Monday 7 October 2013
Look at our Cheetahs!
Check out our cheetah paintings! We practiced drawing our cheetahs on blackboards to get the right proportions. Once we were satisfied we made a good copy on white paper and outlined it with black felt. Then we used wax crayons to colour them. We then looked at images of cheetahs in their natural habitat and found out they lived in the savannah which is covered with mostly yellow, brown and light green grasses. We used a technique called a wash to make our cheetahs look like they are living in their natural habitat! We are very proud of our drawings and how they turned out. We hope you like them!
We learned a lot about cheetahs and did a class write up which we posted beside our pictures.
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We like all the cheetahs you drew. We like how you made them with felt and wax. We know that cheetahs can runs as fast as 70 miles per hour! Can you believe that cheetahs can turn directions while moving that fast? Were you excited to study cheetahs? - From Sam, Ella, and Jensen from Westgate
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment. Yes we were excited to study cheetahs. We learned that cheetahs have long legs so they can sprint fast and take big strides. We also learned they get tired really fast because they run so fast. Did you know that cheetahs can turn directions in the air?
Deletewe like the cheetahs that we drew. I hope that you like it too, check our blog,
ReplyDeleteWe love your cheetahs! Some of us didn't know that cheetah's live in a savannah. Did you use water colour paints to make your wash? We are using pastels in our class to make landscapes using cool and warm colours. Your Savannah's are warm colours! -From Mrs. Carriere's Class (Ontario)
ReplyDeleteThank for looking our blog! I think we are use water colour paints to make our wash. what are you class name? did you draw that before?
DeleteWe chose to be TIgers! We were inspired by your cheetah name. We wanted to be an animal too. Even though we are both in the cat family, we are still like opposites. Cheetahs have dots, and tigers have stripes. Cheetahs live in savannahs and tigers live in India. More than half our class have Indian heritage, so tigers suit us well!! -From The Tigers _Mrs. Carriere's Class (Ontario)
ReplyDeleteThank you for commenting on our blog. We are glad that we inspired you to choose a class name. Did you draw some tigers? If you did could you put them on your class blog so we can see them? Do you like having a class name?
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Greetings to all the Grade 3 “Cheetahs”. I had the chance to travel to South Africa recently and visit a place called “The Cheetah Experience” in Bloemfontein. This is a place where they have created a sanctuary for Cheetahs and other African cats that have been hurt or cannot go back into the wild for some reason. This gives people a chance to study and interact with these animals but, also to make people aware that Cheetahs need our help and consideration because they are another endangered specie whose numbers continue to decrease in the wild.
ReplyDeleteI had the wonderful experience of being able to pet a young cheetah and I wanted to share two of our pictures with you. The picture of the Cheetah lying on the ground is that of a fully grown Cheetah while the one that I was touching, was about a year old. You can see that they must have enjoyed being scratched behind the ear because he even has his eyes closed.
The cheetah is often mistaken for a leopard. Its distinguishing marks are the long teardrop-shaped lines on each side of the nose from the corner of its eyes to its mouth. A Cheetah has the typical arrangement of spots on their backs while leopards have clusters of spots where each little cluster is arranged in a pattern resembling a flower.
The cheetah is specialized for speed. They are aerodynamically built and can accelerate from zero to 40 mph in three strides and to full speed of 70 mph in seconds. Its body is narrow, lightweight with long, slender feet and legs. It is endowed with a powerful heart, oversized liver, and large, strong arteries. It has large eyes positioned for maximum binocular vision.
The cheetah's long and muscular tail helps to counteract its body weight, preventing it from rolling over and spinning out in quick, fast turns during a high-speed chase. The cheetah is the only cat with short, blunt semi-retractable claws that help grip the ground like cleats for traction when running. Their paws are less rounded than the other cats, and their pads are hard, similar to tire treads, to help them in fast, sharp turns.
The Cheetah is a beautiful animal and I hope you will enjoy learning more about this magnificent cat this year.
Barend Van der Walt