Is chocolate one of the best desserts ever?🍫

 Do you like chocolate? My speech is all about it! But my speech is not a happy speech about chocolate, its about the sad story of chocolate. When I read my speech in front of the class I got into the semi-finals and then the finals. My favourite part of writing my speech was doing the research and watching the video about the bitter side of chocolate. Do you even know what the bitter side of chocolate is? Read my speech and learn all about it. When I read my speech in front of the whole school, I got 3rd place. I hope you like it. And remeber, chocoate is not all that it's cut out to be. 

                                                                                                                                                                                       Is chocolate the best food ever?

Who likes chocolate? You probably do, but have you ever considered where it came from? I´m here to tell you the bitter side of chocolate, but first the sweet side.

Firstly, chocolate is delicious, it's sweet and perfect for dessert. It’s difficult to imagine that the chocolate chip cookie, one of the world’s most beloved sweet treats, was actually invented by accident in 1930 when Ruth Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, were running the Toll House Inn on Route 18 near Whitman, Massachusetts. Mrs. Wakefield prepared all the food for the guests at the inn and had gained an enviable local reputation for her impressive range of desserts.

Secondly, here's the bitter side. The journey from cocoa bean to chocolate bar is rife with corruption, violence, and exploitation. People, many of them children, are being forced to do illegal work just so we can eat chocolate. Unfortunately if you know how it starts then it might not be  possible to enjoy chocolate. People are forced to be slaves because of it. 60 percent to 2 thirds of the world's cocoa beans come from west africa, mainly in two countries, Ghana and Ivory Coast. The people in Africa have to cut the cocoa pods off the cocoa trees without using machines, only machetes, which are a big knife. Cocoa pods have cocoa beans in them, which are mandatory if you want to make chocolate. Once the farmers have 30 - 35 tons of chocolate they take it to the port where the beans are shipped off to big chocolate companies that you've probably never heard of. 400 cocoa beans = 1 pound of chocolate. The cocoa farmers get less than 1 dollar a day or about 200 dollars a year which is about as much as adult workers can get here in a day. The big chocolate companies get a huge amount of money from the chocolate we eat. I think the farmers should get more of the money because they work every day, their children work every day, and they barely get 1 dollar.

Lastly, Ivory Coast has lost more than 85 percent of its forests because farmers destroy the native trees to grow the cocoa trees. Cocoa trees make about 30 pods a year, which is enough for 2 tons. Each pod contains about 40 seeds. If a farmer has the choice of protecting the rain forests or feeding their families then they don't have much of a choice at all. Sadly sometimes bad people come and kill the farmers if they know that they have money that they want. 

What I'm trying to tell you is that chocolate shouldn't make people slaves or destroy forests. I think we do need chocolate, but the farmers should have a choice if they want to work at the cocoa farms or not, and if they do then they should be paid a whole lot more. Thank you for listening to my speech and I hope you agree with me that chocolate shouldn´t cause slavery.

How the human body works.

Tena koutou! - Hello in maori - Last week for writing my class were doing explaination writing. We got to chose what topic we wanted so I chose the human body. It was a bit difficult to come up witha topic because I couldn't thhink of anything but then I thought of the human body and that is how this piece of writing came to be. Do you want to know something interesting? Heres a fact about brains, did you know that if you flattened out all the wrinkles in your brain then you will have a pillowcase sized brain? In my piece of writing you will find out about lots cool interesting stuff like, an eyelash lives for about 150 days before it falls out. Heres a link to see the kidz search website and search up anything you like. If the link takes you to the wrong place then click the link on that page that has on it https://www.kidzsearch.com/ and you will get be able to get onto kidz search. On kidz search just search just type up the topic you want to search and it will show what it has for your topic.  

I enjoyed researching my topic and writing about all the interesting things about the human body and what it can do. I found it diificult to put my research into words because I had a lot of research and not that much space left in my writing book. Next time I would change the order of paragraghs and maybe my topic. I hope you enjoy this piece of writing and think that its worth reading because it is really good. Don't beleive me? Read it for yourself and see.

How the human body works.

Do you know about the human body? Or how brains develop? This piece of writing will tell you all you ever wanted to know about about the human body.

Firstly, I'm going to tell you about facial features. Did you know your eyes blink around 20 times a minute? And that your ears never stop growing? You will learn a lot about your facial features in this paragraph. Your eyelash lives for about 150 days until it falls out, and that humans are the only animal with chins. Blushing is caused by a rush of adrenaline and a newborn baby sees the world upside down until its brain starts erecting it.

Now  I'm going to tell you about brains. Did you know that about 75% of the brain is made up of water? Or that the adult brain weighs about 3 pounds? The human brain will triple its size in the first year of life, and that short term memory only lasts 20 - 30 seconds. The brain can't feel pain and a brain freeze is really a warning signal. The human brain gets smaller as we get older and alcohol affects your brain in ways that include blurred vision, slurred speaking, unsteady walk and more. Your brain is a random thought generator. And that your brain is mostly fat.

Now I'm going to tell you about the inside of your body. Your left and right lung are not the same, your left lung is split into 2 parts 2 parts and right lung is divided into 3. In a year your heart pumps enough blood to full an olympic sized swimming pool. Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day and 365,000,000 times a year. You can't breathe and swallow at the same time and you have around 10 thousand taste buds on your tongue, in general girls have more tastebuds than boys.

Now you know about the human body and why it is amazing. You know about facial features, your brain, and the inside of your body. You also know what it does to be useful and keep you alive.

By Molly

My awsome bedroom!

For the past week we have been learning about desciptive writing and Miss Hickling told us to do it about our bedroom I love my bedroom it's so cozy! We had to write wether we liked it or not and if it was warm and comfortable or cold and boring and if we shared it with sisters or brothers and what it smelled like and what we heard in our room. 

My awesome bedroom!

My favourite place in my house is my cozy bedroom. My bedroom is my getaway place, it's unique and usually tidy except when I'm doing art. In my room I like to bounce on the bed and read until dark.

I have a squarish room and 2 beds. I usually have things on the floor like books, paper, and clothes. I have a big window and a blue chandelier and a big desk. I love to jump on the bed and sleep under my pink circus print dufay. My bed is usually messy, but I like it that way. My dad sometimes shaves in my room because it has a big window with no gutters underneath.

I sometimes smell things cooking downstairs, especially dumplings. When I'm waking up I either hear my parents clanging pots and pans together or I hear the chickens and the birds chirping and making noise outside my window. When I wake up I can smell my breath in my warm bed sheets that feel like warm puffy clouds. My room smells pretty fresh because I have the window open a lot of the time. Most of the time in my bedroom I'm reading and sleeping and listening to my cd's on my karaoke. And I don't have to share with siblings.

What annoys me most is when my little sisters leave their clothes in my room or play in it without my permission. My bedroom has white walls and 4 pictures along the walls. I have a chair with a heart cushion that I love to read on, I also have a 4 shelved wardrobe. I have a light above each bed and fairy lights hung across them.

I still think my room is the best in the house and I like the way it is. It's so comfy, warm, fresh, and cozy. It's also very easy to fall asleep; in. My bedroom is awesome!

By: Molly

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