Day in the life of a Little Blue Penguin

Hi! Let me introduce myself, I’m Coco, a little blue penguin.  I live in the South island. Other blue penguins live in the North, Stewart and Chatham Islands. Let me give you an experience of what I get up to on a normal day.

The sun rises, signalling the new day. Normally it's chilly in the early morning and  night. But, thanks to my thick skin and lots of fat (blubber), my skin always keeps warm in the cold weather. I sometimes huddle together with my friends to keep warm. In the morning I like to waddle up to the sea to catch my prey as quick as I can because then they will get scared because of all the other penguins .On a normal day I would eat small fish such as anchovies, squid and  plankton but when I'm feeling lucky I like to eat krill, small octopus and pilchards, small grey fish. Today, I'm feeling lucky so I will eat krill for breakfast, pilchards for lunch and small octopus for dinner, small octopuses always fill me up and their my FAVOURITE!!!! Hunting for these fish is easy, that's why I only eat them when I feel like getting treated. Because I'm always up for the challenge.

Let me go and get my fish and I will be back! 2 mins later, well that was easy! See I told you fishing for krill is easy. Well I gobbled them up  quickly man I was HUNGRY!!!! Well now that this out of the way.I want to go and hang out with my friends in the ocean my normal call to get my friends here is a like a snoring sound a little . Oh look there here,anyways my friends names are Sunny, Emma, Olivia, Ava,Isabella, sophia, Charlotte, Mia and Amelia. Oh hey!what are you up to do you guys want to go and catch krill anyways it is mothers day so might as well catch food for our mother’s so are you up for the challenge. ‘Yeah!! Let's do it then surprise our mothers after catching them’’! Ok let's go out to sea to catch our food

Luckily that is my mother's favourite food!!! Ok i will see you when I have a few fish in my basket bye! 20 mins later, I’ve got a ton of krill in my basket and I have the most out of all my friends!and I even ate a few I didn’t think my mum would eat that much. But I still have the most and then Sunny and the second most.anyways it's lunch time for me so more catching to do for me now time for the pilchards YUM! Well catching this will take me no time so I will be back in a flash!  hey guys I told you I would be back in a flash! Pilchards look like sardines a little but they are a bit bigger they are a grey color it is a dark grey at the top and a light at the bottom only at the mouth, it is black and brown at the mouth.

Well I'm getting hungry so I'm just going to eat them. Now Time for my luxurious NAP I love Napping . If i don’t take a rest I get CRANKY and I get real CRANKY. So LET ME TAKE MY REST ok BBBBBYYYEE!!!

5 hours later, HOW DARE YOU NOT WAKE ME UP!!!! I slept in now i have not much time to catch my food but before that i’ll tell you about my dream. Here goes:  so it all started when I had been transported to the year of the UNICORNS!!!!!!!!! I met all the unicorns and I even made 3 new friends Polly, Molly and Dolly Polly was the pink and the cute one in the group, Molly was the nice and friendly one and Dolly was the one who knew everybody in the whole WORLD!! But then I felt something touching me on my back when I turned around I saw a ……….. SEAL and if you didn’t know they are our biggest predators and because I'm so so clumsy I fell down  while trying to run away but I got too scared and waddled all the way home!! Well that took long! Now finally time for small octopus these critters normally come out at night so it’s extremely easy to sneak attack on them! Hahahahaha !!!! well anyways I will see you at bedtime goodbye! Well that was filling, now time to brush my teeth I use a leaf to do that and my breath smells so good so let me do my brushing in peace! Today was a very tiring day! I’m so sleepy.Snoring, snoring, snoring ZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

This is the colouring of cabbage leaves and celery sticks experiment

Materials

Glass jars x 4 

Celery

Cabbage leaves 

4 different colours of food colouring 

Water 

Scissors/knife/chopping board to cut the celery

Method-

Fill up 4 glass jars up to around half way 

Put approximately 10 drops of different coloured food colouring into each jar

Place a celery stick or a cabbage leaf into each jar

Aim-

To colour celery or cabbage leaves

 Explanation- pt 1- why do plants need water pt 2 - how plants absorb water

 Plants absorb water to maintain their shape, collect dissolved nutrients from the soil, move small molecules throughout the plant,and cool off leaves in hot weather through evaporation. Because they need so much water, plants have an efficient way to collect it.

Plants obtain water from the soil. The roots are the transportation system to get the water from the soil to the parts of the plant where it is needed the most. Then the roots branch off into smaller and smaller and the tiniest roots are called root hairs. These root hairs consume the water into the system, which then carries the water to the rest of the plant.  Once a water molecule escapes out into the atmosphere. It pulls the next molecule below it to take its place. Then it pulls the one under it to take its place that continues on forever and ever. This job of attracting molecules to the others place is called cohesion. Due to this cohesion, water molecules stick to each other forming a continuous chain.

This is my compare and contrast map of the two types of rainforests

This is my describe an animal in a specific habitat

Inquiry about Freshwater Biomes

This is my day in the life living in Chennai

I’m Jacqueline and I come from Chennai. My country faces water scarcity. 70% of water is salt water, so that means that only three percent is accessible. But  2% is frozen in glaciers, so only 1% is available for human and animal use. 

Every morning I wake up at 6 am sharp. Every day it is boiling hot and sunny yet again.  when will I be saved from this pain?  my family and I are worried, anxious and desperate for water for me to last the day.

Paragraph 1- morning routine

 I sponge myself with a damp cloth to wipe off sweat , body odour, dust and grime. Then once I am changed, I go and wake up my younger sibling, Priyanka. Once she is awake, I do my brushing, Then I dip my toothbrush into a miniature cup of ice cold water and brush. Then I go to the kitchen to help my mum with breakfast, it's normally Idli and sambar or masala dosa.  However, now that we don't have water we can’t eat that. All I hear is people outside brawling and saying :“ThAt’s MY WaTeR!”

“ DoN’T dRiNk THAT, I PaId FoR ThaT!!”

                    

Paragraph 2- Water truck 

YES!! Finally I can hear the water truck coming down our road. Pshhhhh!! Whooshh!!!!!  I see the water coming into the pipe But it only fills until the halfway point. “Jacqueline, I can finally cook all your favourite foods like Naan ,butter chicken and masala dosa now that we have water,” said my mum Sonakshi. By the way, the water truck always comes at  7pm Sharp. Did you know that people wait outside for hours and hours trying to get water for them and their family? People also wait outside to buy bottled water because most of their water is dirty or is from the sewage .    

 Paragraph 3- Lunch and school

Now that the water truck has come and given us water, I help my mum cook lunch.  Everyday, we try to cook different foods so that we can try a variety of ethnic food like today: we are trying north indian so me and my mum are going to make Chole Bhature and for dinner we are going Chole bhature (if it’s left) or chicken biryani and raita. But before any of that cooking, I will go to the butchers with Priyanka to get meat for the biriyani, The butchers is just across the street. Now that we have the meat, my mum is cooking lunch.now it's time for school, I’m in grade 5 and Priyanka is in grade 3. We get homeschooled because it’s too expensive to go to school. So I am learning factors and percentages and priyanka is learning her multiplication tables. 2 hours later, I finished my homework and it’s 5 o'clock here. Time to start getting ready for dinner

Paragraph 4 - dinner

It is easy to make chicken biryani. All you have to do is cook the rice and add spices and cook the chicken and add it to the biryani. YUM!!!! I love chicken biryani. Half an hour later, It’s finally cooked and it’s time to devour it!! 5 mins later, IT’S FINISHED!! Looks like my family loved it!! My tummy is still not full!! Maybe I can go to the ice cream shop downstairs! YYEEEEESSSSSS!! Guess what my mum said, yes . I’m going to get mango flavour,’ I wonder how they make it?’.5 mins later, I ate it now time for my night routine.

Paragraph 5 - night routine

My night routine isn’t much, all I do is brush my teeth, moisturise my face and change into my pjs.I’ll see you after I brush my teeth.2 mins later, I've brushed my teeth and time to moisturise my face. Now that i have moisturised my face I will change into my pjs and go to sleep. GOOD NIGHT!!!