Its the latest bbc earth weird and wonderful image quiz. Other octopus species live in deep, dark waters, and rise from below at dawn and dusk to search for food. Science reveals yet another reason octopuses and squid are so weird. While i cannot vouch for the actual accuracy of any of the facts. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the humane society and the new england booksellers. Vocabulary of spelling the key words and terms you should know to help you learn spelling rules. Weird and wonderful octopuses comprehension ks2 teaching. Marion has been missing for a few weeks from our wonderful. Levels english reading answer booklet compare4kids. With eight or so wriggly appendages, a bulbous mantle, homicidal tendencies and high intelligence, even a midsized octopus can be intimidating. Octopuses strange and wonderful by laurence pringle goodreads. 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.
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. The table on page 8 contains information that is weird but wonderful about octopuses tentacles. Theyve been around for ages and outnumber us by over a million to one. The beatles octopuss garden sheet music in e major. I asked the students to come to the rug with their article titled, the weird and wonderful octopus. Newborn octopuses are as strange and wonderful as you. The octopus belongs to the phylum mollusca, where you will also find its slimy next of kin, the clams, snails and slugs. If all else fails, an octopus can lose a tentacle to escape a predators grasp and regrow it later. That means an octopus has a total of 1,920 suckers. 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. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. Chickens feet east asia, caribbean, south america and south africa. If everything else fails, it can lose an arm and regrow it.
The crawling arm serves as a distraction to wouldbe predators. 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. 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 weird and wonderful octopus nonfiction text informational reading learning progression lucy calkins units of study grade 3 unit 2 reading to learn. Teacher reads aloud the fourth paragraph of the article about how an octopus defends itself. The starsucker pygmy octopus, or octopus wolfi, is as cute as its name suggests. Humans have always wondered, with a mixture of fear and fascination, what lurks beneath the surface in the depths of the ocean.
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. Did you know that octopuses can eject ink in the shape of a ghostly octo. Octopus that spends nearly 3 years incubating eggs, 400yearold. Nicholas cage bought a pet octopus once because he sincerely thought it might help with his acting. Octopuses strange and wonderful by laurence pringle. Most octopuses stay along the oceans floor, although some species are pelagic, meaning they live near the waters surface. The humble potato white fang 2014 key stage 2 levels 35. The earliest fossil is pohlsepia, which swam the oceans 296 million years ago. The octopus is unique for its appearance alone, with its massive ballshaped head, large eyes, and eight distinctive arms. The 50 weirdest foods from around the world hostelworld. Three hearts, a massive brain, and blue blood, they navigate unlike anything else.
Vowels are a, e, i, o, u y is sometimes a vowel depending on its position in a word, especially in spelling rules. This page may be reproduced for classroom use only. 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. Its smaller than an inch and weighs less than a gram. This website and its content is subject to our terms and conditions. The weird and wonderful interiors for the adventurer. The soul of an octopus book by sy montgomery official. Thats just one of the interesting things i learned from the book octopuses.
The comprehension questions focus on assessment domains 2b retrieval questions and 2d inferential questions. The ocean is full of weird and wonderful creatures. We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Facts about the amazing coconut octopus siladen resort. The weird and wonderful octopus the octopus has a body unlike any other animal. There are over 300 different types of octopus, and they can be found in every ocean in the world. To stop it, the fishpicklers built a fence around the tubs which the octopus promptly climbed over with the aid of a handy tree. But octopuses are separated from the mollusks into the class cephalopoda, which includes the most advanced animals of the phylum. Octopuses are sea animals famous for their rounded bodies, bulging eyes and eight long arms. The dumbo octopus and more help your child learn about facts and opinions.
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. Atlantic canada is home to weird and wonderful creatures. The earlike fins of this octopus have earned it the name dumbo. While stroking an octopus, it is easy to fall into reverie. 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. Like many people on the internet, we here at neatorama love octopuses. Today you will determine the main idea of a paragraph by reading it in two different ways.
The weird and wonderful octopus springfield public schools. New views into the octopuss bizarre moves scientific american. After a startling encounter with a cuttlefish, australian philosopher peter godfreysmith set out to explore the mysterious lives of cephalopods. An octopus can also protect itself by squirting ink at a predator, causing it to become blind and lose its sense of smell temporarily. Nomophobia topping the list for bizarre and unusual phobias is the modern affliction, nomophobia. Octopus becomes bright yellow with blue rings when it is provoked. The weird and the wonderful forum is a place to post coding horrors, worst practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance. Nick baker has come to sulawsi, indonesia to find one of the most bizarre creatures he will encounter. Ideal for an english or topic lesson, whole class readingguided reading, homework, tuition or intervention.
Of all the strange and wonderful creatures in the ocean, one stands out. They tested six adult common octopuses octopus vulgaris in large tanks and found that there were in fact three very distinct modes of swimming. 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. Kids will read statements about animals before determining whether each statement is a fact or opinion. The octopus lives at extreme depths of 10,000 to 11,000 feet, searching for worms and other crustaceans at the seafloor. These cool critters live in all the worlds oceans, but theyre. The octopus would pick up, and carry around empty coconut shells to use as a mobile home. Unfortunately, the world isnt only full of those tasty breakfasts we spoilt you with a while back if only. When under attack, some octopuses can autotomise their limbs, in a similar manner to skinks and other lizards. 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. Ten completely bizarre and completely weird phobias. Part of body how many what it does weird but wonderful tentacle 8 catches and chokes prey.
To swim, an octopus squirts jets of water through a tube called a siphon. See more ideas about weird and wonderful, weird and michelangelo caravaggio. 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. There are 289 different species in the octopoda order, each of them just as strange as the last. The octopus can also change the weird and wonderful octopus. 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. This is my first shoot in the weird and wonderful topic. One of the weird and the wonderful creatures that can be found at several dive sites around tgi maldives dive centers is the octopus. Its body, called the mantle, is soft and shaped like a bag. See more ideas about weird and wonderful, the funny and weird. The force of these jets is powerful enough to move the octopus quickly through. 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. With its soft body, the octopus can squeeze into cracks where its predators cant follow. It lives in shallow waters in the pacific ocean, but its still easy to miss.
Octopuses are brainy, beautiful, weird and wonderful. Between weird and wonderful, i am definitely leaning more towards wonderful. A wonderful octopus created by kids in an elementary school. Here are a few that frequent atlantic canada that you may not know about. The octopus can also change its colors like a chameleon to blend in to its surroundings. A few species, such as the mimic octopus, have a fourth defense. Get to know some unusual animals with these worksheets. For the makeup, i used silver glitter on my models eyebrows and under eyes and cheeks. The occasional creature fact the weird and the wonderful. 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. Booklist a wellcrafted book full of realistic illustrations and lively scientific text that tackles the sometimes misunderstood spider. An illustrated look at the weird and wonderful creatures that live in the very deepest parts of the sea. Turn off the video games and get ready for some great family fun.
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. This makes it difficult for the predator to track the octopus once it has darted away. But beyond intellectual considerations of this weird and wonderful creatures inner life. Sheet music arranged for pianovocalguitar in e major transposable. 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. Click on a worksheet in the set below to see more info or download the pdf. Tes global ltd is registered in england company no 02017289 with its registered office at 26 red lion square london wc1r 4hq. If necessary, an octopus can squeeze into tiny cracks and crevices where predators cant reach it. The first known written record referring to octopus habits comes from aristotle 330 bc who encountered o. Print and download octopuss garden sheet music by the beatles. The first way is to read it flat, without and intonation and regard to punctuation. The amazing octopus provides students with a comprehensive look at these fascinating eightarmed ocean animals. The mimic octopus nick bakers weird creatures youtube. 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.
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