Vegetables

This is my essay I wrote about vegetables. Hope you enjoy!

Vegetables

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When your parents tell you to eat your vegetables, have you ever wondered about why we need to eat them? Hopefully, after you’ve read my article about vegetables, you might find the answers to your questions. Read on to discover the wonderful world of vegetables!

Types of vegetables

There are many types of vegetables, with all different sizes, shapes and colors. The eggplant, for example, is purple, and looks like a banana. And asparagus is green and looks like a spear! When you buy vegetables at the supermarket, select a wide variety so you can enjoy all their benefits and taste new things! Always remember that a delicious vegetable can look very weird!

Nutrients

Some of the nutrients inside vegetables include potassium, dietary fibre, folic acid, and vitamins A and C. Vitamin A is essential for the eye because the antioxidant compounds that make up vitamin A help protect the cornea, the surface of our eye, which is important for good eyesight.

In addition, vitamin C can prevent a lethal disease called scurvy, caused by lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). When people get scurvy, they experience anemia, debility, exhaustion, and edema (swelling) in some parts of the body.

Also, vegetables that have a deeper/darker green color (e.g spinach, kangkong, broccoli, bell peppers and kiwifruit) will contain more vitamin C than vegetables with only a light green color.

    Popular vegetables’ dietary fiber and vitamin C content

Vegetable	Dietary fiber content (per 100g)	Vitamin C content (per 100g)
Broccoli	2.6 g	89.2 mg
Water spinach (aka kangkong)	2.1 g	55 mg
Spinach	2.2 g	28.1 mg
Cabbage	2.5 g	36.6 mg
Potato	2.2 g	19.7 mg

Health Benefits

So you have heard about the nutrients in vegetables. Perhaps a more important side of eating vegetables is their health benefits. For example, dietary fibre from vegetables helps reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease. Potassium, which is also found in vegetables, helps to maintain healthy blood pressure levels. Also, folic acid helps our bodies to make red blood cells.

Pregnant women should consume adequate folate from foods, with 400 mcg of synthetic folic acid from fortified foods or supplements. This reduces the risk of neural tube defects, spina bifida, and anencephaly during fetal development.

Conclusion

Because eating vegetables can save us from disease, keep us strong, give us health benefits and good nutrients, we should really start eating more vegetables.

Discussion about rights and privileges

Here is a photo of a discussion in our class about rights and privileges. As you can see, people are volunteering to share their ideas about the subject that the class was discussing. The discussion was about if something is/should be a right or a privilege.
People had really interesting ideas about big things.
I felt that this was a very important discussion and I hope our class had learnt something because I did.

Why Everyone Should Watch The Tale of the Green Triplets.

Here is my opinion piece on why everyone should watch The Tale of the Green Triplets. I want to share it so that maybe you would watch The Tale of the Green Triplets.

Why everyone should watch The Tale of the Green Triplets

By: Vo Thuong
I think that everybody should watch The Tale of the Green Triplets. In this piece, I will tell you about why I believe this is so.

The first reason why I think that everybody should watch The Tale of the Green Triplets is that the show is funny. For example, the music choice is amusing, especially when the dragons march in and the Imperial March comes on.

The second reason is that the show uses its resources wisely. The props were spaced out with one or two props each in every quarter of the stage. Also, the music matched the feeling of the phase of the show. So when the villagers were celebrating, the music was happy. When the Dragons marched in, the music was severe.

The final (but not last) reason why everybody should watch the Tale of the Green Triplets is that it displays dispositions that are useful in the real world. In the play, the villagers eventually learned to accept other people and be caring, which is an important skill.

Because of this, I believe that everyone should watch The Tale of the Green Triplets.

Here is the video for The Tale of the Green Triplets.

The video is not out yet :-( .

My new story

This is a new story that I had written at home. The first time, it wasn't a very good draft, so I made another version (the final version) and will share it here on my blog. I hope you enjoy and try to identify what kind of story it is. Good Luck!

Here is my story:

How Squirrel Fed Her Neighbors

Squirrel was busy all the time. She went up and down trees. She visited her neighbours. She shared her food. Nobody was hungry. There was always plenty of food.

Then, winter came. It was cold. It was snowy everywhere and Squirrel got hungry. Where was all the food? Rabbit said one day:

“Squirrel, we are hungry. Do you have any food?” “No,” answered Squirrel, “but I’ll see what food I can find.

Squirrel asked Oak Tree for help. “Oak Tree, do you have any acorns?” asked Squirrel.

“No acorns for you! I am saving them! They are like my children, and I do not intend to give away any,” said the Oak Tree.

 Squirrel thought for a moment.

“Oak Tree,” she asked, “can I have just one acorn, please?”

“No,” the tree replied.

“I can grow another tree like you and give you back a couple of acorns,” pleaded Squirrel. She really needed that one acorn for her plan to work. Finally, the Oak Tree gave in.

Squirrel then did as she said and grew a great big tree next to her tree house with her neighbours. After the tree had grown acorns, Squirrel returned to Oak Tree and gave him a handful acorns.

“Thank you,” said the Oak Tree.

And from that day on, Squirrel and her neighbours never ran out of food again.

The End

This story is a folktale.

My narrative

My Grade 3 Play 

Have you ever been in a part of a play? I have. Here, I'm going to tell you about the second time I was a part of a play, since the first time was in Kindergarten and it wasn't very significant.  

It was time for the performances to begin. I enjoyed watching the other  performances, yet my nervousness was intense. Then, the play before my class's play finished and the curtains closed 

It was time. I had to wear a headset. I had to prepare an item, the fireplace, for the play.  I was narrator #1. Isabel, my classmate, was narrator #2. 

My show started. I had lots of parts and was scared I might mess up. I was in the front, so everybody looked at me and Isabel, which comforted me a bit. At least I had somebody to share the embarrassment with.  

At last, my parts were all over and the big finish was done, I was relieved. As it turned out, I did incredibly well. I was especially proud that I was able to overcome such a challenge. 

Now, I feel like I can overcome any challenge because, 

"Wherever you are, Whoever you are, you only need to know one thing: You Can Learn Anything." 

-Words from "You Can Learn Anything" 

Power of Words

Here's a video about the "Power of Words"

Filipino cultural foods

Hey everyone! Sorry about the quick transition, but I’ll just explain it so you know. I’m writing this post because it’s nearly Filipiniana and my class is doing a project to deeper understand and aspect of the Philippines, which is where I chose food.

Filipino foods (3):

1. Adobo: Filipino Adobo is a popular dish and cooking technique in the Philippines. This process involves meat, vegetables or seafood marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic. After this it is browned in oil, and then simmered in the marinade.
2. Lechon: Lechon is an entire pig spit-roasted over coals, with the crispy, golden-brown skin served with liver sauce, the part most craved for.
3. Sisig: In the capital of Pampanga, the people there turn the pork's cheeks, head and liver into a sizzling dish called Sisig.

Note: I believe all of this is just yummy food. :P

Credits:

Further information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_adobo
Matthew Frondoso for the "importance to the Philippines" part (see note)

For inspiration

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/foodanddrink/50-delicious-philippines-dishes/
Matthew Frondoso for the layout

Definitions

http://www.dictionary.com

Searches

www.google.com

www.wikipedia.com

Publishing

www.blogger.com