Greetings Room 9 folk!! Wow we are into Week 6 already, Term 1 is flying by! I have been very impressed with the standard of homework this term. The whole class (especially in the last 2 weeks) has been making a superb effort - top stuff. So... this week your homework is slightly less and the best news is you won't even need your homework book!
Another busy swimming week - we have our final class swimming session on Thursday morning where we will be completing the Swim for Life Challenge and seeing how many people can swim 200 metres continuously, which will be a tough challenge for most of you.
On Friday we have our annual Balmac Swimming Sports. Don't forget that you do not come to school that morning - we meet at Moana Pool at 8.45am in your correct PE gear. One last thing on the swimming sports - GO CHAPMAN!!!
Also a reminder to please get your parents interview notices into me asap.
HOMEWORK:
Spelling: List 5 this week. Make a big effort to learn your words. Your spelling lists are also on spelling city, so use this website to help you out too.
Rocky Shore: Your task is to select one of the following sea creatures from the list below and do some research on that creature, although after our visit to the aquarium you will have a lot of knowledge already. When you leave a comment - make a heading on the creature that you have chosen and then list their physical features, habitat etc. I have left an example for you to look at.
- hermit crab, sea cucumber, starfish, octopus, sea anemone, barnacle, limpet, camouflage crab, kina, chiton, bladder kelp.
Any problems see me. Have a super week! :)
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Limpets are part of a group of rocky shore creatures called molluscs. Even though there are a variety of molluscs, they share a basic body plan with a muscular foot that clamps the shell to rocks, preventing moisture loss when the tide is out and anchoring the animal when the seas are rough. They are well adapted for life in the rocky shore zone as the shell helps them keep wet and cool. Limpets are herbivores or grazers, feeding on the seaweed that covers coastal rocks.
Miss Roney
nooooooooooooooooo! go shetland
ReplyDeleteSea Cucumber.
ReplyDeleteThe Sea cucumber is part of the Family.The Sea cucumber is a shape of a cucumber but a little bit smaller and is the colour of brown or sometimes green.The Sea Cucumber hs soft bumpy lumps all over its body. when a Sea cucumber feels threatend it will spew up its insides to look like its dead that means that they have to grow back its insides! it also saggs to look dead. the sea cucumber is a herbivore which means they et plants. it has heaps of tiny tube feet to crawl long the ocean floor. S
Starfish. Starfish normaly have 5 or more arms and are shaped like a star. Starfish belong to a group of sea creatures called echinidores. Starfish usualy live in a rock pool, the rocky shore or even in deep waters. When they eat there stomach comes out of there mouth, wraps it round the food like a cacoon and brings it back in to digest (if the food is in a shell they leave the shell behind). If they lose a limb or two they can easily grow it back in 1-2 weeks.
ReplyDeleteOctopuses are a rocky shore sea creature that lives in costal shallow waters. The have 8 arms which is where their name came from.A clue to find this creature is to find crab shells at its entry to its lair.If being attack by a predator it will use smoke as a divesion to get away from its predator.When an octopus eats it will use its tenticles to put it in its mouth and eat it.The main predator of the octopus are seals, sharks and humans.
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Herit crab
ReplyDeleteA hermit crab is classed as a scavenger and a crustacean, they are mostly seen in the intertidal zone/rockpool area. A hermit crab changes shells when its old one is to small for it and goes searching for a bigger one.
There are about 500 known species of hermit crabs in the world, most are aquatic and live in saltwater from rockpools to deep sea bottoms.
By Will
anemones are fish that live in rock pools they latch onto rocks waiting for other animals to eat. they eat whatever comes near them and when it comes they fire hundreds of miniature harpoons to paralyse it in their tentacles and eat the food.
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The Sea star/Starfish belongs to a class called Asteroidea.The Sea star is part of the rocky shore community.There is a wide variety of Sea star/starfish,some of the better known ones are the Blue Sea star,Apricot Sea star,Carpet Sea star and the eleven armed Sea star.There is still an esimated 1,800 species still undiscovered.The Seastar moves around on its tube feet.It feeds on clams,oysters,and dying fish.While feasting the Sea star's stomach extends out of it's mouth to eat it's prey.To get food out of an oyster shell,the Sea star sucks out the oyster from its shell by using its over sized stomach leaving the shell unharmed.This could take the Sea star up to one hour to do.The Seastar is able to regenerate any lost limbs.
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Chiton:
ReplyDeleteChiton are large to small rocky shore creatures. They are part of a group called Molluscs.Chitons have a shell which has 8 seperate shell plates. Chitons live worldwide, in cold water and in the tropics.There are about 500-900 known species of chiton. Chitons eat algae, diatoms and sometimes bacteria by scraping the rocks with their radula. When chitons die their shell falls off and comes apart.
By Owen :)
Owen I am very impressed that you have done your homework even though you have been sick this week! That's dedication Room 9! Hope you're back to school soon the Funky Munkyz are missing you :)
ReplyDeleteHERMIT CRABS:
ReplyDeleteHermit crabs are a part of the crustacean family.
Hermit crabs are not really true crabs, they dont have a very hard shell so they have to use other animals old shells so they can be protected. They prefer to use old whelk shells. Eventually hermit crabs grow out of their old shells and have to find a new one. Hermit crabs eat both animals and plants meaning they are omnivores, they are also scavengers and will eat any dead animal they come across. MADDY :]
Pot-bellied Seahorse
ReplyDeleteThe Pot-bellied seahorse's scientific name is Hippocampus abdominalis and it can be found all around the NZ seashore down to a depth of 100m.
They use their tail to cling on to seaweed, sponges and manmade structures otherwise they are quite unstable and can tip over. Seahorses are carnivores they feed on crustaceans such as shrimp, plankton and other small animals. They can live between 5 and 10 years and grow up to 35 cm long. The male looks after the eggs in his pouch until the babies hatch and live independently.
By Kalin.
Starfish
ReplyDeleteStarfish are part of the rocky seashore creatures they are part of the echinoderms family. Most starfish have five arms but the sun star and the cushion star do not have five arms. Sea stars don’t have a jointed, movable skeleton for support but instead have a hydraulic water vascular system. Starfish usually hunt for shelled animals such as oysters and clams. They have two stomachs one is for digestion and the other can be extended out to digest prey.
Cushion starfish:
ReplyDeleteCushion starfish belong to the ecinoderm family, their colours range from a olive green to a pale orange and can grow up to 5cm long. Cushion starfish have only 5 short arms and thousands of tiny little suckers underneath. When they are hungry they push their stomach out through their mouth to surround their food then they eat it. Cushion starfish are scavengers so that means they feed on dead plants and animals. They live all over the rockey shore, under rocks and in rock pools, but they cant swim at all so instead they crawl or climb. The cushion starfish mature as males when they are 2years old then they change to females at the age of 4. Females can lay up to 1,000 orange eggs which then hatch into baby starfish.
from Gemma:)!!
SEA ANEMONE
ReplyDeletea sea anemone is a animal that looks like a flower it looks pretty but it's deadly a sea anemone is a carnivore and feeds on fish and anything thats meat that swims near it. it has thousands of harpoons with poison and they shoot them at its prey thats what that tug felling is when they pull them selfs in we are lucky though any bigger than the ones that we touched their harpoons would brake through our skin and poison us and we would not be happy. the way they move is by detaching them selfs from the rock and floating and then attaching itself to something else by ruben :]
OCTOPUS!
ReplyDeleteThere have been 300 recognized species of octopus and belived there are more to find.
An octopus has 8 flexible arms, an amazing thing
as it has no internal or external skeleton they
can squezze through many tight places.One thing lots of people don't know about octopus is that they have a hard beak and there mouth is at the center point of their arms.Octopus are a very intelligent creature and probable the most intelligent invertebrates. Octopus can camouflage
and squirt ink.
Lillie Rohan
Sea stars, also known as starfish, are echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
ReplyDeleteThey typically have five arms.
Sea stars usually hunt for shelled animals such as oysters and clams. They have two stomachs. One stomach is used for digestion, and the other stomach can be extended outward to engulf and digest prey. This feature allows the sea star to hunt prey that is much larger than its mouth would otherwise allow. Sea stars are able to regenerate lost arms. A new sea star may be regenerated from a single arm attached to a portion of the central disk.
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Starfish are an echinoderm.They are part of the rocky seashore family.They have 5 legs and on the bottom of those legs they have sucker feet.Starfish can be all different colours.When a starfish wants to eat a cockle it pushes its stomach out and breaks the shell and sucks the food out.The starfish lives on rocks or under rocks basically it lives every where on the rocky shore.It moves by sliding.If a starfish loses a leg it can grow it back.The starfish is pretty cool!!!!!!!
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Hermit crabs
ReplyDeleteHermit crabs are a member of family called crustaceans. There are six species of hermit crab found in NZ. Hermit crabs find old sea snail shells, they live in these shells because they need protect their soft abdomen. Eventually the hermit crab will get two big for its shell and have to find a new one. Hermit crabs are scavengers and eat things that are all ready dead.
Jack
1.sea anemones are related to jellyfish
ReplyDelete2.there are many species of anemones
3.they are found in the hightide zone
4.they can reproduce by dividing in half
5.they belong to the class called anthozoa
6.they have stinging cells on their tentcles
7.they can be yellow,pink,red,purple,blue,brown,or white
8.some can slide about very slowly
josh
Sea Urchins - Kina
ReplyDeleteSea Urchins or Kina as you may call it at home or at school are a part of the ECHINOIDEA class.
They are small, spiny, sphere or globular shaped creatures if you like, and are found all over the world in many rocky shores.
At first glance, they look unable, incapable to move around but they have special sticky, adhesive tubular feet that lets the Kina move freely over rocks and other surfaces it may encounter.
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Nick Alexander
Starfish are from the echinoderm family in the rocky shore. They have 5 legs and sometimes 11, their legs have little sucky feet on them which helps them get into food and slide around. They come in different colours like pink and apricot.
ReplyDeleteThey feed by getting their stomach to come out of their mouths and eat. If they were eating a cockle they would try to suck it out until the cockle finally gives up. They live all around the rocky shore moving eating and sleeping.
Hermit Crab
ReplyDeleteTemperature for crab’s habitat has to be no less than 72° F. Constant lower temp and kill the crabs because they can get to cold and freeze. But also constant hot temp can cause irreparable damage and can make them have a slow and painful death. The hermit crab habitat is to have a moist humid feel to it. The reason being for this to so that the gills of the hermit crab can stay moist. I f you are ever wanting a hermit crab for a pet these are some really good tips for your crabs habitat temperature.Hermit crabs are a member of family called crustaceans. There are six species of hermit crab found in NZ. Hermit crabs grow out of their old shells and have to find a new one.
KC.Kay
the triathalon. it wasnt as hard as it looked but it still hard especialy on a bmx bike and i think i did prety well.
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