Information Report Penguins

Photo by Andrew Shiva/CC BY-SA 4.0

Chinstrap Penguin

What is your favorite carnivore animal? Did you know that Penguins can not taste their food, so they just swallow their prey whole. Penguins have adapted flippers, so they aren't able to fly, but it helps them swim in water.  Penguins that stay in Antarctica have no based predators. Their scientific name is called Spheniscidae (Spe-ni-si-day).

A penguin has two eyes, two ears, a long beak, two flippers, two legs, and a mess of feathers covered around its body. All penguins have black backs and white bellies. The ears of a penguin is covered with feathers. Penguins use their beaks to preen their feathers, especially in fights. Did you know that penguins have knees, although it doesn't look like? The shape of a Penguin's tail is like a wedge.

They spend 75% of their time hunting down for food: fish, krill, and squid. Penguins are carnivores. They get their food from the sea, and something that is clean and filled with rich nutrients. The food that they eat, depends on their behaviour, shape, and size. The most common foods for a penguin to be eating are fish, crustacean, and cephalopods.

Most Penguins are known to be found on every continent in the Southern Hemisphere. They are usually located in the marine environment where there are not as much predators, because they can not fly to escape. These habitats provide everything that a penguin needs, such as water, nutrient, and water.

Penguins have many interesting facts about their habitat, appearance, lifestyle, predators, and more. Just like all birds they are warm blooded. Did you know that not all penguins live in cold places? Little penguins reach the height of either 13 inches/33 centimeters. The largest Penguin is called the Emperor Penguin. They have thick layers of fat that keep them warm. They use tobogganing to glide across the ice like sled.

Have you thought about your carnivore animal yet? If not make it a Penguin.

Fun Fact:

Aptenodytes (Ap-ten-o-dy-tes)  

is another name for Emperor Penguins, which are the most common and big penguins.


This week for writing we have been focusing on how to structure a information report.
A information report informs a reader about a certain topic. We have been looking
at information behind Penguins. Before writing, we used our researching skills to find
facts about a species of Penguins. The acronym that we use is called TIPS. T- title, I-introduction,
P-paragraphs, and S- summary. We use present tense, technical words, nouns, subheadings, when
we write our information reports. I have written a information report about Penguins, explaining
interesting facts and information about their family name.
Did you know that Penguins, cant taste their food, so they just swallow their prey whole?

The Problem with Pluto - Venn Diagram

This term for reading we have been looking at different type of texts that are linked to our inquiry topic "SPACE". We have created different activities that relate to our chosen book. After reading our texts, we completed 6 activities to help us think deeply about the information in the texts. I have created a Venn diagram about 2 texts that I have already read, which are Sun Facts and The Problem with Pluto. A Venn diagram gives information about  the similarities and differences, on 2 different topics. Did you know that both books talk about the Solar System?

Celebrity Star Profile - Creating 3

This term for reading we have been looking at different type of texts that are linked to our inquiry topic "SPACE". We have created different activities that relate to our chosen book. After reading our texts, we completed 6 activities to help us think deeply about the information in the texts. For one of the activities I located  5-10 words that I found difficult to understand. I have created a brochure about the country that my story comes from. A brochure informs others about a specific place/country, as to why they should visit it. The interesting activity that I have completed for this book would be, explaining why the article has the title it does, because I formed many answers for my opinions. Did you know that America has no official language? 

Sun Facts - Creating 5

This term for reading we have been looking at different type of texts that are linked to our inquiry topic "SPACE". We have created different activities that relate to our chosen book. After reading our texts, we completed 6 activities to help us think deeply about the information in the texts. I have designed an information poster, that includes a variety of information and images about the Sun. Before starting on our own response, we commented on the activity that the person before us had completed, this lead to strong dialogic conversations as we strengthened our connections to the learning. A dialogic conversation is when 2 people challenge their partners, by forming different opinions. At the moment my favourite selection of activities would be creating.  

Science Study

This morning Mrs Wells from Tamaki College came in and talked to a group of us, about the different science experiments that we will be doing. Jack, Fui, Victoria, Nyjah, Alex, Julian, Giovanni, and I took part in this science lesson, as we were planning for an amazing experiment to do with plants. To plan this experiment we used the independent, dependent, and control variables to record this down. We thought of different fertilizers to make these plants grow. We chose coffee grounds, tea levels, soap, crushed lollipops, salt, potatoes, pear skin, baked beams, and pencil shavings. Each person was choose a fertilizer that they would use for their specific plant. We wrote down our hypothesis on what we thought what would be the best fertilizer and what would be the worst one to use. 

Tamaki College Open Day

After tech today the year 8's stayed behind at Tamaki College for a open day. This is where the year 8's experience a day of what being at college looks like. We took orientations around the school for different subjects. The subjects that we learnt were Maths and Science. In Maths we learnt how to use co-ordinates, by drawing an alien. To make sure that we had understood what we were learning, we played a Maths game called Billy Bug. (CLICK HERE FOR THE GAME). During morning tea, Mr Dunn (Deputy Principal), and a few year 9 students introduced their selves, as they were going to lead us during the day. In Science we tried 3 different experiments, by using dried ice. For one of the experiments, the equipment that was needed, was dried ice, water, a big bowl, and a cylinder container. To make this experiment work, we were to add dried ice and water into the cylinder container, and then close the lid. After closing the lid you were to stand it up in the bowl, and see it launch up, like a rocket. This was a contest, so the group with the highest launch, were the winners. Thank you to the teachers for the amazing teaching. We enjoy every part of it, especially the challenges.

Kiwisport - Gymnastics

This week LS2 completed their second session of Gymnastics with Steve. Steve works at the Eastern Suberbs Gymnastics gym. Their were 3 courses. Since there were 3 rotations we took 10 minutes at each. We did forward/backward rolls, cartwheels, handstands, beam- balance, building strength, and jumping. These activities gave us the opportunity to become more brave, and try  out new challenges. Our warm up was called Toilet Flush. Every time there were new taggers, we did different exercises like: jumping, and hoping on 1 leg. We managed to come out of our comfort zones and try out everything. 1 rule in gymnastics is to give everything a go. One thing that I found interesting was that I could do the beam without stopping, because the first time I tried I kept on stopping.