Pelican Illness

Animal experts are trying to find out why hundreads of pelicans are bexoming ill. A number of dead or ill birds has been spotted along the Californian coastline. Rescue workers are trying to help these ill birds but they don't know the cause of the illness. They are managing to save the pelicans at the cost of $500 for one bird. Some of them have been found far away from their homes and seen in places such as gardens, roads, and feilds. Experts are going to use an blood test to see what is making them ill. The ill birds will look thin, confused, and have discoulored patches on their feet. These pelicans was almost extinced in 1960's and 1970's becaude a very harmful pesticide got into their food. The specie did not recover until 1972.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7820000/newsid_7821900/7821923.stm

Famous Climber Dies

The youngest British climber to climb mount Everest has been killed with another climber thats from Briton too in an accident in the French Alphs. Ron Gauntlett was from Sussex in South England. He was only 19 years old when he climbed up Mt. Everest in 2006. His 21 year old friend was ice climbing along with him in Chamonix reigon when tragedy struck. His family were all shocked. "We can only take consolation that he died doing something that he loved." said his mom Nicole. The other climber was named James Atkinson and was also from the same place as Ron. In November 2008 Ron Gauntlett and his friend James Hooper, from Somerset, waere named the National Geographic 2008 Adventure of the year. They were also given an award after going through a 22000 miles journey using humen and natural power to go from the magnetic North to magnetic south.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7820000/newsid_7822800/7822812.stm

My Hiliday Break and My Schools Goals for 2009

My Break

1.Sleep until 10pm almost every day.
2.Play Nintendo and piano when I am bored.

My 2009 Goals

1.I will try to do and finish all my homework on time and handing them all on time.
2.I will try to not fail and get A+'s in every class especially math.

Reasearch Reflection and Magic School Bus

Research Reflection:
For the past month we have been research body systems on our own.

A few things I like about this research is that we get to do out research instead of the teacher telling us what to do. Our teacher gives us very little questions but allows us to go very deep and understand more about that question. We were allowed to go to different websites to find the information we need. I also liked the test. The test is to find out if we did enough research. We were aloud to search the answers to the test if we were stuck.

Things that I didn't like about this kind of research is that sometimes information is very hard to find. Some of the websites you go to will give information about totally different things. The test we received consists of some questions that we didn't even need to research so we had to find more information on the website.

I I think that our teacher Mrs.Smith planned it this way so we can learn to work independently. In the future we might need to do more independent work so this could be a good practice. I also think that it would be easier because then she can just give out 6 questions instead of lots of little questions,

Some suggestions I have for this project is to put a list of websites first. Some of the websites will contain very little information so it was very hard to answer some questions. If there were lots of websites from the start we could have get the information from those sites and then go to different sites. The next suggestion I need to give is about the test. No matter how much I like the idea of looking up the information on the internet to answer questions, I think we shouldn't be able to do that. A person could just go up to the internet and search all the answers for the test.

The Magic School Bus:

Today our class watch Magic school bus. There are correct things but also some flaws.

Some things that were incorrect was that digestion takes almost 10 hours to fully digest so it is imposable to crack the bus in a few seconds. The second flaw was that the digestion takes place in complete darkness so it should be imposable to see what was happening. The last flaw I am going to talk about is they only showed the gib intestine absorb food. The truth is that they both absorbe food.

Some things that were correct is that the stomch acids do help break down food and some things do not get completely break down in the stomach.

2 things that were correct was that

Rioting Hits Greek

A rioting has broke in at least 3 cities with the people and police when a teenager boy was shot. Students has been battling the police for 3 days since the boy was shot dead at Athens on Saturday. But there may be more problems since people are planning to protest in 5 more other places. The two police officers who was connected to the boys death has been arrested. It was said that people were throwing stones at the polices car. Soon after the incident, news, and protests has been spreading across the country at a very fast rate. The Greek government is trying to calm its people but lots of people are blaming the government for its violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7770000/newsid_7771100/7771108.stm

Problem with Porks

Any meat made form pigs has been removed from supermarkets from the UK. Experts think that the food pigs eat contained a dangerous contagious disease called dioxins which would have effected the meat. However, the risk of getting the disease is low but it is always good to be careful. You don't need to worry, because eating a little bite off a infected meat won't effect your health. But alot of infected meat will put you at a risk. Irland sends out their meat into lots of different places all around the world. France, Germany, Russia, and Netherlands all have pork fon Irland imported there every year. In 2007 130000 tons of Irland pork was sent all over the wrold. The government are saying that they are doing all they could. They are checking some pig farms that they think is the problem. Hopefully this case won't turn out to be similar to the poison milk in China.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7770000/newsid_7771100/7771108.stm

Culture and Society

Culture is the art, religion, beliefs, and lifestyle of a certain group of people. society is the relationship within a nation or group of people. Culture and society can often happen at the same time. For example, every nation has its own culture. Chinese people likes to eat rice and go to the temple is a example of culture. Culture has different parts too. Some of the parts are religion, life style, and patterns in human life. However, all of these things can be connected somehow. Lots of people in Taiwan goes to temple to pray to their gods as their lifestyle. But when they are praying to god it is also a religion, and it is a pattern because their children will also do it too. Society and culture can be connected in many different ways.