Emperor Penguins
Did you know that penguins are a bird that have a special kind of oil . The special oil that they use is to keep the feathers nice and dry when they go hunting in the sea. Did you know the female go hunting and the male stay and keep the eggs warm.
Penguins have white bellies, black backs ,a long beak, short neck and blacks eyes. They have webbed feet to help them walk on the ice. Penguins don’t have wings, they have flippers instead for swimming in the ocean. The black and white colours on their front and back is called counter shading, which means they can camouflage in the water.
Did you know that penguins are carnivores that eat fish, krill, squid, crustaceans, amphipods, cephalopod and silverfish? Penguins take turns hunting for food to feed their babies.
Emperor Penguins live in cold, icy places like Antarctica and the South Pole.They live next to the ice, snow and the water.
Did you know they live in large groups called colonies to keep them safe from predators?
Did you know that there are some dangerous threats for penguins? Some of the predators are leopard seals, eared seal, orcas, sharks, sea lion and killer whales.
There are 18 species of penguin in the world and they are found in different countries.
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This week for writing we made an information report about penguins. The structure we used was called TIPS. It stands for title, introduction, paragraph, and summary. We talked to our critical friends after each paragraph, so they could help us to check that what we had written made sense, and that we had used the right language features.
