Snowy the fox

I was standing there in the freezing snow. 
I was trying to find food. 
I dived in to the the deep snow,
trying to find field mice.
My first try I came up with nothing.
Second time I came up with a field mouse.
I was no longer hungry.
But the snow still fell.
I was still cold.

Why sugar is bad for you by Nehemiah.

Why sugar is bad for you by Nehemiah.

Sugar is bad for you because it fills you with empty calories and fat. It also rots your teeth and can give you cancer.

If you eat too much junk food, which is full of sugar, you will get fat.

People that don’t exercise won’t achieve anything. If you don’t exercise the sugar energy turns into fat. This can cause fatty liver disease. When people eat a lot of sugar they can get diseases like type 2 diabetes.

Sugar can also cause cancer. It can cause addiction. You get addicted to the sweetness. Sugar can give you heart disease. It’s not the fat that kills you. It’s the sugar! British people consume 238 teaspoons of sugar a week.

You can get vitamin C sugar or fat sugar. If you eat too much sugar you can become lazy. It brainwashes your brain to thinking you have loads of energy but if you don’t use the energy up, it turns to fat. If you eat too much sugar you might die of fatness. Sugar is bad for you!

Irene's speech about why pitbulls should not be banned.

Hi my name is Irene and I would like tell why Pitbulls should not be banned. I think that banning Pitbulls is stupid because …

The Pitbull has no inherent dangerous characteristics and banning would make no progress in safety.

Pitbull’s do not have the strongest jaws of all dog breeds in fact out of study that included Pitbulls, Rottweilers and German Shepard the Pitbull has the weakest jaws.

 Pitbulls may attack often but this may just be because they are   trained to do so. Some people just buy Pitbulls because they want tough dogs that can attack and be violent.

People who want dangerous dogs train them to be this way .just because Pitbulls attack more than any other dog doesn’t mean they attack a lot or a dangerous amount of time

They are dangerous because they are purposefully trained as a breed to be dangerous. If Pitbulls were banned another dog breed would be trained to be just as dangerous and no progress in safety would be made.

Some pit bulls get bad rap because of their irresponsible owners. We must as a society stop blaming the dog and start blaming the owner.

The average domestic dog has a jaw that can force 320 psi of pressure. In this same study the Pitbull maxed out at only 235 psi. Chihuahua’s have more bite than pitbulls!

With proper training and handling your Pitbull can learn to live peacefully in the company of other dogs and often cats as well.

Ken Howard award winning actor from crossing Jordan was saved by his Pitbull shadow during a medical crisis.

Though Pitbulls are athletic and love to play if they had their druthers they would be sleeping on the couch 24/7.

Pitbulls are very   easy to train all they want to do is please you. As they are so sensitive to your feeling verbal training comes easily with this breed.   

 Here are some facts about why I think Pitbulls should not be banned:

Pitbulls are no more vicious than golden retrievers. 

Pitbulls can’t lock their jaws.      

Pitbulls always test high as one of the most stable breeds of dogs in the country. 

Would you like it if pitbulls were banned and your dog got taken off you?

And that’s why I think pitbulls should not be banned .

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Teneille's speech about why we should recycle.

Why we should recycle.

Hi, my name is Teneille and I have a question for you. Would you like to live in polluted air? I know I wouldn’t!

 There are lots of reasons why we should recycle there’s pollution to landfills their all polluting our air. Next thing you know where dying and suffocating. If we don’t start to recycle we will die.

Here are some reasons why we should recycle.

1.    We need to reduce pollution. We can do that by:

Recycling more and not sending things to landfills.

2.    Reduction in landfills: the size of landfills can be significantly reduced if we start to recycle. Yes that’s right, it’s that easy!!!!

3.     Conservation of materials: all the new products are made from the raw materials which are produced from harvesting the natural material.     

How long will litter last?

Aluminium cans….500 years.

Glass bottles….1, 000, 000.

Plastic bags….10-20 years.

Plastic jugs….1, 000,000.

Tin soup can….80-100 years.

Disposable paper….500 years.

Rubber boot sole….50-80 years.

Leather….50 years.

Wool sock….1 year.

Orange and banana skins….3-4 week.

Cigarette butts….1-5 years.

That a lot for just litter.

Only an idiot would not recycle! If that person did not recycle we would all die because of how polluted our air is. Did you know? That not only is it bad to put electronics into the land fill, they are filled with valuable resources and materials including metals, plastic and glass. So, instead of throwing them out you can donate them to a charity organization or recycle them.

Here are some of the things I know about recycling.Recycling benefits everyone, REALLY! There is a limited amount of space on earth for us to live on!! Because we do not recycle. Recycling one ton of paper can save: 4,100 kilowatts of  power, 172 trees and 7000 gallons of water (that’s two tanker trucks!)

My school is trying to get a green gold award. We recycle paper, so then trees can get sent to us. We have also been renovating our adventure playground and keeping our school clean. So now I hope you can see my point of view of why we should recycle!!!!!!

Hannah's speech on rats on Bluff Hill.

Rat traps should be set on Bluff Hill by Hannah.

Would    you   like   it  if  there  was   no  birds  chirping   when  you  go  for  a  walk ?  It   might  happen   because of rats.  Hello  my  name  is  Hannah.  I am   9  years  old  and  I  am  going to tell you  about why   rats   are   not   good  for  birdlife. 

        There are three types of rats Norway ship and kiore. Kiore are poor swimmers. If   you   aren’t   setting traps to catch  the   rats    the    number of   birdlife  will   go  down. If  this  happens   I   will   go  wild   because   when  I go  for a walk  I  would  not   be  able  to  listen   to birds  chirping. 

Ship rats are causing the most damage  to our wild life  and nature because they are good climbers so they can climb up to the highest nests in the trees.

DOC administers 230  islands off the coast on NZ.   15 of these islands have kiore, maori rats.  Rat traps on DOC administered islands   would    reduce   the rats by  only  four   percent . Doc, heath and regional authorities are involved in posing operations to ensure risk to humans the environment and non- target   species is minimized. 

Bluff  has   set  up   rat   traps  at  Bluff  Hill. Rats   have  a major  impact  on  New  Zealand  wild life   because  rats  eat  native    animals  and their  eggs.   If you aren’t   trapping rats  more, poor birds   and their eggs  will   suffer .

You can help by putting poisoning in your house and set rat traps somewhere safe outside. If we don’t do something one day birds will be extinct and  we need do something or else other people won’t  grow up listening to birds chirping  like us and chasing birds or watching them.

Rats are not good for bird life and nature. It is now winter so the rats are coming out and going into our houses so put up rat traps or poisoning in your house.. I do rat trapping with my grandad up Bluff Hill you too should do something to help the birds. Thanks for listening to my speech.

Scott Tullock workshop

At authors and illustrators workshop with Scott Tullock.