Figurative Language.

Number 28.

It was 12:00 o’clock at night and I was tired, I picked up my phone and suddenly I got a text. The text was from my friend Nevayah, it said Paigey hurry you better run and tell your parents there's a huge robot outside, sorry gotta go Byeeee. When I finished reading the text I just put it down and started running to my parents room telling them the text I got. But they wouldn't believe me so I told them to look outside and the big their was a big robot tearing down the city, so they looked at each other and got me and we all ran to the car not even thinking to look back at the window.

We went to Nevayah house first because we wanted them to be safe too and their car broke down so we speed there. When we got their me and Nevayah looked at the robot and it had a number 28 on it so decided to call ‘The 28’, but we didn't even know what we were doing naming the robot. So then suddenly we looked at the direction it was going and it heading to the sky tower.

Wondering why it was going there so we told my mum and dad to stop the car this instinct and we both ran out of the car not even telling our parents what was going on. Our parents was chasing after us but we already knew what the robot what trying to do, as we ran together as fast as we could lose our parents at the back of us. As we  both look at each other while running we both said at the same time what are we doing with a panicked voice. We were so close to the robot it looked like he was taller than the sky tower, then suddenly we zoomed in between his legs and headed straight to the sky city door. But then we heard a loud bang and then . . . . To be continued.

Technology is not always Life.

Technology is not always Life. 

What is so good about technology all the time?

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Technology is not a thing where you go on it everyday and each second, but taking some time off it and resting your mind from the bright screen.  

Technology is not good for your eyesight because it could damage your vision of what you see.

Every time you are on a device all the screen does is cause eye strain and other vision problems.

For example, making sure that your taking some time off so your parents wouldn't have to take you to a doctor and check your eyesight.

Technology can distract you from anything important because you might forget what you have to do.

When your parents are talking to and you're not listening that means if you have to do something important, it might have been very serious.

For example, finishing off essays and doing your homework for the next day to be prepared for your test.

It can take you away from the people you love most and that you care about.

Being mindful of the people that you care about and making sure you spend more time with them than on your device.

For example, technology can take you away from your best friends that love you and that they want to hang out. But being on your device and choosing it over the people you love the most.

Now  technology can be very bright because of the screen, but having some time’s off it than being on it each and every day. Also getting the children to motivate and work together as a team with a teacher more than on a device. So technology is actually a thing that you can contact people or anything
else, so things like this is basically a tool for people.

Task Description: This is week Room 1 literacy has been doing explanation writing and we had to add the SEE information with it. Which was a statement, a explanation, and example. When we have finished writing it we had to highlight the statement in blue, the explanation in green, and the example in pink. Also in the very beginning of our writing we had to write a hook sentence and question, so we can hook our readers. But in the end we also have to add a conclusion to end our explanation writing. Hope you enjoy reading my explanation writing and may you have a great day.

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Read the text. 

Underline or highlight important information e.g. the topic sentence or keywords

Write a heading and note down trigger words for each paragraph.

The Science Behind De-Extinction

Headings/Trigger Words Write down a heading and trigger words to help you retell each paragraph

The idea of de-extinction is that we can bring back species that are now completely gone. The major flashpoint of interest in what has now led to de-extinction technology happened about 10 years ago when Dolly the sheep was created. In many ways, Dolly was the harbinger of the kind of technology that will permit us to do even more sophisticated kinds of creation of species that used to exist, species that still exist and perhaps even species that never existed. We can group relevant methods into three large categories.There's back-breeding which humans have practiced literally for thousands and thousands of years. This is being done right now in Western Europe, trying to recreate what's known as the aurochs. The way cows look today is not the way the cattle family looked 10,000 years ago. So, if your problem is to recreate one of those primitive cows, what do you do? Well you reach back into the genetic code by selecting for animals that have slightly longer horns or a bigger bulk or the kind of hide coloration that you think is appropriate. It is a very viable and low-tech way of de-extinction. And the investigators trying to do this back-breeding to aurochs have had some success. The animals look quite a bit like old representations that go right back to cave paintings. But what is it really? What it is really is a constellation of traits that you've selected for and you know nothing, really, about how close it is physiologically to an aurochs because there's no way of examining a living aurochs at present. You also don't know about behavior. Behavior tends not to fossilize in any realistic manner and the degree to which any modern cow resembles an aurochs in terms of behavior is a complete unknown. A second method for de-extinction that has improved greatly in the last 10 years is cloning, particularly the kind of cloning known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. You take the genetic material -- the nucleus -- of one cell, you put it into another -- an egg -- and that egg is then placed in an animal that will act as surrogate mother and produce an offspring. There's also been massive improvements in what we can call synthesis. Synthesis involves making up our own sequence, just like in a recipe. If you have two species -- one extinct, one living -- you can get the genetic material of the extinct one and compare that to the living one. Passenger pigeons died out, finally, almost exactly a hundred years ago. Passenger pigeons have several very close relatives among pigeons and one is the band-tailed pigeon, which is very close indeed.  In recent years, scientists have been able to isolate the differences between the genomes of extinct passenger pigeons and living band-tailed pigeons. They've been able to inject these novel sequences into the germ line of developing band-tailed pigeons and using surrogates with the sex cells of passenger pigeons.If you cross breed them one to another, you will in the next generation get something that should look exactly like a passenger pigeon. Now comes the basic question here, which is: What are you going to do with passenger pigeons, assuming that you go ahead and create a whole flock of them? It's been estimated that there were probably more passenger pigeons than any other kind of bird ever. I don't know what we would do with a billion passenger pigeons. We don't like pigeons to begin with in this place. A very important thing to consider about extinctions in general in the course of life on the planet is that the waters close very quickly when a species disappears. What tends to happen is that other species move in. This is how evolution in fact works. The mammoth behind me perfectly illustrates some of the issues that we're going to face with de-extinction. There is no place for several more very large herbivores in a place like the U.S. except under very controlled conditions. Who's going to take care of them? How are you going to provision them? Are we thinking that we're going to bring back the Pleistocene by virtue of having a few extinct species? What we're really talking about is undertaking a whole lot of unplanned experiments, the consequences of which are very hard to predict. We don't want a situation in which we drive out species that are perhaps already endangered thanks to us with something else that we drove to extinction thousands of years ago. De-extinction to the degree it will take place should be limited in its scope, limited in its ambition, limited in the kinds of species that we bring back. But if there was one animal I could vote for to bring back, it would be one of these giant ground sloths. If you want people to be interested in not only what the planet still has and how we might conserve it, but what the planet has recently lost and perhaps most particularly what it's lost because of human activities, then to see these again, to see mammoths again in the flesh would be an exciting prospect. It would raise rather than dampen interest in preserving what we have and what we used to have. Video Link: https://youtu.be/Pkc_WodJxsk

Major flashpoint. sophisticated De-Extinction Completely gone Might bring back species aTechnology Dolly the sheep. 10 years ago Harbinger Kind of technology  Kind of creation of species Species that still exist  Species that never existed Three large Categories Back-breeding Western Europe The aurochs Cows Looked Cattle Family 10,000 year ago Primitive cows Genetic code Constellation Physiologically Fossilize Cloning Genetic material. The nucleus  The one cell Synthesis Cequence One exinct Passenger pigeons Developing Surrogates Billion passenger pigeons Mammoth Large herbivores Pleistocene Consequences Pleistocene Giant ground sloths Particularly Exciting prospect Dampen.

Explanation Writing - Technology.

What is so good about technology all the time?

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Technology is not a thing where you go on it everyday and each second, but taking some time off it and resting your mind from the bright screen.  

Technology is not good for your eyesight because it could damage your vision of what you see.

Every time you are on a device all the screen does is cause eye strain and other vision problems.

For example, making sure that your taking some time off so your parents wouldn't have to take you to a doctor and check your eyesight.

Technology can distract you from anything important because you might forget what you have to do.

When your parents are talking to and you're not listening that means if you have to do something important, it might have been very serious.

For example, finishing off essays and doing your homework for the next day to be prepared for your test.

It can take you away from the people you love most and that you care about.

Being mindful of the people that you care about and making sure you spend more time with them than on your device.

For example, technology can take you away from your best friends that love you and that they want to hang out. But being on your device and choosing it over the people you love the most.

Task Description: This is week Room 1 literacy has been doing explanation writing and we had to add the SEE information with it. Which was a statement, a explanation, and example. When we have finished writing it we had to highlight the statement in blue, the explanation in green, and the example in pink. Also in the very beginning of our writing we had to write a hook sentence and question, so we can hook our readers. Hope you enjoy reading my explanation writing and may you have a great day.

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Woolly Mammoth Create Task.

Task Description: For this week is all about de-extinction and this is our create task that we had to do. Once we have finished our independent we had to work on our create task and it had to be about another animal not just the moa bird, so I chose the woolly mammoth. Hope you enjoy reading my Create task and may you have a great day.
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De-extinction.

Task Description: For this week Room 1 has been learning about de-extinction and what would happen if scientist bring back the moa bird. Hope you enjoy reading a little bit about the Genome editing and may you have a great day.
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Algebra Patterns.

Task Description: This maths presentation is about algebra patterns and Whaea Kelly is seeing how good we are at  this and finding out if we can solve all of the slides. For the week and other days Room 3 maths is going to be learning all about this Algebra and wondering if we know what this is and if we know how to do algebra. Hope you enjoy reading and looking at this presentation, and my you have a great day.
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Moa CREATE Task.

Task Description: This is my CREATE task all about the moa birds and they are the extinct birds. We have been learning about the de-extinction and if we the moa bird should come back or not. Hoping you enjoy reading some of little facts about the moa bird and may you have a great day.
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Explanation Writing - Hook.

Task Description: This is my Explanation Writing about giving different hooks for each paragraph.
Some different ways of doing a hook is asking a question, a quote, or a Bold statement, we used some of these thing and put it all in our hook writing. Hope you enjoy reading each paragraph and may you have a great day.
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Genome Editing.

Measuring- Perimeter, Area, and Volume.

Task Description: This is our maths presentation for this week and it is all about the thing we have been learning lately, and it is area, perimeter, and volume. We have been learning about volume for the last 2 weeks and we are moving onto angles very soon, Team 5 had just done a Maths test too and it was all about the things we have learnt this Term. Hope you enjoy reading what we have done so far in maths and may you have a great day.
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Return Of the Moa.

WALT: Identify and use key information from a text to write a summary.

Task Description: This is a our reading work for the week and we have been learning about the Return of the Moa , scientist have been thinking of trying to bring the moa back or not. Hope you enjoy reading this reading task that I have done and may you have a great day.

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