Topic: Literacy/Topic
Purpose: To create a Class Encyclopaedia on animals for display
There are 3 parts - You can start today and if you dont have time you can continue with it throughout the holidays!
Task A: Write an animal fact-file on a fictional (make-believe) Rainforest creature.
1. Name: (you can adapt the name of a real animal. e.g., a Tree Frog becomes Lime Green Tree Hopper)
2. Origin: (Country, rainforest region)
3. Skin colour and markings (e.g. strawberry red fins with tangerine spots)
4. Texture (e.g.razor sharp scales, wart-like bumps, they gluey slime oozes from a glands behind its ears)
5. Size (small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the size of a fingernail, microscopic)and
6. Special characteristics: it's pop-out eyes roll around in their sockets, it makes a whooping noise in its throat, it ruffles its sail-like fins in the sun, it's head turns 360 degrees, it's skin flushes red if you disturb it
7. Food/Prey (passion fruit seeds, avocado flesh, honeysuckle nectar, insects, millipedes)
8. Habitat (e.g. nest, den, burrow, river bank, inside a flower head/ in the emergent layer, canopy, understory, forest floor)
9. Habits (it likes to hide in the trumpet like bell of the nightshade orchid, it can often be seen at dawn hanging upside down from a trailing liana)
10. Young: how many are born? What do they look like? How do they develop?
