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Saturday 5 March 2016

Save Our Snowman

As part of our reading, we work independently exploring news items that have a national or international setting.




1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?
There are no quotes.


2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.
A family in New York are requesting donations of snow to keep their 14 foot snowman last until spring. Last year they founded ‘snow donors’ on Facebook.. Which kept their snowman standing until April 20th.


3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.
The article gives the location of the family lives as in New York. It says winter starts in December and ends March.


4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.
The article was published February 19, 2016 and that winter is from December to March. That their ‘snow donors’ Facebook page is how they're going to get snow.


5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.
I think they just really like snowman.


6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.


Donations - Something that is given to a charity, especially a sum of money.
Snowman - A representation of a human figure created with compressed snow..

Snow Donors -People that donate snow.

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