A waste of time

This term we are doing an inquiry about rubbish and our waste.
We have started and it has been quite fun so far and there is lots of group work.
I really enjoy doing the PMI's to show how we thought the group worked together.
I hope you like my post and please give me some feedback as I update this.
In the future there will be a lot more slides.

The Ice Palace

This week we have started reading the Ice palace as part of our writing. We have had to make the first two paragraphs of the story up using the first sentence without hearing any part of the book except for the first sentence. This is the first sentence: "Turn your face to the east wind, and if you could see forever you would see Ivan's land. It is a land where..."  Here are my first two paragraphs...

Turn your face into the east wind, and if you could see forever you would see Ivan’s land. It is a land where... the good meets the bad, the light meets the darkness, the dogs meet the wolves, the trees become a thick never ending forest with a blanket of snow above. It is a mistake, It used to be fun, winding in and out of the forest trees, now it has been ruined since the ruler called Ivan came. He made it the land of the bad, named Ivan’s land. It now fills the villagers hearts with ice to hear or speak his name, and I am ashamed, ashamed to have let my own brother take kindness from the village. We all want to save the village, by coming to his front door and taking it all back. But we can’t do that because he has wolves that rip flesh from people and take heros from the village. The village has become dark since he left, he was a good person. It all started 4 months ago when he turned 18, the day the boy he was became a man. In our village we have a ritual, for all the kids becoming adults have to do to find out if they are good or bad. Everyone in the village was here in the middle of Ivan’s land before it was his. He carefully placed his hand on the rock then it suddenly shone a bright gold, meaning that he was good, but then it flickered and the gold turned black.

Suddenly Ferocious Wolves appeared on the edges of the clearing when the rock suddenly spoke:
“EVERYONE MUST LEAVE THIS FOREST IT IS NOW Ivan's Land!” Everyone was shocked but they till was watching the rock. Suddenly the leader of the wolf pack with his pitch black fur shining out from the snow shot out of the trees surrounding the clearing, like a leopard he agilely leaped like a cat onto the rock, on top of the rock, the wolf stood and watched. Suddenly he
howled and like a flash the rest of the wolves blurred as they ran out of the trees and ripped us from the forest. When we were out of the forest we had to start the long trek back home.
I hear kids screaming, I see people hiding, I taste the cold bitter air, I smell the sadness and
I feel the evil. I have always been told that I have a gift, for helping and finding the good in everything. But I don’t think I do because I can’t think of anything good about this. I now have
a job so then my family and I can afford to look after us. Its now only my mum, dad, younger
sister and I. My little sister looks just like Ivan and my father with her dark brown hair, pale skin
, and brown eyes. But my mum and I are different we have icy blonde hair, sea blue eyes but we
still have pale skin just like everyone else in the village. No one here now has dark skin unless they
came from far away but they leave after a while. My family is the family that holds everyone up
and gives them hope and resources but now we are just like everyone else, afraid, of him. I want tohelp in whatever way I can, but it’s difficult when your brother was the best warrior and the most skilled hunter. Now I have to save the village from the ice and snow, I want to help them not
be afraid.

That was my first two paragraphs, I hope you liked them. Now, this is the front cover for the Ice palace...

Please give me some feedback on this blog post, because I will really appreciate it and I will reply to the comments and improve my writing to what you say I should improve.

MY FINISHED SPEECH

I think I did well for my speech even though I only had two days to write, edit and practice it. But I got into the finals for my year and I was against Mia, Maddie, and Gracie. I was against more people because Maddie and Gracie tied for the class competitions. Gracie got first, Maddie got second, I got third and Mia got fourth. Now here is my video of me presenting to the year 5,6s in my class.

OUR ECO TRIP

Everything you need to know is in the slide.

MATH WEEK, TINY HOUSE

My Speech

--My speech--

Imagine how many species are in the world and there are so many more of us than any other species. Altogether there are around 7,640,875,986 people in the world last time I looked and it keeps going up rapidly and there are about 8.5 million species and so how many animals are there? And how many of that species is left? Hi, my name is Abby and today I am talking about 6 of the most endangered animal species in the world.

Now time for the first three I chose that are land animals and those land animals are Siberian Tigers, Giant pandas, and polar bears. First up Siberian tigers, Siberian tigers are beautiful and majestic creatures that can blend in with their orange and black stripes even if their tail is sticking out, that is impressive, right? Siberian tigers live in the freezing forests of Russia and northern China. They can do this because they have long thick fur and a layer of fat to keep them protected from the cold that's amazing am I right? But there's also a sad part because they are hunted by poachers who kill them for their skins, and their homes are being cut down.

Second up is Giant pandas, Giant pandas are the rarest members of the bear family. These animals live in the mountain areas of south-west China in cold, wet bamboo forests. Their numbers have gone down quickly because the forests are destroyed and the pandas end up with nothing to eat. Third up are Polar bears, Polar bears are big, powerful hunters, and these hunters are the largest meat-eating animals to walk on land. They mainly eat seals but are capable of hunting larger animals like walruses. Polar bears have no main predators but are endangered because of global warming. Global warming is making the ice that they depend on for hunting is melting rapidly.

Now for the second three sea animals. First up is the North Atlantic Right Whale but I’m going to call it the NAR Whale. The NAR Whales are only found in the Atlantic Ocean. The NAR Whales are slow swimmers so they are easy targets for commercial whalers. Although they are now a protected species now, at one point they were nearly extinct and they still are extremely rare. Second up is The leatherback turtles, The leatherback turtles are the largest sea turtles in the world. Even Though The leatherback turtles have been on the plant for around 1 hundred million years, Global warming, Damage to their nesting beaches and ocean pollution are threatening their lives.

Third up is Hector's dolphins, Hector's dolphins are found in the sea off the coast of our home in New Zealand. Unlike many other species of Dolphin, Hector's dolphins have a rounded fin. The Hector's dolphins are the smallest dolphins in the world because a full-grown hector’s dolphin is 1.4 meters that is so small right? The Hector's dolphins live close to shore but that makes it dangerous because they can get tangled in fishing nets and drown. Now you might be asking how can they drown they are dolphins? Well just like us sea animals have to come up every so often to suck in lots of air so they can stay under the water for long periods of time.

Doesn’t this make you angry And sad? And you want to help well I can give you a few ideas to help, 1, If you can stop people cutting down trees, 2, recycle more, 3, Don’t litter and 4, you can donate to zoos to save animals. This speech is for you so then you know what's happening with these animals and how you can help in so many ways so don’t you want to help them?

-Abby

This isn't my real speech this is just the long non-edited version of my speech that will eventually turn into the good speech that I will present. The speech needs to be a maximum of 2 minutes and this one is 3 minutes and 43 seconds so I will post my good speech once I edit this.