rounding and compensating

WALT: round and compensate higher numbers

  

What I found hard was adding it without the number line.
What I found easy was to do the number line.
Have you done rounding and compensating?

Gillian Lee

Gillian Lee strives to get to the summit of Mount Everest.

Gillian Lee was a mountaineer from Australia. In May 2019 Gill Lee was striving to get to the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen. He was climbing on the North side on the Tibet Route because of the human traffic jam of 200 to 300 climbers  on the other  route.

At 7600 m Gillian Lee started coughing constantly. Then his body shut down. His sherpas dragged  him back to their tent. To warm Gill up the guides put him in a sleeping bag with lots of hot water bottles. If the guides left him up in the death zone he was going to die.

They turned a sleeping mat into a sled to get Gill down the mountain. At 6000m the sherpas met a group of Chinese rope fixers who helped them bring him down to base camp. They tied him to a yak for a 6 hour ride. From there he had a 20 minute ride to Kathmandu Hospital by helicopter.

Gill's mother raced to the hospital from Australia. Mrs Lee was VERY furious. Gillian Lees mother  thought  he was very  selfish  because he put other lives at risk.

Will he climb Everest again?

By Aria

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                   Topic

What is so important about NZ.

                     Introduction

Kia ora. what makes us the best country in the world? Here is what I think about Aotearoa.

                                Writing

                               Population

Back in 2017, the population rating was around 4.8 million people living in NZ compared to the United Kingdom who have 66 million people.  I think I would prefer to live in New Zealand as we have a lot more open spaces and places to walk, swim and have fun. 

This also means that New Zealand produces fewer waste products like rubbish and plastic.  

                              Water and lakes

In our country, we have the least amount of plastic in the water. But how much is in it and how much will be in other countries. 

Well in 2010 there was about 4.8 to 12.7million tons of plastic in our oceans from people who lived close to the coasts of 192 countries.   Wow, that is heaps!!!

In New Zealand we have made an effort in shops and supermarkets to not use plastic bags to carry our food and goods to help the environment, which hopefully means less plastic in our oceans and rubbish dumps.

I have been lucky enough to have traveled to a number of countries around the world, from personal experience I can say that New Zealand is clean and green and I always look forward to coming home to our wide open spaces.

Farming

We are lucky in New Zealand that we grow most of our own food and don’t have to buy it from other countries.  In NZ we have over 55 thousand farms.  On these farms, there are 27 million sheep and 3.5 million cows. 

Some NZ farms are creating wetlands on their properties to help the water life like tuna and birds.

These are just some of the things that make NZ the best country in the world. 

I am proud to be a kiwi because we like to work hard to keep our country clean, even though we have a lot more to learn about keeping our environment safe.

                                   People

In my opinion, my friends and family are kind, loving and thoughtful and care about New Zealand.  

                     

        Out trow

Thank you for listening to my weird speech.