Simile poem

My sister:

When my sister kisses me it feels like going to heaven.
My sister is as precious as a gem.
When I see my sister she looks like an angel.

Similie and Metaphore

The tree was as rough as dragon's scales.

The girl's eyes sparkeld like snow and ice combined.

The movie was as boring as watching a paused world.
My sister's skin is as silky than my hair.

Eating chocolate is like spending time with friends everyday.

Being sent to the principal is like being grounded.

Great Barrier Reef

Word Bank: coral, reef, diving, seaweed, fish, water, rocks, peaceful, coral, reef, fish, sharks, ocean, beach, poison, blue, clear, species, colours, aquatic, creatures, shipwrecks, marine, life, seas, dangerous.

Facts:
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world.
The reef belongs to:
-1,500 species of fish.
-359 types of hard coral.
-4,000 different types of shellfish.
-400 different species of seaweed.
-30 different species of marine animals.
-2,900 reefs.
-940 islands and cays.

Bright colours mean "don't eat me."
A herbivore only eats plants.
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the Great Wonders of the world. It is a very popular place for Humpback Whales to breed.
The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space!

Facts about Crown-of Thorn Starfish:
The Crown-of-Thorn Starfish are a type of starfish that eats living coral.
It has been a major issue on the Great Barrier Reef and other Pacific reefs for nearly 40 years!

They eat coral reefs from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The Crown-of-Thorns is the second largest sea star in the world. The Crown-of-Thorns can grow from the size of a grain of sand to the size of a dinner plate. Large Crown-of-Thorns can grow to be the size of a school bus tire.

Here is a picture of a Crown-of-Thorn:









Types of living creatures:

Crown-of-Thorns starfish
Sea Snails
Puffer fish
Hermit crab
Sea horse

It's great to be a Bottlenose Dolphin:

What is a Bottlenose Dolphin?
Bottlenose dolphins are actually small whales, and belong to a group called "toothed whales". They are air breathing mammals so they still must come to the surface to breathe through the blowhole on top of their heads. Their shape and colour is depending on where they are found. Dolphins have a dark grey back and a light grey belly. It helps them camouflage when predators (such as killer whales or sharks) look up from the deep, the light grey belly blends in with bright surface waters. When seen from above, the grey back blends in with the deep dark waters below.
Where do they live?
Bottlenose Dolphins are commonly found in temperate and tropical seas all over the world. Bottlenose dolphins can be found in all of Western Australia's marine parks. Bottlenose dolphins eat about 15 kilograms of food per day. They eat a wide variety of fish, squid and octopuses.

Their Threats:
Bottlenose Dolphin's natural threats are killer whales and sharks such as tiger sharks and dusky sharks. Other risks include entanglement in fishing nets (trawling, drift and gill nets).

Bottlenose dolphins are very social animals that live together in a group called pods. Inshore pods may have around 12 dolphins and offshore pods may have the about in the hundreds.

Haiku:
Dolphins swim slowly.
They dive in the peaceful sea.
Make sounds at sunset.

Here is a picture of a Bottlenose Dolphin:

Here is a scrapbook of a Bottlenose Dolphin:

Here are some pictures of the Great Barrier Reef:

Haiku:
Schools of fish swim fast.
The Reef is a peaceful place.
Dolphins dive up high.

This is a scrapbook I made on the Great Barrier Reef:

Homework-Term 3 Week 6

For basketball homework, write out and learn your 9 times tables. For extension homework take these amounts from $5.

36c=$4.64

$4.90=10c

66c=$4.34

$2.90=$3.10

18c=$4.82

$1.79=$3.21

$3.33=$1.67

$3.85=$1.15

$1.86=$3.14

89c=$4.11

Poetry Homework for this week is by Edward Lear:

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea

In a beautiful pea-green boat:
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,

"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,

What a beautiful Pussy you are,

You are,

You are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!

Write out this poem by Edward Lear in your neatest handwriting.

Do Unit 19 in your yellow spelling book.

Unit 18

List:

salt, volt, cold, bald, myself, elf, bulb, halt, bolt, gold, wild, yourself, calf, calm, felt, silk, fold, world, himself, half, palm, belt, milk, sold, should, herself, wolf, melt, talk, hold, could, itself, gulf, gulp, adult, difficult, build, would, golf, help.

1. Which list words mean...?

a magical creature: elf
an onion-like root: bulb
a measurement of electric force: volt
a sport: golf
swallow quickly: gulp
a large bay: gulf

2. Write in the missing letters to make list words.
salt
half
palm
talk

3. Write three different questions beginning with: should, would and could.

Could I please go to my friends house?

Would I be able to do soccer lessons?

Should I go to the shops to buy groceries?

4.Which list words are synonyms (words with with similar meanings) for these...?

crease: fold
stop: halt
Earth: world
hairless: bold

5. Which list words belong in these groups...?

fig, oak, wattle, eucalypt: palm

kitten, puppy, lamb, foal: calf

cheese, cream, butter: milk

ice, freeze, snow, shiver: cold

6. Word Building
1. A contraction is a shortened word that has been made from two words.

Write the following contractions in full.

shouldn't: should not

couldn't: could not

wouldn't: would not

2. To change most words ending with If to plurals, change the f to v and then add es.

Make the following list words into plurals.

elf: elves
calf: calves
half: halves
wolf: wolves

Koalas

Word Bank: Koala, eucalyptus, gum tree, juicy leaves, Australia, fur, herbivore, leaves, lives, baby, male, female, tree, interesting

Facts: A koala is a type of bear. A koala is a mammal, which can only survive on a diet of juicy gum leaves. They like eating juicy gum leaves and sleeping. Especially in the day time. The koala got it's name from the ancient Aboriginal word "no drink" because koalas receive over of it's hydration from the gum leaves they eat. Koalas only drink water when they are ill or times when there is not enough moisture in the leaves. Koalas live for 12-16 years in the wild.

Habitat: Koalas are found in QLD, NSW, VIC and SA. Koalas live in societies, like humans, so they need to be able to contact with other koalas. In Australia there are over 600 types of eucalyptus but koalas only eat up to 40-50 different types.

Questions:

1. What do koalas eat?

2. How can you tell the difference between a female and a male koala?

Answers:

1. Eucalyptus leaves, gum leaves, tea trees.

2. Males are usually larger in size than females. Males have flatter, less pointed faces than females.

Here is a picture of a female koala:

What happens when you put Mentos in Coke?

What happens when you put Mentos in Coke?
When you put Mentos in Coke it lets out a mass of gas which blows up out of the bottle which causes it to make a big fountain of Coke.

Word Bank: form, expand, fizz, Coke, Mentos, explode, carbon dioxide, combine, re act, fun, minty flavour, reation, explode.

What you need:
Coke








Mentos







glass cup
spoon
adult supervision
protective clothing

What to do:
Remember to do this outside!!
Get your can of Coke and some Mentos. Place the Mentos somewhere where it won't get dirty. Open the can of Coke and carefully drop a Mentos in the Coke. After a few seconds it should explode and form a Coke fountain.

What happened:
Dragonfly poured the Coke into a glass cup. Then she put one Mentos in the glass. But the Coke didn't fizz up. It only fizzed up a tiny bit. Then Dragonfly got to drink the Coke and eat the Mentos. She said it tastes like mint with soda!!!
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