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Komodo Dragon

Komodo Dragon

Animal Name: komodo dragon

Weight and length: The  is 68-91 kg

Color: Gray, brown or reddish.

Body covering: scales (like a snake)

How it breathes: Through its nose

Born live or eggs: eggs

How many babies: 20

What are young called: hatchlings

How do they move: with legs

Where do they live: Indonesia

Migrate or Hibernate: Migrate between close islands

Warm or cold-blooded: cold-blooded

Herbivore, carnivore or omnivore: carnivore

How do they protect themselves: claws on their feet

Endangered if so why: Yes, because they have been around a long time

The fire knife

The fire knife

Tyler Magalei in my class is from Hawaii, and he know´s fire knife. He showed us at the front of the class. He is some video´s. . . 

 

 

 

chilli eating contest

On Thursday we had a chilli eating contest. We ate jalapenos and green chilli. Solomon ate 1 whole jalapeno I nearly spewed up with less than a 1/20. Here is a photo:

Beans

Beans

Today we dissected a bean. This is when it was in its test tube:









And this is a photo when it is out of the test tube:







This is a photo of when it was cut open:      

My observation:
The little leaves were white nearly transparent. The stalk looked like a white stick. The middle was also white. But the outside was light brown and dark brown.

Mini Olympics

Mini Olympics

On the last Friday of term two we had a mini olympics.  We had paper plate discus, paper basket ball (we thre w a paper ball into the bin),  long jump and the final event.  Not everybody competed in the final event.  My team won the mini Olympics.  67 points. The closet to us was 43 points.  We got heaps of little things, like chocolate, a plastic medal, a dice in a dice and two moustaches each. 

Sherbert

Sherbert

On Tuesday we made sherbet. We made it at maths for measurement, capacity and volume.