Trust me With our Future (2018 Speech)

Trust me With our Future!

WALT: To create a speech using R E E F and to include less pollution, global warming and captive animals.

Intro: Did you know that 100 million marine animals get killed each year by plastic? Did you know that the icebergs in Antarctica are melting, and this accounts for 70% of the worlds ice! Another fact, that you may not be aware of - is that some of you in the audience may be enabling animal cruelty!!
Kia-ora my name is Zhara, and today I am going to be talking to you about plastic pollution, global warming, and captive animals. I am here to convince you, that you can trust me with OUR future. So tighten your socks and get ready to be blown away with unbelievable, devastating facts.

Less pollution is the Best Solution!
Trust me with our future, because I know how we can stop plastic causing pollution. People are treating this world like its a rubbish dump. In 7 years, there is going to be more plastic than fish in the South Pacific ocean, which is terrible. We need to make a change, and when I say make a change, I mean we need to stop using plastic and start using biodegradable plastic, or even better no plastic at all.
When people like you and I, go to the store, you would normally ask for a plastic bag because it's much easier to carry your stuff, but actually a ten cent plastic bag is actually killing 100 dolphins if it flies into the ocean which it is most likely to. So imagine buying 5 plastic bags, that’s potentially killing 500 dolphins. Plastic takes 1000 years to break down.
Imagine, going fishing and catching nothing but plastic, or going surfing and not surfing on water but surfing on waves of plastic how awful would that be. I feel that if we stop using plastic bags now our future will become better for our generation and the generations to come. But if we keep buying plastic bags this world wide problem will become even worse. I hope I have convinced you to make a change and start making this world more livable.

Global Warming
Another reason why you should trust me with our future!
Don’t you just love getting a nice tan in the warm ,relaxing sun? Well not anymore you won’t. Now in 2018, over 4000 people each year are getting skin cancer just in New Zealand. That is about 13 people every day because of global warming. Global warming is killing our environment. You might not think this is a big issue but it's actually one of the worlds biggest problems especially in New Zealand.
There are four greenhouse gases :Methane, Carbon dioxide, Water Vapor, and ozone. If there isn't the same amount of each one, it will cause global warming which is happening now, as there is too much Carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is released when we burn fossil fuel. Carbon dioxide is mostly getting released by cars, fossil fuel, and nuclear chimneys. Every year it gets hotter and hotter because of global warming. If you don't want to get skin cancer and want to help decrease global warming - here are some things you can do to help:
1. Don't sunbath or
Stop burning fossil fuel which is causing global warming. If you want to stop Global warming and get a nice tan without getting skin cancer then plant more trees. Trees will absorb carbon dioxide and other harmful gases. So this is why you should trust me!

Captive animals
My last, but not least reason why you should trust me with our future!
Have you ever abused an animal? I hope most of you would say NO to this question - but let me put it another way. Have you ever been to a circus where animals have been used for tricks, or ridden an elephant in a far away country? Because if you have, then without knowing it, you have helped aid this abuse to animals! We need to stop this right now, and we must educate others about this awful practice.
I do not agree with animal cruelty, especially animal circuses. Animal circuses don’t have any point to it, except for money and our entertainment. Animals like Tigers, lions, elephants, Bears, hippos and many more, all get put into circuses and get tortured. You might think it would be quite cool to watch animals do all these amazing tricks, but not if you knew what went on behind the scenes. Put yourself in their shoes.
You get tortured if you can't do a confusing trick and get your food taken away from you if you mess up. You would live in a tiny cage that you can’t even turn around in. You have to do dangerous tricks like jumping through hoops of fire, or balance on a tightrope. Undercover cameras in circuses have shown that big cats are dragged by heavy chains around their necks and even hit with sticks, and whipped until they bleed. What is entertaining about that!!!!

Conclusion:
So with those three reasons that I have discussed, you can be reassured that you can trust me with OUR future!
We can all make a difference, by changing a few things, and I hope that I have explained this well. Firstly - change from using plastic bags to paper bags, plant some trees, and lastly, do not visit a circus or ride a captive animal! These simple changes can make a world of difference!
So trust me, Zhara, with our future!! Besides, I am better looking than President Trump!!

Reflection: I found this very fun to write because I like to talk a lot, speciously in writing. I think that next time I can work on not waffling so much(writing so much) And I think that I done well on making it make sense and putting some personalise information in.

Ice Skating Fundraiser for our Wellington trip

                                                         
Ice Skating Fundraiser for our Wellington Trip
Walt: Advertise our ice Skating Fundraiser

The reason we made these posters were to advertise our ice skating tour in Kaitaia to fundraise for our Wellington trip in term four. I enjoyed doing this because it was creative and fun to create. Some parts I did find a bit difficult because I only had one day to do it because I was away for to days. I helped a couple of people as well (Isaac, Jaykahn) Next time I think I need to work on changing the fonts to make it look more effective.

Wax-eye (Video,Sound and Website)

                                Wax- eye
Links


Video of The Wax eye

Sound of the Wax eye

Website of the Wax eye

Wax-eye

Walt: Research and find information about New Zealands native birds. I have Created a google slide and screencastify to share my learning.

Drawing that I done For the Wax-eye 

    WALT: Write a persuasive piece of writing.




                                                                    Wax Eye

Do you have any idea what a wax-eye? No, it’s not a eye full of gooey sleep. A Wax-eye is a friendly bird with a white feathered ring around its eye. They are slightly smaller than a sparrow, the maori name for the wax-eye is tauhou. If you read on you will find out more about their habitat, their appearance and their predators it has a few threats, but luckily not to many.

Firstly I would like to talk about the Wax-eyes diet and their habitat.The Wax-eye eats mainly insects and fruit nectar. They live in deep forests of open grassland. Although they feed on fruit nectar and not meat, they visit bird feeders more than any other species in New Zealand. They are native to New Zealand, you find them in the North Island. The most populated area is the Far North.

Secondly I would like to talk about their appearance and their behaviour. Although wax-eyes are very small, they are very strong, they flew from Australia and the South Pacific Islands which is approximately 4,163 km away from us. The wax-eye has a olive green eye with a white feathered circle around it, they have a fine tabberd bill, and a brush tipped tongue like many other birds. Their feathers are a green olive colour and sometimes yellow. Males have slightly brighter plumage than a female. Personally I think that the wax-eye is a very elegant and beautiful bird

Thirdly, there are many predators out there that kill the wax-eye. The main predators are cats, stoats, rats and morepork. Lucky, the population of the wax-eye is quite high, so they are not on their way to being endangered or extinct. There are protection centers like Zealandia in Wellington. Sanctuaries like these have high walls and underground fencing so no predators can get in. Birds such as the wax eye can still fly out but have a safe place to return to.

I hope I have convinced you to look after the wax-eye. This little bird has the strength of 50 tigers and the beauty of a peacock. Although we do not need to worry about it’s extinction we do need to recognise it as a New Zealand native bird. You can help keep them safe by putting a bell on you cats collar (If they have a collar.) or make rat and stoat traps were the wax eye mainly lives. Thank you for reading all about the wax-eye.