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Reading Magazine 2010 Year 3 © ACARA, on behalf of the Ministerial Council for Education, Earl\b Childhood Development and Youth Affairs, 2010.

How birds use their be\raks BirdHow the beak is used Skull Galahs Galahs have strong, curved beaks for opening seeds. Boobooks Boobooks have sharp, curved beaks for tearing meat. Cormorants Cormorants have hooked beaks for catching and holding fish. Spoonbills Spoonbills move their open beaks through the w\rater. Their beaks snap sh\rut when the\b can feel small fish or shrimp. Kookaburras Kookaburras have strong, pointed beaks for hunting. The\b also use their bea\rks as digging sticks to help them break into ter\rmite nests. 2

The recycling box ‘Children,’ said Miss Rossi, \u‘this is our recycling bo\b. When it is full, we’ll take it to the recycling centre.’ Tony washed lots of jars\u and put them in the\u bo\b. Franca asked her Mum for all their o\uld newspapers. Mani brough\ut lots of old soft\u drink cans. Rosila collect\ued cardboard tubes. \uEveryone brought somethin\ug. Soon, the bo\b was full. ‘Put the bo\u\b outside the door \uplease Truc,’ said Miss Rossi. ‘\uTomorrow we’ll take it to the recycling centre.’ Later, Mrs Haddad walked past the bo\b and saw all the clean, em\upty jars. ‘Those would be perfect for the art room,’ she thought to herself. Mrs Walker saw the soft drink ca\uns and said, ‘That’s what we need for our science proje\uct.’ Miss Nguyen looked in the bo\b and said, ‘Old newspapers! Just what I need to put in\u my compost bin at hom\ue.’ ‘Cardboard tubes,’ said Mr Taylor. ‘I need some of \uthose.’ When the children c\uame in the ne\bt morning, their recycling bo\b was empty! ‘How e\btraordinary,’ said Miss Rossi. \u‘I wonder what happened to all our \uthings? Oh well, it looks as i\uf we’ll have to start again!’ 3

Stinger Most ants have a stinger. Ants use their sti\dngers to capture other insects \dand to protect their n\dests. Antennae Ants use their ant\dennae to feel vibrations, smell, hear and taste. Ants also use their antennae to \d‘spea\b’ with other ants. Ocelli (OH-SE-LI) Ocelli are simple e\dyes on the top of ants’ heads. Ants use their oce\dlli to sense light. Mandible\b Ants have two strong jaws called mandibles.\d Ants use these to \dcarry food and other object\ds, to build nests and to p\drotect themselves. Compound eye\b Li\be other insects, ants have two compound eyes that are made up\d of many smaller eyes joined together. Ants use their compound eyes to sense movement. Hooked claw\b Ants have a hoo\bed claw on the end of each of their six legs. These claws help them to grip surfaces and to climb. 4 Stinger

Once upon a time, there was a man with a fin\le house, healthy animals and fertile land. \be was also blessed with a handsome, loving son. But the man was worried about his son, because the boy had grown up knowing only good times and good fortune. “What will happen wh\len something goes wrong for him?” wondered his father. “\bow will he know what to do?” So one day , the man asked the boy to go into the forest and collect wood. To help him carry the wood home, the man gave the boy an old cart and two horses. As he was leaving, the man said to h\lis son, “If the cart breaks down while you are in the forest, don’t worry. Necessity will teach you what to do. ” The boy collected as much wood as he could loa\ld onto the cart. But when he turned to come home, the cart broke under the weight of the wood. “I hope that Father’ s friend lives near by ,” thought the boy , and he started crying out, “Necessity! NE-CESS-\lITY! Where are you?” The boy called and called, but no one came, so he decided to fix t\lhe cart himself. When he arrived home he said to\l his father , “You said Necessity would teach me to fix the car\lt, but I couldn’ t find him anywhere. I had to fix it all\l by myself. ” The man smiled to h\limself and thought, “Necessity really is the best teacher. ” The best teacher 5

A specialised athlet\uics program is definitely better than gardening. How are we ever going to win anything at the Inter\u-School Athletics without proper coachi\ung? At the moment, we only do athletics for \uone term, and the teachers\u train us. We need e\bperts to teach us thin\ugs like hurdles and high jum\up. I know lots of kids say they’re not interested \uin competitions but that’s because they’ve never won anything. If they got better coachin\ug and started winning things \uthey’d soon change their\u minds. People always say kids don’t get enough e\bercise. Just because \uyou do gardening outdoors d\uoesn’t make it e\bercise, so I don’t see how it counts. Athletics is much be\utter for fitness, a\und lots of kids can\u have a go at the same time\u. I don’t think there would be enough jobs f\uor everyone in a garden. In fact I think a garden is a really bad idea. I don’t know why we’re even considering it. \u Liz, Grade 4 I think a vegetable garden is a great idea. We already do hours \uof sport, including athleti\ucs. And not everyone likes sport. Gardening is a great way to get e\bercise without worrying about whether you’re any good at it, or whether you’re going to win. And you really do get e\bercise when you garden. There’s digging, weeding and watering. Even picking things can\u be hard work – pumpkins aren’t light you know! There are lots of \ukids around here who don’t have gardens so they can’t grow things even if they want to. If you really want to do more sport you can join a club. And think about it:\u what helps you to be good at spor\ut? You need to eat lots of fruit and vegetables. If we learn to cook all the t\uhings we grow, the garden will keep us all fit and he\ualthy and then we’ll be better at sport. Sam, Grade 5 Athletics versus The students of So\authside School were asked to give their opinions about wheth\aer the school shou\ald run a specialised athletics progra\b or start a vegetable garden. gardening 6

Elvis with stripes\ This is about a bo\ny called Tim who lives in the\n town of Daffodil in Tasmania. Thylacines are also\n called Tasmanian ti\bers. Thyl\nacines look like la\nr\be do\bs with stripes on their bac\nks. They are thou\bht\n to be extinct. Have you ever had \wan idea that just \wpops into your hea\wd out of nowhere? That’s what happened to \wme whi\be Greer’ s mother was ta\bking\w about tourists coming to \wDaffodi\b if someone\w saw a thy\bacine he\wre. One moment I was \bisteni\wng to what Mrs Sams\won was saying then—\wPop!— there in my mind was\w a fu\b\b co\bour pictu\wre of my dog, E\bvis, with stripes on him. As soon as I cou\bd \wwithout making them \wsuspect I had a se\wcret p\ban, I said goodbye to \wGreer and her mum a\wnd ran home. My hou\wse is on\by two houses a\bong fr\wom the mi\bkbar , so it didn’t take \bong to get \wthere. ‘E\bvis!’ I ca\b\bed as I went \wflying in through t\whe gate. ‘Where are you boy?’ E\bvis used to be my\w brother Ma\bco\bm’ s dog before Ma\bco\b\wm moved away to Launceston \wtwo years ago to be\wcome an apprentice \wbaker. Now he’ s mine—at \beast I’m the one who has t\wo feed him and \book\w after him. But I fee\b funny ab\wout saying I own hi\wm because in dog ye\wars (Dad worked it out) E\bvi\ws is ninety-nine. \wHow can an e\beven-a\wnd-a-ha\bf year o\bd own a ninety-ni\wne year o\bd? As I s\wee it, me and E\bvis are b\wuddies. ‘How wou\bd you \bike t\wo be famous?’ I asked E\bvis when\w he came trotting round the\w corner of the hou\wse. I didn’ t know then that th\were was such a word as \winfamous. E\bvis did\wn’ t either. He just wagged hi\ws tai\b, which meant that wh\watever my p\ban was, it was OK with him. 7

\bCKNOWLEDGEMENTS How birds use their beaks Image of skulls: © Courtes\b Queensland Muse\rum, David Frittell. Elvis with stripes Text adapted from Infa\bous b\b Justin D’Ath, Allen \r& Unwin, 2003. \bmon and the giant \kfish Illustration from The Arabian Nights b\b Brian Alderson and Mic\rhael Foreman, Victor Gollancz Ltd\r / Penguin Books, 1997, illustration cop\bright © Michael Foreman, 1992. Amon and the giant fish Once upon a time Amon was sailing his \wship in a big sto\bm. Suddenly, a giant fish came \wout of the sea. Amon quickly sailed \waway. Amon saved his ship. \w 8