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This was week 24 was cool. We finally did our court case yay. We did tug of war try outs I did ok but I got in the top 3 girls in our class. We also got our good bye letters from South Korea. We also did our Valentines Day party we got a lot of candy. Finally we did our music and that is what we did this week.

THANKS LILY

Pollution & Litter

By: Devin Kasey

Imagine breathing in polluted air or swimming in an ocean with no tiny fish and creatures? Well in the passages “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson they are telling me about the causes and effects of pollution and littering. They also explain it is effecting our air,oceans, and our earth. In my essay I will be describing how  “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and ‘Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson are both similar and different.

In the passages “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson, I will be describing how they are similar. These passages are alike in many ways. In the passage “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” it indicates that “all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollutes the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.” and “Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.”

and in “Art for Ocean Animals” it also indicates that “Pozzi started Washed Ashore when she noticed plastics on the beaches in Oregon, where she lives. Plastic doesn’t break down and become absorbed by the environment. Instead, sunlight breaks it down into pieces about the size of plankton, which are tiny organisms that float in the sea. These tiny pieces of plastic enter the food chain. Sea animals eat them and end up dying. Pozzi always loved the ocean and the animals in it, and she wanted to do something to help both.” Pozzi is an artist and she’s created sea creatures out of the plastic bottles on the beach shore line “Another sculpture, called Fish Bite Fish, is shaped like a fish and made out of little bits of plastic that contain tooth and claw marks from the fish and crabs that tried to devour the plastic. “We get so many pieces of plastic like this, I’m on my third Fish Bite Fish [sculpture],” says Pozzi.”These two articles are both telling me are lives, Earth, and world are being effected.  These two passages have many similarities and differences.

In the articles “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson I will be describing how they are different. These passages are different in many ways. Well I already know they are different by the fact that one is talking about littering and the other is talking about pollution. Also as “Art for Ocean Animals” talks about the ocean and how its being effected while “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” is talking about how our Earth, homes, and lives could be effected. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” it states that “Plastic bottle recycling can help—instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.” and “Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.” and in “Art for Ocean Animals” it states that “Pozzi doesn’t collect all the trash by herself. When people spot litter on beaches, they drop it off at Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education, in Bandon, Oregon. Then Angela and her volunteers begin the process of turning the waste into art. Everything used for the sculptures is found on the beach, except for the framework and the materials used to connect the litter together.” and “Who does Pozzi believe can save marine animals? “Kids have a lot of power,” she told TFK. “They are the ones that can make things happen. I really believe it.”That is why they are alike and different.

In conclusion in the passages “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson they are telling me about the causes and effects of pollution and littering. They also explain it is effecting our air,oceans, and our earth. I stated why I think these passages are alike and different in many ways.

This week was incredable I had so much fun. We got our holiday party that was fun. Also we finally went to Wonder Works it was the best feild trip in the world. We also got pj day i love pjs they are so cozy. Anouther thing we did was 12 days of Christmas were we go around all the classrooms and do a fun activity. On the last day of school before break it was a half day and to make it even better we got our South Korean Christmas cards they were all hand made it was the best way to finish the day. That is what we did this week.

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This week was fun. We started our movie trailers they are so fun to make I’m Maybelle and Ms.Edmends Lilly is Leslie. We are working on the props and they turned out really well. This week Izabella became the ticket to read champ. This week was really fun I can’t what for next week.

This week was so much fun. This week we got to do Candy Cane Cottage I love it thats were I get my gifts for my mom, dad, and sister. This week we also did are Christmas cards with our pen pals India, South Korea, and Russia. We also graded our analytical summery it wasn’t considered fun at all. We also finished are lanterns and put them up it was supper fun. When we did are things were we right all I want for Christmas is… . That is what I did this week.

         This week was fun. We got to do are story bird with our reading buddies. We also did are coats for the cold we collected more then 300 coats. Finally we did are mystery Skype with Lakeland, Florida it was fun. That is what we did this week.

This week was fun. Its coats for the cold time and we made the best commercial ever there was a special guest star Adele and her new song hello.  That is the best commercial in why opinion it is so funny. This week we also got to eat the veggies that we picked from the garden last week they were delis I ate three bell pepper bites. My favorite part of this week was getting are South Korean lanterns they are incredible we are decorating them with tissue paper. We are doing one side Su-bin (my pen pal) already did one side so we are doing the other. We have started are project that we will send to South Korea I’m so exited we’re painting the smoky mountains and they are turning out really well. This week are book club got to watch to wove for Bridge of Teabithia. This is what I did this week.

This week has been fun. We got to do our coats for the cold commercial. Since I was a gardener I got to pick the carrot (Big Birtha), bean one tiny little bean it was so funny, 4 bell peppers, and also 4 jalopinios they were so big. This week we also had two complement chain parties they were really fun. That is what I did this week.