Temperature

Hi fellow bloggers. For the last 4 weeks we have been doing activities on temperature for our ski trip. I have learnt what thermometer measure what. I also learnt what's the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Here is a drawing to with my links to my activities that I have been doing.

Leatherback Turtles Report

Hi fellow bloggers. For the last two weeks we have been doing animal reports. We got to choose our own animal to do our animal report on. I chose leatherback turtles. These animal reports are practises for our trout reports after the ski trip.
I hope you enjoy it:

Leatherback Turtles

Classification

Leatherback turtles are vertebrate animals which means they have a backbone or a spinal
column. They are classed as reptiles and  come from the family Dermochelyidae.  The
Leatherback turtle’s scientific name is Dermochelys coriacea which means : turtle with
leathery skin.

Appearance

Leatherback turtles are the biggest sea turtle in the world. They also are almost the
biggest reptile in the world.  Leatherback turtles can get up to 2 metres in length. They
can weigh up to 1400 pounds. The leatherback turtle gets its name from its thick leathery
skin.  The record weight of a leatherback turtle is 916 kg. Turtles have flippers that help
them swim and help them move onto land when laying eggs. They move their flippers
forward then quickly pull them back pushing water back making them move through
the water smoothly. Their flippers are curved slightly. On the head of a leatherback
turtle it has a beak. Its head has two round eyes on each side. On its shell it has a black
skin.  A leatherback turtle doesn’t have a shell, instead it is skin with bone frame. Little
white spots cover its leathered skin. On the back of its body it has a tail. Its tail is
triangular shaped. The tail is a floppy tail.

Habitat

These turtles  are found throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
This turtle species also extends to Alaska and to the tip of New Zealand. Pacific
leatherbacks migrate back from beaches in the Coral triangle to the California coast.  
The biggest populations are found in the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Western Pacific
Ocean. Leatherback turtles are found through the open ocean. They are found in deeper
waters at day and shallow waters at night.

Diet

Leatherback turtles eat jellyfish, tunicate and squirts. They will also eat fish mollusks,
squid and sea urchins. Leatherback sea turtles are omnivores.  An omnivore is an animal
that eats both meat and plants.

Leatherback turtles change their diet when they grow older. Their diet changes to seaweed,
seagrass and algae. Leatherback turtles can eat 800 to 900 pounds of jellyfish a day.

Reproduction

A male leatherback turtle will swim onto the female leatherback turtles back when the
female is swimming horizontally.  A leatherback turtle lays 110 ping pong like eggs.
Leatherback turtles come back to the same place they were born to lay their eggs.  It is
estimated that only 1 - 5 baby turtles will reach adulthood. It takes about 45-55 days
for a baby leatherback turtle to hatch. A leatherback turtle can lay 7 to 11 nests. A
leatherback turtle will make her nest by using her back flippers to dig a hole to lay
her eggs in.

Threats

The threats to this turtle are tiger sharks, fish, seabirds, dogs, ghost crabs and raccoons.
 There is also habitat loss, pollution and climate change. Some threats to leatherback
turtles include  poaching for meat and eggs. Plastic bags are also very bad. A turtle can
easily mistake it as a jellyfish and eat it. When a plastic bag enters a turtle it causes
blockage in the digestive system and causes them to die.

Conclusion

After reading my report on Leatherback sea turtles I hope you learnt something.
Here is a fun fact on Leatherback turtles: A Leatherback sea turtle is thought to live
up to 30 years.

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Pear Deck

On Monday this week we did Pear Deck. Pear Deck is a digital site where the teacher moves from a slide to another slide. When she goes to the next slide,the slide she goes to appears on our screen. On Pear Deck we write what we know about and then we learn more about it. We have been learning about correct sentence structure - looking at simple, complex and compound sentences. The teacher can instantly see our work as it is a shared document.

Silly Sentence

For the past few weeks we have been learning about temperature. We had to make a silly sentence to remember how to spell Thermometer. We made our silly sentence with a buddy. I chose Brooke.

Here is our Silly Sentence:

Creative Writing

Hi fellow bloggers.
For the past few week we have been writing creative stories. We got to choose what we wrote about. I chose to write an adventure story about my chicken, Sunset and Aira. The story is about a two chickens that go on an adventure and defeat obstacles.
I hope you enjoy it:

Aira and Sunset’s Adventure

Loud howling. Dark gloomy night. Strange noises. Two chickens exploring. Sunset and Aira. The moon was full of haunted spirits. Suddenly the two chickens heard a sound. The sound was coming from behind a hedge. The hedge was shaking. They slowly crept over to the hedge.

At first the rustling was soft, then the sound gradually got louder and louder until two furry hands grabbed Sunset’s tail feathers. The hands came from the hedge. Sunset screeched to Aira, “It has got me.”

At first Aira thought she was joking but suddenly out of nowhere a wolf opened his mouth and was about to swallow Sunset’s head. When Aira realised what it was he flew into the air and with his spear he made one massive scar down the wolves face. Injured, the wolf retreated.

Sunset and Aira carried on exploring. They came to a jungle walking cautiously through it. The animal was fierce and hungry. He crept over to the two chickens. It was a tiger. The tiger growled fiercely so the two chickens started running. They  came to a dead end, this was the end... or was it? Sunset and Aira quickly came up with a plan. They jumped onto the tiger’s head and quickly flew up into a tree. The two flew from branch to branch and finally reached the end of jungle. They were safe. A few minutes later they came across a big fluffy something. They had never seen anything like this before. The creature hopped out of its burrow. The creature was a bunny! Sunset and Aira were curious about the bunny because they had never seen a bunny before. The bunny introduced himself.

“Hi fellows my name’s Peter,” yelled the bunny.

“What are your names?” Peter asked.

“Hi my name’s Sunset,” mumbled Sunset.

“And I’m Aira,” Aira said in a suspicious voice.

A few minutes later Sunset asked, “Do you know where we could sleep?”

Peter replied, “Sure you can sleep in my burrow, there is heaps of room.”

“Thanks,” Sunset replied. So Sunset and Aira slept in the bunny's burrow.  Aira was very worried about Sunset. The reason he was worried was because he didn’t trust Peter.  Aira thought that he was trying to brainwash Sunset so she would fall under his control.

The three closed their eyes and fell to sleep except one!... Aira!