Why Eat Bugs

Why Eat Bugs

I am learning to persuade my audience using persuasive writing and emotive words. 

By Ben

Did you know that most people who try bugs really enjoy eating them? If you heard someone was eating bugs for breakfast, lunch and dinner you would think that person is revolting and say “gross!” In my opinion I think that you should have at least have one bug in each meal. My challenge for you today is to try a bug in each meal for one week. Did you know that it turns out, at least two billion people consume insects as part of their diets? That is shocking so I think you should try at least one. There are many reasons why we should eat insects in our diet such as bugs are healthy, low in fat and tasty, fun treats. 

When I mean try a bug I don't mean just go and boil a worm and eat it, I mean you can make a recipe up and make it, such as mealworm fries, cricket chocolate biscuits and much more. Bugs are a nice tasty treat, so you can put them in a bag and have them when you’re out and about. For example, when you’re biking you can have a muesli bar with crickets (yum yum) or maybe you want a little treat like chocolate covered crickets. Not only is cooking with insects tasty and yummy, they are also a healthy option. 

Did you know that bugs actually have the same amount of protein as an egg, or a chicken!? Cockroaches and crickets are one of the healthiest bugs you can eat and beetles are the most common. The good thing is that bugs create a lot less greenhouse gases than a cow, and need a lot less land to raise. Here's the number one reason to eat bugs: They're good for you! They've got protein, fiber, healthy fats, vitamins and essential minerals. You can also be creative with your cooking.

People eat bugs all around the world like China, U.S.A, India. There is outstanding recipes such as crunchy crickets covered in chocolate and there are some yummy mealworm fries and did you know that there are over 2,000 recipes that you can try at home and enjoy and put into your meals. You can even make up your own recipes or even insert bugs into recipes you don’t normally put bugs in. 

As you can see there are many reasons why you should cook with bugs. Like tasty treats you love. Also how it’s healthy, high in protein and low in fat! As well as amazing recipes around the world. So that's why you should try bugs today!

Success Criteria

In writing we use a Success Criteria

I am learning to persuade my audience by writing an exposition

I can: 

Identify what my topic is and use technical words

Identify the flow of my paragraphs

Use personal voice

Introduction:

Use a hook to grab the reader’s attention

Write a topic sentence that identifies what you are persuading

Describe what you are talking about

Give the audience some interesting facts that will lead into the paragraphs

Paragraphs

Use time connectives such as firstly, secondly and thirdly to begin your paragraphs.

Use a topic sentence that identifies what the main argument will be about

The next sentences give more detail that describes the benefits and positives

Provide a lead in sentence to the next paragraph, by reinforcing the subject.

Conclusion

No new information into the conclusion 

Summarise each paragraph

Write a concluding sentence

The Kiwi

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

The Kiwi bird is a native icon to New Zealand. The unique adaptations of the kiwi, such as their large eggs, short and stout legs and using their nostrils at the end of their long beak to detect prey before they ever see it have helped the bird to become well-known to NZ. Kiwi are flightless birds because their Latin species name is Apteryx bird, which means wingless. There are five species of kiwi: North Island Brown Kiwi, Tokoeka, Rowi, Great Spotted Kiwi and Little Spotted Kiwi. Each species of kiwi live in different areas throughout New Zealand.

Where does the kiwi live? What is the needs of their habitat? A habitat is where animals live in order for all their needs to be met. The kiwi is very adaptable in the New Zealand climate. Kiwis don't need to live in a native forest, they can be found in scrub and rough farmland, exotic plantation forests, sand dunes and snowy tussocks, even mangroves. Kiwis build holes, borrows, dens and nests to keep away from their predators. But the kiwis favourite habitat is the the damp forest. Where they can find all sorts of different types of food.

The Kiwi is an omnivore, which means they eat plants and meat. Most of the kiwis food are invertebrates which means an animal without a backbone, like spiders, worms, cockroaches and lots more. Kiwis are also known to eat fungi, frogs and their favourite, the juicy earthworm. Luckily for the Kiwi there are a lot of worms here in New Zealand. But while the kiwi is out in search of their food, so are other animals that enjoy the kiwi as their favourite meal, the predators.

New Zealand had no warm-blooded mammal predators before the English came to New Zealand. Now the kiwi is very endangered, because of cats, stoats, possums, dogs and foxes. These are predators of the kiwi, and with the kiwi unable to fly and low to the ground, the kiwi is a target of these animals. The kiwi is nocturnal and partly blind so they rely on a lot of their other senses, they can hear about a meter away from where they are. The kiwi has very short and fast legs so it can run away from its predators. The kiwi is also able to use the physical adaptation of camouflage to hide from their predators.



To conclude the kiwi bird is a very extraordinary bird. It is exotic in every way, its long beak, its fast legs and the kiwis amazing hearing. People need to make changes and understand the requirements of the kiwi in order to protect them to ensure they live for many years to come.

Why Homework is not Necessary !!!!!!

(1.) What is stressful, time consuming, boring and taking time away from your family. I think this is all to do with the most boring subject in the world! HOMEWORK! Every child would agree that homework is bad? Homework is all the same as what you learn at school, so it’s pretty easy. 

(2.) How long do you think your homework takes in the afternoon. Would it surprise you to learn that some primary schools have worksheets comparable with adults. For most children homework pushes and pressures them. Homework does not do anything it is just a waste of time.

(3.) Children hate homework, they make up excuses like: my teacher gave me no homework or my dog ate my worksheet. Isn’t it so depressing when you get home and your mum says ”Any homework?”If you stop to think about it, the truth is that homework is not necessary. There is no evidence that homework helps your brain.

(4.) Kids already have six hours of school. We start at nine and we go home at three that is already a full days of work. But teachers still give us homework, to take home and do. Some parents come home feeling exhausted, yet they still don’t understand that we have trouble focusing after a full days of work and are tired as well.

(5.) Many families say that homework takes time away from their child's afternoon. One of my reasons is that kids need to relax and take their mind of work. Sometimes homework gets in the way of things like: sports, afternoon activities, playing outdoors and spending time with family and friends.

(6.) Being outdoors getting sun and exercise is very important for our health. Playing outdoors helps us concentrate better and improve our performance at school. Homework is a distraction from time spent outside and teachers should encourage free outdoor play after school for better results in the classroom instead of homework sheets.

(7.) If we are inside our classroom during the day, when we go home we will have to do our homework. Wouldn’t it be so much better if we just did learning in one place. It would be so much better and then you could go home and relax and take your mind of work.

(8.) While school is an important part of a our life, it’s also as important that we take a break from our education. Multiple studies have found that most students are getting too much extra assignments which are leading to sleep problems, levels of stress, as well as related health problems.

(9.) Overall homework is just an extra piece of work we have to bring home everyday. I hope that after listening to my speech there will be no more homework from today onwards.

🐢Sea Turtles🐢

I am learning to inform my audience through explanation

Sea turtles are reptiles and have been around since the late Jurassic period. All sea turtles can not put the head, arms and legs inside their shell like normal turtles. There are three stages of the life cycle of sea turtles egg, babies and adulthood.

First is the egg stage, the mother will lay around 100 to 110 leathery ping-pong ball size eggs. A month and a half later the surviving sea turtles will hatch and 20% of them will not survive. Each one is small enough to fit in a palm of a hand and now the sea turtle has to scramble to the water.

The second stage is the baby sea turtle. While scrambling to the water there are fierce creatures awaiting them like crabs, pitfalls, racoons and they are a perfect bite size meal for seagulls. When the surviving sea turtles reach the water they have a whole new world ahead of them and a lot more predators awaiting them like fish, sharks, dolphins and sea birds when the young sea turtles come to breathe.

Once it is bigger it has some protection of size. The only furious predators now are the bigger sharks and the occasional killer whale. Around 10 sea turtles will survive to breeding age without human interference. Only 1 sea turtle will survive to breeding age with human interference because of nets, plastic refuges and oil. When they are around 20 years old the female will climb back to normally the closest beach and lay those leathery ping pong ball size eggs.

In conclusion sea turtles have three life stages. They are very rare animals and humans need to make them have a nice and happy life.

Red Robot

I.A.L.T write about what happens before during and after an event

A young boy called Josh was bored of cleaning his gigantic room every day. He loved diving into his big,bouncy, soft bed and scrambling under the sheets. He would hide from his mum and cover himself with enormous pillows. Josh’s Mum would shout from the other side of the house screaming “tidy your room Josh or no dinner!” Josh was used to having no dinner because he would make a scrumptious big lunch. But today he felt like a big man-eating boy so he shoved his big pile of stinky clothes into his wardrobe.This was hard because his wardrobe was so tiny, he threw his sheets on his bed and shot through the air to the kitchen. He was starving, he ate his dinner and dragged himself to bed. That night he dreamed about having a robot that would always clean his room every single day and then he would hide it under the damp cardboard box in the deep corner of his room.

When Josh woke up he had a plan to make a soundproof robot that would clean his room every day.
So that day at mechanics class he made a red robot and named him Robot Red. Josh shoved him in his blue backpack and speed off on his bike zooming down the streets. When he got home he shoved his bike to the side and ran up the stairs to his room. He pressed the start button and the robot buzzed to life “I AM ROBOT RED ” it exclaimed “I WILL CLEAN YOUR ROOM” and it set off to work. Josh was amazed, it cleaned his room until one day he packed the robot up and hid it in a big pile of clothes and left. But this time he forgot to shut the robot down so it came stumbling out of wardrobe and saw that the bathroom needed a mop and so he moved to the bathroom. Josh’s mum was still asleep in bed from a late night while Red was mopping the floor. Red smashed into the cabinet draws and stuff came flying out making a racket then he heard footsteps coming towards the bathroom and used some plunges and ran up the wall and flew to the ceiling and in came mum “Josh?” Mum questioned, nobody answered then mum went back to her bed. Red lowered himself to the ground and hovers to another room it was the kitchen.

There were dishes everywhere, the rubbish was spilling out of the bin, it was a disgrace so the robot set off to work. Starting with the dishes placing all of them in the sink he poured dish washing liquid and scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed until he was done then went towards the bin dodging everything in his way, holding his shiny, metal nose. He ran to the cupboard grabbed a face mask and shovelled to scoop up the mess, he ran around the place scooping everything until he got the last piece. He was sprinting on his tiny robot feet when he missed the banana and KABOOM, smashing into the fridge this time there was stomping towards the kitchen yelling “IT IS TIME TO GO TO SCHOOL JOSHUA OR YOU WILL BE 2 HOURS LATE!” Red was sprinting towards the glass door smashing through it jumping over the wooden fence and hid in the bushes.

Mum was looking around shocked it was spotless until she saw the huge robot shaped dent in the fridge. She sprinted to the phone and dialled 111 and yelled “I’VE BEEN BURGLED BY A ROBOT.” There were sirens rushing down the main road just as the lunch bell went at Josh’s school and he saw the speeding police cars parked outside his house and the police ran through the front door. Josh was shocked. The next day mum told Josh all about the robbery and Josh felt terrible, he knew it must have been his self cleaning robot so he told his mum in disappointment. That night he was grounded for life.

The Worst Dinner Ever

By Ben Wright
15.02.18
I am learning to: inform my audience by sharing and entertaining moment.

“Ok what are we having for dinner,” I said in a grumpy voice. Mum didn’t answer because she was too busy driving. When we got to our destination I moaned again, “Why are we at the supermarket.” When we got inside the freezing cold New World I said, “What are we doing here,” “Mum answered “Just getting a few things.”

When we got home I played in my room then a hour later I smelt that awful smell of satay sauce. Some people like satay and normally I would like it but this time it smelt awful. The smell got stronger so I shut my bedroom door to block the smell it did not help it just seeped through the gaps.

It was awful then I looked at my watch I saw the dreadful time it was 6.30, the time of dinner then I heard mum call. I tried to walk slowly while covering my nose, it did not work mum kept yelling, I knew I was going to die from the horrid smell.

I was at the dinner table with my disgusting meal in front of me. Me, my sister and my dad all just sat there at the table all dead silent this was very awkward. Only mum could finish the meal. No dessert for me.

An amazing day at the movies!🙂

When my Dad told me that we were going to see The Last Jedi, I was so excited and the best part was that my sister wasn’t coming (she is so annoying.) I went to my lolly container and grabbed a crunchie bar and set off to the movies. When we got in to St Lukes mall I was all hyper and excited because I had my chocolate bar in the car. My Dad wanted a coffee and we had to go to starbucks, which was ok because it was right next to the movies. We sat down in our red, comfy seats and the movie started which was a surprise. At the end of the movie I was tired as it was 7pm.