Inquiry writing

We have been learning about explanation writing. Our inquiry this term is about 'Human impact on planet earth' so we have been looking at our planet and what happens on earth.

We have written about how earthquakes happen, about volcanoes, the life cycle of a turtle to name a few! We post some of our writing to our easy blogs.

Here is a piece from Tyson. You can view it on his blog too.

Sea Turtles

A sea turtle has four phases of its life cycle. 

Phase one: egg a mother turtle lays about one thousand eggs in a nesting pit high on the beach. 

When the eggs start to hatch it is phase two. This phase they are hatchlings. The little turtles continue their desperate dash for the seas repelling force. 

Then phase three: juvenile. The vulnerable turtles swim frantically forwards then the last stage is adulthood. The adult turtles lay more eggs and the stages repeat over again-egg, hatchling, juvenile and last but not least adult. 

At approximately two decades of age, the turtles change their size from the size of a dinner plate to the size of a dinner table.