You all know about the panda don’t you? But do you really know about them?  Well pandas live in Chinese mountains and eat bamboo, they eat for 14 hours per day, they eat 12 to 38 kilos of bamboo a day. Pandas spend their days eating and sleeping, wish I could too. Pandas can poop 28 kilos a day and their poop doesn’t smell. 

The amazing pandas are born pink, blind and furless, you’re probably wondering what about the black and white, well that comes after about 3 to 4 weeks. Some pandas are born white but this is very rare. 

The great panda have an interesting false thumb to hold ver narrow bamboo shoots. Their jaw muscles are quite large, why? Well to grind through tough bamboo shoots. 

Pandas climb trees right? But what for, they climb trees to avoid their enemies. What else are trees for? Pandas scrape trees with their sharp claws to say keep out to other pandas. 

If twins are born what happens? Well if the mum gives birth to twins she will abandon one and raise the other, females usually raise cubs alone. Pandas like being alone and not with other animals. Unlike other bears pandas do not hibernate. 

Have you ever wandered what the bones and inside of the pandas look like? Well the pandas skull looked a lot like a raccoon scull, pandas actually have a sixth thumb so they can grasp bamboo better, the sixth thumb also helps pandas pull out bamboo shoots and leaves that may not want to come out. The panda have a very strong digestive system so they can consume bamboo.

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The year 5 puduction this year was Hanging Onto The Bottom Of The World. The play was based on Australian history. The scenes weren’t real but they were based on what actually happened. Like in one of the scenes when the brides were on Western Australia was late because in real life Western Australia had the biggest land and didn’t want to share it. And in the cricket scene Henry Parks died and that’s what actually happened, he died before federation. 

The year 5 production was really fun and a great experience. As a tea lady I had to pay attention to what was going on because I had to come in at many different times. I had to give out real sandwiches, but the tea we gave out was fake, we just had cups and pretended that there was tea inside. At the start we were first on stage and had to talk to the audience. After our scene we had many other scenes were we were on, like Captain Cook and Governor Philip with the first fleet, as well the scene with the suffrages. 

We had 2 tea trollies, lots of cups and plates with sandwiches. Mable and I had feather dusters to dust peoples shoulders and other stuff. We gave people cups and sandwiches, we also gave cups to the cast during different scenes. We gave 

sandwiches to the sweepers during other scenes. Tea ladies were in a lot of scenes so we had to be prepared to come on.

The year 5 production took lots of practise to make it perfect but it turned out really well and we all had the best experience ever. We each got our characters and had to try to step into that characters shoes, it was really fun being someone else and experiencing what it was like during that time. It was a good play because it helps you learn something and there were some funny jokes that made it even more fun and exciting.

Have you ever been in a play or experienced something like it?