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Awesome Animal Reports

Dolphin  

The dolphin is a mammal it lives in seas, oceans and rivers.

The dolphin has fins and flippers. It is grey and can get up to 2 to 3 metres long.

The dolphins diet is fish, especially arrow squid, red cod, hoki and yellow-eyed mullet.

The mammal life cycle is much like ours. It starts off with the female dolphin pregnant then the baby calf is born. The calf grows until its an adult it then gets a partner.

Many people think the dolphin is rather intelligent. The dolphin has great eyesight this helps it catch it prey. The dolphin female dolphin is called a cow and the male dolphin is called a bull and there young is called a calf.

By Tim

The Cookie Cutter shark

Cookie cutters teeth are curved in. So when they bite they get big round cookie shape chunks of flesh out of their prey. This is where their name comes from.

Cookie cutters are small but feisty, they will have a go at a human. They get the same confusion as any other shark. They think a surfer is a seal or a turtle and they may gust be hungry and bite them.                 

Did you know Cookie cutters glow to attract small fish or other small and big prey. This helps them hunt because it is very dark where they live.                   

People discovered cookie cutters because their were seals and stuff washed up to shore with cookie cutter bites on them.

The biggest cookie cutter ever to be seen and measured is 1.1 meters.  Most Cookie cutters only grow up to about 50 cm.

By Rory

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Hamish's Rarotongan hoilday

In February my family and I went on holiday to Rarotonga. We were there for 8 days. It was a wonderful place to visit. I really liked the way they presented things and had things laid out. I also liked the swimming and kayaking.
Here are some of the cultural differences I noticed while there:

• In Rarotonga you don’t wear seat belts and you ride around on the back of vehicles. 
•  No spouting on roofs. 
•  Clothes: floral, men have colorful flowery shirts, women sarongs; wear flowers in their hair and flowery shirts. 
•  Footwear: bare feet or jandals. 
•   Music: drums & ukulele 
• Traditional feast: Umu (NZ hangi) 
• Transport: scooters, bus that travel all day.
•  Dance outfits: women grass like skirts, feathery bits on hips, coconut shells as a bra, and flowers in hair.  Men a piece of material that covers front and back of bottom. Grass like skirts on their calf muscles.

Term 1 2012

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My Special Clock

My Grandfather Clock Guess what?! I made this grandfather clock. It took me about half an hour and I made it from Kanex. It is about a foot tall and it has a tool that you wind it up with and that makes it go tick tock. You can also open a door. If you want to know where you get Kanex from, you can get it from America. Kanex is fun to use and you can make lots of different things with it. Sean ☺