Orienteering

Today me and Paige participated orienteering. My time was 9:14 and I will be going to inter schools. Me and Paige worked as a team and i think we did very well. I thought it was really fun and i cant wait to do it again.

Speech

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Animal Cruelty

Good morning (afternoon) my name is Micaiah and I will be presenting a speech about where the meat on our plates come from.

Have you ever purchased meat from a grocery store. And then came back the following week and purchased more. And if u think about it a majority of New Zealanders eat meat so they would have to produce a lot of it to feed most of New Zealand. right?. have you ever wondered where the meat came from. Well i'm here to tell you little bit about it.

Think of a normal cow. They are much like us they have eyes to see, ears to hear, nose to smell, mouth to eat and a beating heart but they are treated much differently then to us humans. Cows who survive feedlots and dairy sheds are sent to the slaughterhouse. They are crammed onto trucks where they typically go without food, water, or rest for the journey, which can sometimes be days.

By the time they reach the slaughterhouse most would be too sick or injured to walk so they are shocked with electric prods or pulled off by chains. They are forced into a chute and get shot in the head with a captive-bolt gun meant to stun them. The cows then are hung by their legs and their throats cut open when they are completely conscious. It has been said that many of them were still alive after their throats have been cut even so they do not care weather it is dead or alive they will still proceed to skinning and chopping them into the product that ends up on our dinner plates.

Chickens go through a much similar process. The industry refers to these chickens as “broilers” and raises them in huge, ammonia-filled, windowless sheds where artificial lighting is manipulated to make birds eat as often as possible. To keep up with demand and reduce production costs, genetic selection and a steady dose of growth-promoting drugs are used to ensure large, fast-growing chickens. And i bet none of you knew that the

chicken you eat has a some type of chemical in it. When they are ready to be taken to the slaughter house Workers rush through the sheds, grabbing multiple birds by their legs and slinging them into crates for transport.

Every year, tens of millions chicken suffer broken wings and legs from the rough handling, and some hemorrhage to death. After this nightmarish journey, the chickens are dumped out of the crates, and workers violently grab

them and force their legs into shackles so that they are hanging upside-down, breaking many birds’ legs in the process. Then they are drugged through an electrified water bath meant to paralyze them, but not to make them fully unconscious. Because of these birds flapping around they would sometimes miss the blade do then they would be cut by a second cutter but then they still might not be dead but either way they would be dunked into the scalding-hot water of the defeathering tanks.

This type of killing is called humane killing which means   an animal must be either killed instantly or unaware of pain until death supervenes. When killing animals for food, this

means they must be stunned prior to bleeding out so they immediately become unconscious. But it's like saying i humane murdered someone or i humane abused someone.These are just two examples of the horrifying struggles of most farm animals. Just because people can't see their emotions and their feeling doesn't mean they do have any. Just imagine you were the animal it isn't any different because animal or human we are all alive and should be treated the same. And even though it's legal to kill animals just for people's satisfaction of a fatty meal doesn't make it alright.

this is my speech on Animal Cruelty I write this because when I ate meet I never truly knew where my meet came from so I found it very interesting to find out about this but I also find it yucky because of how cows get killed and skinned alive most of the time that is truly horrifying

Orienteering

today during school we were doing orienteering. We got given a slip of paper and went around to all the stumps with the letters on them. The whole point of this was to learn how to read a map.

forgotten silver review

Forgotten silver documentary

This documentary was very interesting and has unlocked history that we had no idea that it even existed. I found it so interesting that until now we have given false information in our history. The whole documentary is thought out very well and has fascinated me and most of the people who watched it. It hasn't only changed history for New Zealand but for the whole world and peter jackson would be greatly thanked by many people for discovering all this information. I was amazed to see that they have actually found the set for the movie and can be a new zealand landmark for tourist from all over the world to come and witness history for themselves. It did confuse me when they were talking about how they knew all the things about Colin Mackenzie but all they found was images and videos that don't prove anything except where he lived and what he did. And even if  they found information about him for example a diary they did not show that in the documentary. Overall it was a very interesting film and peter Jackson has really done a lot for our history. I am looking forward to see what people do with this information.

commas and full stops

In reading we were learning about fullstops and commas. This was gonna help us in the future when we are writing and to understand what they really do.

Blog commenting

Today our class we were commenting on Tamaki primary students blogs. These are a couple I've done.

water safety

This is a DLO showing my understanding about water safety. It says what i know what to do when your in trouble in the water, whats the rules are when your in the water and reasons why we need to be safe in the water.

LS2 and LS1 Blessing of building

This DLO shows students of LS1 and LS2 attending a blessing for our new buildings.

China

In inquiry i have been visiting china. we have been learning a lot about this culture and what they do in china. I found this really interesting because their culture is much different to ours.