Set B L5-B5 Living and Growing

Set B L5-B5 Living and Growing Questions How many years do some people live? When do babies grow hair and nails? Living things Many things around us are alive. People are alive. Birds and animals are alive. Plants and insects are alive. There are many tiny things we can’t even see that are alive. What is a life span? A life span is how long something stays alive. Some things live for a very short time. Some butterflies live for just two or three days. DID YOU KNOW? Some people now live until they are 100 years old. Other things live for a very long time. Turtles can live for more than 50 years. Living things keep changing egg caterpillar chrysalis butterfly Living things keep changing as they grow older. Babies grow and change When we are born, we cannot see very well and we have no teeth. Soon, we can see and smile. When we are about six months old, we get our first teeth. DID YOU KNOW? Babies grow hair and nails before they are born. Our parents still have to do everything for us. But, as we get a little bit older, we try to walk. Soon, we can walk a little way. We can say some words, too. Our bodies grow and change When we are about six years old, our first tooth falls out. Then our second teeth begin to grow. Dear Grandma: My tooth came out today when I was eating an apple. Mom put my tooth in a little box. I am going to put my tooth on the table by my bed. Love, Katie Our bodies change shape as we grow. Our legs and arms get longer. Our hands and feet get bigger. When we are seven When we are seven years old, we are still growing. We know how to do many things. We can play computer games. We can play team games with other children. We can ride bikes. We can run and jump and skip and swim. We know many words, and this helps us to find out new things every day. We can read hard books and write long stories. We like dressing up and acting in plays. We can even remember the words of lots of songs. We get older By the time we are about 20 years old, we have stopped growing. But we are still changing. The way we look keeps changing. Our hair keeps changing. Our skin keeps changing. Our bodies keep changing. at 20 years old at 40 years old at 60 years old at 80 years old We never stop changing We find out about new things every day of our lives. Glossary alive adj. 活着的 butterfly n. 蝴蝶 caterpillar n. 毛毛虫 chrysalis n. 蛹 game n. 游戏 grow v. 成长 insect n. 昆虫 life span 寿命 living things 生物 nail n. 指甲 plant n. 植物 skin n. 皮，皮肤 turtle n. 海龟 walk v. 不行，散步