Thursday 20 June 2013

Stingrays Info Report

Stingrays

Stingrays live from 15 to 25 years and can be found in tropical and temperate seas worldwide. There is lots of information about stingrays like looks, diet, attack and miscellaneous.

Looks

Stingrays are flat so they can hide under the sand easily. Stingrays are large, flat, grey fish with round "wings" on each side. These wings don't let the stingray fly, but glide through the water. Stingrays mouths are underneath their bodies with their stomach and gills. Their eyes are on the sides of their heads and their spine runs down through their back into their tail.

Diet

Stingrays main diet is small fish, but they also eat a lot of molluscs and crustaceans like oysters, Pipi, cockles and mussels. Stingrays usually hide in the sand and catch the enemy by surprise, but only for fish!

Attacks

The way a stingray kills its enemy is by paralysing them with the sting in their tail. They also whip with their tail because of its amazing strength against other creatures. Even though stingrays may seem dangerous they won't actually attack a human without being provoked.

Miscellaneous

Other facts include stingray is often served grilled in Singapore and Malaysia. In some countries stingray is known as whipray because before World war 2, people cut off stingrays tail and used it to whip slaves, but it was later banned.

 

Conclusion

Stingrays live in tropical and temperate seas all over the world and have a lifespan of 15 to 25 years.

 

By Hunter

Mitchell, Peter and Ellyse's Reading Assignment

Tuesday 18 June 2013

Seahorses

This is my info report on Seahorses
By Amy Slogrove

Benjamin Greasley - Trinity Winter Cub Camp

It was the most fun camp ever because we got to sleep in the cabin.
On Friday night my Dad drove me to Camp Rutherford in Whitford for cub camp.  When I got there I put my stuff on a bed and then all hell broke lose.  I noticed how everyone was jumping on each other.  I ran to my friends and retreated.
I went to bed after a hot chocolate and didn't get to sleep until 2am because everyone was awake and talking.
The next morning I woke up at about 5am when everyone was still talking.  We had breakfast - toast - and then we went to do our daily activities which was hiking/walking around wet lands and playing soccer.
That night we did skits. I was used as one of the props - sadly.  Now I was being tormented by being the messiest eater in cubs. 
Everyone was more tired that night and I had a better sleep - went to bed at about 11am.
I woke up the next morning 6am and there were only a few people talking.  Then after an hour all hell broke lose again.
My Dad came to pick me up and I went home happily.
By Benjamin

INFO report Dolphins

Dolphins
Dolphins are very large aquatic mammals. They are very playful mammals that can live in Atlantic sea water, India’s sea water, Pacific Ocean and Mediterrean. They are sea mammals that like to be companied by humans. They sometimes swim in groups over 1000 dolphins.



Dolphins eat fish like herring, cod and mackerel. Some other dolphins eat squid. Large other dolphins eat squid. Large dolphins may eat other marine animals such as sea lions, turtles, large squid, walruses, seals, sharks, sea birds and even whales. Some other dolphins eat plankton and krill.



Dolphins habitat can be found all around the world. They can be found in many seas around the world. It depends on the species as where you might find them. They also live along the coastline and sometimes off shore. The bottlenose dolphin is very common as it can be found nearly everywhere.


Different dolphins have different behaviors. Some dolphins sometimes ride on waves or sometimes go along sides of boats. Dolphins love to play with humans and some dolphins love to play around on waves and some love jumping. Dolphins have been seen jumping up to 4.9 meters. Dolphins are creatures that if you are fishing they would come to the edge of the boat and would want you to play with you.


Dolphins have tails at the back of their body. Dolphins also have a fin in the middle of their body. It is instead of legs. At the front of them they have a beak and in the dolphins mouth there are pointed teeth. Dolphins also have two brains. Also they have very silky skin from being in the water. Their teeth are quite pointy so they can eat their food depending on how big or small the food is.


There is 41 species of dolphins. some of the dolphins are, long beaked common dolphin, short beaked common dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, indo pacific bottlenose dolphin, northern right whale dolphin, southern right whale dolphin and many, many more.


Dolphins are mammals that are very playful. They belong to a family of marine mammals known as cetaceans. They love company of humans.
By Alyssa

Saturday 15 June 2013

Seahorses

This month i did my information report on seahoses.
Fun Fact: Did you know that when seahorses are threatened they wil camoflouge into their surroundings!

By: Camlyn Allen

Thursday 13 June 2013

Ted's Friend


This is my friend, she loves pancakes, waffles, orange juice, jumping and my list goes on. I made her from wool and buttons. If you would like to make one like I did, here are the instructions.

You will need:
•             Wool (choose colours you want to make friend in)
•             Buttons x 3
•             Darning needle or crochet hook
•             knitting needles (size 4.5mm)
•             filling (e.g pillow stuffing)

Method

1.Using wool and needles, cast on 16 stitches. Knit 62 rows, then cast off. (rows can vary.)

2.Now for the arms cast on 5 stitches, knit 16 rows, cast off, repeat process to get two  same size arms (vary depending on body)

3.Cast on 5 stitches, knit 30 rows, cast off. Repeat process to get two even legs (vary depending on arms and body)

4.Use darning needle/crochet hook to sew body up, folding body in half (length wise) sew three seams, before closing last seam stuff with filling. Place buttons on to make eyes and nose. Place arms and legs on to complete your special friend.



By: Aleisha

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