Island Wood

   We recently went to Island Wood.  In Island Wood is a school in the woods, but not just any school.  We were woken up at 6:45 and had to do what we usually do in the morning at home, from 6:45 to 7:25ish.  Then we went to breakfast, I helped set up breakfast once.  We went to Tefilah soon after breakfast, then left for our daily activities.  At 4:30 to 6:00 we had lodge time, which meant free time in our lodge or just outside of it..  After lodge time we went straight to dinner at 6. 
After dinner we went to our nightly activities and then more lodge time at 8:15.  At 9:00 we went to our cabins inside the lodge and at 9:25 it was lights out. 


                                                                             

                                                                       


 
  My favorite part of Island Wood was everything.  I say this because when I was hungry I was so excited about meals, when I wanted my space the space walk was awesome, when I was feeling adventurous the canopy tower was great. By great I mean about 200 steps of great.  Or, when nothing cool was happening, holding a crab lifted up my spirits.

Have you been to Island Wood?

Did you do something related to Island Wood?

Showoff

  Showoff by Gordon Korman is an extraordinary book.  This book is a realistic fiction book.  I'm saying this because it is a book about a Griffin or The Man With the Plan, who tries to save Savannah's dog.  When Savannah goes to a dog show Luther her dog attacks another dog.  Griffin has a plan to save Luther by getting him to win the dog show.  See if he is successful.  If I had to rename this book I would name it Best in Show since when a dog wins a dog show.  See if Luther really wins.





  While I was reading the book I was still wondering if Luther would really win.  I was wondering this because Griffin isn't very good at training dogs and Griffin is very young and a kid.  I was reading and I thought that Griffin was going to be watching Luther when Luther attacked another dog.  I think this because Griffin is scared of Luther and I thought that Griffin would get scared and drop Luther's leash.  I didn't think that Savannah would drop the leash because she also has a monkey a bird 3 cats and 3 other dogs.  So I thought she would have had more experience.



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Self-Reflection

  As you know we did Environment articles.  Mine was how pollution was killing animals.  What I think that I did really well at is getting more and more facts.  Like when I thought I was done when I had some free time I found another website and was able to get three more sentences.  I was also very good at making topic sentences.  At the start I was able to make my topic sentences fairly quickly, the hard part was keeping the paragraph going.

  For my next expository writing I will edit better because when I was typing my paragraph up I saw that I was forgetting the e in more or a g instead of an f in life.  I can fix that by editing with a more careful eye.

                                                               

 

Pollution Kills Life By Gabe Ruskin

      Scientists have found a whale with 20 or more plastic bags in its stomach.  Almost all animals can die from plastic.  Animals can die from every kind of pollution.  Scientists say pollution can have DDT and PCB.  When the fish eat these the toxins and we eat the fish we eat these toxins too.  Will you still litter or help? Pollution is affecting the Puget Sound in a very bad way. 

      There are many different kinds of pollution.  Such as oil, yard waste, pet waste and so many more.  75% of this pollution gets to the Puget Sound from rain water that carries the pollution down the sewers.  Anything can be a pollution anything from car keys to not taking your car to a car wash.

       Everything can be affected by pollution.  A baby seabird was found dead since the mother ran out of food and had to feed their son/daughter plastic.  Sometimes animals have to do that when they ran out of food.  Basically a lot of animal can die from pollution whether it’s choking on plastic.  All the different kinds of pollution are horrible.

    You might wonder how pollution affects animals.  Pollution can kill a lot of living things.  It could choke and animal.  (Plastic can do that’s.)  It could even suffocate an animal.  (Plastic can also do that.)  The pollution problem got so out of hand that city councilman Bill tried to ban plastic bags.  (It is banned in other states.)  Now we have to pay 5 cents for a plastic bag.

    Remember, be the one that picks up litter when you see it.  What would happen if everyone picked up one piece of garbage?  Representative Joe Fitzgibbon tried to save Puget Sound.  I care about saving the Puget Sound.  Think am I the one saving the Puget or am I killing it?