Hurricanes

Project citations:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/hurricanes/

http://www.hhs.gov/disasters/emergency/naturaldisasters/hurricanes/katrina/index.html

http://camellia.shc.edu/govdocs/scale.htm

http://goflorida.about.com/od/floridaweathe1/a/hurricanes.htm

http://www.livescience.com/hurricanes/

Lit. Poems

"Red"

Gold is perfect hair,
Gray is ash;
Red is Hans' chest
From the whip that did slash.

Blue eyes are beautiful,
Green is their meal;
Red is the apple
That Liesel and Rudy did steal.

Yellow a Jew wears,
White is Germany's fall;
Red was the fire
That killed almost all.



"The Hubermanns"

Rosa
Loud, mean
Swearing, yelling, scolding
Strict, angry, considerate, helpful
Loving, listening, reading
kind, wise
Hans.

Philadelphia Zoo Visit

On Friday, we were visited by the Philadelphia Zoo. The employee brought different artifacts that were part of the animals and actual animals. We learned that there are four different groupings within reptiles- snakes, turtles/tortoises, lizards and crocodiles/alligators. You can tell that they are reptiles mainly because of their scales. The first artifact was crocodile skin. The difference between a crocodile and an alligator is that alligators are black while crocodiles can be many other colors like tan brown or green, and they have different shaped snouts. Next was the turtle shell and an actual tortoise. The difference between a turtle and a tortoise is that turtles can go in water while tortoises can't. Then she brought out the anaconda skin and an actually snake. Snake's self defense consists of either injecting venom or constricting. Lastly she brought a lizard and a lizard that looked like a snake, called a legless lizard. The only reason why you could tell that the legless lizard was a lizard and not a snake because it had ears, and snakes don't have ears. I enjoyed that experience a lot.