A Rock and a Hard Place

Child Hunger in NZ

Child Hunger in NZ

Adapted from “Child Hunger” by Ryan Laatz

Have you ever had to look into the eyes of a child and tell him that there is nothing to eat tonight? This reality for around 15 million children in America every day. This is also a prominent issue in New Zealand, where one in seven families live in poverty and 220,000 children go hungry. This means that they are missing meals or going the whole day without food. Without getting the proper nutrition, these children are not able to fulfill their potential and may be affected by poor health and a lower life expectancy.

Why does child hunger happen? Child hunger happens because children simply don't have the resources to get food. About twenty two percent of children in New Zealand live in poverty. Also about children twenty two percent of kids in New Zealand are hungry. Do you see the similarities between those numbers? Impoverished parents have a harder time providing for their families than those in higher paying careers. There are so many costs that parents have to cover such as rent, medical bills, clothes and power, there is often very little money left to pay for food. As the children are too young to work, they are not able to help their families or to buy their own food.

Why is child hunger a problem? Child hunger is a problem because it is not letting kids fulfill their full potential. Kids are still developing, and if they don't eat enough, their brain and their bodies won’t be able to completely develop. The feeling of hunger can also affect the child’s mood; they can feel stressed, anxious and lack concentration. These factors will then prevent students from concentrating on their learning at school and from having the energy to participate in sports.

This means that impoverished children are less likely to graduate from high school or university and then it can be difficult to find a well-paying job. In this case, the child may then go on to be an impoverished adult.

Are there any solutions? While there is no easy fix to this issue, there are some things that people can do to help. One solution that we could do to solve this problem is to volunteer at charities and organisations that support children. For example, you could volunteer at ‘Eat my Lunch’. Eat my lunch is an organisation that delivers free school lunches to children who would otherwise go hungry. Another way to help is that you could also start a food drive. You could organize a fundraiser of some sort, and instead of charging money to attend you would ask for canned food donations. With all the canned foods you get, you could donate all of them to a children's food shelter.

  Child hunger is a major issue that the government and New Zealand society must address. Children in New Zealand aren't fulfilling their full potential and showing the world what they can do.  Child Hunger is happening everywhere, impacting everyone, and it's happening because children simply don't have the resources they need. How does it feel when you are hungry? Try being hungry everyday as a seven year old.

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What is the point of the introduction? It tells us what the story is going to be about

What is the point of the first body paragraph? why does child hunger happen?

What is the point of the second body paragraph? Why is child hunger a problem?

What is the point of the third body paragraph? Are there any solutions?

What is the point of the conclusion? To finish off the story

100 word challange

At night me and my Dad went to a misty Cemetery. There were graves everywhere. My Dad was shouting and started moving frantically with his crimson face. Just as we were leave the Cemetery hundreds of crimson hands stared surrounding us

Chocolate Challenge

Chocolate Challenge

We are learning to justify our ideas.

Name of Chocolate PICNIC!

Whats up guys today we are going to be talk about the best chocolate in the world Which is PICNIC!

Picnic is the healthiest

1. Picnic is the healthiest chocolate in the world. Picnic is a type of chocolate bar consisting of milk chocolate and peanuts covering chewy nougat caramel biscuit and puffed rice. Picnic bars are lumpy in shape and it  has the least amount of sugar! It is a healthy bar and will save you from having diabetes.

It's the only Bar that has peanuts in it

  2) picnic is the only bar with healthy  peanuts. That's why Picnic is the best and less fat Picnic is the best because its a bar with rice krispies? and it has lots of different ingredients  

3) Picnic is a popular slogan, released in the early 2000s, was "Deliciously ugly". During the 1970s the Australian slogan for Picnic was "More like a banquet than a picnic". Picnic is manufactured by Cadbury UK

On the outside of a Moro bar it has hard chocolate but in the inside of the bar it is soft with caramel and it is made in New zealand and also Australia. We will stop people from buying moro by telling them they have a lot of fat and sugar.  

Crunchy is my less favorite because it is the hard and it has lots of chocolate and I think it's the less healthiest on this list

bok choy

back to school

For the pass five days I have been sorting out what maths and literacy. for literacy we were learning about the rip carats that happened ten years ago, it was also pretty sad but also pretty awesome how an eleven year old saved an eight year old from a strong rip carat. For maths I have been learning about patterns and strategy's. strategy's like 

Considering others viewpoints

This blog is about Considering others viewpoints this is one of our activity's for this week.

HALLOWEEN

this is how Halloween stared

about the bees

Bees - Staying Alive

Match the beginnings and ends of these sentences  (see Saving Bees on page 27)

Beginnings

Scientists have found a fungus to use to control varroa mites.⬈

People who spray pesticides can be trained to spray safely.⬈

We can grow flowering plants to feed bees.⬈

Endings

to feed bees.

to use to control varroa mites.

can be trained to spray safely.

Fill in the spaces - some are tricky!

visit	visits	visited	visiting
mix	mixes	mixed	mixing⬈
save	saves	saved	saving⬈
notice	notices	noticed	noticing⬈
grow	grows	grewed	Growing ⬈
encourage	encourages	encouraged	encouraging⬈

Fill in the spaces with words from page 24

Honey bees in New Zealand and all over the world are endangered⬈ . There are fewer bees living in the  wild⬈ and  fewer⬈ in beekeepers’ hives. That’s a serious  problem⬈ because we need bees to  pollinate⬈ our crops.

For a bee, it can be hard work just staying  alive⬈.

Great work, Kaden!

Mrs Clarke

egg

Walt: Hypothesise what we think will happen during this experiment Write a conclusion and say what it happened

fact:did you know that the water cycle has the three states of matter.
Walt: Understand how water shapes the land Explain how water follows a process from sea, to sky, to land and back to the sea

Walt: Understand states of matter List how water changes from different states

NZ Olympian Profile

Walt: Create a character profile of an athlete in the New Zealand Olympic Team

WALT: use relevant parts of the text to help answer questions accurately Understand the author’s point of view

Walt: Find and use relevant parts of the text to accurately answer questions Understand the author's point of view

spaghetti

last night mum made us spaghetti for dinner. mm ymm, mum makes the best meatballs in the world my sister remarked.I ate lots of spaghetti, "ha-ha" I laughed as my brother spill souse all over has t-shirt.

Walt : listen and remember to what we hear punctuate our parograph

WALT: Describe the characters appearance and behaviours in the comic strip

Predict what could happen in the story. Make inferences

similes

Walt: use figures of speech in our writing (personification, metaphors and similes)

Spider-Man

Peter Parker was beaten by highly enhanced spiders. He also his superpowers that include spider senses, strength, agility and he even his the power to scale buildings.

Spider-Man Wears a red and blue costume and also wears a mask to protect his secret identity .Protect mankind and With super power comes great responsibility

WALT: Find and use relevant parts of the text to accurately answer questions