This is the link to the game : Figurative Language Game

Hook Writing

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.

Number 28

It was a normal sunny day. The birds were tweeting and people talking loudly. It’s my birthday today and I don’t know what to do. So instead I called my friend Paige to come celebrate my birthday with me. “She said okay I will be there at 1:00pm.” So I got out of bed and went to the kitchen to go make me some breakfast. Then help mum and dad clean the house up. Then I got ready for the day and waited for her to come. Time went past. It was 12:00 and going on 1:00. I was so sad. She wasn't going to come. So I decided to celebrate it by myself. With a red velvet cupcake with vanilla frosting and a candle on top. Then I made a wish. I wish there was a big giant robot in our city. It was the next day. Bird tweeting and people talking loudly. I could hear big stops and the ground was shaking. OMG. there is a big giant robot. To be continued…..

Note Taking Graphic Organiser.

NOTE TAKING - Graphic Organiser

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

De-extinction 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 extinct Passenger pigeons Developing Surrogates Billion passenger pigeons Mammoth Large herbivores Pleistocene Consequences Pleistocene Giant ground sloths Particularly Exciting prospect Dampen.

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.

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

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.

Be Responsible

Be responsible

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Being responsible is looking after or caring for your own family or someone else. Be responsible to your friends and peers. Look after each other. Are you responsible ?

Being responsible by looking after your family.

Being responsible is looking after your little siblings or doing something for you family, like be responsible by helping your mum with dinner and the dishes. Even be responsible for doing something when you are told to do it.

Being responsible by doing something.

When you are told to do something, make sure you do it straight away. Don’t let your parents or your other siblings do it. If your the one responsible to do something, do it. Having an obligation to do something.

Why it’s good to be responsible.

When you do what you have promised, people see you as a responsible and reliable person. A responsible person is one who can be trusted to act without needing strict supervision, because they are accountable for their own behavior.

Now we come to the end. What does responsible mean? Responsible is having an obligation to do something, or having control over or care for someone. What would you do if your responsible to do something.

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.

Information About Science

Task Description: This week in room 1 literacy has been learning about science and scientist.We read this story about ( Richards Owen's Giant Mystery ) and it was all about a famous scientist named Richard Owen. These are some of the words from the story that was on the last page of the book, here is some information about each word.

Thesis Statement

Task description. This week in literacy we did a explanation writing. We had to write a thesis statement about a topic that we have to do. We had to create a visual to help you remember how to write a good thesis statement ( Topic + Answer + because = best statement. We had to write about these paragraph what would you do or what is it to be responsible.

work collaboratively to solve problems

Captivating conversions

Versatlle volume

Production Commercial

Task description. Today in literacy me and my friends did a commercial about our toy shop production. We had to write a little script about what we going to be doing. Then we had to practice it 2 times. Then we had to recorded what we had to do. After that we had to put all our video's on to I movie and then edit it. Then we had to save it to our drive and post it on our blog. What would you do for a commercial.

Pseudoscience

Origami

Today room 4 is doing origami. There is 7 teams, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. We are trying to make this cool origami that we have to do. It's looks cool and also looks like a star. Me and my group are going to be folding the dotted lines and trying to find what it is. It could be a shape or a something. In room 4 there is other people doing it to. we don't know what to do but we are going to try. My group is number 6. In my group there's my friend, Trendy, Daliz, Farah and me. What do you think it going to be. We are making a ( Great Dodecahedron.

recognise how advertisements use persuasion.

NOTE TAKING - Graphic Organiser

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.

My Genome Sequence

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

Our bodies are exceptionally clever. Even when we’re asleep, they’re doing all sorts of extraordinary things, like mending themselves. These things don’t happen by magic. Deep inside our cells is a chemical called DNA. DNA acts like an instruction manual, controlling how our body works. These instructions are made up of four chemical letters that we call A, G, T and C. These repeat 6 billion times. That’s enough letters to take a whopping 57 years to read out aloud. The complete set that makes you the unique and brilliant individual you are, is called your ‘Genome Sequence’. Around 99% of our sequences are the same. It’s the 1% that makes us all different, deciding everything from our height to our hair colour. DNA is a bit like the computer code used to give robots instructions. Sometimes a glitch in the code, like a spelling mistake, will create individual differences. Most of the time this isn’t a problem. Sometimes it can even be an advantage. But if a glitch makes the instructions confusing, the robot might not be able to do things as it should. It’s the same with our DNA. Everyone has glitches, but some of us have glitches that cause health problems, because our body isn’t getting the right instructions. For instance, having a glitch in the DNA for your muscles might make you less strong. The only way to find that glitch, is to look closely at your genome sequence. Genome sequencing is an exciting new technology. By taking a blood sample, scientists can remove the DNA and read your sequence using a high-powered machine. The scientists will compare your sequence to thousands of other peoples’, to find the glitch. They might even compare it to your close relatives, like your Mum and Dad. Working out exactly where your genome is different, can help doctors to diagnose the cause of your condition and decide on the best treatment. It’s still a very new technology so the more people have their genome sequences read and compared, the more we can learn about DNA and the more answers we can find in the future.

Our bodies are exceptionally clever   sorts of extraordinary things Like mending themselves They don’t happen by magic Cells is a chemical DNA Instruction manual Controlling how our body works Four chemical letters A, G, T, C These repeat 6 billion times Whopping 57 years to read Genome sequence  Around 99% of our sequence are the same It’s the 1% that makes us all different Deciding everything From our height to our hair colour Computer code Give robots instructions Glitch in the code like a spelling mistake Create individual differences  Be an advantage  Instructions confusing  It’s the same with DNA Everyone has glitches Heath problems Having a glitch in the DNA Muscles might make you less strong Closely at your genome sequence  New Technology Blood samples  Read your sequence using a high powered machine Compare your sequence to thousands of other people. Finding the glitch Close relatives like your mum and dad Genome is Different Helping doctors to diagnose the cause of your condition. The best treatment. It is still new technology Genome sequence can be read and compared. The more we can learn about DNA Also answers we can find in the future.