The red eyed tree frog is poisonous

but not the most poisonous

the rainforest

by fergus

The black jaguar

lee

Did you know that pandas aren’t always black and white they are sometimes brown and white.

Pandas have adapted to living the rainforest because they have six fingers to grasp bamboo better.

By Poppy

The Chinese word for Panda is xiongmao

Pandas eat 20-45 pounds a day

They live for 15-20 years

Baby Pandas only cry for attention

Pandas don’t normally kill other animals but you can never be too sure because they do have very strong jaws.

By Katy and Nicole.

• The red eyed tree frog has green skin for camouflage during the day
• When the red eyed tree frog detects a predator it opens its eyes which are bright red and moves its legs which are orange and startles the predator
•   The red eyed tree frog blinks to force its pray down

I am an important explorer. Recently I went to the Madagascan  rainforest to study birds. But while I was there I discovered a new animal. The Salsean. The Salsean is a small monkey type creature with bat wings. It is warm blooded and gives birth to live young.  It feeds its young with milk from their wings. At the bottom of their wings are points, and on those points are dispenser like things that the babies feed from. It lives on land and has great camouflage. When it stalks its prey and the prey turns round it can fly to a tree and hug it. What about the tail? It hangs like a liana.  The Salsean has powerful arms and strong fangs. It is a carnivore so it eats other animals. It will eat anything but its favourite things are Jaguars, Tigers, Panther, Caiman and Draco lizards. It stalks the prey and when it has got close enough it flies straight to it, wraps its arms round it and bites it in the neck with its strong fangs and paralyzes it. If it wants something smaller it just picks it up and eats it. How can you tell between a boy and a girl? Male Salseans have a tuft of hair in-between their ears and females don’t. It has brown and white fur on its wings and skin to  camouflage into trees. It live in trees in the canopy.

One of our next steps in writing is to create mood, pace and tension. This is what keep the reader turning the pages in a story. We have been trying to do in this in class by varying the length of sentences.

For homework think of a problem in an adventure story. Write the paragraph leading up to the climax using punctuation and length of sentences to create an appropriate mood, pace and tension.

Due: Tuesday 6th December

This is about the rainforest
Found in lots of different places
Usually found in the tropics

verse 1
There are are lots of different trees
That grow in all the different layers
There are also lots of plants
All of them we must protect
Or else they will become extinct

(chorus)

Verse 2
But the main thing you can find there
Are loads and loads of animals
There are 5 different groups about them
Birds,reptiles and mammals
Fish and amphibian
While the insects are invertebrates,
the others are not

(chorus)

Verse 3

There are lots of different animals
And ill tell you a few
The butterflies are pretty and come in different colours
There are also tree frogs that stick to trees
There are also capybara which are giant rodents
And watch out for the tarantulas who could kill you

(chorus)

Verse 4

My favourite one is the sloth
Who hangs upside down all day
He has algae growing on his back
HIs arms are longer than his legs
Hewill become extinct so we need to save him

(chorus)

So we don’t want the rainforest to become extinct,
I hope this song has told you that the rainforest is an amazing place to be.

1. Piranhas lose teeth!
2. It can eat 15x its size!
3. Some piranhas are omnivorous!
4. Piranha is a fresh water fish!
5. Scientific name is the Caribe Venezuela!
6. Found in Hawaii!
7. Have sharp teeth!
9. Is a fish and has gills!
10. Piranha can be 5.5-17 inches in length and weight about 7.7 pounds!
11. Cold blooded!
12. Their jaw bone is so strong, that it can crush a human hand in 5-10 seconds!
13. Piranhas are cannibals!
14. Females can lay up to 5000 eggs!
15. They live up to 25 years in the wild and 10-20 years in captivity!

1. Has 3D vision!
2. Its a herbivore!
3. Can way up to 300 pounds!
4. Its Camouflaged !
5. Hunts alone!
6. Scientific name is the Panther Onca!
7. Very powerful jaws!
8. It can eat something bigger than itself!
9. Its shoulder height up to 75cm!
10. Jaguars can swim out of there depth!
11. They have night vision!
12. Scientists call there black spots rosettes because there shaped like roses!
13. They can live till 12-15!
14.  Jaguars live alone and mark their territory by scratching trees!
15. 3rd biggest cat!

The birds of paradise are members of the family paradisaeidae. The majority of species are found in eastern Indonesia in the Indonesian rainforest, there are also 42 species around the world. Birds of paradise are known for there lovely feathers and long beaks the males are brighter than the females so  the male can attract the female. Many birds of paradise feed on fruits and berries on the canopy layer. The birds of paradise are one of the most dramatic and attractive birds in the world.