Living with Corals Again: A Diver’s Diary
Date & Time: September 15, 5:30 p.m.
It’s a sad ____ for me.
This morning, I went ____ diving at my favorite spot in the sea.
It was a place that was ____ of beautiful and colorful corals.
But today, I saw that corals were getting ____.
I was ____.
Because of the warm seawater, corals have ____ white.
Different types of waste have ____ the corals, too.
____ the spot has lost its colors and beauty.
I’m ____ worried.
Date & Time: October 2, 10:00 a.m.
I have ____ about how to help corals.
My plan is to form a team of ____.
My team can go ____ and take care of the sick corals.
Many corals get sick because they don’t ____ good care in time.
I’m sure that ____ divers are worried about this, too.
I’m going to post a message online to look for ____ divers.
Date & Time: November 7, 9:40 p.m.
For the last two weeks, my team ____ put ointment on sick corals.
We also took some healthy baby corals from the sea and put ____ in tanks of seawater.
We feed them clam ____ and seaweed smoothies.
This food helps baby corals ____ stronger.
When they are ready, we’ll ____ them onto the corals in the sea.
Our goal is to grow ____ healthy corals.
I look forward to ____ the results!
Date & Time: November 27, 11:30 a.m.
Last night, some healthy corals in the sea ____ eggs during the full moon.
This morning, ____ of baby corals were born from the eggs like magic.
They were ____ and amazing.
I hope this miracle will happen to other sick corals, ____.
Although it ____ time to heal the sick corals and grow healthy ones, it was worth the hard work.