Persuasive piece of writing about beaches

Our literacy theme for the next couple weeks is "Exploring the Ocean". One of our MUST DO tasks is to write a page persuading people about: People Should Stop Visiting the Beach, Our Oceans Are Dying, We Can Do Something to Solve the Problem of Plastic in the Ocean, We Use the Ocean for Too Many Things, We Fish Sustainably in New Zealand or More Focus Is Needed for the Protection of Our Seabirds.

I chose to do mine about Beaches and Littering. I hope you enjoy and if you want to look at any of our tasks or other literacy themes you can go to our Teams Google Site.

Beaches

Our beaches are getting worse and becoming more polluted, because people don’t think about the repercussions for leaving plastic on our beaches. People can be heartless and bring cans, plastic bags, packaged food, plastic bottles and so much more, and just drop them on the sand, because they are too lazy to put it in a bin or just to carry it once they get home.

Sea creatures are dying because they eat, choke and even get stuck in plastic rubbish that people are leaving everywhere. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. 

Our beaches, ALL beaches are getting trashed with OUR rubbish. Maybe you were just walking with your friends and you finished a bag of chips but you can’t find a bin anywhere, so you just drop it on the ground, but you only did it just that once, so you think that it won’t make a difference. Well it does! 

Say you wanted a new phone and it was $1500 but you only had $1499 that last dollar would matter. Just like money, even the one time you littered, the wind could have pushed that piece of rubbish down to the beach and out to sea. Then a sea turtle came across it and it got stuck in it. What happened then? 

We need to stop being so clueless about where we put out rubbish! Beaches everywhere are BEAUTIFUL! What would you do if one day you were walking past your favourite beach and it had been closed down and our birds and sea life were getting killed because of how much rubbish was getting tossed everywhere? 

If we all work together I bet we could stop ruining our beaches! Who knows what we could do if we all put our heads together and stop using our beaches as bins? I can confess I have littered in the past, but that was before I learnt about our world and how people who litter are changing the way of life. 

The world we live in is crumbling around us because of Global Warming, littering, smoke, plastic, and a whole lot more. If we don’t act fast then the world could die… With us along with it. 

I know that changing lifestyles just like that is difficult for some people but here are ways you can start helping:

Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Cut down on what you throw away. Follow the three "R's" to conserve natural resources and landfill space,

Conserve water. The less water you use, the less runoff and wastewater that eventually end up in the ocean, 

Shop wisely. Buy less plastic and bring a reusable shopping bag, 

Plant a tree. Trees provide food and oxygen. They help save energy, clean the air, and help combat climate change.

Please help me save our beautiful beaches. Think before you litter!

I think I did a great job at the amount of time and work I put into this.

I think I could improve the way I structured my writing.

New York Broochure

For part of my Countries and Continents literacy theme, we are asked to pick a city. The city that I chose was New York. My teachers have asked me to make a brochure about my chosen city, So I did. This slide shows the city I chose, the instructions, and the outside, back, front and inside of my brochure.

I choose to do mine about New York because I really wanna visit there one day. For each activity you get rated 4 colours, Red: The Teachers couldn't open it, Orange: You haven't done your work to a high standard, Green: Done, and Blue: Outstanding. I am really proud of this piece of work and I got marked Blue.

I think I did a really good job with my research and how much work got put into this.

I think I could improve the way I word my writing.

Please leave me a positive, thoughtful, helpful comment :)

Continents Attribute Organiser

This weeks literacy's theme is Countries and Continents. This is an Attribute Organizer about Continents. They include: Antarctica, Australasia, Asia, Europe, North and South America. The Antarctica one was done as an example for me by my teacher so I knew what I was doing.

I think that I did a could job with my research.

I think I could Improve the quality of my writing.

Please leave a Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful Comment for me. Thank you!

Maori Calendar

For the past three weeks we have been doing a Matariki literacy theme. For one of the tasks you have to make a Maori calendar using info from a doc and my own research to crate an information google slide sharing info about the Maori calendar. If you would like to check out some of the other Matariki tasks or any of the other themes then you can look on our Teams Google Site. 

At first I forgot to put what the Maori did for each season, but with my wonderful teachers help she reminded me to change it and put what they did. I think that next time I could try and constraint more on the information and the expectations rather than the font or size so maybe next time I will remember to put everything in without my teachers having to remind me. 

Doing this activity really helped me learn about what the months and seasons were in Maori. 

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Letter to Jacinda Ardern

This weeks Literacy theme is Matariki. One of the tasks is to write a letter to Jacinda Ardern. The day before I made my letter, me and the rest of my writing group did this thing where we would look at a letter that someone made to Bunnings Warehouse asking if Bunnings would support their school with their Kitchen Garden. I hope you like my letter and if you want to look at the other tasks or any other theme you can visit our Teams Google Site. (if you go onto the Google Site you can look at the Bunnings letter by clicking this link)

For this activity I had to re-write it because I realised (with my teachers help of course) that it didn't fit the criteria. Doing this activity really helped me learn how to write a letter because I have done letter writing in the past but I never really understood it but now I do. 

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Marbled Cone Snail

This weeks literacy theme is Strange and Wonderful Animals. One of the tasks were to crate a sign about the Marbled Cone Snail and how they are VERY dangerous. We had to make a poster with big and bold fonts to get peoples attention. If you would like to look at some of the other literary themes or the other literacy tasks then you can go to our Team’s Google Site 

For this activity I have to be honest I did this on my first try. So this is what the criteria included: 

• Pictures, with only a few important words

• Bold text

• Bright colours

• Catch people’s attention

Doing this activity I learned that you are not supposed to approach this snail, no matter how cool this snail looks it can kill you so I would advise you to stay away from this snail.

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Strange Animals Attribute Organiser

 This week our Literacy theme is Strange and Wonderful Animals. One of the tasks is an Attribute Organiser. We had to research all the different categories for some strange animals. The categories were: which countries/continents is it found?, What is its habitat like?, What does it eat?, 3 interesting facts and a picture of the animal. There we all different kinds of strange animals. The animals were: Pangolin, Naked Mole Rat, Goblin Shark, Shoebill, Sloths and Axolotl. If you would like to look at some of the other literacy themes then you can go to our Team’s Google Site

For this activity I was supposed to put everything into key words, but for the 3 interesting facts part I didn’t put only keywords I put in full sentences. My teacher helped me by leaving a comment to remind me that I was supposed to only put keywords not full sentences. Next time I need to remind myself that I have to put only keywords so my teacher doesn’t have to remind me. Doing this activity helped me learn about the different types of strange animals. 

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