Penguin Report

By Nicholas Sok

This is a report about penguins. Penguins are mammals that live in a cold part of the globe. They are warm blooded, great swimmers.  The fierce leopard seal is a predator of penguins.  Penguins live  in the water sometimes. So the other penguin live in cold weather.

Penguin have long beaks to catch food. It has little legs to make it waddle. Round eyes to see in the water.  They have great swimming skills to get food. They are black and white so they can be seen,

This is called countershading. Penguins can be about one meter tall.

They eat fish, squid and krill. Their habit is a cold part of the world.

There are countries that penguins live in, New Zealand, South Pole,  

Australia and South Africa.

They are blank and white, it catches food with its beak. They use their flippers to swim away from danger.

Penguins have flippers, great swimming. They are cold blooded and penguins live in South America.

Penguins are mammals that can swim in water very fast.

                                             Penguin can walk in the snow

                                                           

Donnacha's Report about Gorillas

Gorilla Report

There are interesting monkeys, but the one I am interested in is the gorilla.

A gorilla is a mammal it is warm blooded there young drink their mother's milk. Mammals give birth to living young.

Gorillas have very strong arms to kill its prey.  Gorillas are very dangerous they are even endangered. Some gorillas are black but very hairy. Gorillas are very heavy.

Gorillas live in the jungle or the mountains forest. Their diet is bananas or apples and berries.

Its adaptation is to swing away with its arms or predator.

If we get too close to a gorilla we will catch its disease. Gorillas are endangered. There are two different type of species of gorillas.

Gorillas are mammals. They are warm blooded. Their young drink their mother's milk.

A baby gorilla swinging on vines

Panther Report By Tanya

Panther Report

By Tanya

The panther is a large member of the cat family. The panther is actually a black feline leopard or jaguar. Even though they are not a real species itself it is endangered. The panther is native to America, Africa and Asia.The panther is adapted to a variety of habitats around the world.

Some panthers are able to swim in water although not those that are leopards, but as jaguars have a real love of water.

Panthers are dark brown or black. They have small heads and long bodies with strong jaws. They also have emerald green eyes and have their hind legs that are larger and slightly longer than those at front.

The panther is found in Tropical and deciduous forests.The panther can also be found in swamplands and grasslands and even more hostile areas. They are even found in south America,Asia,Africa,USA and variety of habitats. The panther is a carnivore and eats deer,warthogs,wild boar tapir and antelope. They sometimes eat smaller species like birds and rabbits when larger prey is scarce.

The panther has black or brown fur to help it camouflage and it is an incredible and agile animal. The panther is nocturnal and sleeps in the trees.

The panther is considered to be one of the most intelligent and ferocious predators in America so they use panther pictures for logos and mascots.

Although panthers are not considered to be a species by science many animal wildlife experts consider this animal to be endangered all around the world.

This is a Panther Lying Down

Picture Books in Progress

We are steaming ahead with our picture books.  So far we have braistormed, drafted, edited and re-worked them. We made an illustration plan, and now we are illustrators and publishers. 

Senses Poetry about Water

Thomas chose to write his senses poem about puddles, can you spot a simile?

We have been learning about Onomatopeia

We wrote similies about water and published it onto a drip, these will hang from one of our umbrellas in the class, call in to check it out!

Des Hunt, Visiting Author

Ray bravely holding the gong waiting for a marble to be fired at it.  The climax of a good story!

Tanya shared her Cinquain with me on Google Docs tonight too, I love all these motivated learners in Room 14!

 Easter Cinquain

Easter

Decorate eggs

Family and my friends

Fun memories with family

Fun time

By tanya

Isala has been working hard on his Easter Cinquain for homework, he shared it with me from home, I was so impressed I had to put it on our blog!

Easter Cinquain

Easter

Chocolate eggs

Easter bunny, hunting time

Decorating Easter eggs with friends
Travel

By Isala

Lucy's New Zealand Dimante

New Zealand

Tidy, green

Cooling, exploring, sparkling

Pakuranga, Half Moon Bay, Dunedin, Auckland

Learning, partying, swimming

Fresh, peaceful

Aotearoa

By:Lucy

Regan's Publishing her Cinquain

Regan working on Google docs.

Allison's Easter Cinquain

Easter Cinquain

Easter

Egg hunt is fun

The Easter bunny comes

Giving fun clues to everyone

Chocolate

By Allison

Editing Glasses

We started using our editing glasses today.  These glasses help us see where we need capital letters and full stops.  They also help us find our words we are unsure of in the dictionary.

New Zealand Dimante Poem

New Zealand

Kind, helpfull

   Playing, helping, writing

                                        Glenmore, Pakuranga, Auckland, Sunnyhills,

Jumping, climbing, fishing

Nature, cleanness

 Aotearoa

        

By James

New  Zealand Dimante

New Zealand

Beautiful, fresh

Playing, running, laughing

Lovely, home, cool

Swimming, eating, drinking

Nature, sea

Aotearoa

By Tanya

Room 14's Class Dimante Poem

New Zealand Dimante

New Zealand

Clean, green

Running, playing, swimming

Land of the long white cloud, peaceful country

Whitebaiting, fishing, skiing

Great, native

Aotearoa

By Room 14

Using our Chromebooks to Publish

We have been busy on our Chromebooks publishing our Dimante poems.

Skills we used:

Opened our Drive

Created a new doc by opening the subject folder first

Centre allign and right allign

Change the colour and size of our font

Insert an image from Google

We underlined our title

We chose part of our poem to use bold

We went back and editied our work on the Chromebook

Room 14's New Zealand Dimante Poem

Click here to see our whole class example of a dimante poem about New Zealand

Neerav got his letter, look at his happy smile!