Researched and Written by Mrs.

Neely’s First Graders

(Better Known as Neely’s Newts)

Crestline Elementary School

April 2011
 Coyotes By Alexa

Coyotes are awake wen you are asleep.

They are nocturnal. They have yellow
gray fur. They live in difrint places. They
eat fish. They can bark. Some live in
grass land. Some live in deserts. Some
live nere peple. Some eat food peple
leave out.

My Sources:
Coyotes By Patricia Whitehouse
www.zooborns.com
 Seals By Anna

Seals feel with their whiskers to hunt.

Seals eat squid fish and krill. Seals have
big eyes so they can see in the night.

Seals have skin and blubber to keep

them warm. Seals have flippers so they
can swim. Seals live in oshens and seas.

My Sources:
Seals by Emily Rose Townsend
www.zooborns.com
 Bunnies by Ann Louise

Bunnies are born with no fur. Bunnies

leave there nest after a weeks. Bunnies
can eat greens when they grow teeth.
Bunnies can hear from far away. They
have strong back legs. They like to dig.
Bunnies sleep in warm nest. Soon they
open their eyes.

My Sources:
Bunnies By Colleen Sexton
www.zooborns.com
 Zebras by Catherine

Zebras have strips on their mane.

Lions and hyenas hunt zebras.
Zebras eat grass growing on the
savanna. All zebras live in Africa
too. They also need to drink
water every day. A zebra’s eyes
can look for danger all around.

My Sources:
Zebras by Catherine Ipcizade
www.zooborns.com
 Manatees By Elise

Manatees have two fins in the front of its

body that helps it steer. A manatee will
eat by curling its upper lip around the
plant. A manatee’s teeth grind and new
shining ones replays the old broken ones.
A manatee sticks its snout out of the
water and breaths. He has flippers that
are shaped like a paddle. A baby
manatee can soon eat after birth.

My Sources:
Manatees By Susan Nations
www.zooborns.com
 Zebras By Elle

Zebras see very well for ther

pretiters. Zebras are the meber of
the hours family. A babby zebra is
called a foal. A babby zebra can
walk one hour it is born. A zebra
driks water and eats grass. They
have black and wite stripes.

My Sources:
Zebras By Amelie Von Zumbasch
www.zooborns.com
 Meerkats live on the contnint of Africa. They
play in the sun and rest in the shade. Meerkats
eat creepy crawly bugs. Meerkats also eat creepy
crawly rodents. Some Meerkats live on green
grassy savannas. Meerkats can also live on dry
plains. Meerkats can stand on their hind legs
straight to look for pray. Meerkats can dig with
they claws. They also use them to dig for food.
They also use their claws to dig burrows.

My Sources:
Meerkats by Jody Rake
www.zooborns.com
A baby dolphin is called a calf because it
is a cotdy pie. Dolphins hunt for fish
under the sand. A baby dolphin driks
milk from the mother body. Dolphins race
through the prety shiny sea. Dolphin has
a blowhole so the dolphin can brethe air
like pepole do.

My Sources:
Dolphins by Valerie J. Weber
www.zooborns.com
Ducklings learn to swim the day they hatch.
Ducklings have webbed feet to help them swim.
When ducklings are young they swim very close to
there mother. Ducklings beaks are cold bills. A
ducklings feathers are softer and fuzzier then an
adolts. Some ducklings live on farms. It takes
several weeks for ducklings to hatch out of there
egg. Juveniles are ducklings that are not yet
grown up.

My Sources:
Ducks by Alice Twine
www.zooborns.com
 Wolves By Jack A.

A female and male lead the pack. They are called

Alpha pair. Wolves pack have four to ten wolves.
They eat big, fat Moose, Elk and deer. Wolves are
called wild dog. Wolves howl to talk to each
other. Howling is long, loud sound. Wolves live in
forests, grasslands and tundras. Wolves try to
stay away from poepel and cites. Wolves have
bushey tails to help them stay warm in cold
weather. Old wolves help young wolves how to
hunt.

My Sources:

Wolves by Emily Green

www.zooborns.com
 Cheetahs By Jack R.

Cheetahs can run 70 m.p.h.!!

Cheetahs acshley look like they are
wearing sungalsses. Cheetahs’ ears
help them hear predators. Cheetahs
eyes can see any movement.
Cheetahs eat meat. Cheetahs live in
Africa.

My Sources:
Cheetahs by Deborah Nuzzolo
www.zooborns.com
 Giraffes By Jack E
IR

Giraffes yuos their legs to run away from

inmes. They alsoow yuos their legs to
kick inmes to kep ther babes safe.
Giraffes tongs are as long as your arm.
Giraffes some tims slep with owun iy
opin. Giraffes live in Africa. No giraffes
have the same patrn of spots.

My Sources:
Giraffes by Catherine Ipcizade
www.zooborns.com
Catherine
 Ducklings By Lucy

Ducklings have webbed feet so they can

swim. A Ducklings wings are called
downs. Ducklings eat small fish and
seeds and insects. A Ducklings wings
are too small for it to fly. Ducklings stay
near their mom. Ducklings grow fast
soon they will be a duck.

My Sources:
Ducklings By Colleen Sexton
www.zooborns.com
 Dolphins By Sam

Dolphins love to jump in the water. They

cannot breath under water they haft to
go to the serfic of the water to breath.
The kid dolphin helps the auntie dolphin
swim. Dolphins hear a big huge grup of
fish and then they eat the fish. And they
live in the ocean. They like to swim to
gether to be safe.

My Sources:
Dolphins by Kathleen Pohl
www.zooborns.com
 Arctic Fox By Thomas E

Arctic foxas hunt alon without its

mottrer. They eat ded anmals fish
and brds and limings. They live in
the Arctic. They are soopr whte.
They are wite in the wittre. In the
summr they are brown. They hunt by
them selfs.

My Sources:
Arctic Foxes by Emily Rose Townsend
www.zoobons.com
 Crocodiles by Thomas C.

Crocodiles need warm and wet places to live.

Also crocodiles don t have many enames
when thay lie
`
in water they look like bumby
logs they swim fast after ther prey
.Crocodiles have short legs and long strong
and sleripery tals crocodiles carry ther babys
in ther moths and put them in shallow water
and ther tals help them swim fast.

My Source
Crocodiles by Kathleen Pohl
www.zooborns.com
 Sea Turtles By Tompkins

The mother sea turtle swims hundreds of miles to

the beach to lay her eggs. When they lay there
eggs they dig a hole and cover s it up to hide it
from predators. They all eat difrent foods. They
have a hole in there nostrils so they dont have to
swim all the way up to breath. There babybyes
look like them. When there babys hatch they
have to hurry to the water so a crab or a bird
doesn’t get them.

My Sources
Sea Turtles By Valerie J. Weber
www.zooborns.com
 Leopards By Woody

You can’t find a leopard. They blend

in. Leopards sleep in the daytime.
Cubs stay away from predators. The
hyenas steal males. At night
leopards hunt for mammals. Leopards
jump into water. They drink it.

My Sources:
Leopards By Deborah Nuzzolo
www.zooborns.com