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Welcome to our 5/6 Class! We have had an exciting start to our year. Through classroom projects
and our Tin Mt. classes, we have explored various landforms and Ancient
Egypt. We have also Read Our Recent Persuasive Essays: Bikes 70 percent of New Hampshire people buy bikes, but what if they wanted bikes to cost less? If bikes costed from $70-$150 people would be happier and tell their friends. It’s great to have bikes, since you get a workout and have lots of fun. It’s one of the best forms of transportation while exercising for people then just driving. It might take a while to get where you want, but it saves you money. Biking is great for the environment because it doesn’t do as much as cars do to global warming. Say for example mountain bikes, they can go some places where cars can’t, like up mountains, or an easier way to get to a camp site. It would be nice if bikes came with non-expensive tools. If a bike broke down, then the owner would need the proper tools to fix the bike. Not just any tools, tools that only work for the certain bike they buy. Customers would be happy, companies would be happy and get a little extra money. Sometimes, bike chains get rusty, if you could have some non-expensive rust remover with bikes, that can help improve bikes. If kids on their bikes or adults don’t pay attention to the chain at all, it could be almost impossible to fix anymore, unless you buy an expensive bike chain. The bike industry is the only one who can lower the prices and make tools for bikes to keep people happier and satisfied with your stores. The companies that get your bikes can make a difference for everybody. Cell Phones Cell phones can be dangerous. Talking on your phone while driving is
one of the leading causes of crashes. Harvard researchers have found that
about one in every twenty car crashes are connected to cell phones. They
have also found that drivers are four times more likely to crash while
talking on the phone than people who don’t. That is an average of
about 2,600 humans dying yearly! People are the only ones who can stop crashing. Drivers can lower the crash rating a lot by abolishing talking while driving. The world can be a safer place! Moose Hunting Around the world over 100,000 moose die each year. 40,000 moose are born each year. There are more moose dying each year than being born. Wolves and bears kill around 2/3 of the population each year. The last one third dies from disease, natural causes and hunting. The moose population goes down 60,000 thousand every year partly because man hunts the moose. 300,000 moose will die in 5 years. What can people do to help the moose? Reduce the number of licenses given out each year, cut down the land that people can hunt on and when you see a sign “brake for moose,” brake for moose. You should save the moose. Giant Pandas Giant Pandas are great animals that live in parts of China and should be saved from extinction. There are fewer than 1,000 pandas in the world. Pandas have been dying for the past couple of years from the decrease of bamboo and the increase of poaching. The number of pandas is decreasing in size. Pandas are dying from starvation. Their main food source is bamboo. Bamboo has been dying off and harvested for use in cooking and as a building material. Bamboo takes about 20 years to grow back. Some people suspect that poachers are killing pandas and selling their skins for more then $200,000. Poachers could receive the death penalty for killing Giant Pandas. Poachers set traps for musk deer, but sometimes Giant Pandas get caught in the traps and die. Humans cause about one-fourth of the Giant Panda deaths. The other three-fourths are old age, starvation, and deforestation. People can try to inform higher authorities about Giant Pandas. People can build a preserve for pandas and keep them until the are old enough to take care of themselves. Also humans could start a reserve in the wild for Giant Pandas so that they could live for a longer time. Giant Pandas are an endangered species that should be saved from starvation and poaching, the two worst things that happen to them. 60% of the pandas are in zoos, if people from all over the country protest, maybe we can start a preserve that is in their habitat, but is safer then what it was before. SAVE THE WOLVES There are just three wolf species in America. There were only 3,063 wolves in America in 2002. Wolves are dying, being killed, and facing extinction. Wolves help keep the population of large animals balanced. Wolves should be saved. Most of the fairy tales that people read have led them to thinking that
wolves are man-eating beasts. All these thoughts have led people to…
KILLING THEM!!!!!! Shooting has made these wolves dwindle to a couple
hundred at one point. Wolves have made a comeback since then, but not
enough. People are still hunting and trapping them. Wolves help balance the population of large animals. If they become extinct there will be too many large animals. If there are no more wolves in America, moose and deer will start to be an animal you see every day!!! People can stop the dwindling number of wolves by doing a lot of things, here are some; stop littering or doing anything else that can harm wildlife; stop hunting, trapping, or doing anything that could hurt a wolf; or write business letters to law makers. Those are just some of the ways you can help. The biggest way to make a change is help a zoo or wolf reproduction center to put wolves back into the North American forests. Wolves should be saved. If people stop doing all the things that have been done in the past they could be thriving again. They are NOT man eating animals either. Wolves help maintain the number of large animals. They are great mammals that have been on earth much longer than us, so help save the wolves!!!! Recess Lately, some groups of adults in other states have been cutting down recess time because they think that it effects the children’s learning abilities, but it doesn’t! Research has been made to support the kids and has revealed that recess benefits the child’s brain by making more brain cells. Out of the ten million kids in the United States, one out of every five of them is overweight. That’s two million kids. The Surgeon General recommends that overweight kids have sixty minutes of physical activity every single day. Another study says that most kids go home and play video games or get on the computer. The physical activity should be at school. Since schools have less recess, the activity minutes are getting lower and lower. Some teachers think that kids should stay in for recess to finish work or as a punishment, but the experts say that’s wrong. On the other hand, if kids had more recess then it would remove some of the stress that children have in the classroom. The experts also say that at recess, children resolve conflicts and problems, which is true for us at Jackson Grammar School. At physical education class, kids exercise but it’s only once a week, but some schools don’t have it at all. Another study shows that in 1998, fourth graders were more on-task and less fidgety on the days they had recess. Kids deserve more recess and there is plenty of interesting information
and research studies to prove it. The thing that makes me happy is that
some scientists out there believe in recess and that they took the time
to make a study on it. Thank you. Save the Tigers Tigers are big cats, not fluffy, but BIG CATS!!! The only problems are
that tigers are becoming extinct because of poaching and habitat loss.
Most tigers live in Asia, Russia, West India, Sumatra, and China. Do what you can to help SAVE THE TIGER, make donations to help the reserves.
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