Adaptation

 

There are canines all over the world from wild and stray to tame and playful, but up in the snowy forests and mountains of North America Asia and Europe lives a silent pack hunter that pushes it to the extreme.The Grey wolf.

 

The Grey wolf is the largest species of wolf on the planet. This massive wolf wights 16 to 60 kilograms and can be from 100-150cm long. They are also well known for the ability to hunt in packs and their distinctive howl.  These large carnivores live up in the cold mountains and forests of North America Asia and Europe were bad wether and temperatures are cold in the extreme and feed on Moose, caribou, rabbits and occasionally they will eat plant matter.

 

The grey wolf s appearance dates back to the ice age with the Dire wolf 10,000 years ago and the Eucyon   8m years ago. These Canines have been built over time with thick coats good senses like eyesight and smell, strong claws and legs and pander paws. The Grey wolf comes in white grey brown or black.

All these are structural adaptations to help them in their environment and to survive.

The Thick fur is to protect them from the wind and bad wether while with large claws and teeth it has no trouble killing  large pray. These large  wolves  have strong legs and padded paws for going over rough terrain.

Another type of adaptation is the Behavioural adaptations. These are adaptations that they chose to use to survive. Grey wolves have many. They hunt in packs to catch their pray buy sneaking up herding and chasing. The leader of the pack is the Alpha. The big bulky male the rules over the pack followed by the alpha female the mate of the Alph male. Then the Beta wolves who are second in command, the rest of the pack then then the Omega witch is the runt of the pack. The pack also has 8 to 20 members.

Here are some others:

  1. They howl to bond and communicate
  2. Young wolves learn by play fighting
  3. If they eat a lot they won’t want again for weeks 
  4. The grey wolf is a territorial animal 

The last and more complicated adaptations are Physiological adaptation witch are adaptation on the inside of the animal like blood or bones. Most of a grey wolfs physiological adaptations are to do with hunting catching and killing their pray like its reflective retainer over it’s eyes gives it night vision to hunt at night. It also has a nose that can pick up smelling 100 times better than  a humans. They also have warm blood to survive in the cold and eyes that are sensitive to movement and sensitive ears for hearing its pray. I also has a large belly.

I got the photos from these websites:

 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/542754192563462639/

https://pixels.com/featured/gray-wolf-canis-lupus-pup-amid-lupine-tim-fitzharris.html

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=13-P13-00052&segmentID=1

https://www.flickr.com/photos/carisan/2366707699

I got the imfo from these places:

world book

My best book of wolves and wild dogs

Britannica

https://animals.mom.me/wolf-packs-pecking-order-3463.html

 

production reflection

This term we have been working on a production about Australia called hanging onto the bottom of the world. The play was about Australian history and went something like this.

First we were given a series of lines to learn in pairs then we took auditions and some time lasted were given our character and more lines. I was the bride of NSW of the federation (when the colonies of Australia came together). Then we rehearsed and rehearsed and were pulled out of class for more rehearsals. We started by just siting in a circle and saying our lines with our scrip witch was annoying when I didn’t  have many lines. But as the play progressed found that I was on a lot and hardly had time of stage much. We then moved on to moving over a stage with our lines. Then we started to be called out of class  to rehearse our lines and classes were pulled out of work to practice massive senes like the convicts or the cricket match showing federation. A subjects were changed and altered to fit the play like in art we were making props and in music we were learning songs from the play and spot had been changed to play practice. On the week of the play our time tables for the day read ‘production maths production’.

 The show featured the history and federation of Australia. The show began with the tea lady’s entering then started with the federation with the brides of the six colonies, bruce  and Eddie and western Australia   being  late then on came the queen and Eddie and Bruce had a misunderstanding . Then came captain cook, the convicts, Governor Philip, the gold rush then another misunderstanding with bruce and Eddie, a cricket match to explain federation with the pro federations and the antibilites   (They didn’t use a cricket match to decide the real thing then finally the fight for women’s rights and finished by us singing a song we have been learning called the eye of the needle about the convicts on rough seas in Australia.

 We had two performances. A matinee in the day and a night time performance. In the lead up to these performances we faced many challenges like script changing and new position and places. As the  bride of NSW I had  five bridesmaids a vail and tiara with pictures of NSW and some things the represent it. I was also a Chinese miner in the gold rush scene and needed a Chinese shirt and we were a dragon so we also had a dragon head for the front. I was also a solider in the convict part of the performance and had to wear a solider’s uniform and stand straight. A bit about the history of my characters. NSW thought they were the best and had a lot of money because it was the first colony and was the best. The Chinese miners were not treated like the rest of the minders and were alway being picked on and were kept in different camps. 

Doing the play took a lot of use of the Carey positive learner attributes like courage to go on stage and imagination to help to contribute to the play. We also needed Communication and collaboration to know when to go on and when to say certain lines or do certain things we also needed resilience to get through we we got a line wrong or stepped in the wrong place. We also could not have done without Hellen making consumes Tim making us in to performers and Mr Barker teaching us the song and play music for the show.          

 

I think that we have grown in our performing skills and our courage and collaboration and communication. It took a long time to perfect the production and with the work we did we grew from just being us. To being able to pull of a part in Australian history. It was a great experience and I would easily do it again.                

 

The 1000 year old boy

Hi, This term has bean great for book chat and my favourite Book this term was the 1000 year old boy by Ross Welford. It book is a Family and friendship book with plenty of character but you have to watch out because the perspective changes through out the book.

The book is a bout two  boys. The first Alfie had an acsident when he was young with his cat allowing him and the cat to get to 1000. The other boy is Aidan ho moves into a new house next to a little girls call Roxy and they help Alfie through the modern world.

I liked this book because it always kept me on edge and had a great storyline. It kept me on edge because it is a very eventful book but quite complex. It had a great story line because it never gave anything away and was quite a complex read and I recommend it for years 4 and up.

What was your favorite book?Why?

Holidays

Hi, this week the student blogging challenge is about holidays we celabrate.

In Australia we celebrate melborne cup day, a holiday were people race horses for a big trophy. We also celabrate Grand final day were people pay a final of AFL. We also celabrate Australia day when the first fleet arrived at Australia.

First is Melbourne cup day. This holiday is held on the first tuesday of november and you get monday of. The event is held in Flemington Victoria. This years winner of the cup was a horse called ‘Vow and declare’. On melbourne cup day my family normally go away to the country.

The second is grand final day. It holiday is often on the last weekend of september but can change. On this holiday people tend to go to Australia’s largest AFL playing fiel the MCG to watch the two best teams play even if there team is not playing. If my family’s  team is playing in the final we go to the match if not we go out to the country.

The third is Australia day. This holiday on the 26th of january has many throughts about it. The day represents the day the first fleet landed in new south wales. Many people do not give this holiday a second thought but many aboriginal people (the tradition owners of the land) do not like this holiday and some want it moved to a different date while others what it completely removed because that was the day the british took the traditional owners land and disrespected them and they don’t think that it should be treated as a  time to celabrate.

I have bean to the Grand final several times to watch my team play and it was an experience I will never forget .

Some of the things that represent these events and celabrations.

A race horse:

The AFL symbol:

A trophy:

First fleet ships:

I fond these photos at

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet

https://www.amazon.com/Breyer-Frankel-Worlds-Highest-Rated/dp/B00HV97K6K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League

https://www.racingandsports.com/news/racing/press-release/2019-07-16/melbourne-cup-national-sweep-underway/490027

What holidays do you celabrate?

Camp toona

Last week we went on a camp to toonalook or the first time. My school owns a camp on the Banksia Peninsular called camp toonalook. Students start going to toonalook in year five all the way to the end of school. It takes 3 to 4 hours reach toona from the Melbourne CBD.

We left of sports grounds at roughly 8:30 on the bus and drove for an hour  until we stoped for the toilet at Yarragon but people spent most of there time waving at trucks and getting honks as replies from the passing cars and trucks. Then we got back on the bus and drove for two hours and watched Mr Bean until we arrived at toonalook were we unloaded our bags and pulled them though to gravel to small canvas cabins were we met  Charlie and Em the  year 11s that have come to toona with us we also met Jesse Grace and josh. I was in graces group and we started by doing kayaks while the other group went bike riding. We were in two person kayaks and I was at the back and got splashed a lot. We kayaked up to a point with lots of jelly fish birds rocks and shells before turning around and racing back. We came second. then we swapped over to bike riding and I hear harvey in the other group jumped in the water. On bike riding we did a loop around the peninsula through sand and gravel and got bitten by mosquitos. Then we went for dinner  and then played the shoe game.

The next day we went to see the water police down by the jetty were toona foam was. The toona foam was the camps first boat to use to get to Raman island and has gone into boat retirement. On the water police boat we looked at the outside were they had life saving equipment. They showed us life jackets and the living and sleeping places. We also saw the place they drove the boat from. By the end of the tour we all knew one thing we all wanted a boat for Christmas. Then we headed back to to the camp and packed up for expo and then had free time. After that we walked to our expo spot. Along the way we pasted the point that we stoped at with the kayaks and stoped for a while to skip stones until someone spotted a jelly fish and some of the boys started killing it with stones and sticks and so the jelly fish hunters began. So me and my friends had to step in and pick up the jellies and throw them out to sea. When we got to the expo spot the ute with our bags was already there and we had to set up our tents. Later that night we had dinner and played empires Duncan won by collecting the whole of Leo’s team and in the middle of the game it rained. Now I don’t mean you normal rain I mean bucketing litres and litres came down on us but we finished the game anyway and went to bed.

 

 The next day we left the expo spot to get the bus to the water bus to Ramen island. Our group was the first to go bike riding and koala spotting we spotted 31kolas and some were babies clinging on to there mothers. We also saw a tree that had bean cut out by aboriginal people  to make a boat. Then we had lunch and swapped activity’s and went fishing. We used prawns as bait and picked spots to wait for fish annoyingly we did not catch any fish but we arrived back at the expo spot before the other group to pack up so we packed up for them and walked the short way back to the toona camp. Later that day we had a scavenger hut my group came second and     another group found a ropes course behind the toilets. Then in our free time me and met friend collected a whole bag of rubbish and got a fredo frog each then we played gaga ball and wrote letters to our parents about the trip.

The next day was the last day and we started by going out of our tents early to watch the sunrise down by the beach that toona owns. Then we went to get breakfast in the hall. Later we went to start the toona challenge a series of activity to see what we have learnt at our time in toona. First we had to link hands with the people in our team and run around the toilet block. And it was a lot harder than it sounded with people stronger than others we kept tripping and falling but we won in the end and the other team got points for sportsmanship. Then the next task we had to collect enough banksia cones to fill a barrel we won that to but the other teams barrel was a bit bigger than ours so they still got points. The next challenge was different. It was on the beach and was a coordination and precession and we lacked that and scored little points. Then we won a hoop challenge and lost the chant challenge and the last round had extra points so the other team won in the end. Then we headed home on the bus.

Have you ever bean on a camp? How was it? Were did you go?

  

Week 1 Avatar challenge

A while ago I talked to you about my avatar now this is may avatar update about my avatar and my family’s. Last time I showed you my Avatar was back last year and I talked about it but his time in year five I would like to go into further detail than before I have also included my family in my post.

This is my Avatar I use it on my blog as an account picture. I have brown messy hair Like I actually do and I also have the same skin and eye colours as my avatar. My background Is green my favourite colour and if you look closely at the background you can see squiggly swirls and lines which represent my personality And lastly I liked the way the blue clashed with the green of the background and that’s why my avatar it wearing blue.

This is my Mum. I have made my mum have brown hair and blue eyes like she does her skin colour is also the same. I have made her eyes big to show that she is kind and friendly. The little figures holding her hands are representing me and my brother.


This is my dad. His has black hair, brown eyes and skin like my real dad he also has a big smile to. He is wearing a tie because he has a job in an office and sometimes wears a tie.


This is my brother. His skin colour, eye colour and hair are all true to the real him. I have also given him a happy smile because it’s easy to make him happy and his hands are in a happy cute position.

I used the website http://www.moeruavatar.com/index_en.shtml to make my family and to make me I used https://www.cartoonify.de

What does your Avatar look like?

Intergrated Reflection

This term we have been learning about the gold rush and our intergraded title is the hard road ahead. We have been learning about the gold rush by going on camp, visiting a museum doing research and eventually building a diorama of Sovereign Hill.

One of the things we learnt about was life in the 1850s.

At camp we had to dress up as children for the 1850s and became a part of the museum. We learnt that girls came first and life was hard because everyone owes in one place and there weren’t enough houses to go round so many had tents or huts to live in. The mud did not help much ether.

We also learnt about business in the gold rush era. Some business did well in the 1850s while others struggled. We were given a business to build for our diorama. First we had to question the shop owner about its business in the gold rush. We had to ask about what the shop sold who it  attracted and when it shut down. We got the saddlery and my partner was Billy and we could not have done it if we didn’t work together.

  

The thing we probably focused on the most was the Eureka stockade because it played a great part in the governing of Australia and is what the Australian gold rush was most famous for (except gold). We learnt about Peter Lalor and the Eureka rebellion against the red coats.

At the Museum we went to we saw the Eureka flag(it was much bigger than we thought it would be). We also learnt that the Eureka stockade fell on December the 3 at three am in the morning.

Some important figures for the time were Peter Lalor and Governor Hotham. Lalor was an Irish man and had survived the potato famine and had worked building railways before the gold rush. Governor Hotham was the governor at the time of the stockade and he had spies in the stockade telling him when the best time to attack was.

Important dates we learnt about were 1823 when gold was first found in Australia but the finders tried to keep its secret but word got out. The 12th of Jan 1851 Edward Hargreaves find gold near Bathurst. The 7th of Oct 1854 James Scobie a digger was murdered by James Bentley. Then on 17th of October the diggers protested for Scobie and burned down James Bentley’s hotel. And on the 3rd of December, the Eureka stockade battle, where 27 people were killed and the battle lasted 20 minutes.

When we made our diorama we got in to pairs of our teachers choosing. I was with Billy and we made the saddlery and Chinese camp. The saddlery was created in 1861 by Joseph Gray who was a prize-winning exhibitor of harnesses at Ballarat’s early Agricultural Society shows.

The saddlery sells horse saddles, harnesses, bits, spurs, riding crops, stock whips and horse brasses.

It also sold wallets leather dressing, hats and saddle soap. This shop was aimed at horse owners and shut down shortly after the gold rush because horses became less popular and the flow of people from other country’s with horses stoped.The horse business today Is  not as popular for we have cars. 

I really enjoyed the gold rush unit and we have had to use had to use communication and collaboration to achieve our goal. It was a great topic and I hope to do a similar thing soon.

What would you have made for our diorama?

Mapping soveregin hill #2

This week we have been learning about Mapping, We have been maping a diorama we made. We had to code a sphero around it, draw a hand writer map and then digital directions. I have in my last blog post I showed you a map and a set of directions in this blog post I will show you how to lay out those instructions and how our sphero went through the maze. Sorry about some of the pronunciation by siri. What do you Know about mapping what do you use?

Mapping Soverin Hill

This week in maths we have been leaning about mapping. I have learnt about the compuse scale and ledgend.

We have made dioramas of Soveregin Hill in the 1850s then we maped  them. Here are some direction that I made to move through our diorama of Ballarat.

Here is my directions to get from one side of our diorama to the other.

How would you get from one side to the other.