Joseph was taken to Egypt.

 

Egypt has large hot sandy deserts. Here are some pictures for you to have a look at .

Here are some words to describe a desert habitat.

dry

hot

sandy

Can you use these words in a sentence and say them to your grown up.

Here are some examples.

• ” A desert is very sandy”
• “The sun makes a desert very hot”

Here are some slides about desert habitats, and the animals that live in deserts. Look at them and talk about them with your grown up.

Follow this link to open the slides as a PDF, they may be easier to view.

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Now follow this link to join the BBC Bitesize page about desert habitats. There is a video for you to watch and a quiz for you to try.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv/articles/zsqnfg8

Reception/Cygnets – Please choose a desert animal and draw a picture of it. Perhaps you could label your drawing too?

Or you could follow this link if you have a printer to print off a sheet to label a camel.

https://www.schoolmykids.com/worksheet/label-parts-of-the-camel-w7001220

Do you have any desert toy animals in your house that you could play with?

Year 1 (Swans) – Please choose a desert animal. I’d like you to create a fact file about this animal. Tell me what it eats, where it lives and what its babies are called. Does it live alone or in a group? Draw a picture of your desert animal to go with your fact file. Talk to your grown up about how your animal can live in the hot, dry sunny desert.

Now have a go at this game:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go/resource/desert-habitat-interactive-labelling-activity-tg-90-newlink