Spores are the seeds of mushrooms and toadstools. There are thousands of spores on the gills of a mushroom. The spores travel I on the wind. When they land, they develop small white threads. Mushrooms or toadstools develop from these threads. Mushrooms and toadstools do not have roots. Instead the small white threads spread out from the stem under the ground. The stem is made up of these threads. Mushrooms are often found in rings. The threads under the ground travel out and so the ring gets a bit bigger. The threads and mushrooms in the middle of the ring die. Mushrooms and toadstools start out looking like small buttons. The gills under the cap cannot be see

  Smile! What do you see? A mouth, lips and teeth. Teeth help us to bite into our food and cut it up into smaller lumps. Different shaped teeth have different jobs. Some are shaped like spades and we use them to bite into food. Some are sharp and pointed, so as to shred the lumps of food into smaller bits. Then there are wide, flat teeth at the back of the mouth, which mash the food into a pulp. When we are born, we have no teeth that can be seen yet. The teeth are all hidden under our gums. When they start to develop, they can make the gums sore. This is called teething. We have more than one set of teeth. As small children, we get a set of milk teeth. There are only twenty of these milk teeth. They start to wobble and fall out when we are about six or seven. Then we get our next set of teeth. These adult teeth are much bigger and are all we get for the rest of our lives. So it is very important to keep them healthy. Inside the mouth, it is dark and wet. There are some living things s