Monarch Butterflies

Sea Turtles

Contents

Eggs Growing up Dangers in the sea Adults

Published introduction

Over 150 million years ago, along with the dinosaurs, there lived a species of sea turtles.  They have managed to survive longer than many other animals from the Jurassic period.  However, only 10% of sea turtles live to breeding age.  Now that humans have come along, only 1% of all sea turtles survive to breed the new generation of baby sea turtles.

Eggs

Published eggs

The mother sea turtle digs a nesting pit high on the beach and the eggs get carefully placed into the pit by the mother. The eggs are leathery and about the size of ping pong balls. The mother lays about 50-200 eggs. 20% will not hatch.The mother sea turtle lays about 1000 eggs a year.Sea turtles lay over 68,040kgs of eggs in the sand.

Growing up

Published Growing up

Once the eggs are laid and have hatched, they are about the size of a hand. They then have to squirm desperately towards the surf but along the way there are many dangers such as crabs, birds, rubbish and holes. By this point 50% have not survived. In the first few days of life, they will swim underneath a patch of floating seaweed.

Adults

Published Adults

2 sea turtles survive to breeding age without human interference. It takes 2 decades for them to be able to breed. Through the passage of years they become the size of a dinner table. The width that they are when they are adults, they don’t have to worry about getting eaten so much.

Danger in the sea

Published Dangers in the sea

When they are small, their predators will most likely to be fish , dolphins , sharks and seabirds when they come up to breathe. They will also experience challenging weather and rough unfortunate sea currents. When they are adults the predators are bigger, like, sharks as in, great whites and bull sharks. Not likely to happen, but they might get eaten by a killer whale.

Blurb

The sea turtles have been around since the late jurassic, roughly 150 000 000 million years ago and they have an extremely hard life. A sea turtle breed named the archelon is already extinct 1000 eggs a year, 800 hatch, 400 make it to the water, 200 progress toward adulthood, 20 survive to breeding age without human interference, 2 survive to breeding age with human interference.

Glossary

survive - continue to live or exist while in spite of danger of hardship squirm - wiggle or twist from side to side desperately - in a way that shows despair decades - 10 years late jurassic - dinosaur ages

Credits

Written by: Hunter, Archie, Sarah and Charlotte Edited by: Hunter, Archie, Sarah and Charlotte

maths questions

 

A few weeks ago, all the year 5’s and 6’s went to the zoo, and studied two animals each, one a mammal and one of any other kind. I was as excited as a bumble bee who had just learnt how to fly! But I eventually settled on two animals, the Asian Elephant And the Silver-eye (a bird that's native to New Zealand and Australia, and is sometimes called the White-eye.) Before we went to

the zoo Miss McNae gave us two forms each, one for each animal that we were studying. First

we had to search the internet, and find some basic information about our chosen animals, then

we had to fill it onto the form, but still leave some space for new information we could find at the

zoo. The day we went to The zoo was as wet and damp as when an Elephant who had just had

a twenty hour long bath, in a giant Goldfish bowl! First we headed to the first Red Panda

enclosure, with two cute Red Pandas! Then we went to the NZCM building, where the gave

surgery and helped the animals who needed it to survive. It was warm and dry in there, so we

stayed there and ate morning tea. After we had finished eating, we watched as a lady a reptile

( I don’t remember the name of the creatures species ) a bath before he was to have scary

surgery! Everyone was watching intensely as she poured the water all over the adorable

creature, who was lifting up his head, just waiting for the water to hit him, and wet him even more

than he already was! And he was definitely drenched. Then we went back outside to where the rain 

had calmed down. A little. Anyway we went back to looking at the animals, starting with the birds 

including the kiwi and the Hyacinth Macaw. My favorite animal that we saw was definetly the Zebras,

they are my favorite animal after all. But I also liked some of the other animals that we saw, like the 

Giraffe, the Seals, the Elephants, the Tiger and the Lions. We also saw lot’s of other animals, which I 

all found interesting, but  in lots of different ways. Then we went back to the NZCM building to eat 

lunch, and keep out of the rain, which was pouring down again. soon it was nearly time to meet up 

with all the other groups, so we set off. Although it had been raining, I had still had a great time at the 

zoo.

Tessellations

What is Tessellation?

Well.. Tessellation is a when you use one two or three things to make a pattern.

   

This is my first Tessellation

I made this one by using purple, green, and blue flowers, and making bigger flower shapes. There is only three bigger flowers in this Tessellation, but I bet that if you had a lot more, this Tessellation would look even more beautiful than it already is.

This second Tessellation, is my personal favourite. I used four different coloured houses, some the right  up, and some upside down. First I made a row of normal houses, then I carefully put a row of upside down houses on top, care full not to let there be too much of a gap in between the roofs. After a while, I had a tessellation!

This is my third and final Tesselation. The flowers are put side by side, and the stalks are used to fill all gaps in between. 

Spelling words for monday the 24th of august

                                puerile - childish 

                                proceeded- continued

                                prominent- importent, well known

                                vicinity- the area around a piticular place 

                                silhouette- a dark shape on a bright background

                                privilege- lucky

                                scattered- spread out

                                referred- mention

swimming

All the year fives have had four swimming lessons at milenium now, and i've really enjoyed it so far.

Our first lesson was all about finding where we were at, and Identifying which group we were in, I

got into group two. Each group had a different instructor, and mine was a girl, also in my group was

Ashleigh, Josia, Sammantha, Jasleem and Munopa. Next class we were told to line up in front of our

lane, and when your instuctor called your name, you would jump into the pool and wait for

instructions. The lesson was just practicing and practicing, and so was the lesson today. Thats a little

about everything thats happened at swimming so far.