Stingray Report

  

 Stingrays. What do you think when somebody says the word stingray? Do you think of a really vicious sea creature that stings you to death? Or do you think of a flat harmless sea creature that has a stinger that they can use when they suddenly turn against you? Well Stingrays are related to the shark family but otherwise these creatures can be harmless.

Stingrays are flat sea creatures with a long tail and a barb on the end of it. Usually there can be more than one barb on the tail, which the stingrays use for self defence. The stingrays eyes are on the top of it’s head and the nostril and mouth on the bottom. Although their eyes are on the top of their heads, they don’t use their eyes to hunt down and find their food. They use their sense of smell all the time. Stingrays smell for their food and they eat snails, shrimp, clams, small fish and other small creatures around the ocean.

Stingrays do NOT sting unless you stand on them. So if you ever stand on a stingray you better run! A stingray can live up to 15-25 years of age and 16.5 feet which is 5 metres long and can weigh up to 1,320 pounds which is 600KG! Did you know that stingrays don’t have bones but their skeleton is made out of cartilage, a flexible firm kind of tissue that is white, just like their relative, the shark.

The stingray swims almost like a bird, sometimes it flaps its side using them like wings which makes them glide through the water. Or sometimes they move in a swaying kind of ways which allows them to push their way through the water. Stingrays can be useful as well, their rough, tough skin can be used to make shoes, wallets, boots, belts and more. In Japan they use the skin to make an underlayer for their Japanese swords, which is perfect because it holds the sword in place so it doesn’t slip away. In other parts of the world such as Malaysia and Singapore, they eat stingray. They grill it and mix it with special sauces.

Are stingrays harmless l? Or are they just another type of sea creature that gets misjudged? I think that they are perfectly good sea creatures, just don’t step on them!

By: Kaydence

References:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20is%20cartilage&es_th=1

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/stingray.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/stingray/

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+can+stingrays+grow%3F&rlz=1CAACAG_enNZ586NZ588&oq=how+long+can+stingrays+grow%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57.7608j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

Robotic Pets and Dream Catcher Proofreading

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Original Text:

robotic pets my opinion

Robotic pets, like cats and dogs are now availlable. But I think they should be banned. If a robotic pet are bought for a yung child it could teech him or her that pets can be ignored or mistreated. whenever the childs mood changes. What would hapen if one day the child recieve a real pet He or she may treat it the same way.

Some robotic pets are used in nursing homes for eldely people who are unable to care for a real pet. I understand that this may give them some cumfort, but a robotic pet cant give you no love like a real animal can. I think nursing homes should has volunters who regularly brings in real pets for a few hours at a time insted.

The only positiv thing about robotic pets is that it might save some animals from being treated cruely by their owners. But the cost of robotic pets is still too high for most peoples budjets.

Corrected Text:

Robotic pets: My opinion

Robotic pets, like cats and dogs are now available. But I think they should be banned. If a robotic pet is bought for a young child, it could teach him or her that pets can be ignored or mistreated whenever the child’s mood changes. What would happen if one day the child receives a real pet? He or she may treat it the same way.

Some robotic pets are used in nursing homes for elderly people who are unable to care for a real pet. I understand that this may give them some comfort, but a robotic pet can’t give you love like a real animal can. I think nursing homes should have volunteers, who regularly bring in real pets for a few hours at a time instead.

The only positive thing about robotic pets is that it might save some animals from being treated cruelly by their owners. But the cost of the robotic pets is still way too high for most people’s budgets.

Original Text:

Dream catcher

Long ago Iktomi, the teacher of wisdem appeared two a Lakota elder. iktomi had taken the form of a spider. The spider tok a wooden hoop that the elder was carrying it then will start to spin a web in it.

The spider maid the web a perfect circle with a hole in the middle. It told the elder that webs like this wood help the Lakota people will reach their goals and make better use of there ideas and dreams. The webs would cach their good ideas and dreams and let the bad ones go straight threw the hole. The elder will take the web to his people and told them what the spider had sed the lakota people then made their own “dreem catchers”.

Tooday many native americans hang dream catchers above their beds too capture good dreams and ideas.

Corrected Text:

Long ago Iktomi, the teacher of wisdom appeared to a Lakota elder. Iktomi had taken the form of a spider. The spider took a wooden hoop that the elder was carrying. It will then start to spin a web in it.

The spider made the web a perfect circle with a hole in the middle. It told the elder that webs like this would help the Lakota people reach their goals and make better use of their ideas and dreams. The webs would catch their good ideas and dreams and let the bad ones go straight through the hole. The elder will take the web to his people and tell them what the spider had said. The Lakota people then made their own “Dream catchers”.

Today many native Americans hang dream catchers above their beds to capture good dreams and ideas.

By:Kaydence

Four Children And It Book Review