3 DA Nonfiction Reports
During Reading Workshop,
our class read their
nonfiction books, took notes,
and then compiled the
information to create these
power point reports.
Well done class!
Babies
Beluga babies are not white when they are
young.
Scientists estimate how old it is by how light or
dark it is.
The darker the whale, the younger, the lighter,
the older.
A baby is called a calf.
A female is ready to mate when five years old.
A male is ready to mate when eight years old.
After a year, a pregnant female is ready to give
birth to a calf.
Other Belugas press against a mother ready to
have birth to make sure the baby is
delivered safely.
Babies swim close to their mothers.
Babies’ color fades to light gray while growing
up.
Food
Belugas sometimes hunt down low
to catch shellfish and worms.
Belugas have flexible necks to
help look for food.
Some whales like Killer Whales,
Narwhales, Porpoises, Dolphins,
and Belugas are called toothed
whales.
Others are called baleen whales.
Belugas hunt for squid and
octopus.
What They Look Like
The Beluga is tiny against the Blue
Whale.
A Beluga usually grows to be 15 feet
when Blue Whales can be 100 feet.
A thick layer of fat covers the Beluga.
This fat is called blubber.
A Beluga’s body is smooth and sleek
.It helps them move fast .
Belugas are mostly white.
Manatees by Agnello
Description
Big snout
Flat tail
Wrinkled skin
Small eyes
Scars
Sandy backs
Big Mouth
Small Teeth and Big Tongue
Short fins
Manatees in Danger
Some sea gates in Florida kill or
injure manatees.
Manatees swim slowly.
Manatees might be extinct
someday.
Habitat
Manatees live in different parts of
the world.
Manatees live mostly in tropical
waters.
Manatees sometimes swim in salt
and fresh waters.
A HIPPOS DAY
ALL ABOUT HIPPOS
Hippopotamus means “river
horse”.
Hippos have lived here for over
25 million years!
Hippos have eyelashes.
Hippos can be 4.6 feet tall.
Hippos can be 16.6 feet long.
Average weight is 3,300 lbs.
Some weigh over 9,000 lbs.
Hippos go in water to cool off.
They leave a trail to a certain spot.
It takes a mud bath if it is hot.
If it is really hot, pink oil will come
out.
HIPPO BATTLES
Male hippos are called bulls.
When a hippo goes in another
territory it may fight.
Hippo herds have up to100 hippos!
Hippos fight on land by kicking.
Description
Tree frogs have sticky pads on their
toes.
Most frogs have a huge mouth, bulging
eyes, and a long tongue.
Frogs have four legs.
Barely any frogs live near the arctic
circle.
Some frogs are mostly related to
toads and some frogs are just
regular frogs.
The word “Amphibian” comes from two
words that are from the Greek
culture.
Habitat
American bullfrogs live in North America.
Toads barely spend time in water but spend
almost all of their time on land.
Escape from Predators
The predator of a salamander is so focused on the
tail that the sneaky salamander scurries
away.
The eggs of the new amphibian are surrounded by
a jelly that is slippery and does not taste
good to predators.
GIANT PANDA
BY Anna
GROWING UP
The baby panda drinks from its
mother’s breast .
The baby panda squawks a lot .
The mother panda cleans the tiny
cub.
The mother gets the baby cub
bamboo in a few months.
When the cub is 1 or 2 years old, it
begins to wander and takes short
trips alone away from its mother.
It looks for a place in the forest .
PANDA TO PANDA
When a panda grows up it lives
alone.
A panda looks for the tastiest
bamboo in the forest.
They do not always go back to the
some place at night or in the
morning.
A PANDA IS BORN
For a panda to be born in the spring
the male panda looks for a female.
The male and female stay together
for a short time.
Northern Spotted Owls
by Francesca
Description -A Northern spotted owl’s
wings are 4 feet long.
An owl stands 18 inches tall.
An owl’s big eyes help get
more light to help them see
at night.
Habitat -The Northern spotted owl lives
in the Growth Forest.
The owl lives 100 feet above the
forest floor.
Food -Their favorite food is flying
squirrels.
They cough up what they can’t
digest.
A Northern spotted owl flies
fast through trees.
LEOPARDS
BY GABE L.
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SNOW LEOPARDS
Snow leopards have long
hair.
Snow leopards can jump
45 feet.
Snow leopards have big
teeth.
Snow leopards live in
India.
LEOPARDS IN DANGER
• Farmers put poison in traps.
• People kill leopards illegally.
• India police kill leopards and
tigers.
CAT UP A TREE
• Leopards can climb trees.
• They bring food up trees.
• Mostly they bring antelope.
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PREDATORS
People use tiger skin.
Tigers are disappearing.
White tigers are gone in
the wild.
HUNTING
Tigers are dangerous
predators.
They kill rhinos.
They kill every thing!!
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DESCRIPTION
Whiskers
Stripes
Strong legs
Tail
Sharp teeth
Claws
Big eyes
Gray Wolves
by : Grace D.
The King Of Dogs
All wolves don’t look alike.
Most wolves are covered in
thick gray fur.
Wolves have many different
names.
Red Wolves mostly live in
zoos.
Babies
The mother looks for a safe place to
have her babies.
The mother has 4-7 pups (baby
wolves).
The babies crawl out after 3 or 4
weeks.
The group protects and watches the
pups.
Built To Hunt
A wolf uses its ears, eyes, and nose to
track its prey .
Wolves were made to track their
prey.
Even at night a wolf sees well.
It can turn its outer ears to catch the
sound from any direction to catch
its prey.
Rhinoceroses
by Grace M.
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Rhinos in Africa
The White rhino has a wide
square shaped mouth.
The Black rhino has a pointed
upper lip.
Adult male White rhinos may be
up to 6 feet tall.
Adult male Black rhinos are about
5 feet tall.
White rhinos live in groups up to
ten rhinos.
Two kinds of rhinos live in Africa:
White rhinos and Black rhinos.
Rhinos in Danger
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Only about 12,500 rhinos are left in the
wild today.
White rhinos are protected at Lake
Nakuru.
Rhinos in Asia
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Three kinds of rhinos live in Asia.
The African rhino has no front teeth.
The rhinos in Asia are named from
where they lived.
WE ARE MAMMALS
Milk and meat are from cows.
Large mammals are
hunters.
Pork chops and bacon are made from
pigs.
HABITAT
Mammals live in every part
world.
No matter where a mammal
lives it has its own
features.
HAIR
Most mammals have hair.
Ocean mammals have little or no hair.
Bears and foxes are covered with coats of
hair.
Even Whales and Elephants have some
hair.
Orangutans/Red Ape
by Johanna
Growing to 15
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Food
 They eat a lot of food
around April and
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November.
 They eat many kinds
of fruit.
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they find another
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tree.
They stop drinking their
mom’s milk when they’re
about 3.
Female orangutans are full
grown by 10.
Red Apes
As the red ape wakes up
it does its daily screaming.
Red Apes are a type of
orangutans.
Food
They eat other insects and
sometimes small tree
frogs.
They only eat live prey.
After it eats it grooms itself
like a cat.
They are patient hunters.
They have powerful front
legs for getting food.
Growing Up
Little mantises are smaller than
mosquitoes .
Hundreds of the babies push
through slits in the bottom of the
egg case .
They wriggle out of the sacs that
protected them as they grew
inside the egg case.
Protecting Itself
Mantises spread their wings when
they are threatened .
They hunt by patiently waiting for
prey to come to them.
They have 3 pairs of legs and 2
pairs of wings .
ELEPHANTS
by KEELY
Babies -Elephant’s calves start
to eat grass at the
age of eleven
months.
Elephants have hair on
the ends of their
tails.
Elephants nurse for
more than two
years.
Trunks and Teeth -An elephant’s teeth are about
12 inches.
It uses its trunk to grab
branches.
Elephants in Danger -Elephants used to be killed for
their ivory tusks .
The ivory is made into jewelry.
It is against the law to hunt
elephants.
Description
They are very cute and
some have long tails
covered with fur.
They all have big eyes.
They hunt at night using
their eyes and ears.
The Gray Mouse Lemurs
They live in the woods.
This lemur is very small.
It uses its big ears to hunt for
pray. It sleeps during the day
like an owl.
The Ring Tailed Lemur
They live in Madagascar, an
island southeast of Africa. Its
nickname is the king of stink.
If an enemy smells the stink of
the lemur it runs away.
Monkeys of South and Central America
by Mason
Description
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Most monkeys live in the world’s
rainforests.
Monkeys swing from trees all day
long.
Humans are primates like monkeys.
Monkeys can hang from their tails
from trees.
Some monkeys can fit in your hand.
Monkeys in danger
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Golden headed lion
tamarians are one of the most
endangered species of monkeys
in the world. only a few
remain.
When trees are cut down in
the forest monkeys lose their
homes.
The rainforest provides food
and shelter for the monkeys .
Emperor tamarian monkey
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They are rare monkeys.
they are small monkeys.
They have long mustaches.
GORILLA FAMILIES
A GORILLA DAY
Gorillas are in a group called the
great apes.
They’re apes called the silver
backs.
They are in a troop that has 30
apes in it.
Gorillas make a sound called
“Naoom.”
They love blackberries and
celery.
Gorillas make beds out of
stems.
They make new beds
everyday.
GORILLAS IN DANGER
Silver backs protect the little
apes.
Leopards and lions used to
be the gorillas worst
enemy.
But now the humans are the
gorillas worst enemy.
Food
Turtles like to eat fish, snails,
insects, ducks, oysters, fruits,
plants, dead animals, worms,
and jellyfish.
Habitat
Turtles most likely live in ponds,
rivers, lakes, and mostly
everywhere except
Antarctica.
Description
A turtle has two parts of the
shell.
A turtle’s shell is attached to the
ribs and the backbone.
The turtle’s top of the shell is
called a carapace and the
bottom is called a plastron.
Some turtles have spikes on their
backs called scutes.
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SNAKES by Meagan
Description
Snakes can be thick or thin.
They used to have legs.
It has an ear bone in its mouth.
Clear scales cover each eye of
the snake.
Babies
Babies use an egg tooth to break
open their shell.
The eggs are soft and leathery.
Some snakes give birth to live
babies.
Food
Snakes do not chew their food.
Some snakes squeeze their prey
to death.
Monkeys of Asia and Africa
by Michael
Golden Monkey
The Golden Monkey has a blue
face and bright fur.
The Golden Monkey eats nuts,
berries, and bark.
Every fall the Golden Monkey
sheds fur and grows new fur
for the winter.
The Golden Monkey is an
endangered species. It is
against the law to harm them.
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Baboon
Baboons live in large groups.
The Baboon walks on four legs.
Baboons use body language to
warn each other if they see
an enemy .
Patas Monkey
The male Patas Monkey is
large.
Some patas monkeys travel up
to 35 miles per hour.
The male patas monkey jumps
up and down when it spots
danger.
Alligators and Crocodiles
by Peter
Saving Alligators and
Crocodiles
Alligators make ponds in
the Everglades.
In 1971, alligators were
almost extinct.
American Alligators are the
keepers of the
Everglades.
Alligators and
Crocodiles lost 1
million of their
population over the
last 200 years.
Habitat
Alligators live all over the
world except in Arctic.
The most Alligators
live in the U.S.A.
Gator hunting occurs in
Louisiana.
Food
Babies eat insects,
snails, and crabs.
Adults eat fish, turtles,
frogs and rodents.
Speed
A cheetah’s skinny legs
and thin body helps it
run really fast.
A cheetah is built for
speed.
A cheetah can out run a
car.
Blending In
A cheetah cub’s Mohawk
makes it look like a
honey badger.
A cheetah’s fur helps it
blend.
Prey and Predators
A cheetah hunts in the
morning.
A cheetah’s predators
are lions and hyenas.
FOODS
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FRUITS
YOUNG LEAVES
FLOWERS
NUTS
SEEDS
INSECTS
TERMITES
SOCIETY
EACH CHIMPANZEE HAS A
CERTAIN RANK IN THE
SOCIETY.
THE ALPHA MALE LIKES TO SHOW
OFF WITH LOTS OF ACTION
AND NOISE.
BONOBOS
FOR MANY YEARS PEOPLE DID
NOT THINK BONOBOS WERE
GREAT APES.
BONOBOS SPEND MORE TIME IN
THE TREES AND THEY WEIGH
MORE THAN CHIMPS DO.
REPTILES
by Tyler
Description
All reptiles have scaly skin, lungs,
and a backbone.
Reptiles are cold blooded.
They control their body
temperature by moving in
and out of the sun!
Most reptiles hatch from hard
leathery eggs.
Habitat
Reptiles live in every continent
except Antarctica.
Menu
Snakes eat mice, pigs, gazelle
and caiman. (A caiman is
like a crocodile).
Crocodilians will eat almost
any thing but plant life.
Turtles and Tortoises only eat
plant life.
Third Grade 2011-2012
Thank you to Mrs. Sustick,
our Media Specialist, for
teaching us how to make a
PowerPoint presentation
with our nonfiction
information.