F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [R/S]

Read Level 1-3 of the article at home. In your next class tell a summary. (What was the article about?)

https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/little-polar-bear-in-ohio-level-1/

Pronunciation

colony ( call uh nee )

rehabilitation ( ree – ha – bil – ih – tay – shin )

rough ( ruff )

tough ( tuff )

Vocabulary

Animals that are in danger are endangered (adj).

harvest – to collect food that is ready to eat or sell
eg. The farmer will harvest the vegetables at the farm tomorrow.  -verb
eg. The harvest will begin next month. – n

anchovy / anchovies n. – small fish like a sardine

Endangered Penguins Get Help, Level 1

There is a special bird colony. People care for African penguins there. They take care of about 3,500 penguins. These birds are endangered.

A doctor explains why. First, people take their eggs. They also take their poop to use for other things. Second, the penguins like to eat only two types of fish. Fishing and the weather change where the fish live. There are fewer of these fish now.  The penguins have less food to eat.

However, there are more penguins now. People are helping them get better.

Endangered Penguins Get Help, Level 3

Hundreds of people came to see penguins at the beach! People had to rescue them because they were looking for different places to live to get away from people wanting to see them.
At the Boulders Penguin Colony, people care for roughly 3,500 African penguins. People have brought 700 African penguins to the colony for rehabilitation as the birds are endangered.

A doctor said that the penguins first became endangered due to guano harvesting and egg collecting, and they continue to suffer from a lack of food. They mainly eat sardines and anchovies which are affected by fishing and climate variation.

Luckily, the penguin population has grown because of the extra care that people are giving the birds.

Difficult words: roughly (about), rehabilitation (help something or someone improve or heal), guano (a scientific term for the poop from certain animals).

What was the article about? Tell a summary.

The topic talk about penguins food are danger. They research the penguin from African. They brought 700 penguin to research.

The article is about penguins that are in danger because the fish that they eat are over-fished often.  People collect their poop and eggs. The climate also affects the penguins and the fish. However, there are more penguins now because more people are helping them.