Teacher reads aloud the fourth paragraph of the article about how an octopus defends itself. The octopus lives at extreme depths of 10,000 to 11,000 feet, searching for worms and other crustaceans at the seafloor. The amazing octopus provides students with a comprehensive look at these fascinating eightarmed ocean animals. Here are a few that frequent atlantic canada that you may not know about. Part of body how many what it does weird but wonderful tentacle 8 catches and chokes prey the underside of each tentacle is covered in 240 suckers. Marion has been missing for a few weeks from our wonderful. There are 289 different species in the octopoda order, each of them just as strange as the last. Its smaller than an inch and weighs less than a gram. The crawling arm serves as a distraction to wouldbe predators. The first known written record referring to octopus habits comes from aristotle 330 bc who encountered o. Turn off the video games and get ready for some great family fun. When you put on your traveling hat for your next vacation you may want to stop and see some of the weird and wonderful landmarks that are scattered around the world. The weird and wonderful interiors for the adventurer.
The weird and wonderful octopus springfield public schools. The octopus can also change the weird and wonderful octopus. But beyond intellectual considerations of this weird and wonderful creatures inner life. Other octopus species live in deep, dark waters, and rise from below at dawn and dusk to search for food. The 50 weirdest foods from around the world hostelworld. If all else fails, an octopus can lose a tentacle to escape a predators grasp and regrow it later. Watch me as i try to use our new tool for the next paragraph in the article we began yesterday, the weird and wonderful octopus. The starsucker pygmy octopus, or octopus wolfi, is as cute as its name suggests. If necessary, an octopus can squeeze into tiny cracks and crevices where predators cant reach it. Weird and wonderful octopuses comprehension ks2 teaching. Get to know some unusual animals with these worksheets. Consider this a public service and an education to save you from shock when you come across these, the 50 weirdest foods from around the world. There are over 300 different types of octopus, and they can be found in every ocean in the world.
The beatles octopuss garden sheet music in e major. The weird and wonderful prize, however, has to go to pliny the elder, who tells the story of an octopus which used to climb out of the sea and into the fishpickling tubs on the shore, and eat all the fish. Sy montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of twenty acclaimed books of nonfiction for adults and children, including the national book award finalist the soul of an octopus and the memoir the good good pig, a new york times bestseller. This is because angels are usually presented as beautiful, shining, stunning creatures. The soul of an octopus and millions of other books are available for instant access. Levels english reading answer booklet compare4kids. Nomophobia topping the list for bizarre and unusual phobias is the modern affliction, nomophobia. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the humane society and the new england booksellers. If everything else fails, it can lose an arm and regrow it. Nicholas cage bought a pet octopus once because he sincerely thought it might help with his acting.
Most octopuses stay along the oceans floor, although some species are pelagic, meaning they live near the waters surface. The octopus can also change its colors like a chameleon to blend in to its surroundings. A wonderful octopus created by kids in an elementary school. Did you know that octopuses can eject ink in the shape of a ghostly octo. Tes global ltd is registered in england company no 02017289 with its registered office at 26 red lion square london wc1r 4hq. Humans have always wondered, with a mixture of fear and fascination, what lurks beneath the surface in the depths of the ocean. Chickens feet east asia, caribbean, south america and south africa. Octopus becomes bright yellow with blue rings when it is provoked. Its the latest bbc earth weird and wonderful image quiz. Of all the strange and wonderful creatures in the ocean, one stands out. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. The occasional creature fact the weird and the wonderful. Facts about the amazing coconut octopus siladen resort. Three hearts, a massive brain, and blue blood, they navigate unlike anything else.
While i cannot vouch for the actual accuracy of any of the facts. Octopuses strange and wonderful by laurence pringle goodreads. The first way is to read it flat, without and intonation and regard to punctuation. This page may be reproduced for classroom use only. The dumbo octopus and more help your child learn about facts and opinions. That means an octopus has a total of 1,920 suckers. Octopuses are brainy, beautiful, weird and wonderful. The soul of an octopus book by sy montgomery official. Vowels are a, e, i, o, u y is sometimes a vowel depending on its position in a word, especially in spelling rules. The phobia is characterized by feelings of anxiety that arise from being out of a phones range of service, not having ones phone charged, having no credit on ones phone or misplacing it. Part of body how many what it does weird but wonderful tentacle 8 catches and chokes prey. For the makeup, i used silver glitter on my models eyebrows and under eyes and cheeks.
The octopus belongs to the phylum mollusca, where you will also find its slimy next of kin, the clams, snails and slugs. Sheet music arranged for pianovocalguitar in e major transposable. This makes it difficult for the predator to track the octopus once it has darted away. The ocean is full of weird and wonderful creatures. An illustrated look at the weird and wonderful creatures that live in the very deepest parts of the sea. The earliest fossil is pohlsepia, which swam the oceans 296 million years ago.
They are beautiful, intelligent and utterly strange creatures and now you can see them as newborn babies and as newborn as they get, considering that the video actually shows them leaving the egg. The table on page 8 contains information that is weird but wonderful about octopuses tentacles. Booklist a wellcrafted book full of realistic illustrations and lively scientific text that tackles the sometimes misunderstood spider. This is my first shoot in the weird and wonderful topic. The weird and wonderful octopus by anna gratz of all of the strange and wonderful creatures that live in the ocean, one stands out above the rest. Thats just one of the interesting things i learned from the book octopuses. While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. To swim, an octopus squirts jets of water through a tube called a siphon.
This is your chance to test what you really know about life on this planet, and perhaps beyond guess what. However, there are some kinds of octopus that live in relatively shallow waters. Print and download octopuss garden sheet music by the beatles. With eight or so wriggly appendages, a bulbous mantle, homicidal tendencies and high intelligence, even a midsized octopus can be intimidating. We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. The octopus is unique for its appearance alone, with its massive ballshaped head, large eyes, and eight distinctive arms. The weird and the wonderful forum is a place to post coding horrors, worst practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance. The weird and wonderful octopus nonfiction text informational reading learning progression lucy calkins units of study grade 3 unit 2 reading to learn. Its body, called the mantle, is soft and shaped like a bag. I asked the students to come to the rug with their article titled, the weird and wonderful octopus.
Like many people on the internet, we here at neatorama love octopuses. One of the weird and the wonderful creatures that can be found at several dive sites around tgi maldives dive centers is the octopus. The octopus would pick up, and carry around empty coconut shells to use as a mobile home. With its soft body, the octopus can squeeze into cracks where its predators cant follow. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the humane society and the new england.
This website and its content is subject to our terms and conditions. When under attack, some octopuses can autotomise their limbs, in a similar manner to skinks and other lizards. It lives in shallow waters in the pacific ocean, but its still easy to miss. These cool critters live in all the worlds oceans, but theyre. See more ideas about weird and wonderful, the funny and weird. Weird and wonderful stories looking for collections of short stories or novellas that point out the vibrancy, joy, and strangness of everyday life in a unique way. The mimic octopus nick bakers weird creatures youtube. Ten completely bizarre and completely weird phobias.
To stop it, the fishpicklers built a fence around the tubs which the octopus promptly climbed over with the aid of a handy tree. Unfortunately, the world isnt only full of those tasty breakfasts we spoilt you with a while back if only. A few species, such as the mimic octopus, have a fourth defense. Octopuses strange and wonderful by laurence pringle. Despite the fact that many of us were taught differently, more than one octopus should be called octopuses or, if you really want a fun word, octopodes ocktopuhdeez. Before this was seen, it was known that veined octopus would live inside empty shells, as many other octopus do, but this was the first time they had been scientifically recorded moving around with them.
Kids will read statements about animals before determining whether each statement is a fact or opinion. Ideal for an english or topic lesson, whole class readingguided reading, homework, tuition or intervention. Click on a worksheet in the set below to see more info or download the pdf. An octopus can also protect itself by squirting ink at a predator, causing it to become blind and lose its sense of smell temporarily. The octopus an amazing body octopuses are boneless animals and because of this, their bodies are extremely flexible, allowing them to squeeze through small spaces. The force of these jets is powerful enough to move the octopus quickly through.
The earlike fins of this octopus have earned it the name dumbo. Nick baker has come to sulawsi, indonesia to find one of the most bizarre creatures he will encounter. One of the most interesting and informative books in pringle and hendersons consistently fine strange and wonderful series, heres an excellent choice for science collections. The weird and wonderful octopus the octopus has a body unlike any other animal. Between weird and wonderful, i am definitely leaning more towards wonderful. Atlantic canada is home to weird and wonderful creatures. They tested six adult common octopuses octopus vulgaris in large tanks and found that there were in fact three very distinct modes of swimming. Theyve been around for ages and outnumber us by over a million to one. Vocabulary of spelling the key words and terms you should know to help you learn spelling rules. Weird and wonderful wood is a specialist event with a difference dealing solely in wood for those with a capacity for wonder it will be a celebration of many aspects of woodwork and woodworkers.
Newborn octopuses are as strange and wonderful as you. Octopuses are sea animals famous for their rounded bodies, bulging eyes and eight long arms. The octopus a story of california by frank norris book 1 chapter i just after passing carahers saloon, on the county road that ran south from bonneville, and that divided the broderson ranch from. The humble potato white fang 2014 key stage 2 levels 35. After a startling encounter with a cuttlefish, australian philosopher peter godfreysmith set out to explore the mysterious lives of cephalopods.
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