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As part of our future learning we had to write a letter to persuade the minister that our pest was a major threat to our environment.

23 August 2009

The Honourable Tim Gosner
Minister of Conservation
Parliament Buildings
Wellington

Dear Mr Gosner

We have heard that there is some funding available for pest control. Me and my partner think the possum is the worst pest.

Firstly, they eat our national icon, the Kiwi, which is already endangered. Therefore these may become extinct if possums keep killing them.

Secondly, they eat new vegetation which damages trees. The also eat our vegetables and grees in our gardens.

Lastly, possums eat flowers and take nectar that our native birds need for breeding.

In conclusion if we don’t get rid of this pest our bio diversity in NZ is in serious trouble. Therefore we believe we should get this funding so we can educate the public about our pest and what damage it is doing to our bio diversity.

Yours faithfully

Breean Taitoko and Bridget O’Keeffe

Our plan using google sketchup

Our Model

Splash as Momo went into the deep blue sea. Bubbles came up in front of her and then they popped at the same time. She saw sparkling starfish on big rocks, curly seaweed and rainbow fish swimming around. It looked beautiful. Momo saw lots of bottlenose dolphins swimming around her. They were getting closer and closer. Momo looked down. There was sandy clam and snail shells. Momo has long straight hair with a flower hairclip. She has an octopus bottom with a peacock tail She has seal hands and a sharp beak.

Sea creatures where standing all over them. It was a terrible mess. As Momo looked down she thought she would clean it up. As she started cleaning up the mess she found a sandy clam and a swirly snail shell that was broken in half.

Below is my reflection on my writing.

My holiday recount (1st attempt with no teacher assistance)
In the holadays I went to Wackatane to see my nan and Koro and we stayed some nights at their house. Every day we ate outside we had yummy food and nearly evry day we went swmming at the lakes and I got a new top. when we got back it was night time on Christmas eve me and my sister and my mum and DaD were we wited intil midnight when it was midnight we got to open up our pretnsets I got lost of stuff I had lots of fun In the holadays.

Holiday recount (reworked with teacher conferencing)
It was a boiling hot day and I ran as Fast as a cheetah in to the cold Shallow water. When i was in the water I splashed everywhere. I had my life jacket on and I got to really deep with my dad. It was really Fun going deep with my dad. After that I went on the shore to have something to eat. I had watermelon and a bun with some yummy ham and some chocolate. Later i went on the playground. I went on a big wheel and i fell off and then i scraped my back. It was really really sore. I had lots of fun. Then I caught some wasqs. The Blue lake was really fun.