Our future food

WALT: Create an argument with a point of view (P.O.V) and reasons for or against.

SC: Use evidence for or against the topic to create an argument.

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I know what you would be thinking, "Gross Insects".? You would be very surprised to see the good side of eating insects and maybe you would consider insects in you healthy diet. Well its up to me to convince you to join my side but before you carry on reading let me tell you a joke. What is a insects favourite sport? Cricket. 

People should include insects in their healthy diet.

In my opinion I agree with the statement and that we should consider eating insects in our healthy diet because insects are very nutritious, raising insects is free and sometimes we don’t know it but we automatically eat food that contain insects in them.

Firstly, Eating insects are not as bad as you think, insects are actually very healthy and environmentally friendly. They have highly more protein, fiber and nutrients like iron and zinc than beef and chicken. We need iron, protein and fibre to keep ourselves healthy. Insects are no different to their relatives shrimp, crabs and lobsters. 2 billion people currently eat insects like tarantulas s or toasted grasshoppers. Plus the after tastes of some insects taste like normal food that we eat every day. Like as some people say “Crickets taste like potato chips” or “Scorpions taste like popcorn”. So what do you think about flavoured insects.?

Also insects have less fat and fewer calories than a piece of chicken, beef or pork. If you  compare a piece of beef to a cricket, a cricket has more protein, vitamins and minerals then a piece of beef which only has protein. Plus insects are more edible and digestible. For example we can only eat 40% meat of a cow, 50%  meat of a chicken but only 80% of a cricket. So when you eat a cow or chicken you're actually wasting the other parts of the animal unlike insects.  There are at least 2,000 edible insects in the world and when people eat them it's called Entomophagy.

Unbelievably, in other countries like Mexico and Cambodia it is very normal to cook and eat insects. Turns out insects are part of their traditional food. Some people would mix insects in cookie mixtures or make grasshopper kebabs. So the message here is that some countries find eating insects completely normal. Insects are slowly starting to appear in Western(Countries like NZ or Aus) menus but most people are still squeamish around cooked insects.

Secondly, raising insects are much more cheaper and free than harvesting cows or chickens. To produce 1kg of beef it takes 22000 liters of water. To produce 1kg of pork it takes 3200 liters of water. But to make 1 kilo gram of a cricket only takes 1 liter of water. Which is because most insects keep hydrated by the food they eat.

Harvesting insects are more efficient for third world countries who find it hard to look for food. To raise insects we use less technology or investments unless they are needed. To grow a piece of meat it takes 200 square meters of land and to grow 1 pound of crickets it takes 15 square meters of land. With all insects that are free its is much easier to hunt and catch them.

Some believe that eating insects are our future food. Higher food prices develop as the years go by, which some people are not able to afford. So we should start to consider insects in our daily food choices because insects are cheap and free. Plus even though I haven't eaten insects I wouldn’t doubt that they are disgusting but I think that they would taste delicious. Nothing wrong with taking one step in my food choices.

Finally, people may not know it or believe it but most of the food we are eating  are contained with insects. Food like fruit canned sodas, peanut butter and chocolate. Shocking right, and I eat chocolate all the time. But I guess healthy insects in junk food makes junk food healthy-I doubt it. Also in every 100 grams of spinach there are at least 50 insects in the spinach. In peanut butter, they only allow 30 body parts of a insects such as heads, bodies or legs.

Now I will be talking about insect food made by some of the famous chefs. For Entree we got Crispy grasshoppers or known as Chapulines which are very famous insects in Mexico but normally people call Chapulines crispy bacon. Now for main is the deep fried tarantulas, deep fried tarantulas are put into tempura batter and then fried in hot oil. Last but not least to finish our meal I have desert Grasshopper almond flour cake, with square pineapples with coco loco ice cream with a touch of grasshopper on the pineapples. I would like to have some tasty fried tarantula, How about you.?

Last but not least insects are more available than any food products. Once all our food products sell out, insects would be all we got along with other animal meat. But I think if we have to choose between meat and insects I guarantee insects would have a better healthier chance than meat because there are enough insects for everyone to share and insects have been around longer than expected.

Including insects in our healthy diet is important because insects are unbelievably healthy, raising insects are more efficient and eating insects are already part of our natural life. But the important question is, Would you eat insects?, I know I would.

Glenbrae School is the Best in the WORLD!!

WALT: Write an argument

SC: Have three reasons why Glenbrae school is the best school, and support each reason with facts or examples.

Glenbrae School is the best

In my opinion, I think Glenbrae school is the best because we are digital learners, we have the best teachers, and we have beautiful school grounds.

At Glenbrae school, we are positive digital learners who use all sorts of digital resources for our learning. All students who are year 5 and up receive netbooks which they have to pay for. Those who are younger use school Ipads or computers for their learning as well as their exercise books. Each netbook fully belongs to the student once they fully pay for the netbook. Older students use Google drive to write on documents and share their work to their teachers. Each student who receive their netbook have  4 folders in their drive Reading, Writing, Maths and Inquiry which is the same as topic.  

Also once you fully pay for your netbook, your parents could have a training session with your teacher so that your parents know how to use the netbooks and so you can take your netbook home. When you take your netbook home you get to complete your school work at home and maybe have free time. Luckily for those who do not have internet at home don’t need to worry, teachers take a survey of those who don’t have wifi and provide a password to the internet network TLN.

Part of our digital learning is our teachers create blogs for us so we can share our learning to the world. On our blogs we have a small globe that rotates and shows the people who visit our blogs from different countries. We share varieties of our work such as our reading activities, different genres 0f writing and what we learn during our lesson in class. To share our work we use google blogger, google blogger is where we make our blog posts and then publish them. It is important for our students to share our work so others know what we are learning about and so we can look back at our hard work.

Secondly, we have the best, intelligent and unique teachers. Our teachers plan and organize activities for us in the weekends and afternoons on school days so once we come back to school we are ready to learn. They work very hard to keep us on track in our learning by encouraging us and believing that we can make it to the national standard. But other than learning, my teacher cracks me up with her crazy dance moves, our teachers and staff have one thing in common. They make learning  fun and exciting. Plus we have the fittest, fastest, serious but  funny teachers who do all they can to improve our learning. Also our teachers make time to focus on our behaviour and the way we treat ourselves and others.

All teachers award and compliment all students on the great work they do.  They even compliment on our work on our individual blogs. When teachers comment on our blogs they teach us to be thoughtful, positive, specific and helpful in our feedback towards the other students. We receive certificates and rangimarie cards for respecting learning, environment, others and property. Not only do they give out rewards but they set our goals higher so what we are learning is not easy but hard, otherwise we don’t have challenge to face against. If our work is hard, we get stuck but very eager to get the answers so we keep on practicing and have more resilience.

Unbelievably, students are not the only people who have teachers but even our teachers have teachers at university. They have teachers to teach them more about great learning. Our teachers also go to conferences to share their learning to other teachers so they get an different idea of teaching. Which is also how our teachers have such unique ideas of how to make our learning interesting. By having their own teachers they learn what they have to improve on and what to work on to get to another level of teaching. One more thing, our teachers are not just wonderful educators but a great influence and role models to the children they teach.

Finally, at Glenbrae School our school grounds are beautiful. So far most of our school school grounds have been renovated and renewed. Especially our P.E shed, Arts room, Media Team room and our girls and boys toilets. Thanks to the help of our Kiwi can leaders  who organized and donated some P.E equipment to the school. Now that we have a media team room, our media team have room to edit and film movies. Also the builders  just need to add some finishing touches to our bathrooms which looks very fancy.

Not only do we have beautiful buildings but now have art murals that our Kiwi can helpers and students are finishing off. The art mural is based on the themes and topics we have in our Kiwi can lessons and with paintings of people playing sports. Our art mural is going to be displayed in front of the P.E shed so when we are on the park, we can admire the art mural.

Last of all, we have a rubbish free field and courts. Our field is edged by large trees, with a trail leading up to the field. We also have a little shade on the top to rest whenever you want to. Our courts are lined all the way through to the park. The courts are mainly for basketball and Netball and the field is mainly for soccer and rugby. We have one or two rules about playing on the courts, which is we can’t kick balls on the courts and you can only play touch on the courts so no one gets hurt.

Glenbrae School is the best because we  are smart learners learning digitally,  We have excellent teachers who comment positively on our work and we have astonishing school grounds with  beautiful art murals built by some of our wonderful students and our kiwi can leaders.

Argument writing about fish

1 metre is a good size for fish to take home

The current size for fish such as snapper to be taken home is 30 centimetres. I think a good size is 1 metre or more. I will explain why I think this in this argument.

If people take 30 cm fish then they need a lot of fish to feed their family. If they take a big size fish then they will be able to feed their family with the bigger fish and don't need to catch too many fish to feed everyone. 

Leaving the fish to grow will also allow the fish to produce more fish in the sea. There will many more fish in the sea.