Over the last 32 or so weeks we have been reading a book with kids from Wingham. Ever since we started reading I have been very interested in the way Kenneth Opal describes Zan. In the book  Half brother, Zan was a “loving animal” that cared for Ben. He did not bite Ben but bit the rest. I found it very surprising in the movie because Nim attacks the ones who loved him most!

There was many things in the book and the movie that was alike. First, Nim got sent to a research facility and Zan got  sent to sort of a shelter for Chimps. They both learned sign language and remember signs after being gone from their homes. What was different in the book and movie, was that in the movie Nim had a “sexual relationship with it’s first owner.”(which was pretty nasty!) Also, to me Nim learned a lot more signs then Zan did and the book was Canadian made but the movie was made in America.

Animal research is a very serious thing to me. Bringing those poor animals into a habitat that is practically 98% different from what they were used too before.( that’s just torture)  In the movie it shows real detail of what they do and how they treat and experiment with the animals. Why do they even do that to them? Even thought they need the animals to test out human products, they don’t need to use harmless animals.

In the book it shows how much Ben’s family went through to save Zan from the research facility, but in the movie they really didn’t care where Nim went or what was done with him. Also, in the movie most of the people that left him came back, what they didn’t realize is that they left him for way too long.  As Nim stayed in his cages, a man(that I can’t remember the name of! sorry) would go and visit Nim every day.

I personally recomend, anyone to read the book and watch the movie because they are both very descriptive of how the treat animals and what they do with them. I also say that the movie is very good because they show you where they put them and how they would prep them for testing.

I enjoy working with the kids from Wingham. They are very polite and they always make sure that everyone knows what there supossed to do. I have Polina, Kasey and Justin in my google presentations group.

The task of this project was to focus on Project Nim,  it was based on the book Half Brother. On Google docs we went through many steps. First we found out what our subject was and it was animal research. Then we started to talk. We talked about what each job was and how we would start the day. Next we found information about Chimpanzees- where they live, their habitat, what they eat and more. After we found all of our information, we picked our jobs.  The jobs were: Editor, information finders and a picture finder also. After we looked it over, we started to find pictures that would go on our presentation.

 Over the last month, we have been workinf with awonderful group of kids from Ontario. They makes sure you know what your jobs is, know how your supossed to do the presentation and lots more.

In our presentation we were working with Animal Research. We focused on a topic that was the chimpanzee. On each slide we had minimum text. creative commins pictures, pictures that describe your topic and text that made sense. For every slide we had their was someone that fixed it, so that it would have the best quality.

I hope you enjoy working with them and I also hope you do a great job on your presentation! Have fun and remember to respect everyone in your group.

Something I have in common with everyone is that we all brush our teeth at least twice a day.

Something I also have in common with willpark, melimast, dylanW, AlyaHuff, noahyoun, Cameron and Zachary is that we all have one dog.

Also something I have in common with a few people is that Angel, dylanW and savannah is that our favourite movies our Soul Surfer.

Something that is unique about me is that I’m the only one that my favourite show is Big Brother!

Something I have in common with most in melimast. We both hate spiders, our favourite website is facebook and we both have a dog!

This is my question to you,What do you enjoy best about your life?why?

omg stupid   Math its sooo  complacated!!!!!!

        Hi, my name is Katelyn,i am 12 years old. I have a dreadful little sister named kyla that is just a couple years younger than i am,my mom is a teacher and my dad is a miner and I’ve had a dog named Dixie for the last eleven years! My “Baba” other known as a grandma is a baker she bakes cakes,muffins,perogies,cabbage rolls and  more!                                  

       I love to listen to all kinds of music except Justin Bieber! My favourite colour is purple and i love to watch Big Brother on cirtain days,two and a half men,C.S.I and more! I like to hang out with my friends after school and on weekends too!                                            

     And that’s all you really need to know about me!!!