The Elephant
They live in the a dry grassland environment and are the largest land animal alive. They weigh up to 5,400 kg and can be 3.4 metres tall. Meet the Elephant.
The environment that the Elephant usually live in is called a savanna. Some elephants also live in forests and mountains too. Elephants look like humungous grey beasts with big floppy ears and knobbly knees. They have curved tusks as teeth but sadly some people hunt and kill Elephants for their tusks. They are also the only animal alive that has a trunk for a nose.
Some interesting and weird things that Elephants eat are bark and juicy grass. They don’t mind eating thorns either as long as they have leaves attached to the thorns. Elephants use their trunks to carry food for themselves and for their younger ones and they can eat up to 140 kg of plants a day.
Elephants have a quite a few different adaptations. Elephants use their own trunks to spray themselves with water so they can keep clean. Their big ears help them keep cool and they use their tusks to protect themselves. Some behavioural adaptations Elephants have is when they come across remains of another Elephant they take a silent pause and the mother elephant uses her trunk to stroke her young.
Fun Fact: Did you know that the male Elephant can be extremely grumpy
Fun Fact: Did you know that the male Elephants fight for their group of Elephants and some times can kill each other.
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Year 5 Production!
The Year 5 Production has been an awesome experience. The play we were doing was called Hanging Onto The Bottom Of The World. It all started with auditions all the way back in term 3 even though it feels like yesterday. We were in pairs and we had to memorise a small bit of the script and from there they decided who would get what role.
Then on the first week back in term 4 they announced the roles. I got the gold prospector. I was so happy with what I got because I got to say and find gold and also I had one of the best lines in the whole play which was ‘You little beauty’.
Learning lines went really well for me. I only had 4 lines but that didn’t stop me from practising every night. To make sure I new when to come in my Dad was very helpful and played every other character in the scene so I felt comfortable with my role.
Then we had a lot of rehearsals and everyone was so excited for the dress rehearsal coming up. We found out our costumes the day before our dress rehearsal and because I was also a convict I had to change quickly into my prospectors costume but I did it in no time.
The dress rehearsal went really well and though I was a little bit nervous to perform in front of a lot of people I was ready to do it. I was a convict first and we had to sing a song while walking into place. Then I was the prospector, it all ran very smoothly and everyone clapped at the end while we sang the song again.
Then we had the day performance the next afternoon. It all went really well and in my opinion was better than the night performance.
Have you ever been apart of or in a Production?
