Riley's Rabbit Information Report

Information Report Blog Post Term 2 2016

WALT inform others about an animal/creature or habitat, through our writing.

Success Criteria:

1. Create a title.
2. Write a general introduction.
3. Use Subheadings -Each new topic is a new paragraph.
4. Use facts written in your own words.
5. Write a conclusion.
6. Use descriptive verbs eg hovers.
7. Use topic specific nouns eg kakapo, reptile
8. Include technical words eg nocturnal, monotreme
9. Write in present tense.
10. Vary the sentence beginnings.
11. Use complex sentences eg This long, sticky tongue secretes sticky glycoprotein rich mucus, which insects stick to readily.

WALT:Inform others about an animal or habitat, through our writing.

WALT:Organise our ideas into the order they happened and put each idea into a new paragraph

                

Introduction.🐇

Rabbits are the amazing animals of our planet. Today I will be explaining to you all about their habitat, diet, appearance and protection.

Habitat🏠

Rabbits habitats are usually in meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts and wetlands. Rabbits live in groups like humans in their family groups. Most Rabbits live in burrows (but what most humans call rabbit holes). Rabbits only live in their burrows from 2 to 3 weeks until they move on.

Diet🍲

Rabbits love to eat fresh fruit and vegetables to give them a healthy diet. Rabbits mainly love to eat tons of fresh hay they could eat it for years and years. Other options of what they eat and drink is fresh clean water, grass and food pellets

Appearance👕

Rabbits are covered in a light coat of fur over their whole body.  Their fur can be in tons of different colors like brown, white, black and ginger. Rabbits paws are like soft pillows but in a rubbery texture.  Rabbit’s nails are very, very sharp so they can claw the attacker. Their nails are like a piece of plastic pole.

Protection🛏

Rabbits  protect themselves by kicking and biting the attacker.  Small Rabbits climb up to 3 metres up a tree to hide from the attackers.  Rabbits are a pest to farmers because they eat all the farmers grass and crops. Hunters shoot rabbits because they're pests.

Thank you for taking your time to read by information report. Now you know all the facts about Rabbits.

 

Chinese Mandarin

WALT:Use the Chinese phrases

Riley = Іái IÌ

I eat hamburgers = Chī hàn bào bǎo

Apple = Ping Guo

Watermelon = Xi gua

Strawberry = Cao mei

Banana = Xiang jiao  

Steak = Niu rou

Lamb = yang rou

Chicken = ji rou

Pork = zhu rou

I eat noodles = Wǒ chĭ miàn tiào
My name is Riley = Wǒ jiào Іái IÌ
Sentence = Wo bu chi Xi gua = I don't like watermelon

Rileys reading goal

WALT:Identify the features in a narrative.
My goal was spelling. I have reached my goal by going over my work and correcting my spelling.
My next step is to organize my work in my book.

4 phrases in Maori

WALT write 4 phrases and their translations that you have learnt about Kai (food).

1 : He aha to tino kai ki a koe? ( What is your favourite food ).

2 : He miti taku tino kai ki ahau. ( Meat is my favourite food). 

3 : He pai ki a koe nga aporo? ( Do you like apples).

4 : Ae he pai ki ahau nga aporo. ( Yes I like apples). 

OR : Kao kaore i te pai ki ahau nga aporo. ( No I dont like apples).

Multiplication fact families

                Multiplication fact families

WALT:Knowing the combinations of numbers you instantly know 4 facts.

3x9=27 ⇨ 27÷9=3

9x3=27 ⇨ 27÷3=9  This way is easy for me to learn my multiplication and division because all you have to do is think what something times 9 = 27. Then for the rest of then you take the numbers and fill in where there isn't one of the same number.

Riley's Marine art.

WALT: Describe different habitats in New Zealand and species that live in    them.

Success Criteria:

1. Write an introduction
2. Write a paragraph describing each creature and the habitat
3. Write a conclusion
4. Add detail about the habitat eg
1. Plants, landscape, temperature, weather, animals living there
5. Add detail about the creatures eg
1. Appearance
2. Size  
3. Species they belong to
4. Diet
5. If endangered
6. Use detail and descriptive words

I have created a New Zealand Marine habitat and included 3 creatures that live there, one endemic, one native and one introduced.

The top half of the Marine waters are full of crests of waves and dead sea weed that surrounds the Marine waters. As you go deeper into the Marine the water gets darker. In the middle of the Marine there's a light blue mixed with purple water. There's normally dead sea weed floating to the top of the marine. At the bottom of the Marine there is a very dark blue water. The plant life that's at the bottom are growing seaweed, coral, plantain, rocks, shells and mould.

The endemic creature I have included is the Pacific Octopus. Its large, orange and has 8 arms. The Octopus is part of the phylum family. An Octopus is invertebrate which means it has no backbone. They eat crab mostly. An Octopus is a very rare creature to find in New Zealand.

The Hector's Dolphin is a large dolphin with a black face and a big white belly. They weigh between 40 and 60 kg. and can be as long as 1.5 metres long. They eat any kind of fish they can find. A Hector's Dolphin belongs to the Oceanic dolphin family.

The Introduced creature I have chosen is the Sea Turtle. A Sea Turtle has millions of little scales covering their whole body with little bead eyes. They have a hard shell back that's a dark green color. They live in Pacific ocean waters. Sea turtles belong to the Cheloniidae family. Sea Turtles eat sea weed that comes from the bottom of the sea. Sea Turtles mainly live till they’re 80 years old.

These are all of the marine creatures that you can see on my painting, what they look like and what they do. Thank you for reading.

Describe different habitats in New Zealand and species that live in them.

Classify groups of species in the living world and describe different habitats.	I cannot identify objects/ideas associated with groups of species in the living world and I need help to group them and link them to their habitat.	I can identify one relevant group within the groups of species in the living world and 1 habitat they live in. I can identify 1 animal in a species group and the habitat it lives in.	I can identify several relevant groups and or subgroups within the groups of species in the living world. I can identify several animals from species groups and the habitats they live in.	I can identify several animals from species groups and the habitats they live in.  I can give reasons why they belong to this group. I can give reasons why they live in this habitat	I can identify several animals from species groups and the habitats they live in.  I can give reasons why they belong to this group. I can give reasons why they live in I can look at these animals and habitats in a new way by showing my understanding through the art of Collage and a written description.
Effective Strategies		1 animal, plant and aspect of habitat	3 or more animals, plants  and aspects of the habitat	3 or more animals, plants  and aspects the habitat. Written description of why animals are in their species groups and why they live in the habitat.	3 or more animals, plants  and aspects of the habitat. Written description of why animals are in their species groups and why they live in the habitat. I can show this through my collage and my writing.

Assessment Task: Part A: Create a collage of three animal species in their habitat. Part B: Write paragraphs to describe the features of the animal and the habitat. Use the rubric to show understanding. Draw/paint background to show the features of a habitat and collage an animal over it.

Cross Country poem

                                            The Cross Country event was usual enough;
                                                            it had the train tracks,
                                                                       the grass,
                                                            the millions of cones,
                                                  the trees and even red face people.

                                        My friends, my classmates and I did what kids do.
                                                Some people played tag while running,
                                                         I paced my at a nice speed,
                                            people falling over when they jumped the fence,
                                                        my mates stopping for breaks,
                                                        legging it over the finish line,
                                                                coming 5th place.
                                                               And doing my best