Wonder Buddies in February and March

One of the projects my class works on is Wonder Buddies. Wonder Buddies is an extension of the Kindergarten program which is based on the wonder Kindergarten students have of their world. The kindergarten students had some wonders about animals in the world. My Grade 5 students worked with them on research. Both recorded their information. The Kindergarten recorded their's in their own writing on sheets of paper. The Grade 5's in Microsoft Word. The Grade 5's are in the process of creating A movie using Moviemaker. The kindergarten students will be providing voice narration.

Tiger’s

By Jaylah and Peyton

Tigers are a wild cat. In fact, they are one of the biggest cats in the world. Tigers are mammals. This means that they do not lay eggs, or have feathers, or shed skin. But mammals do give birth not by egg, the baby comes alive. Also means that they have fur, even just the tiniest bit. Last but not least, they are warm blooded.

A tiger’s whole diet is one of the main food groups, meat. They will eat almost anything that lives. The tiger’s favorite animals to eat are the elephant calf, deer species, pigs, buffalo and goats.

Tigers can be all different colors and sizes. Some tigers are white and black, and they are called, Bengal tigers. A  Siberian tiger is orange and black. Some tigers are really big, and they are usually males. In the animal kingdom, a lot of animals are different colors, depending on their gender. A lot of the time, males are the ones with more colors to attract the female. The females are almost always dull in color. Tigers are different. Male and female tigers are the same in color, unless they are two different species of tiger. You have noticed tigers have stripes. It’s because when hunting, they blend in to their surroundings, such as long grass. Almost all animals are color blind, so that also helps blend them in with tall grass in the jungle. Tigers can be found in Africa and Asia.

Sharks

By Aidan

Sharks eat fish and sometimes eat seals, mostly fish though.

Sharks live in salt water they basically close to the bottom and some are in the middle of the ocean not very many sharks are on the top but some can be right near the top.

Sharks can be very dangerous if you are in salt water and bleeding. Sharks attack when they smell blood and when they are hungry. Sharks think humans are seals so they attack and then they realize that humans are not seals and they let go. Sharks have 350 teeth.

Wolves

By: Adrian and Josephine

Classification: mammal

Habitat: North America, Eurasia, North Africa, Canada, Mexico

Diet: Wolves are carnivores that mean they eat meat like deer, elk, moose, earthworms and grasshoppers they also eat other stuff like berries, for the easier prey they eat sick animals, mice birds and fish and also carrion.

Adaptation: Their thick coat, other animals for meat, shelter like caves, woods, etc. 

Fun facts about wolves

They hunt in packs and they are also wild dogs that come in the same group as dingo’s and coyotes. Their speed is 65 km/h

Bald Eagle

by: Andrew and William

The name of my animal is the bald eagle. The species of my animal is a bird. A bald eagles habitat is near the ocean. It is also found in North America. The nest is also found in big trees. Its eyes are great for seeing their prey from far distances. It uses its beak for ripping the food that it eats. They use talons to rip there food too. The tail feathers work for maneuvering itself where it wants to go.  It also has wide wings to come to a stop at high speeds. It eats lots of things like fish that it gets from in the water and it will also eat food that is dead and decaying. Bald eagles don’t have any predators because they are a big type of bird. A bald eagles nest looks like a big clump of leafs and sticks at the top of a tree. Bald eagles nest are the biggest in North America, (about 4 ft. deep 6 ft. wide and can weigh around 1 ton or more).

BROWN BEARS

By Brianna and Alisha

Brown bears are mostly found in the forest and in Europe. Most of the bears live in the mountain. Adult bears are usually 100 and 635 kg. They eat grass leaves and grass and wild berries, nut, seeds, fruit, beetles, termite nests, worms, ants, and other insects. The brown bear is one of the largest bear species. The colour of the brown bear starts from dark then to a reddish colour then a brown cream tone. The black bear has smaller claws than the brown bear. Brown bears go in the morning to get their food so in the day time they can avoid the heat. They would eat all summer to gain weight and in the winter they lose most of the weight. They male brown bears height is 6-9 feet and the females is 5-8 feet. In the forest they can live up to 25 years but in captivity they can live longer. Brown bears to climb trees because they have to escape from their predators but only when they are cubs. When they are adults they are too heavy to climb trees. An adult bear is at the top of the food chain because they have no predators. Brown bears will eat almost anything. Plants and meat are in their main diet. What they eat it depends on what food is available.  They would use their claws to scrape dirt. If available they would get any of their predators. They will eat rodents, squirrels, foxes, and other small animals. They are also known for attacking young deer and sheep. They love fish and salmon. They are great at swimming. Brown bears are mammals.

Butterflies   

By: Abigail and Cecilia

A butterfly is an insect. They live in trees, plants, and flowers. Butterflies eat leaves, nectar of various flowers, sap, and milk weed and take the liquid from the fruits we eat like a piece of mushy banana and eat it.

First, the patterns on butterflies have changed over time to make them less noticeable by their predators. The wing sizes on butterflies have increased in size, so they can fly faster away from their predators. The butterflies’ predators are frogs, birds, and spiders, rats, toads, lizards, toads, praying mantises, monkeys, and snakes.

Butterflies see red green and yellow. Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees. There are about 24,000 species of butterflies all over the world. In Ontario we have 142 species of butterflies. Butterflies are the second largest pollinators next to bees. Some butterflies will fly at night. Butterflies don’t have lungs. Butterflies taste with their feet. Monarchs can fly a 1000 km without stopping. The Giant Swallowtail is the largest butterfly found in Canada. Its wingspan can reach up to 5". The largest threat to butterflies is loss of habitat. Butterflies smell with their antennae. Butterflies wings are transparent. Butterflies live on an all liquid diet. Butterflies only live 2-4 weeks.  

Gorilla

Cameron B.

Gorilla can be Black back and Silver back

Gorilla’s live in Africa and in the forests. They are about  9.5 ft long.  They will eat bug. They live groups that are called troops. They break up with their mother when they are about 12 months old. They make a nest out of leaves and branches. They can live for 50 years or longer. They are really fat and smart. They are hairy and they are big and they weight 125 to 180 kg. 

Their diet is fruit. They are herbivorous means that they are plant eating.

A Gorilla’s predators are a type of wild cats.

Dolphins

Zach, James and Kale

 

A dolphin’s habitat is a place that the waters are rich with food and warm in temperature

A dolphin diet is a large amount of fish, squids and stuff like shrimp. The foods that are available depends on the location of the dolphin

A dolphin’s adaptations are their tail goes up and down so they can get air. The shape of their fin propels them. To save oxygen their heart starts to beat slower while they are diving. A dolphin has blubber or fat to keep them warm when the water gets colder. A dolphin has a hard nose that helps kill sharks and teeth help kill and eat fish. Dolphins have large brains.

Dolphin’s predators are mostly sharks but even sharks hesitate because dolphins come in packs and they are really tough.  People have found parts in a killer whale but they are mostly friends sometimes they even hunt together.

Some interesting things about dolphins are a long time ago people thought dolphins were unique to humans and now they think they are a different species.  Dolphins communicate by a signature whistle.  Dolphins are known to stay and help each other when needed. They even know to help another Dolphin to get up to get some oxygen.  Dolphins also save humans and sometimes whiles

There is something extremely bad that is happening to not only the dolphins it is happening to whales and sharks, people are killing them for their fins.  It is so bad. They save us and we kill them          

Facts about Reindeer

By: Cameron and Isaac

Classification: Mammal

A reindeer’s habitat is in the forest

In the winter, the usually eat Lichens. They also eat small rodents called Lemmings. They even eat leaves off of willow and birch.

The have nice fur that grows to keep them warm in the winter, and they have big antlers to protect themselves from predators.

A reindeer has lots of predators, they are:

-Golden Eagles

-Polar Bears

-Grizzly Bears

-Wolverines

-Gray Wolves

-Foxes

-Hawks

-Ravens

Blood sucking insects such as:

-Mosquitoes

-Black Flies

Extra Facts:                                                                                                                                    Another name for a reindeer is a caribou. A reindeer’s eye colour changes during the cycle of the four seasons. Caribou and reindeer are basically the same thing. You may not be able to tell the gender of a reindeer. Reindeer used to live a lot farther south. Both male and female reindeer have antlers 

Sharks

By Katelynne and Chico

They live in fairly temperate waters, sometimes tropical waters, or close to the bottom of the ocean. They will feed on fish other sharks, whales and dolphins. What eats a shark? Sometimes a whale will eat a shark but mostly we eat sharks. A sharks tooth never stops growing. The shark is a fish. Sharks whip there pray around to rip of chunks of meat. Shark can smell blood from 8 miles away. In the 16 century sharks were called sea dogs.

Kittens Information

by: Denyce and Charlene

Kittens eat tuna and kitten food

Kittens live around humans in the human’s home

A kitten does not have a predator that it attacks

Kittens need the care of their mother for the first several weeks of their life or they will not get used to their mother. Kittens cannot control body temperature for the first three weeks. Kittens are born in temperatures less than 27 degrees. Kittens can die if they are not kept warm by their mother. Kittens require cat milk every two to four hours. The mother's milk is very important for the kittens' nutrition and proper growth. Kittens lose their baby teeth around 3 months of age. Play with other kittens peaks in the third or fourth month after birth. At 5 months Kittens are not to harm because they like to find dark places to hide. Kittens have claws so when they get older they can hunt. Kittens are mammals

Megalodon

By: Hunter and Jaycii

Megalodon’s are the biggest shark ever lived. They are cousins to the Great White Shark. Megalodon means big tooth. The Megalodon was one of the most fearsome animals in all of history. Most people think that Megalodon’s are all extinct, but they need all proof that there are still Megalodon’s swimming in certain oceans. People that think the T-Rex were the biggest predator; well they are wrong the Megalodon was more of a predator. A Megalodon’s classification is an amphibian.

Its habitat is 3 parts of the water, 1 is near the top, 2 is near the bottom, and 3 is the midnight zone.

The Megalodon’s diet is any type of sea creature besides the Liopleuradon. The Megalodon can eat a blue whale in 3 bites.

The Megalodon’s predator is the Liopleuradon, and the Sarcharous Imperator

Megalodon adaptation is its jaws which can bite through almost anything.

Jaycii knows that Megalodon’s don’t like to be rode on.

Polar Bears

Mia and Reece 

 

Polar bears live in the Arctic Circle including the North Pole. Polar bears are mammals. Polar bears are omnivores so they eat walrus, whales and fish. Their adaptations are their fat under their skin which keeps them warm. Their fur is white  so they can blend in to the snow. Their predators are humans. People hunt polar bears because they have lots of fats and meat on them. They can live up to 25 to 30 years. They weigh 900 to 1,600 lbs. They are the largest land predators.

Monkeys (Wild)

Beatrice and Dora

What is a monkey’s diet?

·        Fruits

·        Leaves

·        Insects

·        Omnivore

What are a monkey’s adaptations?

·        Long tail to hang branches

·        Pointed nails to protect from predators

·        Camouflage

Predators?

·        Big snakes (pythons, boa constructor)

·        species of eagle

·        chimps (apes)

·        leopards

·        jaguars

·        cougars

Monkeys are a mammal.

What do monkey’s look like?

Monkeys have flexible arms, legs and thumbs. Their bodies are covered up in fur. They also have a long tail to hang from trees and sometimes swing from branch to branch. They weigh 22-60 lbs.

Fun facts

·        scientific name- Macaca Fascicularis

·        life span -10-30 years

·        260 species of monkeys

·        They make many noises, facial expressions, and body language to communicate

Beavers

By Aaliyah and Izzy

·        Where do beavers live? (Beavers live in wetlands and canals)

·        What are canals? (Canals is a water front where the beavers stay)

·        What do beavers eat (beavers eat small twigs, water plants and bark.

·        What are the beaver’s adaptations? (There lips can close behind their front teeth so they can keep splinters and water out of their mouth. 

·        What are the beaver’s predators? (The beaver’s predators are gray wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions (I think that they are there predators because they are larger animals)

·        Interesting facts…

·        Any type of beaver can stay underwater for 15 min

·        Beavers can weigh up to 30 to 70 lbs.

·        Beavers teeth keep growing through their life time

·        Beavers cut trees down with their sharp teeth to build dams

·        A baby beaver is called a kit

·        Beavers can close their ears and noses so water does not get inside

Snow Leopard

By Olivia

Classification; Mammal

Interesting Facts;

When fully grown, the Snow Leopard can reach the size of a fully grown man. Also when a snow leopard is born it just has spots, but when they get older, the spots turn in to rosettes. They also can jump up to 6 meters high and 5 meters long.

Habitat;

They live in caves or dens in mountains of central and middle-east Asia and go hunting in the valley below.

 Diet

A baby Snow Leopard can eat can eat about 3 pounds of meat a day, and they eat many types of food like small birds like ibises, and also they steal from the farmers and eat the sheep and sometimes find deer in the forests beside the mountains.

Adaptions;

Snow leopards have large paws so it’s easier to walk in thick snow, and they also have a long tail to balance themselves when they jump and they have a thick coat of fur to keep them warm in the cold.

Predators;

Snow leopards are not hunted by another animal, but are hunted by man. (This is why they are endangered) They are hunted for their whole body: their fur for coats, their bodies are used to feed the animals, if not for food, and even the bones are ground up. Also, wolfs eat the same-thing so they don’t get along.

Sea Turtles

By: Cody and Taylor

Sea turtles are born on or in the sand. They are born on the sand because it is close to the sea and when the eggs hatch the sea turtles can find their way home. Sea turtles may have a shell but is at the bottom of the food chain. You see the sea turtle has lots of predators, like whales, sharks, gulls 

 Cheetah

Ria and Dora

Habitat: Cheetahs live in grasslands and savannas, such as south-eastern and eastern Africa.

Diet:  Cheetahs are carnivorous. A carnivorous is a meat eater. Cheetahs also don’t eat something they haven’t killed.

Adaptions: The goldish yellow fur and black spots help camouflage to the grass and fields when hiding from predators. The cheetah’s spine is very flexible, which makes it easy for them to turn when running. Their claws aren’t really killing tools, but more like an athlete’s cleats so that the cheetah will run easily. The cheetah also has a long tail for balance. The “tears” or lines that run down its face help glare out the sun. Cheetahs cannot roar, but they use body language or chirps to communicate.

Predators: A cheetah’s predator is the human, lion, and eagle.

Classification: A cheetah’s scientific name is Acinonyx jubatus. A cheetah is a mammal.

Interesting Facts: A cheetah is the fastest land mammal in the world. The cheetah weighs 88 lbs- 140 lbs. Its top speed is 113 km per hour. They go from 0-100 km per hour in just 3 seconds.  To kill their “food” they knock them over and give them a hard bite in the neck. But they have to eat quickly; otherwise other hungry carnivores will come and take their food.

Pandas

·        Pandas live in the mountains of China.

·        Pandas eat bamboo, flowers, vines, and grass.

·        Pandas have black and white fur and that helps them blend in and hide from predators.

·        Pandas do not have predators but baby pandas are hunted by leopards and jaguars.

·        Pandas do not have permanent homes they just sleep at the bottom of trees and rock ledges.  Pandas weigh about   220 – 330 depending on if it’s a male or female. The lifespan of a panda is between 25 – 30 years. The eyespot of a baby panda is originally a circle but over time it begins to look like a teardrop. The Giant Panda species has been on the animal endangered list since 1990, scientists are hoping to increase the population by 5,000 and there are approximately just over 1,000. Pandas have been the sign of peace in China, for example people hundreds of years ago would raise a flag of a picture of a panda on it and that meant that they were surrendering in wars or calling truce. Pandas were bred between 2– 3million years ago.

·        Panda facts

·        Classification: The panda is part of the mammal family.

·        Habitat: a Panda’s habitat is in broadleaf and coniferous forests with dense bamboo shoots.

·        Diet: Pandas are herbivores which mean they eat plants like leaves from bushes, and sometimes they just eat tiny twigs on the ground, but they mainly eat bamboo, which is a type of grass.

·        Adaptions: Pandas have to adapt with their warm fur because unlike other bears in temperate climates the pandas do not hibernate.

·        Predators: Two of the panda’s predators are leopards and jackals.

·        Other interesting facts: The panda’s colours help them stay cool in summer and warm in winter. Their colours are also used for letting other pandas see that it is in the area. A pandas call sounds like a bleep. Pandas aren’t like normal bears where they attack you. A panda just runs away.

Tigers

Tia and Kaydn

The tiger is a cat, a big one in fact. It’s very strong and it uses its size to its advantage. The tiger eats meat that means that the tiger is a carnivore like a Trex. Tigers live in Africa, Asia and Europe they either live in a forest or a dry land and they always live near other animals and water just like us they need water. Some of the threats to the tigers are larger animals and sadly us, humans hunt tigers and that’s bad because tigers are almost endangered and some kinds are extinct. Some of the adaptions of the tiger are:

Tigers can hear really well. 

Its teeth are very large so then the tiger can eat tough meat.

The tiger uses its fur to camouflage itself in the tall grass when hunting

Fun facts:

Tigers are the heaviest cats in the wild. Tigers live ten to fifteen years in the wild and twenty years in captivity. Tigers are very fast reaching speeds of up to 40 mph. They are very good swimmers. They can jump 5 meters.

SOLE February 14th

What is the Hearth Place in Oshawa?

By Olivia, Rheya, Caden, Cameron B.

Hearth Place is a cancer support center. Families with a family- member who has cancer can go there. They also can help kids understand what’s going on with their family member through counselling. Hearth Place also has group counselling, yoga classes and holds different activities, like BBQ, holiday parties, and other things. Also, did you know that you can donate to Hearth Place? You can send in money to help a family in need of money, or to help their family member, or you can drop off old clothes or books, to give to kids with cancer.

Genes

By Stewart, Cody, Jaylah and Jaycee

Genes are much different than jeans, (blue pants). Genes are genetic personalities. Some people may say you look like your mother, or father, or even big sister or brother. Example: “you have your fathers hair.” You appear to have inherited genes from your father. That’s because you have most of the same genes as them.  People of any size or age or gender have the same genes as their parents, and grandparents.  In each human cell, there are about 25000 to 35000 genes.  The genes of your body cover about 99.9% of your body. Genes are a part of your DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). About 20000 genes are around 6 feet when straightened out. They are all crumpled together, so in your body it’s about a centimetre big.  There are different parts of the DNA. They are known as ATCG. (adeninethyminecytosineguanine). 

That is what genes are, thanks for listening!!!

What is a Luge?

By Zach, Andrew, Keeshan

A luge is a type sport that you can play in the Olympics.  A luge is a type of sleigh with sharp skates that you race down on.  You race around on a tilted ice rink and whoever gets the fastest speed at the end of the race wins.  The luge is only done in the Winter Olympics.  It was brought into the Olympics in the year 1964.

A luge is a heavy sled that that people ride on their stomach feet first.  Luge is a French word for a sleigh.  It is for both girls and boys and for all different age divisions.  The luge is the fastest sport and can reach speeds up to 90mph.   A luge can have up to two people riding at once. 

What is Lightning?

Alisha, Abi, Hunter, Cameron, Dora

Lightning is the occurrence of the natural electrical discharge. Lightning is between the cloud and the ground or within the cloud. It is usually accompanied by thunder. Lighting is a massive electric discharge. Water and ice move around inside the cloud forced up by warm air currents. It is down by gravity and compressed in the cloud. Rubbing a balloon can create static electricity. The particles in the cloud become charged, but charges separate in the cloud. Positive charges move up and Negative charges go down. Lighting kills and injures people each year more than tornados or hurricanes. Frozen bits of ice bump into each other as they move around in the air.  All the collisions create electrical charge.  Have you ever rubbed your feet against a carpet than touch a metal door handle? If so, you know you get shocked, lightning works the same way. Lighting is one of natural weather phenomena, and also one of the most dangerous. A lightning bolt can contain as many as a billion volts of electricity making every flash a potential killer. Lightning strikes earth more than 8 million times a day! It can strike the clouds and air, but the ground causes the most damage. Lightning bolts charge by positive and negative charges. Lightning is one of the most beautiful displays in nature with bolt temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun. 

What is a Trojan Horse?

By Aiden, Mia, Aaliyah and Caoimhe

There are two types of Trojan horses the first one is a Computer virus and the second is a fake horse that they hide in for the war. It’s the Greeks entrance into Troy during the Trojan war. They got into it from the stomach. The solders would hide in the horse. The Trojans wheeled the tribute into the walled city. At night the Greeks came out and captured the city, ending the war.

A Trojan Horse is also a virus that is designed to enable hackers to remotely control your computer. It wrecks the computer system. Trojans may arrive when you download things or you can get it on websites. A Trojan Horse virus can be an email virus.

  

What is the biggest threat to our oceans?

By Dora, Cameron and Hunter

We have many reasons for threats to our oceans. They are climate change, overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and oil spills into oceans.

Climate change would have to be the biggest threat to our oceans. The climate change increases the surface top and sea level rise with Carbon Dioxide. There are death zones in the sea where the sea animals don’t go because there is no food and there is a lot of carbon dioxide. That makes it unsafe for them to go, because they could die.

The overfishing is also a problem, because there are now less fish in the sea, which means some animals don’t have food. But we still need to fish a bit because than we won’t have fish to eat. That disrupts our ecosystem, which is taking the food away.

 Pollution is also a big problem because people are dropping their water bottles, wrappers and there garbage into the ocean. It could give very bad harm to the sea animals, from sharp edges and less space to live. That causes habitat loss. Habitat loss is very bad because now the sea animals don’t have anywhere to go.

Then the sea gets polluted with bad oxygen because of oil spills into the ocean.

Our solution is to stop littering which causes lots of problems to go away. It makes pollution go away because now we’re not littering. This is giving them space for their habitat, which is solving habitat loss. Hopefully it can also solve oil spills.  Unfortunately, we don’t think we can solve climate change. Climate change is natural, so we can’t really solve it. 

How can two people from the same family be so different?

By Abi, Mia, Zach and Andrew

We’re all different in our personalities. One of life’s challenges is learning to get along with people who are different from us. But have you ever thought how dull life would be if everybody was exactly alike. Even though you were born with the same genes and you were raised the same way your personalities can be very different.  Half of the genetics are from the egg and half of the genetics is from the man and the sperm.

When two people from different families get married they usually look different because they were not related before so it’s sometimes the same as the kids or it can also be mixed from both mom and dad.

If a woman has blue eyes then has a kid with a man with brown eyes the kid will probably have brown eyes however if they have another kid they could have blue eyes.

How do we get “Goosebumps”

Olivia, Aidan, Rheya, Jaycee

Goose bumps have many names like, goose flesh is a name that has been around since 1810, goose pimples, is another name, and the scientific term for goose bumps, is cutis Anserina.

The body hair on humans stands up when cold or scared and creates a thin layer of hair and when the hair stands up, the skin that’s attached is lifted to create goose bumps.

Goose bumps are only temporary and are NOT a reaction to something you are allergic to.

Spooked millions of years ago, being puffed up kept our ancestors warm and made them look bigger, which turned out to be a good way to frighten predators. 

What Makes Tape Sticky

By Stewart, Katelynne, Denyce

 The reason tape is so sticky is that the sticky side of it has a product called “adhesive.”

It turns out that with a powerful microscope you can see tiny little lines with adhesive.

Adhesive is able to stick fast to a surface or object and adhesive is also sticky because it has soda (chemical), and caramel (topping) that makes it sticky.

Tape is also sticky because there are tiny air bubbles that hold the chemicals and it also has some sticky fur on the bottom of it.

Adhesive is kind of like glue but adhesive is already in its sticky state when you pull it from the roll of tape.

There are many layers in adhesive tape. These are the release coating, the primer, and the adhesive layer.

  

Homelessness Part 2

                    Homelessness

Olivia, Rheya, Jaycee, Jaylah

Definition

·       People who have no homes, maybe they don’t have money to pay for a home and they can’t pay bills.

Causes

·       They don’t have a lot of money

·       Spend money on things they don’t need

·       Sometimes drugs

·       They have a mouth(s) to feed (spending to much money, and not a lot of money for  food)

Problems

·       Cold weather

·       Not a lot of food

·       can’t pay for college so they can’t get jobs

·       need money to spend on medication, clothes and food

Solutions

·       food banks

·       money donations

·       clothes donations

·       welfare

Companies

·       Soup kitchen

·       Salvation army

Homeless

Abigail, Andrew, Mia, Aiden

It’s hard to imagine how someone can go from having a home one day to being out on the street the next. None of us have had an experience with that kind of thing. The definition of homelessness is a person without a home or someone living on the street.

Definition

A person without a home or someone living on a street

Causes of homelessness

-          Complex and multiple

-          No one chooses to be homeless

-          It can happen to anyone

-          Parents could lose their job then don’t have enough  money to pay rent or tax

-          Being homeless is not easy

-          Poverty

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Problems with homeless people

      -all over the world thousands of people living on streets

What is homelessness?

-a man on the street begging for money or a woman on the side of the rode holding up a piece ofd cardboard saying “homeless will work for food” a family sleeping in their car on or a tiny tent underneath a bridge all these images represent homelessness.

- over half of the people that are homeless have mental health issues 

Only 20 percent of homeless people are in the age of 16-24 years.

 Solution

-          Shelter houses provide short term relief to those in need of shelter , food, clothing, and much more

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How do the homeless people survive winter

-they sleep in doorways to buildings

- Public washrooms

- Coffee shops

-  basically anywhere they can find shelter and stay so what warm for the night

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Homelessness

              

Definition: The definition of Homelessness is having no home and living in the street, or in the forests.

      Causes: Running away some causes for homelessness women are physical or mental health problems, escaping a violent/very bad relationship, escaping a place or running away from home. The causes for men are escaping from prism, health care, a hospital or any other place, leaving a relationship, running away, and mental or physical health issues. For children, they either have to go with their parents because they are poor, or they can also run away from home. Some causes for everyone is they can be truly poor, or get so stressed that they do drugs and run away also.

     Problems with: A large problem in the USA, Downtown Toronto and many other places are from the cold and the heat. When there to cold, and they live in the streets, they sometimes don’t have coats or blankets. They could go into a sheltered bus or shelter, but they would have to leave in the morning. Another problem is running away from home. Some are adopted but don’t like their parents, which is another reason of running away from home. They also might have a disability with their brain. Some problems when you are homeless are having no food, a good home, and a place to sleep. Some bad people could go and stalk people, to kill or kidnap, or even follow where they go to. Some people even have to live in a box. They sometimes have to because it gets so cold outside. Some also have to live on a curb, in doorways of shops, and even bushes. Their clothes get ripped, and dirty, and don’t have any other clothes to live in. Some people have to go into different shelters, but kick them out in the morning because they think there lazy, sick, and think there bad people. Lots of people treat homelessness people with disrespect. But it’s not like they signed up to be homeless. They don’t have a brush, a toothbrush or toothpaste. They also can’t bathe so often.

    Solution: Our opinion is there are shelters that only let them stay for 1 day. The people, who run the shelter, should teach them so they can get a job, and let them stay in the shelter until they have enough money to buy a house, for food, and furniture. So they can retire when they are old enough, and then have a good life. 

     The internet’s solution: All homelessness people have a lack of housing. But we can decrease the number of homelessness people. What they need is a job, house, food and things to survive. You can volunteer to help them at a shelter, so they can get enough money, help the homelessness people!

-Alisha, Dora, Aaliyah