Summer Learning Journey 2018-2019 l Week 3 l Day 5 - Activity 3

Hello Hello and welcome to my 5th post today, I know this must be a surprise. It is that because it is almost 2019 and I want to crack 100 posts. Anyways, enjoy!

WEEK 3: Up, Up and Away
DAY 5: Here to Stay

Activity 3: Let It Rain [10 points]

Over the past few decades, we have seen an increase in the amount of rain that falls here in New Zealand. We are lucky, however, that most of the rain that falls is regular rainwater and not polluted acid rain. Acid rain is rain that has bad chemicals (pollutants) in it. When acid rain hits the ground it can enter the water system, killing plants and animals. Click here to learn more about acid rain.

Let’s imagine that New Zealand was hit by a massive acid rain storm. Acidic rain fell for three days and three nights. When the rain fell, you stayed inside with your friends and family. When it stopped, however, you and your family decided to go for a walk outside. You opened the door and...

On your blog, write a short story about what happened when you opened the door and walked outside after the acid rain storm. To earn full points, you must write a story that is 8 – 10 sentences long.

Sitting down on my couch waiting for the acid rain to stop, just watching from the window gives me chills. A few seconds later it stops standing up from the uncomfortable couch I walked over to the window and opened it to see if there are any signs of the rain. Now knowing that it has stopped I walked to my front door and looked around. The plants were dead and half of the animal population were gone. I really hated to see our world like this, luckily we managed to save 10 of the endangered wildlife. I didn't want to take a step outside since we needed the acid rain to evaporate, it would take a week, so another week of playing boards games and reading. Too bad we didn't have internet because of the rain.

Finally, we were able to go outside. I opened the door and noticed how dead everything was my family wondered why too. We stepped outside and everything felt so different it was like there was a zombie apocalypse. For the next 2 days the sun wasn't shining at all, luckily at the last day of the week it had finally shined, everything was growing fine and my family and I were having a fun time playing outside.  I hope the acid rain doesn't come again because it destroyed one of the most beautiful things in the world.