We have been learning to write reports.
We have read lots of different reports and looked at what is different between reports and stories.
We created our own mixed up animals and wrote reports about them.
BEARFLY
A bearfly swarms through the sky just like a butterfly. They are wondercrump creatures. the bearfly has big red googly eyes. Also a bearfly has brown coloured ears. Inside the ears is pink fur. A bearfly has a jet black wet nose. The bearfly has wondercrump wings. the colour on the wings are sky blue, canary yellow and lime green. The colour of the skin is cocoa brownish gold. It has a pink furry belly with rough pink pieces of skin on the paws. A bearflys first favourite food is fruit. the second favourite is vegetables. It nibbles quickly on the food and swallows it down. A bearfly lives in a pitch black den that is spooky slimy and smelly. It lives with its babies. the enemy is a great white shark. Something about a bearfly is that it can fly fast. Another thing that is special to a bearfly is it can stay alive for millions of years. Have you seen a bearfly?
Created and written by Emily
GORLION
A gorlion is an odd animal. it is part gorilla and part lion.
Appearance and Movement
My animals body is gold and furry. My animal can run and jump to other trees. A gorlion has a furry branch like tail and flappy flying fly swat at the bottom of the tail. He has cocoa eyes and white eyes too.
Habitat
They live with their families in the forest. There home is far away from New Zealand it is overseas.
Diet
The grolion munches up the stripy lemurs. He camouflages and goes and hides in the golden grass. When the lemurs get close the gorlion jumps out and catches the lemur with his sharp claws.
Predators
The gorlions enemy is the giant cheetahs. The gorlion tries to hide from the giant cheetah. He climbs a big tree. There is lots of animals at their home so the cheetahs run away.
Created and written by Damarco
CATCRAB
A catcrab is a much more dangerous animal than any other crabs in the world. It has two sandy sharp nippers and eight bendy crab legs, poking out eyes and shiny wet claws and two sharp incisors for biting its prey. A cat crabs body is covered in thick ginger fur. It also has a stubby fluffy ginger tail.
Movement
It scuttles sideways and sneaks like a crab. A catcrab climbs a tree and it pounces .
Diet and Habitat
It gobbles fish, seeds, baby fish, bugs, food scraps and jelly meat. It lives in the sandy beach, rocks pools and underwater in the ocean. Catcrabs as pets like to sleep on the side of the bed. Catcrabs snap at noses and play with bugs.
Enemies
Sealions, killer whales and dogs like to hunt catcrabs.
Unique Characteristics
Catcrabs purr like a cat.
There were thousands of catcrabs then humans killed hundreds to cook them in a restaurant to get thousands of dollars of cash then catcrabs were getting endangered. So there were only 10 catcrabs left in the world.
Created and Written By Sam
GUINPUS
A guinpus is half penguin and half octopus. they have a pointy beak and eight long tentacles with sticky suckers that stick to anything. It also has lumpy eyes and flippers for arms on the side.
How does a Guinpus move?
A guinpus moves by wiggling side to side and sways. A guinpus can also move by floating in the water and using his flipper to glide.
Diet
A guinpus eats snapper and shark and sea snails.
Habitat
A guinpus lives in cold water that is really sparkly like a shiny castle.
Enemies
A guipus' enemies is a grey shark and sperm whale and fishermen. Fishermen are an enemy because they catch the guinpus on purpose to eat.
Unique Characteristics
A guinpus is special because they spread their ink all over enemies actually it kills their enemies. There is only one left in the world. It is endangered now and when that one dies it will be extinct.
Created and Wriiten by Pinenga
FISHCAT
A fish cat is extremely so so cute and very unique. A fishcat is half cat and half fish.
Appearance
The fishcat has shiny scales on most of her skinny body. She has long spiky whiskers and she has red and green striped fins. A catfish also has furry legs with soft small paws on the end, a wide mouth and small round lemon golden eyes. Her tail is pink and dotty.
Movement
The fishcat always like to cattypaddle through the sea. A fishcat opens and closes its mouth when it is eating fish and other seafood.
Habitat
It lives in the deep sea with the swaying seaweed.
Predators
A fishcat's predators is a whaleshark, sea sharks and octopus of course. An octopus can eat fishcats. The fishcats can swim faster before the octopus gobbles it all up because the tentacles are too short.
Endangered
This amazing species is endangered. There are four more left. If you catch one drop your fishing line we don't want to eat any. We can protect the fishcat by making a marine reserve where their predators can not get them.
Created and Written by Marcus
LIBUN
A libun has a big fluffy mane around her neck and a peachy coloured body and sharp claws to catch its feast. It also has a cute fluffy round cream coloured tail.
How does a libun move?
A libun sprints on two legs and bolts on four legs and hops on one leg.
Diet
A libun catches fish with its sharp claws and a libun hunts people to eat. A libun gobbles its prey up.
Habitat
A libun lives in a deep dark cave and a pitch black den with all sorts of insects and family.
Enemies
A libuns predators is a sea lion and dogs and cats. They creep up on a libun. To protect themselves they hop into a hole. The predator scrapes the skin off it.
A libun is the fastest animal in the world and has a man around its neck even when it is a lioness.
Created and Written by Gwen
DOGISH
A dogish is half fish and half dog.
Appearance
It has enormous gross lips and fat scales. It has two fins on the side and three
fins at the back.The fins are special because each one is colourful.
Habitat
A dogish lives in a mammoth sea all the way at the bottom of the sea. It lives with a school of other dogish.
Diet
A dogish eats starfish and nemo fish, and sometimes when its really hungry it eats seaweed.
Predators
A Dogish predator is an ugly electric eel who tries to sting him. The dogish protects itself by using its strong tail to swim away and hit the eel on its face.
Endangered
A dogish is endangered because people have been going in the sea and wrecking their home. If you do want a dogish to survive STOP wrecking their home.
Created and Wriiten By Nevaeh
EAGSHARK
An Eagshark is an unique animal. It is half Eagle and half Shark.
Appearance
An Eagshark has a large 3 meter tail that steers the Eagshark ,a yellow beak that is very sharp ,brown face feathers that keep its face warm. An Eagshark has 15cm fins that helps it glide through the water and 1m pomamanya (dorsal fin).
Habitat
An Eagshark lives in a sea cave underwater. A Eagsharks sea cave is full of coral and sea kelp. It lives on its own.
Predator
A great white shark tears the Eagshark apart. The Eagshark protects itself by stopping like its frozen and then ...
4 boxes come out both sides and top and bottom. There is a speedy engine part on the back and a gun part on the front .
Diet
A Eagshark is an omnivore. It eats whale sharks and basking sharks because they are sluggish and easy to catch. They also eat coral and sea kelp.
Created and written by James
Our next challenge is to find information about a real animal and write a report.
Keep an eye on the blog for some of these reports over the next few weeks.
