Eve & Stanley - Summarize task

((eve did most of the work))

Cause and Effect - Stanley, Eve and Nitika

Benny - Lemeki & Stanley

 

Cloning and de-extinction - Sumuree & Stanley

 Cloning and De-extinction

DNA is one of the most important things in your life, and when you unravel your DNA it is as long as the earth’s orbit around the sun but times that 6 times. Anyway this subject is about bringing extinct species back to life, and also cloning conservation species. 

What is Cloning?
Cloning is taking DNA from any living animal then cloning the DNA. The first animal to be cloned is the Dolly Sheep who was born/cloned in July 5, 1996 and died in February 14, 2003. But there is a con to cloning just because there were multiple other animals that had been cloned but died very quickly, for example one of them where a Ox named the gaur, who only lived for 2 weeks then perished into heaven. There is also something called natural cloning. Natural cloning can occur when an embryo is split up into 2 parts which makes twins, or it could split into 3, 4, ect. 

What is de-extinction?

De-extinction is bringing an extinct animal back to life. De-extinction for a Moa is where you take some DNA from the Moa’s fossils then afterwards create an egg with the DNA and put that egg inside an ostrich to create a new Moa/Ostrich thingy.. 

Should we de-extinct the Moa?? Yes because….
The pros for de-extincting the Moa is because the Moa could be used as a food resource and could be used as clothes too. Another reason is that a Moa is a native bird to New Zealand, also the Moa could kill and eat the possums and other animals that the british people came with, which will protect the other native animals. 

Should we de-extinct the Moa?? No because….
The cons for de-extincting the Moa is because the Moa would disrupt the food chain by eating the insects and food for other animals, it could also be very very expensive and there is a 50% chance that it will fail and a 50% chance that it will succeed. The other reason is that if it does get let into the wild us humans will try and hunt it again which will make it.... Extinct! (yay)

 

   

Camp 2020

Monday

Last term the kia manawanui went to camp raglan for 5 days. The announcement to camp came out 5 weeks earlier to get ready and stuff. When it came to the day to leave for camp, we all met up in the hall for the principal to make his speech about how to act, how to treat others, and how to behave and such. After the principal finished his speech our parents/caregivers helped us pack our bags to place it on the bus, I had my aunty and sister to help me with my bags. We placed our bags inside the bus and said goodbye to our parents/caregivers. I was unhappy to leave my family because I've never been that far away from them/I've never been to a camp. After we packed everything and said goodbye we jumped on the bus, and I sat by myself. The bus ride was a little boring to be honest, because there was a lot of noise and movement in the bus. After 2 or 3 hours we stopped at a gas station to empty our bladders and get some fresh air.

We finally got to the camp and dropped our bags in the hall/basketball court thing, and walked to the main hall where we got told the rules and expectations of the camp. The owners of the camp’s names are Jenny and Tony, they showed us around the camp. After that we settled in our dorms, I was with Lino, Matthew and Kymarni in a dorm. We finished settling in and had a little bit of free time. I hung out with Litia and Josephine in my free time and explored the camp with them. We got called to meet up near the girls' dorms to go to the beach. Most of us asked the teachers to swim at the beach but they said “no, the waves are too strong and it will pull you out into the ocean meaning it's dangerous”. After that we went on our walk to the beach, it was kinda long but cool at the same time. We reached our destination and took a look at the beautiful view. 

What is the importance of video games?

What is the importance of video games?

Some people might think video games are bad and that it will rot your brain. But video games can help you with survival skills, creating new friends, learning new things, fighting skills and more! But it also can be bad too like being too addicted to the game, you can have sore red eyes by just looking at the screen for too long, bad posture, etc.

Video games are important because it can be a job for some people. For example pewdiepie known as Felix. He is one of the top gamers in the world, for his humorous “Let’s Play” videos on youtube. By playing video games on twitch and youtube and earn you a lot of money. People who make the games take months or even years.

Video games can help with making new friendships, by meeting new people online! Video games also help with social skills and confidence.

Video games give you a choice to be offline or online. Offline is where you aint using any internet and online is where you are using the internet and you can meet people. But online games can be hell, there could be some pedos, online daters, hackers, bad language etc. This means pedos can act as a different person, online daters can date you without knowing your real age, hackers can grab your IP address and find out where you live. 

Video games are also a great source of entertainment and learning. This helps with not being bored and learning something new everyday. Like survival games, they can help with memory, navigation skills, heath skills, etc.

In my opinion video games are very important, because they can do a lot to help you.

(By Stanley.) 

Why is it important to learn to swim?

Why is it important to learn to swim?

New Zealand is an island in the pacific ocean with 15,000 km of coastline and over 700 beaches. In 2017 there were 92 people who have died from drowning in NZ. It is important to swim because when you're out in the ocean with no swimming experiences, you don't have any confidence and you can’t find land, you're basically dead. But if you do have the confidence, you can swim, you can find land by swimming.

Swimming is actually a cool activity/sport to do! For example you can swim for competitions, you can swim for fun, you can swim for strength, etc. Swimming can also help with muscles and weight for example it's a good sport to get in shape. You don't know you could be the next best swimmer.

Swimming it's very easy to learn too! Children do it all the time. Some people can't learn how to swim because the swimming lessons might be too expensive, they might have Aquaphobia [a fear of swimming], etc.  (I have not finished, but ok.)