Christmas Traditions

Since it is the last week before Christmas break I decided to write about CHRISTMAS! All around the world countries celebrate Christmas differently. For example Austria(like what other country would I mention!). Austrians have Kristkind(Christ Child) instead of Santa. I also have Kristkind but not only Kristkind I also get presents from Santa Lucia(LOO-CHEE-a.) Santa Lucia is from Italy. She doesn't come to my house but we go to a friend of my grandpa’s House.

Okay, so that is who I get presents from Christmas time. Now lets talk about other countries...Well in China only some people are Christian so they do what we do put up a Christmas tree but in Chinese Santa Claus is ‘Shen dan lao ren’. In Mexico Christmas is Celebrated from Dec.12-Jan.6(Two days before my B-day!)  Swiss like to wear crowns on their heads and everyone has Advent calendars. In the UK(or great britain) they put up a Christmas tree(or even 2!) and instead of Santa Claus they have Father Christmas. Oh and I almost forgot Jewish families celebrate Chanukkah(Hanukkah.)

Now there are some different ways to celebrate Christmas.

What do you do for Christmas?

Do you do anything special for Christmas time if yes, What?

Do you know of any other traditions if yes which ones?

And since the first and second question are the similar…

Why do you think Christmas is so special?

-bunbunny

Christmas Specials

During Christmas time there are a lot of Christmas specials on TV.  Some of them are classics like How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Garfield, Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman and Elf. There are a lot of other movies that I can not remember off the top of my head. Those movies are more commonly seen/watched around Christmas.

This will be off topic but 79% of the kids are focused on the gifts not the family time and movies. They all just stare at the gifts shake them listen to them if they’re allowed.  Some kids are so bad that they sleep beside the tree until Christmas and wake up Christmas morning. Some kids don't even get presents but still people don't care.

Now back to the topic, If I were to make a Christmas special it would be about a doughnut named Arnold Candy cane who has to rescue Bob Bell his best bro while the towns people try to bombard him with Christmas decorations.

What is your favorite Christmas special and why?

If you could make a Christmas special what would it be about and who would be the main character be?

Why do you think Christmas specials are so popular?

Waxierwharf360

Hobby

My favourite hobby is dance. Dance is a beautiful art. I think I will dance for the rest of my life.

Mostly because I think I’m good at it, and because when I dance I start to smile. I dance four times a week. On Mondays I dance ballet and jazz. Later in the day on Thursday I dance ballet choreo, ballet tech, and lyrical. On Fridays I dance musical theater. And on Saturdays I dance jazz and acro. My favourite type of dance is jazz, because I think I have a lot of personality. I’m pretty sure I get all of my personality from my sister. 

Dance is the only hobby I do, because I quit soccer and I quit gymnastics. It was hard to quit gymnastics. But quitting soccer was like a piece of cake. I don’t care though now because I think that’s how I got better at dance. My goal with dancing is to always get better and better. Because if I work even harder and harder every time. Usually in dance class we have one big prize and a ton of small prizes.This year she is trying to give out a rainbow sock monkey. Another one of my goals is to do a side aerial and a rollover pretzel. If I succeed them I will move on to another goal.

-What is your hobby?

-What’s your favourite part about it?

-What is your goal with it?

-bluebell08-

Hope

What is Hope you may ask? Hope is a feeling that what is wanted or is likely to happen. To want something to happen or be true and think it could happen.

Hope is important in life. Hope is a way of showing that you care for others.Hope is a way of showing to never give up.You should show hope to people and elders of your family and others.If you don’t show hope that means you haven’t lived that much.Always show hope to people you love and like.

I show hope to people I like and love!do you show hope to people you like and love? I even show hope to people I don’t even know . Everybody should show hope to at least some people.I think you should show hope to everybody that you like and love.

Does the feeling of Hope come easily for you?
What does 'hope' mean to you?
Why do you think Hope is important?

from snowball29 (modified by Mr.V)

Sports

I think sports are very important to your life. Sports help keep you healthy, they are fun to play and keep you fit.

My favorite sport is hockey. I like to play hockey because it is fun, fast moving and you can play with lots of people. Hockey I can play almost any time. I also can play it competitively, in a league. I play for North Seara and I am in the age level Atom. Atom is for ages 9-10.

It is also good to have someone who teaches you and someone you can look to for help in that sport. It can be a coach or a family member. My Dad helps me with hockey. He is the assistant coach for my team this year. He also gives me tips for hockey  and helps me get better at it. Lots of times I also play with my brother, even though he is way better than me, he helps me get better to.

Sports may sometimes be hard, but they can also be very fun.

What is your favourite sport?

Why do you like it?

Who helps you get better at it?

-Mr.Patty

R.E.S.P.E.C.T

Respect is really important for everyone. You should respect everyone and especially your dad & mom.  
You should not only respect them, you should respect everyone in this world who is older than you. If you respect someone in your life, life would be a lot nicer and you will be so much happier.  If you respect everyone the kids will learn something from you and then they will respect you so please respect everyone.  You parents will be so happy with you and be proud of you. And if you see someone older than you  and you see them trying to cross a road then help them out of respect. I really respect my granparents and parents because they really care for me and by showing love and kindness.  

• Do you respect your parents and grandparents ? why?
• Have you ever helped someone ? 
• What did you help them with? Raven queen

Stress

Stress is something that many people get, when something odd happens and it affects things in your body. Some of the feelings that you feel can cause stress in many ways.

You can get stress from your job your friends can even make you feel some stress and can even help you face the stress. Stress causes anger,crying,depression,hungry,thirsty and many more serious feelings that you may feel. Stress can even make you not hungry or not thirsty.Stress is a powerful thing it can make and do many things to you and your body.

Sometimes Stress can really really hurt someone.

You can help yourself handle Stress in many ways like eating,drinking,being active and much more.you can do so much to help you and your friends to take care of Stress.When I was about 1 ½ my mom and dad had been divorced and it was a hard time for me and since then I have felt a lot of stress and I know how to take care and to handle it, for it is easy for me to handle it but for some people it is very hard and I am not putting out any names but some people in the class are feeling some stress and I believe that we can help them handle stress.

1. Do you feel or deal with stress and how do you take care of it ?
2. How can you help people deal with stress ?
3. Do you have things you do to take care of stress and explain it ?

What Did You Do Over The Weekend?

What I did over the weekend was REALLY fun.  I went to my dad’s farm that my Baba owns, and I did lot’s of stuff there.  Since my dad is going to be there every weekend now, I thought that I might as well go with him too.  I’ve got nothing else better to do, so like I said I might as well.  So, let’s get into what I did this weekend:

Like I said, I went to my dad’s farm and did lots of stuff there.  When we arrived, we spray painted a fort that we made the weekend before that. (We were going to use the fort to hunt in because it would be more comfortable than just laying down and standing up on the wet grass).  We spray painted it camoflauge (we just used a lot of colors, not an actual bottle of spray paint colored camouflage) so it can blend in with all of the trees and the other stuff behind it.  So we spray painted that, the we had to get it to our hunting spot.  That took quite a while, like two hours or something like that, but it was still reasonably fun.  We got it there by using a skid steer ( which I will explain in a moment), my dad’s truck and a trailer.  A skid steer is a heavy duty machine that is similar to a forklift but bigger and better.  My dad was the one who was controlling the skid steer, and two other people were driving the truck.  My dad lifted the fort up with the two forks (the big things that you use to lift up the object, not the forks that you eat with) on the skid steer up onto the trailer and then we strapped the fort down on the trailer.  We strapped the fort down because we didn’t want it to fly off when we were trying to get it to our hunting spot.  So we did that, and then set it down onto the ground.

My dad had to drive the skid steer to the hunting area, so… I did something fun.  I drove the skid steer back to our farm.  Those things are so fun to drive, I want one of my own.  So I got into the heavy duty machine and it looked really cool inside.  There was two joystick things two move it, and there was also lots of buttons.  My dad sat down in it first and then I sat in his lap.  My dad told me how to drive it.  It’s actually quite simple.  The left joystick is to move, and the right joystick is to control the forks.  I didn’t use the forks for anything, but it was still fun to drive.  You move by pushing forward or backward on the joystick thing.  To move forwards, you push forwards.  To move backwards, you pull backwards.  You can also turn side to side (I don’t know which vehicle wouldn’t) by pulling left or right.  So, I drove back to the farm and then we went and practiced our aim with our guns.  (Me and my brother didn’t, but the adults were).  We have a long private shooting range which is actually quite handy.  We use it to practice our aim.  It’s just common sense, like why else wouldn’t we have a shooting range.  Anyway, to keep ourselves occupied, (me and my brother), we drove around some of the fields that we own.  We drove around the perimeter so we wouldn’t wreck the crops..  We did that for like an hour so by then it started to get dark.  We went back to camp and sat around the fire for like 30 minutes.  After those 30 minutes, we went scouting to see how big of does and deer we could find.  I was the youngest one there, so I found the most.  (I still have young eyes).  when we got back it was around 8:30 and we sat around the fire a bit more.  I was really tired when we got back, but I stayed up for like another hour.  After that hour I was REALLY tired after that one hour so I went straight to bed.

What did you do over the weekend and was it fun?

Have you ever driven something unique or has any of your family driven one?

Have you ever hunted before or has any of your family?

 

The long typer, Waspy14

Do You Have Wisdom?

Wisdom is something you do not just get, you earn. But in order to earn wisdom, you need to have these things...

Determination, courage, love and bravery. Here are some tips, live, love, laugh, and if you never make a mistake or never embarrass your self you have not really lived at all. Wisdom can be taken away, if you make bad choices or if you stop caring, because sometimes you don't know what you have until it's gone. I also know that life is a balancing act if you lean to far to a side you'll fall off and the other side will disappear. So be thankful for what you have because on a day in the near future it might all be gone forever and it will hurt you. Now that you know what wisdom is, how to deal with it and to be careful with it I think you know phase 1 but phase 2 comes from you, and what's on the inside.

 

Now let's talk about life in wisdom, life can not be ignored nor can wisdom, with both of them by you side you can do any thing you can set you mind to. I'm not saying can't now, but it's easier when you have those two with you at all times because if you loose it , it might not come back to you ever. Let's take some time to think of the women and men in you life weather if it's your mom or dad, brother or sister who has share wisdom in your life. For me it was my grand mother she was an amazing women but because of the past she had to battle cancer, lung cancer as I went to se her every day I saw her getting weaker and than on a march day we stopped coming and on st. patricks day my parents informed me she was dead March 2012. So now you know who mine is. Who's yours!

 

Now you know every thing there is to know about wisdom. I hope you enjoyed my presentation, Now you can create wisdom for your self good luck if you have any questions comment down below.

Congratulations I hope you have decided on wisdom as something for you to do or get done thanks a bunch.

your friend dragonfly 101

Your most embarrassing moment?

We all get embarrassed at least once in our lives. Sometimes when we are embarrassed, the others around us know why, the other times it may be just us. One of my most embarrassing moments happened when I was at University.

When I was in University, I prided myself in riding a bike to and from school. The bike was green and was given to me by a friend. My generous friend had found it lying in a ditch and decided to gift it to me.....ahem! The main problem was, the bike had really...really bad brakes. So I learned that in order to stop myself while riding I would need to plan my stop as the brakes took about 5 seconds to kick in.

The second week at University I was feeling proud and was 'that kid' too cool for school with my large headphones listening to Coolio. There was a gentle drizzle which turned into rain but again being cool...I had sunglasses on. As I approached the bike stand with about 8 bikes ...I realized by brakes were completely useless, going at about 30km per hour I knew I had about 5 seconds to make a decision on where I wanted to crash. The way I approached gave me two options..one was to ride into a large group of people getting into school, the other much more painful response was a solid iron bike rack. I decided the bike rack?

All that I imagine people going to class saw was a 'cool guy' riding his bike fast only to run in full speed into a bike rack, fall over the handle bars going  flying on the other side of the bike rack land on his bottom. Headphones where the sunglasses were and vice versa. I was so embarrassed, but I acted like nothing happened (aside from an upside down bike with tires spinning). This was definitely one of my most embarrassing moments, what would be one of your most embarrassing moments?