Sophie's+Literacy

**Back to my page** ** For Writing, we wrote poems, this is on of them: ** toc

**(Hope you like it! :-) )** = **‍‍‍‍The South Island** = ** The island was usual enough, it had **  ** A lake, a mountain, a constructed building, a river & even an unending, slim waterfall **  ** we saw on a tiny boat. My mum, dad, brother, cousin & I **  ** Did what travelers do-wondered adventurously into the woods, ventured deliberately beside the river, **  ** snapped pictues of the attractive view, swam like fish in the wintry water with a loose goggle. **  ** Rode on a trotting defiant horse, licking the cool ice-cream in the hot, muggy weather, **  ** Admiring outstanding artworks at art galleries. **  ** Doing nothing important **  ** Sophie. C ‍‍‍‍ **

‍‍‍‍Here's an acrostic poem about me!
**Smart at maths, reading & spelling** **Organize plans** **Picture smart** **Helping** **Itching to read more books** **Eager to go to camps**

Speech:

 * Imagine having the Earth polluted, imagine having all those fresh green meadows turning into grey and dusty factories, think about what the Earth and environment would look like. I don't understand why people are creating pollution, I don't knwhy how it started, but I can tell you what will happen if people keep ruining the environment. **


 * What is ruining the environment? Humans, us! Pollution is a global killer, dangerous for us all. People are using way too much water and electricity when they don't have to and cutting down trees that ruin animals homes. People even create bush fires and lots of animals die or lose their homes. Air pollution is caused by factories and smoking. People litter when they don't bother picking up their own rubbish. **


 * You might wonder what will happen if people keep ruining the environment, let me tell you, it not only ruins the environment, we all receive deadly diseases back too! Like, people get emphysema, asthma, bronchitis, cancer, skin diseases and heart complications. Smoking also contributes air pollution, which in turn, you receive lung cancer. **


 * Air pollution can be termed as 'silent killer'. 80% of ocean waters are polluted from land based activities. Pollution leads to chromiz illness, neurological damage or shortened lifespan. Plastic waste kills 100,000 marine mammals. 1 million seabirds and countless fish that are endangered populations decrease. Do you know a plastis bottle takes 450 years to break down, that means your great, great, great, great, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN are alive! Dolphins living off coast of large cities have signs of black lung disease, illness found among coal miners! **


 * Endangered animals population decrease by acid rain because it ruins their home. Acid rain are caused mostly from factories. When burning gas, oil and coal, sulphur dioxide will get into the air. Then the gas mixes with water droplets from the sky, atmosphere creates solutions and nitric sulphuric acid fall down as rain containing acid and it becomes acid rain. Acid rain increase acidity of rivers, lakes, seas and soil, this can kill aquatic life and vegetation. They also erode buildings and monuments particularly if they are made from limestone. **


 * Pollution is likely to affect over a billion people around the world, with millions poisoned and killed each year. The World Health Organization estimates that 25% of all deaths in the developing world are directly attributable to environmental factor. **


 * Isn't global warming a familiar term to you all? But do you know what it is? Global warming forms when an excessive amount of carbon dioxide is released into the air by the combustion of fuels from cars and other appliances mix with greenhouse gas, form a cocoon in the atmosphere trapping and depleting back heat. Greenhouse gas are present in the air and heat is trapped, that makes the world get warmer. Animals like polar bears and penguins population decrease because their home like Arctic and Antarctica is melting. Do you want polar bears and penguins be extinct? Having them turn to nothing more than a memory? **


 * Now I'm going to tell you what you and your family can do to help save the environment before it is too late: You need to throw litter in appropriate trash, there's no point in throwing a metal can in a paper bin, you also need to recycle used oil and antifreeze, fix car leaks, avoid using garden chemicals and ensure pet waste is thrown into garbage. **


 * Imagine having polar bears and penguins extinct, imagine having a deadly disease creep up on you, just imagine what it will be like. Now you know what will happen what it will be like if we keep ruining the environment, so we, humans must keep the Earth green! **

** Pick-a-path Forest Tribe: **
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