Eating Bugs

By JJ Eating Bugs


I am learning to: Persuade people by writing.


Have you been sad that when it's dinner time? It's always the same things over and over?
I feel like I’ve eaten everything in the world! But did you know there's always nice healthy bugs you can cook with! If your a normal guy and think “YUCKY! I DON'T WANT TO EAT BUGS!” After you read this I believe you will be like “YAY, I WANT BUGS FOR DINNER!” There are lots of reasons why eating insects are very good for you because they are healthy, low in fat and you can eat as much as you like and not gain more weight! When some bugs are cooked they dont look like bugs anymore! Also there are lots of recipes all over the world and some even have chocolate in them!


Are you scared that we are running out of meat to eat? Well do you know that if we start eating bugs now we will save lots of meat! Don’t worry if we run out of bugs because there is approximately 10 quintillion(1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bugs on earth! So that means that there is a ratio of 200 million bugs to one human! The more bugs the better! If we start eating bugs we will have lots and lots of more animals! Also there's lots of recipes to cook bugs like chocolate covered crickets and other lollies with bugs in them!


Are your sick and tired of the same recipes over and over again! Well if you switch to bugs there is unlimited access to truckloads of recipes to cook with from all around the world! And they all taste very yummy! Just like normal cookies and cake just with a tasteless bug in it! Bugs are very very healthy for you because they are low on calories and have the same protein as an egg!


As you can see cooking with bugs is very very fun and easy to have super tasty dinner for as long as you like! But remember that's not all! They are healthy and packed with good stuff! Making bugs for your dinner is like going to the gym only you don’t feel anything! This is why I strongly recommend cooking with bugs!

My Kiwi Information Report

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report


Did you know that there is more than one type of kiwi that lives in New Zealand? There are actually 5 different types of kiwi. The North Island Brown Kiwi, Southern Brown Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, Great Spotted Kiwi and the Okarito Kiwi. Kiwis are also the only birds with nostrils on the end of their beak. Kiwis are brown in colour and about the size of a chicken that want to fly but can't because their wings are too small to take off and they are from an ancient group of birds called ratites.This group of birds can't fly, so it's a mystery how the kiwi got to New Zealand because it can’t fly. The kiwi needs many things to survive, such as a healthy diet.


So what do kiwis eat? Well seeing as a kiwi is an omnivore they eat lots of small bugs and berries. They like many types of worms their favorite is earthworm, which is very good because New Zealand is rich in worms, most birds like worms. The Kiwi’s food also consists of fruit, seeds, crayfish,eels and amphibians. A fun fact is that people have also given kiwis actual kiwifruit and the kiwis ate it! But of course, the kiwi will need to find there food in their natural habitat.


The Kiwi is quite adaptable to a range of different habitats as they live in a varied range of habitats all cross New Zealand. From holes in forest floor, to snowy places and rough farm landings they will find anywhere to live like dams, dark wetlands with a river. A habitat is important as it needs to provide all their needs within the area they live. A good habitat will provide them with their favourite food, give them places to hide from predators and be able to rest. New Zealand has organised an island for only kiwis to try and breed the kiwi to keep their population up, this island has no threats or predators to help keep the kiwi alive.


Unfortunately the Kiwi is hunted by lots of things. The kiwis predators are wild dogs, cats, possums, ferrets and rats. They all kill kiwis for food, and the kiwi is easy food for these predators as they are on the forest floor and only have the use of camouflage to protect themselves. The kiwi is also found easily because of a their strong smell. Fortunately there are many places that are developing ways to protect the kiwi, so the kiwi will be able to live a long life. People can also do their bit to help save the kiwi by killing rats, setting up ferret traps and possum traps, taking wild pigs to farms and keep your dog on a leash when your walking through the kiwis natural habitats.


In conclusion the kiwis is special creature, that is an important image to New Zealand and we need to make sure they are able to survive many years to come. They need to survive by having access to a healthy range of food and a good place to live that meets all their requires and they are safe from dangerous predators. We need to make changes to make sure we protect the endangered kiwi. We need to keep our national bird and make New Zealand be known for this amazing bird.

Sea Turtle Life Cycle

I am learning to write to inform my audience with an explanation.

Did World records say that the oldest sea turtle is over 400 years old or that the sea turtles were still alive when the dinosaurs were alive, wanna find out know, then read about my explanation of the sea turtle life cycle, starting with the egg stage.

The start of the egg stage is when a female sea turtle comes up to the beach and waddles around it will find a spot on the beach to dig a hole to lay the eggs in. Scientists usually study the sea turtle while its digging, it keeps digging until the hole is very deep then lays roughly 110 eggs then covers them and goes away to the water,when turtles are in the eggs they stay until there ready to hatch, they break the egg with a special tooth.Approximately 20% will never hatch. The rest crawl out of the hole where the eggs were laid and race to the water. The sea turtles scram to the water to get safe but there are seagulls diving down and eating them crabs crawling back and forth demolishing them.There is about 50% of the turtles survive and go to the growing up stage.

The sea turtles swim into deep water there are so many more animals try to eat them and the turtles, paranoid, try to get to a hiding spot without being seen by fish,sharks,whales or other water animals. About 50% do not make it to the hiding spots like floating seaweed and other floating things when the sea turtles are hiding they float on the water and stay there for roughly 7 months eating plankton and sea grass they need to survive. Through the current and bad weather only around 20% make it to adult stage and 1% with human interference.

The adult sea turtle is around the size of 1-1.2 metres long their shell is tougher that means they have more protection .They swim around trying not to get killed by sharks or whales they can’t really get eaten by fish or their old enemies anymore they are able to hold their breath up to 4-7 hours! Some sea turtles are carnivores and some are herbivores and some are omnivores the sea turtle grows and just keeps swimming around eating for the rest of their life!

Sometimes the female sea turtles swim up to the beach ands starts the whole thing again so that's how the sea turtle life cycle works i think everybody should like sea turtles and care for them so that they can have happy lives!

Robot Worker

I'm learning to write about what happens before during and after event.

In NZ there was a Kmart. But it was not an ordinary Kmart it was the worst Kmart Ever!
The workers were so bad they took half an hour to scan the items on the conveyor belts because they never knew how to use it. The manager of the store, Mr Purple was a tall guy that was always wearing a tuxedo and had a moustache that dropped down to his feet and he always had his eyes in a way that made him look angry. Nobody went there so they never got any money to get the new modern stuff, there was probably a 1956 computer in that store.

VROOM! Mr purple rammed his motorbike into the parking lot at the shop and walked in. It was chaos, workers were riding bikes around the store, super loud music was playing. The manager nearly passed out, but he made it out just in time. He needed to fire them but first he needed a replacement.
So he looked on his ancient computer for one.

After spending hours on Amazon scrolling through garbage he was an inch too close to giving up and then something pops up, it says ”BUY ROBOT! IT CAN DO ANYTHING, ONLY $500,000.”
“Perfect” said the manager. He took out his credit card and bought it. Days later he heard a knock on the door. He ran to the door and opened it. The mailman Elijah was holding a huge box. ” This big red robot can do anything,” said the mailman. Mr Purple took it and said “bye.” Excitedly he took out the bits and bobs and built it.

He turned on the power and the robot turned on. It was looking down at Mr Purple and Mr purple heard it saying ”hello” in a robotic siri voice and then a staircase slowly lowered down from the robot and a flash red door slid open. ”whoah!” said Mr purple. When he climbed into the robot, there was plenty of big, small, complex buttons. He sat down and a seat belt automatically went over him. The robot asked where he wanted to go.Mr Purple said “my shop.” The robot blasted through the roof and crashed down on the ground in the shop like a superhero. He stepped inside the store and shouted ”YOU’RE ALL FIRED!” and ordered the robot to fling them out. The robot obviously did it.The manager asked the robot to smash the place down BOOM! Mr Purple then said rebuild this store robot, in 5 minutes there was a huge warehouse.

The shop was turning into a real shop!.Mr purple ordered the robot to stock the shelves. People started coming and soon the shop was the most popular in the world. The robot was ordered to make new things to put for sale.

People started coming from halfway across the globe just to shop at this store.
The shop grew bigger and bigger,But the robot kept getting busier.He was constantly
Replacing things scanning peoples items he never got any breaks.But the manager did not care he just kept the robot working and never brought anything for the robot .The manager started pouring water on the robot and shouting faster faster

One normal day while the people were shopping the robot started to tweek and twitch smoke started to pour out of him the manager just thought he was tired and didn't do anything .The robot started to grow and get hotter people started leaving.The manager got cross and kicked the robot to try and fix it but ,instead of fixing it he blew it up. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM explosion was so big it blew up the whole store and the manager went flying and landed in a dumpster all his money was gone.

He was really angry and he could not hire any of his workers back and when he was asked to pay for the robot he could not and he was arrested for not paying off the credit card bill and blowing people up.

The Toxic Dinner

I am learning to inform my audience by sharing an entertaining moment.

I was sitting at the table waiting for my dinner to come, it eventually came and I didn't know it would be this! I looked at my plate and found the lettuce at the bottom, it was purple and looked poisonous. I wanted to put it back how was i going to eat that. Dad said he brought the wrong packet of lettuce, but it was good to try new things.

Dad said that I had to eat all my lettuce. I was starting to feel terrified of eating it, I wanted to throw the lettuce away. I picked the most little piece of lettuce and held it up to my mouth my hand was shaking I felt like I was in HELL!

I slowly lowered the food in my mouth and started eating it… I FELT POISONED!!! The taste was not going away, it felt like it was slowly killing me! It felt like I was eating dog food soaked in a bath used by an ogre it was horrible!

After drinking about six litres of water I made the decision that I was not eating anymore.

The awesome movie

Me and my Dad were in the Vmax cinema on the black seats. Waiting for the epic movie to start at 11:00am, the screen immediately turned on and the sounds were booming out of the speakers. We saw the stormtroopers shooting and running around the battlefield and the space ships were crashing down. Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren were fighting until the credits started going down the screen. We enjoyed the movie because there was so much action in it.