Persuasive piece about why we should save Kauri trees from Kauri Dieback

Kauri Dieback 

The Kauri trees are important to our world and have been here for ages and now they are dying out quickly because of Kauri Dieback which is when we transfer soil from place to place, the soil carries germs and when these germs get into the roots of a tree it slowly starts to kill the tree.

60 metres across from the biggest Kauri tree is another tree and that other tree is infected by Kauri Dieback and both trees are huge so there roots are possibly intertwined and because of that the biggest Kauri tree might soon be infected and die and the trees are useful for shining wood but we should protect them as that will lower the numbers.

   Phytophthora was detected in Kauri on Great Barrier Island in the 1970s and was never thought to spread because of the ocean in between but because of animals and people travelling also our country is famous for tourists but they don't know about Kauri Dieback so they don't clean their shoes at the stations or care for our native trees.

Respect

Ways I show respect

In the classroom 

• I listen to my classmates and Teacher.
• I don't interrupt.
• I don't push to get to items first.

In the playground

• I take turns .
• I make room to let others past .
• I encourage and keep my friends company.

At home

• I thank my Grandparents for coming and looking after me.
• I tidy the playroom with my sister so my parents and the cleaners don't have to do it.
• I replie with my manners.

 

The Tomb

The Tomb

(followed from end of story starter)

Dan had been digging all morning. Along with his team of fellow archaeologists, countless tons and dirt and sand had been removed. At first the mechanical diggers had done their bit, to be followed by spades and shovels. Now, as the team neared their prize, their tools became trowels and delicate brushes.

Hours of sweat and toil in the blistering heat had brought little reward as yet, but things were about to change. Dan stood in front of what he hoped would be the most significant discovery of his career so far, and gently began to untie the knot that had sealed the door for thousands of years…  The rope suddenly slipped from his hands he grabbed the rope as it started to fall sssssccccccrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeccccchhhhh! A noise sounded as he was pulled into the depths of the hole.

Dan lay there sweat running down his face,body aching the Tomb was nothing like he had been expecting to find.He could still hear people in his team calling “Dan!, Dan!” little grey ferrets  scampered around a pegasus with wings as aqua as the sea in the center of bodys with her hoof upon the bodies. “who are you?” said a ferret who had come up to study the human “Dan and my crew above ” said Dan “have you got a healer in your team” “yes, but no”  replied so Dan brought down the healer of his team Sita “how can we help you?” “your healer can help ours” snippidly squeaked the little tabby ferret called Fang so Sita padded over to the pegasus whose name was Airia “clack clack” sounded Sita’s shoes against the flowery floor

As Dan went to tell his boss about the tomb. Crack!,the floor opened with a big crack left in the tomb as the ferret named Fang swiftly leaped on him  “you may never talk about this tomb but you may take some animals who have not learnt their job yet” so Dan cautiously entered the second cave which was filled with Pegasi and ferrets, Hawks and Falcons also Wolves so Dan choose two pegasi, one wolf a hawk and a falcon and a ferret.The falcon was named Esix ,wolf was named Briggin, the Hawk was called Witherwing, the ferret was called Berry and the Pegasi were called Dash and Flow “Our mother is the queen pegasus and fostered the other animals as well as being the healer” Blurted Dash “ squeak, squawk, ar ar” yapped the other animals “she looks after the bodies while everyone else who knows the job guards the tomb entrance ,And your healer, Sita will stay here so don’t make the same mistakes as the others or your body will be laid down here like the others and just then Dan fell… and when he woke he realised it was just a dream and now a memory.

By Gemma