'Zebras' by Catherine

Zebras

Stripes

Zebras are striped horses.
The three species live mainly on the plains of east and southern Africa. They live in herds.

Zebras are black with white stripes. The stripes act like a camouflage to their main predator, the lion. e.g. After running a long way the Zebra will hide in the green grass. You might think this sounds silly considering the grass is neither white or black, but the zebras main predator, (the lion) is colour blind!

'Elephants' by Molly

Elephants

Introduction

Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. African elephants are larger that Asian elephants. They are mammals and they are herbivores so they don’t eat meat.

African and Asian Elephants

There are two different types of elephants (African and Asian) African Elephants are slightly larger and have enormous ears. The African Elephants have 4 toes at the front and 3 toes on the back feet, the Asian Elephants have 5 toes on the front and 4 toes on the back.

Life Span

In the Elephants tummy the baby Elephants take 22 months to grow, a human body takes 9 months to grow.
Most Elephants live up to 70 years and they normally have babies up to 50.

Elephants die when they have to teeth left because they can’t eat.

Food

Elephants eat lots of things here are some things that they like to eat.
· Roots
· Grass
· Fruit
· Bark
An adult Elephant eats up to 3000 pounds in a single day.

Size

St the birth Elephants are 3 feet tall a weigh up to 200 pounds. They grow to over 2 feet tall, and weigh up to 7 tons. A large bull can be 10 foot high at the shoulder and weigh 6 tons. Female elephants are a lot smaller and are often only half the size of a male.

Interesting Facts About Elephants

· Elephants tusk are made of ivory so never buy ivory because it means killing an Elephant.
· Elephants can cry, play and have incredible memories and laugh.
· Male Elephants are called bulls and female Elephants are called cows!

cuckoos by mimi

Cuckoo

Going cuckoo

Cuckoos are a very common British bird and are getting killed. As they fly to Africa for their winter holiday (migration) they stop at Malta to refuel but the Maltese kill them or keep them a pets. We have tried to stop them doing this awful deed by petitioning (Writing to the government) and even there government made a law to stop it from happening. But it hasn’t stopped. Traditionally the first sign of Spring is the lovely cuckoo (singing “cuck oo”) Will we have to wait another summer? Or will we ever hear the lovely sound at all!

A leweston setting discription by JoJo

A Leweston Setting Description

Daisies dotted the grass as Helen wandered into the chapel. There were some wonderful glass lights hanging down from the ceiling. It had the most wonderful stain-glass-windows which, because it was so bright, made the chapel look beautiful. There were weaved kneelers and lovely carved wooden pews. The ticking of the clock sounded like glasses clinking together. The wood worms had made holes in the wood which looked like pin heads.
There was a bowel of water which was on a snow white napkin. The little candle looked like Jesus. The end of the pews had been caved in the most beautiful way.

A Leweston Setting Description by Mia

A Leweston Setting Description

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Jenny strolled elegantly down the path towards the tiny little church. She had always thought that the church had been ghostly cursed, but she never liked to think about that. She glanced at every thing in the dark church until the only thing she had not looked at was the floor. It seemed strange to want to look at the floor, but she was so tempted to. When she did peer at the floor she saw a difference in the floor colour, one bit of the floor was grey and the other was brown. She noticed that the brown area was the floor colour and the grey was a grave. The windows were all fogged up because it had been raining late that night. Jennie’s eyes were glued to the windows. She felt good when she looked at the square window that said ‘The Merits of Christ’. But Jenny felt so uncomfortable.