Children sort animals using features they can see — number of legs, wings, fins, fur, feathers and scales — learn that insects have six legs and spiders have eight, and make their own sorting groups.
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Completed: Sorting Animals by Their Features
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Look closely at each animal: count the legs and check the body covering.
Read the box. Then circle the best answer.
We can sort animals by the features we can see.
We can count their legs. An insect has six legs. A spider has eight legs.
We can look at their covering. Birds have feathers. Dogs have fur. Fish and snakes have scales.
We can look at how they move. Birds have wings. Fish have fins.
Write True or False.
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