Lit. fables

For the wolf fabel i think the moral is that you need to be crafty in order to reach your goals. I think this because you need to fake your opponent out or try and blen into your surroundings. For the 4 oxen and the lion, the moral is that even if you fight, you need to stick together in times of danger. If you split up, then you all will die. For the fish fable, the moral is use what you got and dont listen to anyone if you are hungry and about to die. For the crow fable, the moral is that you have to use your surroundings to survive and get water. For the fox fable, the moral is dont trust someone trappen in a well because you will be stuck down there your self.

Lit. wooden bowls

I think this story is good but i really didn't get it at all. But, this relates to cares with empathy because you need empathy to take your grand father who spills his food and is getting really old, and when the kid made he bowls for them when he grows up the parents were awe struck with the truth.

Science

I learned that when humans and chimps started out, we had exactly the same number of chromosomes. Genetic wise, humans and chimps are about 98% alike but i don't know why we look so alike. Researchers say that chimps make more proteins than humans do in their livers and hearts, which could be the awnser to why we don't look anything alike. This has interested me a lot because if we are 98% alike, why are chimps hairy and smaller than we are?

Science

I learned that poeple have 46 chromizones, which split up into two sets of 23. The way heredity passes onto a child is that one of the mothers two sets and one of the fathers two sets form a child, this is done randomly. I also learned that for every trait the enviorment affects it in a diffrent way. People ca teach dogs how to play dead but a dogs instinct is to play fetch.

Class reflection

12/4/09
Today in science we watched a movie. Finding nemo, and we had to work on a sheet that reflected on the movie. I throght this was a great idea because we get to have fun with a movie but also learn the scientific side of Finding nemo. One of the questions was, Name a symbiotic relationship and is it commensalism, mutuialism or parasitism. I chose the sea anemone and the clown fish. I learned that learning can be very fun but also something to remember.

Science- current event #2

Lcross mission finds water on the moon

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/14moon.html?_r=1&ref=science

I think that this is a great dsicovery because now that we know that there possibly can be life on the moon. people found frozen ice underneath the moons surface. This means that There is possible life on the moon and that life can be sustainable.

In my opinion this is the discovery of the year. This is extreamly important if we ever wanted to build hotels on the moon because now we know that there can possible be life. I wonder what else is deep beneath the surface of the moon?

Lit. Summer reading

No more dead dogs

The connections i was able to make while reading this book were that me and Wallace Wallace both play sports. Although I have never had any type of detention i can imagine how it would feel not to be able to play sports. I can relate most to Wallace because we play sports and we are helpful. I think the author would be a very nice guy because the way he writes books, it is really amazing and they are fantastic books in my opinion.