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Writing Task

Swimming with Green Sea
Turtles

WALT: use our senses to make our writing more interesting.

Imagine going snorkelling at a beach and seeing beautiful green sea turtles.
What do you think the experience would be like?

Task 1: Watch the video clip on the site. Imagine you were the person
snorkelling… Put yourself in their flippers.

Task 2: Brainstorm using your senses. What do you think you would be
able to see/hear/smell/touch/taste if you were swimming with Green Sea
Turtles?

In this table, write the descriptive words that you would be able to see/hear/smell/touch/taste.

What can I see?	What can I hear?	What can I smell?	What can I touch/feel?	What can I taste?
Hard-shelled	Whistling wind	Salt	Rough	Salt from the water
The way it swam	The beathing	Feashwater	Hard	Olive
Green	air	Shell	water	water

Need some help? - make sure that you use words that you know… even better - search what some
of these words mean and use them in your writing!

Task 3: Write a story about what it would be like to swim with Green Sea
Turtles.

 one day me and my family went on a boat around the pacific ocean.
We put on our diving sot to swim.
As i went under the water i saw the most beautiful thingever a
green sea turtle.When i was under water i went to go and touch
it. It was hard’.I could taste the salt water and hear the breathing of
the the green sea turtle.

I was swimming by this green sea turtle’.I could see the bright blue water’
and fish around me.As i swam i felt like i was in paradise’. I could touch the
sea turtle and it didn’t mind.I could see it go below the ocean and i flowed it
down it was eating seagrass.I thought it was going to eat something different
to seagrass.

I went back up to the surface to tell my family.I told my mum and dad and
my sister and brother.They came to check it out.They were Shocked they
had never seen one like this before.I went back up to the boat to set down
i had a nerf of swimming.Then my family had came up back to the boat
because the sea turtle had gone.So all of my family got into the boat and
we went back to land.We had a great time swimming in the ocean at first it was
cold but i was fine. 

Word Problems

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Writing Task

Pacific Islanders in
WW1

WALT use descriptive language to add detail

A group of soldiers from New Zealand and Australia went to fight in the war.
They were known as the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps).
Some Pacific Islanders went to war too.

Task 1: Watch the videos about the Pacific Islanders who went to war.

New Zealand: The first world war	Anzac Special - World War I and its Pacific volunteers

Task 2:

Choose a Pacific Island:

Tonga

Samoa

Cook Islands

Fiji

Niue

Research your chosen Island and write some vocabulary about it:

Tonga is small	It is brave	Tonga is the fourth island	Tong has the biggest waves

Task 3: Pretend you are someone from your chosen Pacific Island who
has volunteered to serve in World War 1. Write a letter to someone back home.

• What do you miss from home? [Research your Island for this]
• What is your job?
• Where are you and how did you get there?
• What do you smell, hear, see, touch, taste?
• When will you be home?

Start writing here:_

Dear Aunty hope you are all right .I  miss the food and its taste.My job that i
have to in the war is take a look out of danger.The food here is canned beef and
corn.Im missing the water and the waves.Hope i can hear back from you.

From Kahzyilou_

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Sinking Ship

It was night time and the crewman and the captain had been warn about the icebergs.It was very dark
and foggy they couldn’t see.Then the captain saw the iceberg and said iceberg right ahead.One of the
captains crewman tried to turn the boat it turned but the side of the boat hit the iceberg and started to
sink.The crewman pulled out the lifeboats and started to load the life boat and pulled them down.the ship
sank and spilt in half.

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Black Caiman article

Black Caiman

Information sourced from Crocodiles of the world

The black caiman is the largest member of the alligator family. They are also the largest
predator of the Amazon River basin. Adult males average 4-5 meters in length. The black
caiman gets its name from its dark skin which provides camouflage during nocturnal
hunts and it is believed to help the black caiman absorb heat. The black caiman
was hunted to almost extinction from humans however the species is now making a
comeback in numbers. 

Habitat:

The black caiman lives in the Amazon River basin in shallow
freshwater and slow moving rivers, stems and lakes. They can
sometimes venture out into flooded savannah and the wetlands. Information about
the black caiman was only discovered from the 1980’s when lots of research was
carried out on these creatures. 

Diet:

Baby black caiman mostly eat small fish, frogs
, crustaceans and insects. As they grow they begin to eat
larger fish including piranhas, catfish and perch.

Adult caiman’s diet consists of fish especially piranha fish and
catfish. They also tackle birds, turtles and large mammals. Adult black
caimans have very few predators who try to attack them however the jaguar,
boa constrictors, pythons and humans are the main predators that come into the black
caimans habitat. 

Conservation:

The black caiman populations have recovered dramatically from the
low levels in the 1970’s when they were considered to be critically endangered.
Trading of black caiman leather peaked from the 1950’s to the 1970’s. In 1990 a captive
breeding and reintroduction program was initiated in Bolivia to help increase the number
of the black caiman in the wild. Populations are still threatened by habitat destruction
from deforestation along with illegal hunting of the animal. 

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