Outstanding animal reports

For writing we have been learning how to group our information into paragraphs as we write factual reports. This is the first attempt at report writing.  Students chose an animal that they knew well, brainstormed facts about that animal and then organised their facts into paragraphs.  These two reports are simply amazing.  Read on to be wowed and to learn some very interesting new information.......

HECTOR’S DOLPHINS

Hector’s dolphins are endangered because people are catching them.  These dolphins hang around New Zealand beaches and really close too.

They are grey with black tips on their fins and snout.  They are very little dolphins and smooth ones too.  Hector’s dolphins like to live around New Zealand beaches and that is why they get caught so much. 

If you don’t know what they eat, they eat flounder, red cod and crabs.  Hector’s dolphins are native to New Zealand and endangered too because people are putting nets out and they get stuck and drown.

PLEASE STOP KILLING HECTOR’S DOLPHINS!

Samara

    

GIGANOTOSAURUS

Giganotosaurus is a dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous and is the largest predatory animal that ever lived.

It has small lumpy scales and long serrated teeth which it uses for shredding and gripping plant-eating reptiles.  This huge dinosaur has long powerful legs which it uses to scan the land.   Big feet help it to be able to leap on prey.  Also, long arms and serrated claws attach to them and a massive tail helps Giganotosaurus to balance its huge head and powerful body.  Sadly, since it died out 65 million years ago, we can not tell what its body colour was.

Giganotosaurus has a lot of hunting area in Argentina.  It probably had about 50km of hunting area and scanned that 50km in a day searching for food.  Giganotosaurus was a humungous animal. It needed a long range of food so it had a lot of hunting area.  A Giganotosaurus would have hunted an earth raking giant Argentinasaurus.  Since Giganotosaurus hunted in packs they would have leaped on their prey and inflicted deadly wounds with their ferocious bite.  After the blood loss and distress the animal would soon die. 

Giganotosaurus is now known as the biggest predatory dinosaur in Earth’s history, but who knows?  There may be even more ferocious animals to discover.

Toby