Current Events|United Kingdom to ban selling energy drinks to children

This week for reading our group has been focusing on Current Events. If you don't the process of Current Events well it's when you go a news article and then answer the 5 W's and 1 H question. You also answer what the different points of views are in the article then you write your own opinion about the text. You also write down what the author wanted you to learn and how you felt after reading the article. For this task I've read an article called 'UK to ban selling energy drinks to children'. It's about how the government of the UK wants to ban selling energy drinks to children because the high level of caffeine and sugar. If you want to see what I think about this article read my DLO. Did you know that 2/3 of children aged 10 to 17 drink energy drinks?

Current Events|National & International Events

Since Mrs Anderson (teacher) is gone to Dubai Ms McClain is our reliever for this week, but Mrs Anderson has set a current event task for us. For this task we were to go on either, Kiwi kids news, RNZ news, NZ herald and pick a national event (something that happened in NZ) and an international event (something that happened around the world). For this task I have read an article called 'Students walk out of school over principal's truancy comments' which was for my national current event and another article named 'Fire at Brazil National Museum which was my international current event. I found the national event a bit appealing because people had their own opinion over the argument. This event talks about how the principal of Hamilton High School said to the students of Hamilton High that truants are more likely to wind up being a rape victim. This comment was very bad that the school protested outside of their school. Even adults joined to support the students.

Current Events - Ivory ban in China

Today Fraidon and I finished off our Current Events task. Currently in China they have banned Ivory hunting because it's killing the animals and if they keep on doing this the animals like the Elephants and Rhinos will be extinct which is not good. For our task we had to read 5 articles about the Ivory ban in China and answer the 5 w's and h. We also had to write down our opponion if Ivory hunting should be banned in China. As you can see there is a photo of a ivory that had came from a elephant.

Current Events:6 Hats - Hurricanes win first Super Rugby title

L.I: Use De Bono's thinking hats to critically examine a current event.

Today for reading I did Current Events (reading activity). What I had to do was I had to go on Kiwi Kids News pick a article read it, and use the De Bono's thinking hats to critically examine a current event. I learnt how to use the De Bono's thinking hats to critically examine a current event and also learnt how the Hurricanes win their game. I was struggling on the words that I didn't understand. I think next time I have to learn what the words I was struggling on mean so when I read books,magazine or a article if it has the word in it I would know what it means/defection and I could even tell other people (just incase they don't know what the word mean)what it means and give a example.