Zoos Are Needed!

Zoos have helped people and animals in many ways. Although it is “cruel” to the animals, I think zoos are necessary.

Firstly, zoos can get endangered animals into breeding programs and help them reproduce and breed. Some zoos have a breeding program and can save endangered animals from extinction. Here are some that we've saved; orangutans, polar bears, pandas, white tigers, kiwis, narwhale and so many others. By putting the animals into the breeding program the animals can breed in peace and security and predators cannot get them.

Secondly, they should be kept because since the time when zoos were cruel, tiny and so unlike their old homes, zoos have got much better and are more like there wild habitat. So if you think animals should not be kept in zoos because of how small the enclosures are, your reason is weak.

Finally, zoos help people to learn about the different animals including how, when and where they hunt, breed and sleep. They have learned all about where the great white sharks migrate from south Africa to Australia. How butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. How jelly fish migrate from one side of a tropical lake to the other. All of this is done, helped by or supported by zoos.

Would you like to live in a world without many animals? Well the knowledge gained and the animals saved by zoos is extraordinary, I think zoos should be kept.

Jono's Grandfather.

Although he walks quite slowly he does it purposefully and proudly. His short, grey hair stands out as a main feature on his head. Most of the time he’s having fun but he can be deadly serious. With the way he talks and the way he acts, you know he loves being outside playing golf. Even when you go to sit with him he only talks about rugby or golf.

His skin is weather-beaten and wrinkly and looks like he had been in a car wash over-and-over again. The green top he usually wears is old and rough, and is so worn, it looks and feels like old Velcro.

His eyes have a deep, intense stare, his pupil is dilated to the size of a drop of water and his irises are a deep dark blue.

The Lego Car.

Today for discovery I made a car with tones of gears. It's front 

wheels turn a gear on the axle that turns a tiny gear that turns 

another gear that turns another gear that turns another gear that turns the wheel on the axle. The two back wheels turn another gear that turns another gear then just stops (I added it in for fun with spare gears.). If you want to see a video of the car just copy 

file:///Users/students/Desktop/MVI_4849.AVI  

 and paste it in the google bar. Hope you like my discovery!

Biking To School.

Even when it's cold and foggy I love biking to school with my dad 
and sister. By the time I finish the first stretch I'm really puffing and 

I can tell my face is about the colour of the apples on the trees near by, but I keep on going. It's great. I can't wait till I reach the hill and  I get stuck into it. It's pretty big so I really tread hard. I go for it, I really go for it. The top is my reward when I go zooming down the other side. It's the type of hill you yell on and I usually do. Where ever the road goes, I go. I pedal, yell, brake, change gear, everything, because I don't want to miss out on anything. It's great!

Jonathans Pool Poem.

The water magnifies its depth,

Cool liquid whispers invitingly into its confines,

Concrete walls hold the water in place,

The sun throws its rays on the impenetrable mirror. 

By Jonathan.

Making Huts.

  Making huts is fun. there are tones of different types of huts so

 you get to use your imagination. You can make a big castle with tall towers,

 you could make an army trench with holes in the walls for guns, you could make a labyrinth with hidden passages and secret chambers,

 or you could make a regular hut, actually there is no such thing as a regular hut because a regular hut to one person is a grand castle but to someone else it's a box with a hole in the side.

If you want to make a hut for the first time it's easy,

All you have to do is make the floor (if you want one) then make the walls then the roof.

So if you want to make a hut it's simple and easy. 

Thank you for reading 

Jonathan

Haiku

 Tree-Tops Bending Far,

 

 Birds Are Gliding Gracefully,

In A Mountain Scene.    

Jonathans Writing.

One day in the winter holidays in Toronto, Canada, I went to my dad's friend's house. It was really cold, so we were sitting by the fire watching TV when I had an idea,"How about we drive the remote-control car on the pool?". When we got dressed we went out with the car.

The car was made of a base shape but had connectors so we could change the shape of it. It also had many awesomely funky accessories worth about $ 49.99.
 
So, when my turn came, I drove the r.c. car over the dodgy ice.
Some times the ice broke right behind it so it looked like the deadly cracks in the ice were chasing it. Eventually we drove it over the ice so much that there was almost no ice left!


Then, after about two hours of watching TV, making Lego things and playing hide and seek around the house, we went out again to drive the car. It was his turn to drive it over the dangerous endurance pool so I took a hasty step back (you can tell how he drives). So he started driving the car over the ice but one thing he didn't know was that the ice in the deep end was about 0.5 mm thick, meaning that when he drove it over the deep end of the pool there it goes!


We heard cracking and snapping so we turned around but saw nothing unusual, but then we turned back and saw nothing there ether, no car, no ice, no nothing! There was utter confusion for what was two seconds but felt like two hours! We both looked down into the water simultaneously and saw a trail of bubbles coming from the carwreck! Accidentally he touched the water and somehow got an electric shock (Guess how.).

We stood utter disappointment when he had a crazy idea to jump in to the water to get it. "But you'll freeze!"I said, but what I didn't know was that the swimsuit was insulated. Then up he goes, onto the diving board, ready to jump (into freezing cold water). "3,2,1, Jump!" we shouted and he jumped in...

I waited for what was only 5 seconds but felt like 5 years. Then I heard splashing and cracking then finally up he comes. "It was very cold even with the insulated swimsuit," he said, "And I kept on being shocked! And for the car, Well, I don't know, no harm on trying it out." So we drive it and... It worked!

Because of the little incident we decided not to drive any more cars over the pool (ever!).
 I don't know why, but I found it an extraordinarily  incredibly funny experience.
 

 
 

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Jonathan's Cartoon.

                                                In the holidays we went to tahuna kart track.
                                                we raced and raced and raced until we had to
                                                go home. I think it felt awesome!