Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 30 i National Geographic Little Kids

Can you name some other things you might see in a garden?…

Gliding also helps these squirrels get away from animals that want to eat them. Stretch your arms and legs out and pretend to glide! This flying squirrel lives in the forests of Japan. Big eyes help a flying squirrel see in the dark. As it jumps, the squirrel spreads out its arms and legs. Flaps of skin catch the air like a parachute. The squirrel lands on a branch. Now it has lots of food to eat. Flying squirrels eat fruit, leaves and fir tree needles.…

These birds pick bugs off the rhino's skin. Rhinos’ horns are made of the same material as our fingernails! ‘Rhino’ is short for rhinoceros. A baby rhino spends every day with its mum. She helps the calf grow strong. Who do you spend every day with? Rhinos live in Africa and Asia. A baby rhino is called a calf. In the morning, Mum and baby eat grass. The mother watches out for hungry lions. Mum uses her horn to protect her baby from lions. A baby rhino's horn starts to grow soon after it is born. Sticker activity Stick a baby rhino in the water next to its mum. Sticker page The afternoon is hot. The rhinos cool off in water. They might even take a mud bath! Mud protects…

‘USA’ stands for United States of America. It is the world's third largest country and has mountains, deserts, forests, beaches and big cities. Howdy is a greeting in some parts of the USA. Can you try? Say: “How-dee” Sticker activity Stick some more people at the bottom of these giant trees! Bald eagles are the national bird of the USA. They can fly very fast and swoop down to the water to catch fish. Sticker page In New York the taxi cabs are yellow. Stick another taxi in this picture! Sticker activity New York City is the USA's busiest city. It is nicknamed ‘The Big Apple’! The world's biggest trees grow in the USA. They can grow wider than a car and taller than a tower block.…

Each picture has three animals. One animal is on the left side. One is in the middle. One is on the right side. Find the animals and follow the instructions below. Tap the beak of the owl on the left side of the group. Scratch the heads of all the animals in the middle. Roar at the cheetah cub on the right side. Circle the meerkat on the left. Wiggle your nose at the racoon in the middle. Stroke the neck of the giraffe on the right side. Then stroke the giraffe in the middle. Draw the letter L through all the animals on the left. Do you draw with your left or right hand?…

1 A leafcutter ant has big, sharp jaws on its head. The jaws can cut a leaf into pieces. 2 The ant stabs its jaws into a leaf. The jaws cut the leaf like you would cut paper with scissors. Leafcutter ants live in the Americas. Give each ant a bit of leaf to carry. Sticker activity 3 The piece of leaf is big and heavy. But the ant is very strong. It carries the leaf to its nest. 4 Back at the nest, a food called fungus grows on the leaves. Then the ant eats the fungus! Sticker page…

The lines below show how some animals move. Trace each line with your finger. Then match it to the animal that moves that way. Jump like a bouncy kangaroo! Boing, boing! Sticker activity Add another type of gibbon swinging from the tree. Sticker page Which animal does not have legs?…