Why you should eat bugs?

🐛Eating Edible Insects🐛

By Eva

I am learning to persuade my audience 

Are you low in protein, fibre and healthy fats, maybe even essential minerals or vitamins? Then you need to cook with bugs! I strongly recommend that you should cook with insects, this is called entomophagy. You know some people say if you eat a scorpion's tail it makes you strong. There are many reasons why we should eat bugs such as there are many tasty treats, they are healthy and you can also be very creative when you are cooking with bugs.

You probably like candy, lollipops, chocolate, maybe even pastries, but did you know insects can be made into sweets? A scorpion can crawl its way into your lollipop, a grasshopper can hop to your cake that your mum made and a mealworm can wriggle on to your hot chips. Apparently all of these bugs are perfectly safe to eat. According to estimates more than two billion people like insects. I believe you will like insects if you tried them. Not only are these insects tasty treats but they are very healthy. Definitely more healthy than the Marmite Bagel Bites you had five minutes ago.

Are you trying to save the environment and be healthy at the same time? Then a bug is what you need. As it does not have heaps of calories it does not produce greenhouse gases. They are also low in fat and full of protein. A palmworm beetle has 36 grams of protein and that is about the same amount of protein as bacon, except a palmworm beetle has less fat and bacon is bad for your heart. So which one do you think is better for you to eat? Just remember to cook a bug before you eat it. When you are cooking with bugs you can be healthy and be very creative.




Thailand, Mexico, China, Brazil and Australia are just a few countries around the world that have been creative in the kitchen and now cook with bugs. Did you know you can be creative as well when you are cooking with bugs? You could make a grasshopper cake, critter fritters, gluten free carrot cricket cupcakes and more! These delicious treats are also healthy. Come on, go get some bugs and start getting creative.




As you can see there are many reasons why you should cook with bugs. Such as they tasty treats that will have you wanting more, the plus side is you can have more as they are healthy! Also each night you can travel the world and discover different recipes from all over the world from the comfort of your own dining room! As you can see from these reasons this is why I strongly believe that you and I should cook with bugs.

The Kiwi Bird

By Eva

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

The ostrich, the emu and the moa are all relatives to the kiwi, no not the fruit, but the bird that is native to New Zealand. There are five types of kiwi; the North Island Brown kiwi, the Southern Brown kiwi, the Little Spotted kiwi, the Great Spotted kiwi and the Okarito kiwi. The kiwi has an unusually long beak with nostrils at the end. Did you know that the kiwi is the only bird in the world that has nostrils at the end of its beak? Kiwis cannot fly but each individual bird has 13 flight feathers. These birds live for about 40 years in the wild and 30 years in captivity. Kiwis avoid humans as much as they can because they are not social birds. These native birds have many more interesting facts such as it has a body temperature of 38 degrees, which is two degrees lower than other birds and two degrees higher than humans but in order to survive they have to have a healthy food supply.

Diet
Omnivores eat meat and plants and the kiwi is an omnivore. The kiwis diet includes worms, grubs, seeds, insects and invertebrates and the occasional fruit, leaves and berries. The brown kiwi has even been seen to eat fungi and brackets. The kiwi only weighs about 0.9-5 kilograms. Kiwis have very poor eyesight so they normally would be able to smell their prey before they see them. They can dig their beak up to 12cm underground to find food. The kiwi does not really drink water because normally what they eat has water in it. Take a juicy earthworm that earthworm is 85% water. They have an amazing diet but in order to survive they need to have a habitat as well.

Habitat
The kiwis habitat is not like many other birds, it does not make nests. The kiwi makes burrows to live in. Being shy their burrows are usually found in hideous places such as beech forests, temperature podocarp, tussock grasslands, mountains, subalpine scrub and subtropical forests. These native New Zealand birds are normally found in the north island not the south because... They can camouflage in their habitat so they can stay away from predators.

Predators
Did you know that only 5% of kiwis that are hatched in the wild will survive. All because of their nasty predators such as dogs, cats, stoats, possums and ferrets. Kiwis have a very strong musty smell so those predators can smell them from a mile away. Every week an average of 27 kiwis are killed by predators. Without management 10% of baby chicks survive for the first six months.

Kiwis are an important icon to New Zealand. For the kiwi to survive we need to know that they have food, a habitat that provides all their needs, and a safe place in order for the kiwi to be able to survive from threats and predators. The kiwi is a valuable image to all New Zealanders and we must protect the kiwi in order for future generations to know and be able to see a live kiwi and not ones in the museum.

My writing competition entry (The unicorn dream)

“ Daddy” said Clara
“Yes darling, what is it?” her father replied
“ Are unicorns real?” Clara asked her father
Now this question was hard for Clara’s father as he didn’t know the answer himself.In his time there was always a debate but no matter how hard her father looked for evidence he could not find a unicorn.
“ Only if you believe sweetheart” her father replied.
Then her father looked at his watch and said it was time for her to go to bed.
“ Goodnight sweetheart have good dreams”
That night Clara's dream was sweet but scary.

Clara closed her eyes and she was whisked away to a magical land. When she arrived the first thing she saw was a unicorn standing in front of her.
Clara was amazed.She believed.
“Hello there I’m misty” said the unicorn.
“Hi?” Clara said back.
“And you are…” Misty asked.
Clara replied “ Oh I’m Clara”
“Welcome to ……. Unicorn land” Misty exclaimed.
“So unicorns are real” Clara shouted.
“In this fantasy they are you can believe unicorns are real in yours but it might not be true” Misty explained.
“Oh” Clara thought.
“Watch out!” said another unicorn

Suddenly there was a massive swarm of bees.All of the unicorns had a 100 bees attack them each. Every unicorn died in that fantasy. Then Clara opened her eyes.She still believed in the unicorns

By Eva 

The Life cycle of a Sea turtle

I am learning to inform my audience through explanation

Sea turtles are a miracle. They have lived for roughly 150 million years and are still here today. With five species been seen in our waters, seven still alive and six endangered we need to take care of them. During the decades humans have been making it harder and harder for sea turtles using oil and plastic but also having to survive with predators and currents in the ocean. We all should know the life cycle of a sea turtle to save them so this is the life cycle of a sea turtle.

Eggs
It begins with a female sea turtle. It breeds multiple times, mainly at night and leaves leathery ping-pong ball size eggs laid on a high part of the beach. Even though about 100 eggs are laid roughly 20% will never hatch. After about 45-80 days depending on the species, the remaining eggs will hatch and they will try to squirm to the open water.

Young Sea turtles
At about the size of your hand, baby sea turtles squirm to the ocean's surface. They face crabs, rubbish, humans, birds and raccoons and about 50% of them will not reach the surface of the ocean. The sea turtles that make the surface will face even more dangerous predators.

As they grow from the size of your hand to a dinner plate moving so they can find a patch of seaweed to stay under. Now their predators are dolphins,sharks,types of fish and birds. Roughly 50% will not survive due to currents,predators and other reasons.If they survive they will move into the next stage, Adulthood

Adulthood
Now the reptiles grow from a dinner plate to a dinner table. Their predators are bull,Tiger and White sharks following along with the occasional killer whale. At about two decades of age they will be able to breed themselves.Roughly 20% will survive to breeding age without human interference 1% will survive with human interference.Only 1% will survive because the sea turtle will get stuck and will feel overwhelmed and perish.

In conclusion Sea turtles are great to have in the ocean but they are endangered. To help you, don’t use plastic bags when you go to the supermarket instead use reusable ones from home as a replacement. While I was writing this explanation piece I realised that they are truly a miracle and you should realise that too.

The Gone-Wrong Robot

I am learning to: write about what happens before, during and after an event

“I hate my life,” groaned Bob. Ever since his 52nd birthday he has been bored to death because Bob has done everything he has ever wanted to do (like make millions and millions of dollars with his action movies). So one day Bob wanted do something new and improved, so he sat down on his fine glass desk and looked around his study for an idea. Bob went over to the bookshelf and reached for his action figures that were on the top. He then started playing with them. Just as Bob got out his robot action figure he thought of something. “I will make a robot,” he said.

Bob put on his coat and set off for a robot set. He found one that cost thousands of dollars but Bob bought it anyway and went back home to build. When he arrived home Bob started putting it together piece by piece, cord by cord, and then it was finally finished painted fiery red with orange stripes on the side.

Bob pressed the start button and the robot announced, “Hello I am Greg and I am going to eat you.” “NO,” shouted Bob, “I made you.” ”Too bad,” announced Greg. Then Greg stepped closer.

“Don’t you dare,” protested Bob. He had his arms up in the air. Just then Bob got a brainstorm. He has a bag on his back with blowtorch for mechanical reasons so Bob unzips the bag and gets his blowtorch out and put the blowtorch on Bob puts Greg on fire and Greg dies. Yay! Then Bob lived happily ever after making action figures until he was 92. 

Horrible Hot Sauce

I am learning to inform my audience by sharing an entertaining moment
Have you ever tasted hot sauce? I mean by it’s self with no food with it like curry or beef. I have and it's the most disgusting food ever. I have no idea why people have it because if you have tasted it’s too hot. It ruined my taste buds but you need to hear the story about the first time I had hot sauce.

Me and My brother, Xavier were sitting at the dining room table after dinner and in front of us was Dad’s hot sauce. All we were thinking at that moment was that looks yum. Then I asked this question, “Can we try hot sauce please?” I thought that he would scream and it would be hilarious so I agreed to try hot sauce as well.

Dad said, “Okay, but it’s hot, maybe I will film it and put it on Facebook.” “ What will Mum think?” Xavier asked. Dad then trotted to their bedroom with me, Xavier following behind. Dad opened the door gracefully and saw Mum on the computer with her camera beside her. Mum said okay, so all of us went back to the kitchen including my sister Rosalie. Dad got the hot sauce and said 5,4,3,2,1…

“Hi there,” Dad announced, “My name is Alex and we have 2 contestants wanting to try hot sauce! Our first contestant is Xavier, come on out Xavier. I put some on your plate and you can dip your finger in and try it. So Xavier put his finger in the hot sauce and just when I thought he was going to scream he said the one word I didn’t want him to say... “Yum.”

What? Why? How? Now I was nervous. It was my turn now and I did exactly what Xavier did except I said…” AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!” I went running around the house screaming my head off because of that horrible hot sauce. It was as hot as the sun!

I don’t know what it will be like if I tried hot sauce again but don’t ask because all I will say is I am never eating hot sauce again, that horrible hot, hot, hot sauce ever again and I mean it! So stop asking!

Crashing waves

The waves crashed on the beach and I realised I would have to surf on those big waves when I am just so little. I knew I wanted to do this so I jumped on my board and paddled out to sea. Suddenly, I saw a wave forming in the distance so I jumped on my board and kicked hard to get the wave. The wave came closer and closer and I was on the wave so I bounced up and I was standing on my board surfing. It felt amazing, I was finally standing then I fell off and couldn’t wait to do it again.😊😊😊