Should animals be kept in zoos/ speech writing

WALT - use specific vocab

 This week we were learning to write about speeches because speeches are coming up at the end of the term. This was just a practice and starting to know how to write a specific speech. The whole class did this type of writing because it was just a warm up. Here is my writing, if you want to answer one of the question then please comment down below.

Animals should not be kept in zoos.

Should animals be kept in small cages and not be able to move around?

I strongly believe that animals should not be in zoos because it’s brutal. I think it’s mean because in zoos, they rely on humans to survive, they are taken away from their habitats and taken away from families.

Firstly, their natural instinct to hunt goes away because the zoo keeper’s feed them and decide when they eat, and how much they eat. Also the tourists or visitors feed animals junk food. They are NOT ALLOWED it because it makes the poor animals sick. It’s also not healthy for animals. It’s not their normal diet.

Secondly, lack of freedom means muscles detenciate. I mean the animals don’t use their muscles so animals can lose simple stuff like walking, swinging and swimming for some animals. It is too hot for some animals like polar bears and penguins, just because of zoos. Some zoos are also too cold for other animals like elephants and crocodiles.

Thirdly, babies are taken away from their mothers. Which is very hard for the babies to live. Like us, elephants feel joy when they see their families but grief when separated from each other. In zoos, they are lonely. There are no herds. They are normally in heards. Animals in erds, when they are separated, they will feel and have depression, anxiety, aggression and sometimes die.

I strongly believe that animals should not be kept in zoos because it is brutal.               

By Selina 

Rat trap wevideo

On Tuesday, we were doing a wevideo on what has happened in our school life. I did mine on rat traps because in our awa there are rats and stoats. So we are trying to kill them all because they are eating our native and non-native birds eggs and them self. Here is my wevideo.

Reading about the oil spill.

W.A.L.T - identify the main idea.
Last week we had been learning about the oil spill in 2011 with the MV Rena. We had to read this online book (link here) to get the facts and how the MV Rena cargo ship made the oil spill. After we read the online book, we did a interview based on the sinking of the MV Rena cargo ship. I did it with Ciara (check her blog here).
This is the video.

The 3 Sacrament

Yesterday room 1 was doing a task and it's about the 3 Sacraments. We were doing this was because we are a Catholic school. The 3 Sacraments are; Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. We had to make a poster of it with symbols and a ritual. Here is mine.

Bird feeder

For last weeks reading we made a bird feed because we were trying to attract native bird from our school. Me and Catalina (check out her blog here) made the bird feeder together. We found it hard to paint the feeder because most of it was patterns like trees and flower. I really enjoyed doing it with Catalina because she is my best friend and she was willing to do it with me.

Word cloud of Mary

Last Friday was the assumption of Mary. It means that Mary was taken to heaven without being seen. I made a word cloud with the words that means Mary. If you want to have a look at the link then click here. Or you can search up "Wordcloud.com".  This is my word cloud. 

Maths time tables check up

Today for math we did a times table check up because we need to sharpen up our times tables.
Green means I got it right, Orange means I didn't have time to do it and red means I got it wrong. My teacher said that we weren't going to learn our 11x and 12x because they were just 10 times + the 2 times. I did my 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 9x and 10x. I found it hard because I had to answer the qustion in 6 seconds. Which was kinder challenging.

The Assumption of Mary and Peter walks on water

Today I had been doing what the church's calendar said. Today it said that it's the Assumption of Mary. It's when Mary goes up into heaven. I had a choice of if I wanna do it. Because my teacher, Mrs Naden did have a task about this. I thought I should do it because I am in a Catholic school.
I have got two stories on this slideshow, one is when Peter walks on water. And the other is Mary's Assumption. I did the video last night because I thought that I might not get it upload quick enough.
I really enjoyed doing the videos. It was really fun to do.
What have you learned from this blog post?

Faith GIF

This week and last week our class have been learning how to make a GIF. We used Tall Tweets to make our GIFs. We had to use the Classic one. I really liked how it worked out really great, and it looks great too.
The reason why I have chosen to do the GIF on the the faith poster, was because I am showing that I know what faith is and what it means to me. Also because it is our term 3 value. Each term we have different words. We learn about them. They are special words to us because we are a Catholic school. Faith means trusting in God even if you can't see him. God will always be there for you. Some people aren't Catholic but it doesn't stop me, because God will never leave your side.
I found it challenging to finish the slide on time because I did my faith poster on a google drawing. I had to do my faith poster on the slide for the GIF because on GIFs. They move, and they make people stop and look at the GIF.
Have you made a GIF before? If so, please comment and tell me. I can share it to my classmates.