Naomi’s Blog

My class had to choose an endangered animal and fill in a sheet a about it. I did the Marine Otter. Here is the info about it.

The marine otters scientific name is Lontra Felina. They have strong claws on their well webbed and moderately sized feet.Their hair looks different to other otters because it looks rough and course. The top layer of their hair is 20mm long, where as the bottom layer of hair is 12mm long. They are dark brown with a lighter underside that looks drab and has a greyish, yellow-brown reddish colour. When born they weigh 3-5 pounds.

The gestation period is 4-5 months. The females have their first pup at 4-5 years of age. In California the have their pup in between January and March, but in Alaska the pups are born in late spring to summer. The pup learns to swim at the age of 4 weeks. The mother otter carries the pup on her chest. Their life spand is 15-20 years of age.

They live in rocky coastlines, secluded bays and inlets near river estuaries. They live in small caves just above the water mark.

They eat crabs, creastceans mollusks and bottom living organisms. Sometimes they eat small prawns. Basically they eat fish as their main diet.

They are social animals and stay in groups of about 10 otters, these groups are called “rafts”.  The otters use rocks and other hard objects to break shellfish and other food. Right now the population of otters is about 2000.

They are endangered because they are hunted for their beautiful fur. They also die from oil spills, infections, parasites, diseases, boat strikes, entanglements and toxins. The Marine Mammal Centre is rescuing them from oil spills and curing them from sickness.

A Marine Otter’s skin never gets wet. River otters, weasels and badgers are the Marine Otter’s relatives. Big kidneys help them to drink salt water. Their predators are the killer whales, sharks and sea lions, the bald headed eagle is the predator of the pups.

Naomi  

Samorost helped me think and write because it had lots of interesting scenes and environments. These scenes and environments helped me with my descriptive writing because it had so many things similes. It also helped me with my reviews as it was fun and easy to think of good sentences. The 6 thinking hats helped me write too! Here are what the hats stand for.

1. The yellow hat stands for good and positive points.
2. The black hat stands for bad and negative points.
3. The green hat stands for for creative and new ideas.
4. The red hat stands for feelings and emotions.
5. The blue hat stands for thinking about what you already know.
6. The white hat stands for information and facts.

 Here is a disgram about the hats.

Naomi

We’ve been writing about Samorost. I wrote in present tense and 1st person. Here are the sentences I liked.

Swinging with the sound of rattling chains I feel abandoned and I feel that I am being watched, I feel cautious as the huge hand reels me down.

The balloon cable car has halted and pushed me out, I fall bouncing on mushrooms through all danger to safety.

Coming to a halt the metal ball opens a door, I fall out thinking of what my fate is. Suddenly I hit something, it reflects me onto another one of its kind, I hit the ground suddenly. Where should I go next?

I see gnarled tree roots plaited together and at the end of the staircase a box like figure is planted.

In the prehistoric shaped trees the old box was hidden, it is like a maze.

Naomi

I’ve just found a really fun game called “Doodle”. Don’t worry it’s not rude. Doodle just means scribble. It’s a game were you have to fight erasers and climb steps. Use the arrow keys to move: down to duck, up to jump, left to move left and right to move right. Press the spacebar to fight the erasers. You can also get passwords for each level. You can find the link on my  blogroll, it’s under Doodle Game.

Naomi

On Thursday the  28th May I ran the district cross country. Out of 60 kids I came 12th. It was at Canterbury South Public School. The school was small but at the back it was HUGE.

It was really fun …..and our school came third!!! I know coming third dosen’t sound hard but our school with only 350 kids must have went well. Well you see lots of schools who we competed against had lots of kids, which means more kids more chance of having better runners. I really enjoyed this day as it was very exciting. I’m sure next year our school will do even better.  

Naomi                                                                                                                   

Thursday the 26th of April was the day we had our cross country. You might think you run across Australia but you don’t, you run about a 2km race. I came equal first in my race, my race was the 10 year old girls. Got to go to my soccer game. See ya.

Naomi

Yes, another author has come to visit our school! Her name was Alison Lester and she is a famous Australian author. She has wrote many books, for children of all ages. Here are the names of some of her books: Are We There Yet?,  Magic Beach, Imagine, Ernie Dances To The Didgeridoo, Celeste Sails To Spain, Rosie Sips Spiders, Clive Eats Alligators, Tessa Snaps Snakes, Quicksand Pony, Snow Pony and many more. She was really nice and we made a book. The bit about me was: Naomi slide tackles an opponent in a soccer game. The book was a hit. Have to go.

Naomi

At first I thought that it was a shooting game. I thought this game would be spooky, because of the music. This is a very fun and logical game. This game had unexpected results when you clicked on something. You had to look very closely so you could see every little piece of the picture. I think the only let down of the game was that it was hard to follow the story. I thought the game was an interesting game. I recommend this game for people 10 years and older. You can check out this link on my blogroll.

Naomi