Parents Tend to Share More Bacteria With Family Dogs Than Children

A new study shows that Parents share common bacteria with their dogs , instead of children. The children have a little bit more love for the canine friends instead of the parents ,but studies show that parents and dogs have share bacteria. This study is lead by the University of Colorado Boulder. They looked at different types of transfer modes of microbes from the guts, tounges, foreheads and palmsof members of  60 American families, including the dogs. Scientists wanted to study these bacteria , so it could probably help treat diseases. It says it could help with environmental exposure. Associate Professor Jim Knight and his team sampled 159 people and 36 dogs. About seventeen of the 60 families had children at home ranging from 6 months to 18 years.

Non-ficiton article: For Polar Bears, It's Survival of the Fattest

In Antartica, Polar Bears have to compete to stay alive, the fattest one usually has the longer live. Global Warming is the thing that threatens their live, the ice is melting and not giving the Polar bears a proper place to live. The ploar bears migrate around to find places with more food and shelter. A new studies has shown that the average polar bears must consume thousands of calories. During November to December, the sea ice starts to melt and the polar bears migrate to a different area. When the polar bears are gone from their original habitat. Scientists have noticed how Polar bears have evolved from being predators.

Some of the Polar bears might not see any food for long while and when they do they probably are weak,because they don't have enough energy. They will end up dead. The polar bears have to eat as much as they can ,so they could survive the harsh climates of the winter. Dr. Cherry Ross ahs done some investigations on the polare bears and how they interact with each other. The Polar bears now have learned how to adapt to land from when the sea ice has melts they have another place to go. I think the polar bears need to do more adapting if they want to become an ever-lasting species.

Non-fiction article: Remains of Extinct Giant Camel Discovered in High Arctic

In Canada, a research team has found remains of giant camels from the artic ages. The fossils were

based on 30 fossil fragments of a leg bone found on Ellesmere Island. The Camels ancestors were to

have originate some 45 million years ago, they were from North America. Many of these fossil were

collected over some time periods (2006,2008 and 2010) and they are about three-and-a-half million

years old, from the mid-pilocene era. The Artic camel probably lived in a forest-type of environment.


I'm really interested on what types of behavoirs went on in those specific time periods in life. Like

my other non-fiction articles, I like to write about new discoveries that talk about early life. Scientists

were trying to develop a mammoth cell in a petri dish , so they could try to clone mammoths. To

determine how the fossils belong to a camel, they had to perform some kind of scaning which took

some DNA samples to help decide the species. Later discoveries and information will be

discovered,but for right now there is evidence that the camel got it's looks from this animal. I think

this is another idea that challenges the theory of evolution.



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130305131032.htm

Non-Fiction Reader's Response for Feb.28th

In the article, " Sleep Reinforces Learning: Children’s Brains Transform Subconsciously Learned Material Into Active Knowledge", by: Dr. Ines Wilhelm, explains that when children get the full eight hours of sleep they really need, their body gets the energy it needs. It can help them remember more of what they learned in school. " Children's brains transform subconsciously learned material into active knowledgde while they sleep-- even more effectively than adult brains do. " according to the researcher done by Dr. Wilhelm. Studies of adults have shown that sleeping after learning helps support long time space or storage of material that has been learned.

Children need to sleep longer because that's how the earn their focus and staminia to do things in school. Most kids stay up till 11:00 and they then realize in the morning that they needed the sleep. Children between 8 and 11 years of age have been tested on the actions of them not being able to fall asleep. They also tested both age groups when they both go to sleep at the same time, who can remember a larger number of elements from the row of numbers than those who had remained awake in the interim.

When we fall asleep our brain is saving everything it has learned throughtout the day. It is more effective for children than adults. Sleeping is a way fo us to remeber all the things that have happened and it reminds us what we need to work on. Not getting enough sleep is incredibly stressful and it could hurt our health and it makes our physcial appearance look bad. Overall, sleeping longer impacts how much we remember and how much we have learned.

The Poems of Maya Angelou, Reader's Response

During, the book of  Maya Angelou's poems I noticed a lot of powerful expressions and rhythm,

some of these things we looked at class, for example her similies were really powerful, a poem in

paticular caught my eye called "Passing Time". It talked  about how we as people spend the rest of

our lives and how we rarely notice some natural environmental beauties because were to distracted

with other things. Ms. Angelou has some magnificent poems abot human life , relationships and other

social topics.

The book kind of reminds me of "Bronx Masquerade", even thought this book dosen't really have s

storyline, the poems tell a story and if you are real careful on how read you night ubderstand it. In the

Bronx Masquerade, by: Nikki Grimes, a bunch of teenagers write poems to help them overcome bad

situations happening in their neighborhood. Ms. Angelou writes about numerous topics that have to

do with different related social awareness issues. In 2009, Ms. Angelou wrote a poem about Michael

Jackson. The poem was titled " We had him", the poem was read at his funeral by Queen Latifah.

The poems that she has written has given people inspiration and hope. I'm staring to write my own

poetry and looking off her style of writng and examining the type of language and rhythmn she uses.

I think that her poems would be a great mentor text for me when the time comes when we have to

write our own sonets in class. Ms. Angelou had pretty impressive poems ,but her best poem is said to

be "On the pulse of morning", which she read at he inaugaration for Bill Clinton. Since it is Black

History month I chosr to write my reader's response on Ms. Maya Angelou and her magnificent

poems.

Nonfiction Reading Response 3rd marking period

In the article, " New Dinosaur Fossil challenges Bird Evvolution", the co-author, Dr. Gareth Dyke

explains about a new bird dinosaur called the Eosinopteryx. The discovery interrupts the theory that

the famous fossil Archaeopteryx or "the first bird". He feels that their findings suggest that the origin

of flight is more difficult to figure out. The fossil was found in north -eastern China,also the bird was

flightless because of its little wingspan.

I believe that there are many more discoveries to be found, and we don't exactly have a clue to how

the origin of flight became to be,we just need to do a little bit more research on these dinosaurs and

test them. I remember reading a Scholastic Kids Article and it said that paleotoligists found a frozen

baby mammoth in a huge block of ice and scientist were going to figure out a way to clone the baby

mammoth and restart the population.

It is said that birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theroods from early Cretaceous period of

the Earth's history. When ever new discoveries of birds are found the theory have beeen changed.

This wasn't a flying bird , so it could not have anything do with  flight,but it has long skinny legs and

fewer feathers to make it have more agiltiy. So, it is going to take a lot more facts and research on

this bird to determine if it helps the theory or not.


"New Dinosaur Fossil challenges Bird Evvolution", Dr. Gareth Dyke, Science daily, Jan.24.2013

Creative Reading Response- The Old Man and the sea

The Old Man and The Sea, by: Ernest Hemingway, tells a story about an old man who wants too live out

the rest of his days on a boat in the ocean. There was a kid who was coming to visit him sometimes,

because he thought the old man was strange and a little interesting, since he was not getting a lot of attention

at home. The Old man's name is Santiago and for right now he has spent a total of 84 days in the gulf of

Mexico without catching any fish. His main problem comes when he finds this really large marlin and then

when it gets away he decides to go after it. Since the boy didn't decide to runoff with the old man he stuck

with his family,but visited the old man shack's everyday, looking for new things to discover. They used to

talk about baseball all the time and their favorite player was Joe DiMaggio. Santiago is really frustrated when

he spends even more time in the water and there is no signs of the marlin or any fish for that matter. I feel

that Mr. Santiago is a really lonely old and he doesn't have people really to talk to him, except the young

little boy. I feel like I could relate to him in some certain ways, because sometimes I'm independent and I

prefer to do things alone, sometimes I sometimes feel like I  need time for myself and there are times when

I feel like I need friends with me. Santiago has a hobby that he likes to do and there is nothing wrong with

that, but I think if he was given the choice to bring the boy he might or might not, because he cares for the

boys safety and he probably would like time for himself.  Santiago becomes a lot more wise and even though

he becomes a little anti-social since he has been away from people that long, at times the water could be a 

little rough  he still tries to manage  and pull through and at last he gets the reward he was looking for. I think

this is really good book because it is really descriptive and uses many details to make you actually believe

you were at sea with this guy. I think the author had a great connection with the main character and

envisioned him really well.