IMPALA - ANIMAL

• Where does the Impala live Impalas live mainly where grasslands change to bushes and thorn-trees like Kwazulu-Natal.


• The male Impala has horns. We call it the ram. The female Impalas are called ewes.


• An Impala is reddish brown in colour with a white belly. It's sides are also reddish brown, but lighter in colour.


• On either side at the back, there is a dark line, while the tail is also darker on top. The colour of the impala blends with the colour of its surroundings. Thus its enemies cannot seet it clearly.

Impalas eat leaves and small branches of plants. Usually they eat plants which other animals do not eat.

During the dry winter months Impalas obtain their water by licking the dew-drops from the leaves of trees in the early morning. If a little rain falls in winter, impalas lick the water from the rock ledges and plants, and also from their hair. Impalas drink only little water, even if there is plenty.

During certain times of the year, the food of impalas consists mainly of leaves. Thus they can live together usefully with cattle and other grass-eating animals.

The teeth of the Impala are suitable for eating plants. There are molars in the upper and lower molars. The food is ground between the upper and lower molars when the lower jaw moves from side to side.

THE CAT

REPRODUCTION

• The cat is unisexual. There are male and female cats.



• The male cat mates with the female.



• Internal fertilisation takes place.



• The fertilised egg grows and becomes the embryo.



• The embryo grows in the body of the female.



• The embryo obtains food from the blood-stream of the female.



• The embryo develops into a tiny kitten. The kitten is born alvive after 63 days.



• The kitten sucks milk from its mother. Thus we say that it is suckled by its mother.



• The cat is called a mammal.



• The young of all mammals are born alive.



• The young o human beings re also born alive.

THE FROG

Fertilisation

• In early spring after the rain, the male frogs go to a suitable dam or pool. They croak to attract the females.


• When the eggs in the body of the female are ripe, she enters the water.


• The male clings to the female. He climbs on her back and puts his forelegs around her body.


• The female then lays her eggs in the water.


• The male now pours his male fluid over them. This male fluid contains very tiny living things which we call sperms.


• We say that the male and female mate.


• When a sperm has joined with an egg, we say the egg has been fertilised. The egg is now fertile.


• The jelly around the eggs of a frog swells and sticks to a plant. The eggs of each female are laid together in a group.


• In each egg which has been fertilised, an embryo develops.


• The embryo grows and becomes a tadpole.


• The tadpole hatches from the egg, but lives on the yolk of the egg until it has been used up.


• A tadpole lives in the water.


• The tadpole grows and becomes an adult frog.


• A frog is unisexual. There are male and female frogs.


• When the sperms fertilise the eggs in the water, we say that external fertilisation has taken place.

What other animals lay eggs which are fertilised externally?

Fishes

HONEY BEES

Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees. There are currently 7 recognized species of honey bees.

Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the +- 20 000 known species of bees. Honey bees have a bright color pattern. This is to warn potential predators that they have a weapon to defend themselves.

Honey bees have compound eyes. They create elaborate nests called hives, containing up to 20 000 individual bees during summer time.

The 3 castes are: queens, drones and markers.

The purpose of the queen is to make more bees.

Drones sole function is to mate with a new queen, and they only live about 8 weeks.

Worker bees do different tasks needed to maintain and operate the hive.

Bees don't just make honey, they play a vital role in the pollination of our fruits and vegetables.

Honey are used by the bees for food all year round.

Beeswax is used by the bees to build honeycomb.

VLERMUISE / BATS

Vlermuise hoort tot die klas Mammalia. Hulle word onderverdeel in groot vlermuise, en klein vlermuise.

Daar is altesaam 850-900 spesies. Baie vlermuisspesies soos die vrugtevreters speel 'n belangrike rol in bestuiwing van plante en sade.

Inseketende vlermuise jag snaks, en stuur kort trillings in ultrasoniese klankgolwe uit.

Vlermuise kom regoor die wêreld voor, buiten die Noordpoolstreek, Antarktika en afgeleë eilande.

Die wêreld se grootste vlermuise is in Java, met 'n vlerkspan van 1,7 meter en 'n liggaamslengte van 40 cm.

NATUURRAMP: VLOEDE- NATAL


vloed: buitengewone hewige oorstroming van water.
In September 1987 het die ergste vloed in Kwazulu Natal plaasgevind.
Altesaam 388 mense het gesterf. 68 000 mense is dakloos gelaat.
Huise het heeltemal verbrokkel, of weggespoel, en is in modder begrawe.
Durban was heeltemal van die res van die land afgesny.
Duisende kilometer paaie word beskadig.
14 Brûe is weggespoel.

KOLMANSKOP- SPOOKDORP IN DIE NAMIB
1. Kolmanskop, een van die bekendste sppokdorpe in Namibië, is naby Luderitz geleë.
2. Historiese oorsig:
Die dorp is vernoem na Johnny Kolman, 'n transportbestuurder. Lelawa, wat saam met hom gewerk het, het 'n diamant in die Kolman-omgewing opgetel. Dit was in 1908, en 'n diamantstormloop het gevolg.

3. Bloeitydperk
Na die ontdekking van diamante het fortuinsoekers van alle dele van die wereld soontoe gestroom, en die elegante dorp Kolmansdorp het ontstaan. Daar was onder meer 'n casino, teater, kegelbaan, ysfabriek, swembad en hospitaal wat die eerste x-straalmasjien in die suidelike halfrond gebruik het. Meer as 1000kg diamante is hier ontdek voor die 1ste wêreldoorlog. Salarisse was baie hoog, en bykans alles was gratis soos huise en melkaflewering.

4. Doodgeloop
Inwoners het stelselmatig na Luderitz en ander plekke verhuis namate die mynbedryf op Kolmanskop doodgeloop het. Die huise en strate is toegewaai deur sand, en spoedig het dit in 'n spookdorp verander.

5. Wat is gedoen om dit te laat herleef?
Vandag is Kolmanskop 'n spookdorpie met ongelooflike geskiedkundige geboue wat deels onder sandduine versteek is. Danksy bewaring is dit nou 'n merkwaardige en unieke besoekpunt vir toeriste. Die teater is steeds in 'n goeie toestand. Dis 'n uitstekende plek vir professionele fotograwe . Toere is Maandae tot Sondae. Permitte is nodig om foto's te neem.

5. Bronne
1. http://wikipedia.org/
2. www.ghosttowntours.com/kolmanskop.htm
3. http://www.encounter.co.za/article

Insight into a teacher's thoughts
To move from one province to another is not so easy at all.
Don't think for one moment to work for the education department it would be the same rules and the same as in another province.
Firstly, the monthly payments are on very different days. The previous province where I taught paid on the 22 of each month. Move to another province, and now they pay you on the very last day of the month! All your debit orders must change.
Then, your housing subsidy doesn't get paid automatically. You must go to the department's office and fill in new forms, otherwise they don't pay it, even though you bought a house in the other province and gave in the forms.
The rules in schools are much different. In Mpumalanga there is very few meetings for teachers, in Gauteng - wow- the meetings don't stop!! It is the first time in my 28 years as teacher I heard about "cluster meetings". They don't even know the word in the other provinces!
It is just clear that the teachers in Gauteng must work much harder for the same pay as teachers in other provinces.

Dis weer tyd vir die ATKV Redenaars. ! Alle leerlinge wat deelnaam oefen hopelik baie , en vir al die mammas wat hulle kinders help en ondersteun onthou: natuurlikheid, die inleiding en slot is baie belangrik. Ook belangrik is korrekte pousering, klem op spesifieke woorde, om veral nie te vinnig die inhoud van jou stuk af te rammel nie, dis waaraan baie kinders hulle skuldig maak, uit pure senuweeagtigheid, natuurlik!
Die Eisteddfod in verskillende provinsies en streke is ook nou weer om die draai, en affiliasie is noodsaaklik. Indien die skool waar jou kind skoolgaan nie deelneem nie, vind uit of dit moontlik is dat ouers in daardie streek kan affilieer, en doen dit so spoedig moontlik! So kry jou kind kans om deel te neem, en so 'n kans verskaf aan die kinders oneindige voordele wat betref hulle verdere toekoms. In bykans alle beroepe is dit mos so dat dit tot werknemers se voordeel strek as hulle goeie sprekers is.
Wat natuurlik baie belangrik is met "Undramatised poetry, (as well as dramatised) is om die gedig reg te kies.
Dis baie belangrik dat die gedig pas by die leerder of jou kind se geaardheid. As jou kind 'n stil, ernstige kind is, dan sal dit mos nie werk om vir hom/haar 'n gedig te kies wat vrolik en borrelend is nie, nee, kies dan 'n ernstige gedig, en jou kind hoef nie noodwendig vreeslik van sy/haar geaardheid af te wyk om goed te doen nie. Hoop almal doen goed , en GENIET dit. Dis kan baie lekker wees, veral as almal nie noodwendig deelneem om te wen nie, maar om dit ook te geniet!