The Seeing Of The Hawk

WALT:  make a google drawing to insert the topic-specific vocab in the right places.

On The Trail of a Taniwha - A-Z

WALT: make a google draw A-Z with topic-specific vocab for the reading, On The Trail Of The TaniwhaThe easiest part was trying to find the word that best suits the letters. The hardest part was having to make every individual text boxes.

The Trail Of The Taniwha.

WALT: Make a google draw including topic-specific vocab and add emojis showing how well I know the word then write my own description.
My favorite part of this was finding the right word as you can tell I already knew most of them.
The most challenging thing was thinking of my own description for each word.

Speech 2019

Topic.

Kids can help protect the earth, can't they?

Introduction.

Us kids and our future children are the ones that are going to be more affected by this problem. So listen up and I can tell you how we can help look after our precious home. Every day more and more we are abusing our planet and it needs to stop NOW.

Pollution.

We may not think that pollution is much of a problem in New Zealand but it definitely is in other countries and there are a bunch of options to help solve that problem. They may not completely stop it but it could easily help. We need to reduce the amount of plastic in supermarkets somehow don't we? Taking your own containers or reusable bags for meat and delicatessen items is a good idea. KFC in Kaitaia is now forbidding plastic straws if you are eating in. One big problem is that there is way too much plastic in this world that we can so easily make into biodegradable items. If we did that not only would it be better for papatuanuku but it would also be better for all animals and any living creatures. Another dilemma is something that's done pretty much every day when we are cooking. You can't deny that most of us here all tip our cooking fat down the sink. But what if I told you that by doing this you are badly polluting our waters, so what can we do about it? We all know that as kids we love being messy and creative. Kids can decorate an old jar and get it all messy. After cooking, tip all the cooking fat into the jar after and dispose of it in the solid waste when the jar is full. Or make a very useful compost heap and try to use the garbage disposal as less as possible for vegetables and leftovers. Conserving our energy is something that will really help. By doing this we pollute the air more and more. We could all turn off lights when we don't need them turned on. Use as many windows as possible for natural light. Try using more energy-efficient appliances if you have darker rooms and not many windows around the house.

Deforestation

Deforestation is a big problem as so many of our forests have been cleared. With all of the technology nowadays we could definitely use a whole lot less paper every day. Remember unless you are allergic to vegetables, (which I highly doubt) You can always try to eat more vegetarian meals so that people don't have to clear forests for farming animals. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean you can't eat them.

Marine life

Some of our nearby bays and beaches have had rahui put in place in order to protect our animals and other te ora o te Moana (life of the sea.)if we made other locations protected I think it would make a big difference on the population of sea animals. Another way to make this number increase would be to use lots more eco-friendly components, tote, and hemp bags when shopping or carrying items throughout the day. Make sure we do not by any ivory as we all should know that these items have come from animals that had to suffer just for us to have jewelry and unique items. Please encourage others not to by ivory and explain why we should never purchase any of it.

Conclusion.

Remember that we can not bring back extinct animals. we cannot save animals that have died because of pollution. There is a slight chance of us saving sick and dying animals. The things we do every day are killing the earth. We live on this planet so if we keep abusing it we are only going and abusing ourselves. If you truly love your family then you definitely would not be littering as much as you do. Do we really have to be so parsimonious and cruel to our fragile home? I really hope that by listening to me you will have second thoughts the next time you want to litter. Please don't do such unpleasant things to our precious home.