The Koni Raoni

Hippos

Responding to the text

Use the text to figure out if you agree or disagree with the statement.

Take a photo of the text that provides evidence to support your choice.

	Statement	Does the Author Agree or Disagree	Photographic Evidence from the book
1	A Hippo is a small, light animal.	Disagree
2	Hippos live in the water.	Agree
3	Mother Hippos try to keep their babies away from the fighting Hippos.	Agree
4	Baby hippos are always left by themselves.	Disagree
5	Hippos enjoy eating grass.	Agree
6	Lions leave Hippos alone.	Disagree
7	Hippos can stay underwater for 10 minutes.	Disagree

Your opinion…

1. What fact about Hippos do you find most interesting and why?
2. What is one new fact that you didn’t know before?
3. With all this new information, do you like hippos? Why/why not?

New words: 

1. Thick - Thing,Thew,They,The,Thud,Thug.there,their
2. Close - Clear,Climb,Clean,Clay,Class,Clock.
3. Sometimes - Name some more compound words:Somethings
4. ,Babysitting,Somewhere,sometime ladybug

Some-how,Some-one,

5. Dangerous - we are in danger
6. Herd - there is a herd of animals 
7. Heard - I heard that 
8. Their - that has to go their 
9. There - we have to go there
10. Insects - that is a ladybug