Night in the Forest

Night in the Forest

Read the poster and use the information to complete the following tasks. 

a)  Use the ideas from Night in the Forest to explain how birds, insects, and bats find food at night.     

Fill in the chart. Write one idea for each bullet point.     

The first one has been done for you.

Animal	How does this animal find food?
Kiwi	Can smell food / worms through its nostrils at the end of its nose.
Morepork	It’s big eyes help it see
Glow worm	It’s lure insects with its light and then catches them with it’s net.
Bat	Echolocation is what animals use to locate objects with sound rather than sight Bats, for example, use echolocation to find food and avoid flying into trees in the dark.

b)  Give the meaning of the word that is underlined in these parts of Night in the Forest.

     i)   "...and makes a net of sticky, dangling threads."

          dangling means drooping

     ii)  "...many native flowers are white to attract night flying moths and beetles."

          attract means appeal to

     iii) "The kiwi is special."

          special means rare

Today we did book called Night in the Forest and

we had to answer all the questions at the bottom of the poem.