Facts about Elephants

• There are two types of Elephants, Asian and African

• Elephant’s scientific name -African is Loxodonta africana and the Asian name is Elephas Maximus

• Elephants are the largest land mammal in the world

• Elephants live in Asia and Africa

• African elephants are larger than Asian elephants and have larger ears

• Elephants are around 200 pounds when they are born

• Adult elephants weigh between 5,000 and 14,000 pounds

• A female elephant is called a cow

• A male elephant is called a bull

• A baby elephant is called a calf

• Elephants have no natural animal predators

• Humans are known to kill elephants for their ivory tusks

• Scientists discovered that elephants sing. They use an ultrasound rumble

  too low for humans to hear  to keep the heard together and to find mates

• Elephants travel in a herd (10 or more elephants) lead by a female

• Elephants are herbivores meaning they only eat plants and vegetables no meat

• Elephants eat grass, leaves, shrubs, branches, fruit

• They spend 16 hours a day eating

• Adult elephants eat 300-600 pounds of food everyday

• Elephants drink 40-50 gallons of water everyday

• Elephants sleep about 2 hours per day

• Elephants like to swim

• Elephants trunk are their nose

Facts about whales

1. Whales are mammals.

This means that whale calves grow inside their mothers until they are born. Besides, they are nursed and taken care by their mothers until they reach certain age.

2. Whales breathe air as we do.

Therefore, they need to reach the surface of the ocean to breathe because they cannot breathe underwater.

3. To breathe, whales have a blowhole in the top of their heads.

When they reach the surface, they take air in through this blowhole.

4. There are two types of whales, Baleen Whales and Toothed Whales.

There are several species of whales out there, but they are classified according to the way they feed in two types, baleen whales and toothed whales.

5. Baleen whales feed from krill and plankton.

Krill are shrimp-like creatures which are very important ocean creatures.

6.Toothed whales eat several kind of fish, like tuna, cod and salmon among others and some small mammals like seals.

7. The Blue whale is the largest animal in the world.

Even more, it is the largest animal that has ever existed, even larger than the largest dinosour ever found. The blue whale is a baleen whale.

8. Some baleen whales sing.

Particularly the blue whales and the humpback whales are well known for singing.

9. Whales can swim as fast as 30 miles per hour.

10. Some Whales can stay underwater for as long as 90 minutes.

This applies mainly for the sperm whale which can stay underwater for as long as 90 minutes, although a typical dive for other species is around 35 minutes.

11. Whales do not sleep as we do.

To rest, whales sleep only half brain so they remember to take air in, otherwise they would drown.

Cross Country

Cross Country is something that you run and I am a year 5 at my school and I have to run around the WHOLE SCHOOL 3 TIMES. I am looking forwards to Cross Country this year because I want to go to Inter-Schools for MORE RUNNING. I haven't gone to Inter-Schools yet...

Cross Country is this Thursday SO IT IS TOMORROW!!!! if you are reading this on the 31st August it will be tomorrow because it is going to be on the 1st September.

Daily 5

Daily 5 is something where you can do things like:
Read to Self
Read to Someone 
Listen to Reading
Work on Writing 
Word Work
I LOVE to do read to self because I LOVE reading.
I like reading heaps, for our operetta that is coming up I am reading some things to the whole school. 

Operetta

English: Monday 29 August
Maori: Te 29 o Hereturikoka 

The Operetta 

For the Operetta I need to read a piece of paper and then once I am finished I sit down on the stage and move some stuff that is supposed to be water. And when i'm done saying it the ditty starts. First by the instrument's and then we sing
 " Bright fine gold, Bright fine gold, one a pecker, two a pecker bright fine gold,  Bright fine gold, Bright fine gold, one a pecker, two a pecker bright fine gold, spend it in the summer and you'l die in the cold, it cannot light a lantern or even ease a pain, and yet we go on searching tho' we search in vain".




Reflection

I learnt that "ditty" means short song.
I did the song creatively. 

My Pepeha

Twit children

  

One day there were two lovely parents.they had children. There was a boy and a girl. They were so kind then they grew older and grew meaner at the same time. The girl was called Tarin and the boy was called Maz. they had a evile dog called zayn. The dog also had strange teeth with patterns that were stripes with polka dots. he would always chew up your clothes and your slippers. He would try to bite your face off. He gave the mother a broken leg. They also had a chicken that the dog killed and its babys ran onto the road and died. There was also a cat that died of a heart attack. The father had a broken back. They wanted to kill the dog because it was mean and it cost to much to feed. There was no point in keeping the dog.The father chopped off its head and the police caught him doing it and took him to jail. He stayed in jail for only two weeks. That was good for him. The cell was pitch black at night and was freezing he came home and sat on the couch and cried. The two children went to boarding school. The parents soon could afford to go to England and got a car, a house, and a dog called mick. Mick was a border collie and he was really nice. They got rich (it took a while) and had a kid called jenna. She was so kind and loveable she did not grow up to be rich but she got a good job. she turned 16 and got a boyfriend called pete. They adopted a dog called fritz. (that’s a german name)

Jenna had a baby boy called Jonathan. Jonathan had ginger fuzzy hair and he had one TINY tooth popping out. He was born on the 15th of may. He grew up so fast and soon he was 8. His teeth were fully grown but he still had four to come out. He was at primary school and then he was at intermediate then he was at boys high school. Then he was 50. He was growing up so fast. And he was taken to a rest home from when he was 76 till he died. He died when he was 98. Here is where the story ends

Reflection:

I was learning to write a story with punctuation and detail I think I did o.k.

Using blocks for geometry.

I was using blocks to make things and then it got knocked down by a boy called Dakota lucky I took enough photos.

This is my creation after it was knocked down

N.Z History Timeline

We have been learning about the history of people when they only just came to N.Z

1624-1769

Murderers bay is now called the golden bay

We learnt about Murders Bay and how people got Murdered there.(That's why it was called murders bay) Then it was called Golden bay because that was a better name and also because there was gold there.

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