Writing This Week

Xanthe, Courtney, Mackenzie C and I are sure that plastic will take other the world. 
So we wrote a persuasive letter to anyone and everyone to persuade them not to use plastic 
bags and to inform them about what plastic bags could do to animals and people. My 
specific goals for writing are organization and detailing my ideas. I have used my personal best to 
always think of my goals when I am writing and to use the goals. The personal best star means 
to have an I can attitude, persistence, high expectations and managing ourselves and our 
belongings, I am aiming to have an I can attitude and persistence.

Say NO to Plastic Bags  

Hey everyone! As Year 7 and 8 students from Toko School we say NO to plastic 
bags as it puts animal species in DANGER and it could put our lives in DANGER as well.

Do you know how many plastic bags the world uses a year? Do you actually know the 
number? Well would you have guessed five trillion? That's right the world uses five trillion 
plastic bags a year. That is 10 million bags per minute! Then where do all these bags end up? 
They end up in landfills, oceans and lots of plastic bags end up on the side of the roads. In 
New Zealand over 40,000 plastic bags are dumped in landfills every hour. On average we can 
only recycle one in every 200 bags we use. So most people just throw their bags away or 
reuse their plastic bags over and over again till they gets holes in them then they throw 
them away too. The average American throws away 185 pounds (83 KG) of plastic bags 
per year.

Do You have a pet?  Would you hate to lose that pet? Do you love animals? Would you 
hate for animals to go extinct? Then STOP using plastic bags as it KILLS animals. There
are many different ways for animals to get killed from plastic bags. Some reasons are, the 
animals eat the plastic bags and it can get stuck in the throat or stomach and could KILL 
them. They could also get stuck in the bags and die then an another could try and eat that 
animal and at the same time eat the plastic bag. An example it a fish swims inside the plastic 
bag and gets stuck and dies then a seagull or another bird tries to eat the fish and it will eat 
the plastic bag  and the bird itself will die.

Our lives, the one life that we hope to be great may change completely all because 
of these plastic bags someone decided to invent! By making plastic bags in factories the 
gas from them can tear open the ozone layer as we are experiencing now. The ozone layer is 
our protective shield from the sun and without it it will get really hot and some people may 
even SUFFOCATE! With these plastic bags our Earth is in DANGER so by not using plastic 
bags our lives can be great again. I’m sure that kids in the future would not like to live in a 
world taken over by plastic bags.  

If you’re a mum or a dad and you want the best for your kids think about how plastic bags 
can ruin futures. Believe it or not it can KILL!! Here’s one reason why, if kid has found a 
plastic bag and you lose sight of them for a few seconds your kid could put it over their head 
and will struggle to breathe. If you want to help and have a healthy future for your kids STOP 
using plastic bags and make your own fabric bags, or buy them.

So help and save our earth, make the earth clean so that the kids in the future would want 
to live on not a animal missing, people suffocating world. YouTube holds many step by step 
how to make fabric bags out of t-shirts and singlet videos, so that could help you make the 
bags that don’t KILL.

If the earth dies we die.

Written by Xanthe Maketoni, Courtney O’Leary, Mackenzie Caskey and
Isabel Hooker.

Organization means to be able to grab the audience and make the topic or purpose clear 
in the introduction.

Detailing ideas means to be able to backup my ideas with detail,
research, etc.

Detailed ideas are written in blue

Organization is written in pink

Reading This Week

For the past week I have started reading a book called The House of Spies a nonfiction
story by Griselda Gifford. So far in the book there is a girl called Pipkin that lived in the 
time when Hitler and the war was around, a bomb was deployed right next to their house but 
did not explode. So they got moved to the local pub to live until their house is safe. Her 
cat (Thomasina) was missing so she had started looking for her back at the house, she meets 
her friend Harry and he can’t find his goat they find both animals back at Pipkins house then 
the bomb explodes while they were there but the survive. Then they go stay at Harry place.

My goal is to predict what will happen next or at the end of the book, in chapter three I 
predicted that the bomb would explode and I was right! From what I have read I predict that 
the builders will say the house is unsafe to stay in so they would have to find a different house 
to stay because the last thing I read was that the soldier guarding the blown up blown said the
builds will have to check out the house before they can start living there again.

Math This Week

Over the week I have been learning how to interpret graphs better because in the last 
test, I didn’t do well on it. I have used a book called Figure It Out - Statistics in the Media. 
The questions include reading and making dot plots, dot plots are a graph shown by dots, 
for me they are one of the easiest graphs to read. My next step for interpreting graphs is to 
interpret harder graphs such as scatter plots and line charts. I understand how to interpret 
graphs just now I will be able to do harder ones.