Jeweled out of This World

By Kaylie Miss Gomez

3,2,1 BLAST OFF!

After Miss Gomezs Sixth Grade Precisely and Permanently Perfect Class adopts Jewel, an Asian Elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo, their world turns upside down. With Jewels help, the students travel to Planet Species, a secret planet no human has ever been to before! As Miss Gomezs students encounter various species, they discover why the animals had to leave Earth. Come join our adventure, as we learn about the Ichthyosaur, Saber-Toothed Tiger, Polar Bear, Tasmanian Devil, Blue Whale, and many more! Hurry, before its too late!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503538818

Kaylie Miss Gomez

All About the Authors The students in Miss Gomez’s Sixth Grade Class are from Lake Forest, California. These 27 students decided they wanted to try to save threatened animals and help people remember extinct ones. They started by adopting Jewel, an Asian Elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo. Next, each student studied a different extinct or threatened animal. Many long research hours later, each student contributed to making a book, in hopes of showing the world that they can help!

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Copyright © 2015 by Kaylie Michele Gomez. 603751

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-5035-3880-1

   EBook   978-1-5035-3881-8

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 02/27/2015

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The (Perfect) Beginning

Chapter 0: Before the Beginning

Chapter -1: Jewel’s Jewel

Chapter ½: Jeweled Out of This World

Chapter ¾: Planet Species

Part 1: Extinct Animals

Chapter 2: Ashley and the Ichthyosaur

Chapter 3: Matthew and the Spinosaurus

Chapter 4: Preston and the Megalodon

Chapter 5: Zarita and the Saber-Toothed Tiger

Chapter 6: Mishell and the Woolly Mammoth

Chapter 7: Josue and the Dodo Bird

Chapter 8: Rebekah and the Quagga

Chapter 9: Zach and the Javan Tiger

Chapter 10: Daniel and the Albino Gorilla

Part 2: Critically Endangered Animals

Chapter 11: Lance and the Hawksbill Turtle

Chapter 12: Alex and the Black Rhino

Chapter 13: Melissa and the Mountain Gorilla

Chapter 14: Rudy and the South China Tiger

Chapter 15: Chesley and the Asiatic Cheetah

Chapter 16: Kaitlyn and the Sumatran Elephant

Chapter 17: Aviza and the Black-faced Honeycreeper

Chapter 18: Parker and the Amur Leopard

Part 3: Endangered Animals

Chapter 19: Francisco and the Tasmanian Devil

Chapter 20: Jimena and the Blue Whale

Chapter 21: Amya and the Hector’s Dolphin

Chapter 22: Miss Gomez and The Giant Panda

Chapter 23: Miss Ramsey and the Sea Otter

Chapter 24: Katherine and the Snow Leopard

Chapter 25: Katie and the Indian Elephant

Chapter 26: Ryan and the Western Steller Sea Lion

Chapter 27: Angelina and the Galapagos Penguin

Part 4: Vulnerable Animals

Chapter 28: Sonya and the Leatherback Turtle

Chapter 29: Jessica and the Polar Bear

Chapter 30: Eden and the Black Spider Monkey

Chapter 31: The End of the Story and the Beginning of All the Others

Dedication

For our Asian Elephant, Jewel

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Sculpture of Jewel

By Rebekah

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Message to the Reader

All the way from Portable Four,

There was a special class who wanted to do more!

They met an Asian Elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo,

And she took them to a place nobody else knew!

3,2,1 Blast off the rocket ship went,

And the children in Miss Gomez’s class,

Well, a day with an animal they spent!

They will never forget their time on Planet Species,

For falling in love with threatened and extinct animals was sure easy!

And dear readers, you can help the animals too.

Just keep reading, and we will tell you the story from their point of view!

And when you’re done reading this book,

Please pass it along to someone else who can take a closer look!

Because if with this book you share,

The animals will know just how much you care!

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Miss Gomez’s 6th Grade Class of 2014-2015

La Madera Elementary School

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The Scientific Classification of Animals

The Scientific Classification of Animals is something scientists use to put organisms, or living things, into categories. Scientists group organisms together when they have something in common. The classification of living things is referred to as taxonomy. There are 7 different categories, or groups, in the Scientific Classification: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. The Scientific Classification ranges from Kingdoms, which are the most general, to Species, which are the most specific.

The first, and most general groups, are called Kingdoms. There are 5 kingdoms

• Animal Kingdom known as Animalia

• Plant Kingdom known as Plantae

• Fungi Kingdom known as Fungi

• Protist Kingdom known as Protista

• Moneran Kingdom known as Monera

Each of the 5 Kingdoms are split into smaller, more specific groups.

First they are split into Phyla. Animal Phyla are major groups of animals within the Animal Kingdom that are defined with a Phylum. There are over 30 different Phyla of Animals.

Within Phyla, there are Classes. A Class is not like a class you take at school. It is another, more specific category than Phyla, that helps classify animals into groups based on even more things they have in common. There are many Classes of Animals, but the 5 most common are:

• Mammals known as Mammalia

• Birds known as Aves

• Fish known as Carniata

• Reptiles known as Reptilia

• Amphibians known as Amphibia

Within each of the Animal Classes, there are Orders. An Order is even more specific than its Class. For example, the Classes of Mammals have Orders that describe if the mammal is a bat, primate, rodent, or a large predator.

Within each Order, there is a Family.

Within each Family, there is a Genus.

Finally, within each Genus, there is a Species. This is also known as an animal’s scientific name.

Conservation Status

Similar to the Scientific Classification of Animals, a Conservation Status of an animal deals