Mushrooms

Look how much our mushrooms have grown since we got them on Thursday!
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Week 6 Writing- Trash and Treasure

We are Learning To write descriptions

We are describing junk yards and dumps. Watch this clip called "Treasure" and answer some of the questions below as a comment to this post. As you watch it think about some things you might want to include in your own writing.



Treasure - Ringling Thesis 2011 from Chelsea Bartlett on Vimeo.

Key Questions

·         Who is the old lady in the Junk Yard?

·         Where has she come from?

·         Why is she collecting things?

·         How does she decide what to keep?

·         How is she feeling throughout the film? Beginning/end?

·         Why does shed create a face out of the junk?

·        Is this lady greedy?

 

Is she happy? How can we tell?

World Environment Day

The 5th of June is Word Environment Day.

Today is World Environment Day, set aside by the United Nations Environment Programme with a special focus on global food waste. The UN Food and Agriculture Programme estimates that globally, one third of all food is wasted every year. In developing countries, more than 40% of food waste happens on farms, during storage, and in processing. But in first world countries, about the same amount of food waste occurs in homes and in stores due to greed, over purchase, dislike of food which is close to expiry date, blemished or bruised. We need to make wise choices about what we buy and use to prevent food wastage. 
The UN estimates that 70% of the world’s freshwater resources go in to global food production, which also accounts for 80% of the world’s deforestation.

For more information on World Environment Day click here

Reading

Read the information above and as a comment to this post suggest two or more ways that we could reduce food wastage in our homes or at school.

Extra for experts

Create a graph or diagram that represents the amount of food wasted in developed countries.