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This Remembrance Day our class got to be in charge of the Remembrance Day assembly. I think that we did a great job on it, and got the message of Remembrance in the students’ minds. We had to do a few things before we could do  the assembly though!

Our class got to go in groups to interview different people from the military. I got to go to all of the interviews because I was the one watching the recording software and making sure it was working properly. Each of the interviews lasted on average 10-20 minutes, but one of them lasted much longer because we had a lot of things we wanted to ask him. We used the interviews to help create speeches that had a very good amount of information in them.

I tried to remember all of the people who died in the war so that we could have better lives today. I thought the best thing to represent this would be the Poppy. I used all of my favourite pictures of Poppies that were available to us to make this image. I also think that the Poppy is a wonderful flower, with such a rich red colour to it.

What did you do this Remembrance Day? did you go to a ceremony in your town?

All images from Veterans Affairs Canada

On Monday, I got up like I would almost every day. I got dressed, ate breakfast and then walked to school. It was like just any other day, except later we were going to go down to Lewis Park to see the Olympic Torch Run ceremony!

But before that, we still had to do a few things first. We went to the computer lab so that we could do some work on our blogs. Once we had finished that(at 9:45 AM), it was time for us to go to the buses and leave for Lewis Park. It took about 15-20 minutes to get there after we had left the school, so we didn’t get there until about 10:00 AM. We still had a little walk to the stage, where there was a giant mass of people watching live performances.

I watched a few of the performances(which were really good!), but then I ran into some of my old friends from last year, and my teacher from last year. Their school was also at the ceremony! After a while of talking to them, I noticed that they had Coca Cola bottles, and asked where they were getting them from. At the edge of the park, there were a whole bunch of booths and stuff that were handing out free hot chocolate and cola! There were also some other things being handed out like tambourines and glowing cola bottles! I didn’t get one of the glowing cola bottles because I wasn’t there when the guy was handing them out.

While me and some classmates were exploring, the Olympic Torch finally came in! That was what we had been waiting for the whole time, and I thought that it was great to see it. At the same time, there were SAR Techs parachuting down from a helicopter, but they were a bit late(they were supposed to come before the torch did), so not many people really noticed them. The person who had the torch then came up to the stage and lit the main torch with it, and some more performances came on after that.

Our class got to take a picture with Mr. Pullin, one of the people who were running with the torch. I also got to hold the torch because there was a person letting people hold it. I thought it was quite heavy for a torch, but I wasn’t the person who designed it! We then got into a line and walked back to the buses because it was time for us to leave.

Once we got back to the school, we ate our lunches and then we worked on a list of the things that happened that day.

Has the Olympic Torch passed through your town? Or have the Olympics been held close to where you live? Leave a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!

Vancouver 2010 Logo by fboosman

Hello readers!

It’s finally that time of year when we all get to dress up as monsters and go trick or treating! Every year I have gone out, but I’m not sure if I am this year because I think I’m getting to old for it. I think this year I’m just going to help my dad with handing out candy. But if I did go, I would be… A raccoon! Just kidding. I would go as a vampire. I think that vampires are my favorite monster(other than a werewolf). Besides, I bet that a werewolf costume would get too hot even if it was cold out(which it usually is where I live).

Other than the dressing up part, I also like to get the candy! All of the delicious chocolates and gummy things to eat! My favorite kind of chocolate bar to get would probably be coffee crisp. I think that they taste really good. If I didn’t get any of those(probably impossible not to get any, but I might not), my other favorite is a kit kat bar. They are also really good.

Where I live, most of the biggest candy bars are given out at a suburb called “Crown Isle”. They pretty much always give out giant candy bars, like the ones you would buy at tills. But still, it’s nice to try to get to as many houses as you can so you have a lot of candy(not too much though, because then you won’t be able to eat it all). Last year I had to throw out most of my candy because I didn’t eat enough of it so it went bad.

What is your favorite holiday? Is yours Halloween? Leave a comment and I’ll reply to you as soon as I can!

Poplar Hill Pumpkin Patch by zizzybaloobah

Last  year our teacher asked us to write a post about 7 random facts about us, so we all did. But, this year, my new teacher also asked us to write 7 random facts about us, so I’m going to write 7 new ones(there are a lot of random facts about me). Its always fun to do a post like this because the possibilities could be endless, which just makes it even more fun to write them because you have to decide what 7 facts you would want to include! Here is an entire new batch of them about me, you should compare them to my last 7 random facts post!

1. My favorite colours are lime green and orange(I like lime green more though)
2. My favorite kind of ice cream is called gelato(its an Italian ice cream, not quite the same as normal ice cream, but it tastes way better!)
3. My favorite animal is a monkey(if my Voki and my monkey Jimmy didn’t already give it away)
4. I’ve had 3 pet dogs(Abby was my first dog who now lives with my mom and sisters, when we had Abby we also bought her brother Blue, but we had to give him away because he had something wrong with his hip and now my dad and I have Jade, a really hyper awesome dog)
5. I’ve always wanted to go to the Caribbean and just spend a week  or so there relaxing and swimming
6. I’m really allergic to cats(I sneeze a lot around them, then it turns hard for me to breathe after a while)
7. I’m writing 7 random facts about me, my favorite number is 7, I’m on number 7 and I’m in grade 7!

7 by mag3737

My perfect holiday would be in Australia because I think that the warm weather there would be really nice.

I would also want to go to Australia because it has a lot of really cool animals that live there, like kangaroos and koalas. Kangaroos and koalas are also 2 of my favorite animals. If I went to Australia, I would also probably take surfing lessons because I really want to learn how to surf. It looks really fun, and if I learn to surf I could learn to snowboard(I don’t snowboard, but I know how to ski). On the island where we live there is a place to go skiing and snowboarding called Mount Washington. There are a whole bunch of tracks that you can ski or snowboard down, some of them being more difficult then the others.

I would also just like to wade around in the ocean by Australia, and find seashells. When I go to the beach I love to collect them. I don’t really like when all I can find are broken shells though because they don’t look as nice as normal shells do. I would have to be careful not to step on a stone fish though!

I would also want to visit Sydney because it has a whole bunch of places to go and things to see(maybe the museum?). I would also want to go on one of those tours of the outback.

In conclusion, I think that taking a vacation to Australia would be just awesome.

Koala Meditating (The ultimate koala photo?) by Erik K Veland

Hello readers!

During the summer, my blog didn’t have any updates. I was just too busy to do anything on it. But, this year I’m going to keep blogging because my grade 7 teacher is a friend of Mrs. Smith, and she wants to blog throughout the year too!

I’m not going to the same school anymore because I moved closer to a different one. Mrs. Smith suggested that I go into Mrs. Braidwood’s class because Mrs. Braidwood wanted to blog. I’m glad that I got into Mrs. Braidwood’s class because if I didn’t, I probably really wouldn’t have had time at school to write posts and update my blog. Our new blog is called “The Ripple Effect“, and we have already written a few posts on it.

The rest of my class will get their individual blogs probably by the end or middle of October, but I don’t know exactly when they will.

Hi!
Our class has done a lot of amazing things this year. In this post I will try to remember what we have done as a class throughout the year!

Camp Hornby
Well, the first really fun thing we did was go to a camp on Hornby Island. It wasn’t only our class that went though, every grade six class got to go. We did a lot of really fun things like kayaking, high ropes, games in the forest and the climbing tower. My favorite thing that we did at Hornby was probably the kayaking because I think it is really fun. My friend Hayden fell out of his kayak when his group did it, and he had to swim back to the shore (and that day the water was really cold!)!

I was in a tent group with Hayden, Kris and Julian, and on the first night Kris and Hayden both fell asleep in the first 10 minutes or so! Me and Julian didn’t fall asleep that fast. Oh no. I’m guessing that it was somewhere between another 2-3 hours before me and Julian fell asleep. When we weren’t asleep, me and Julian talked about a video game. I can’t remember what it was though.

On the second night, I had a bit too much to eat and I wasn’t feeling very well (I think I had too much salad at dinner). After dinner, I really had to go to the bathroom (which smelled horrible). I had to wait a while before I got to use it, and when I did get to use it someone kicked the door, so when I tried to open it, The hinges were stuck somehow so the door wouldn’t swing open. I told the other people waiting to go and get Mr. Green to open it. When I got out, it was time for the campfire, so I went to where it was and I sat beside my friends. We had hot chocolate and some chips for a snack. I threw one of my doritos into the fire pit, and then it caught on fire. It didn’t look like it burned when it was done, but instead it looked like it had melted (it was very strange). After we had finished our snack, we sang some campfire songs and then it was time to go to our tents. I had to go to the bathroom again, so when I got back to the tent, Kris, Julian and Hayden were fooling around with the giant flashlight I brought. They were turning it on and off and whenever it would go off, Julian would change how he was standing. It made me very dizzy. Once they were done, I didn’t feel good at all, so I stepped outside and I threw up in one of the bushes!

We also did a lot of other really fun things this year, like:

• Spring Musical
• Winter Musical
• Christmas Gift Exchange
• Our Class Election
• Blogging
• Howlin’ Halloween Happening

I want to be a logger or a video game designer!

But, I would like to do both because I enjoy video games, and logging makes a lot of money (but there might not be any more trees left on the planet!). As you can see, video games are a passion for me. I would like to try to make my own one day, and I already have a few ideas…

I would want to design a MMORPG (Massive-Multi Player-Online-Role-Playing-Game) because I like MMORPGs a lot. I also like games where you have to kill aliens (like Halo 3 for example). Or, maybe I could try to design a MMORPG that involves shooting aliens because a MMORPG like that would be awesome! It would be a game where you can fly around on your little awesomeness space ship to other planets where strange creature things live that you can kill with your gun!

Logging is quite fun too, but most people would blame loggers for global warming. If no people would log the trees, there wouldn’t be any toilet paper left on the world, and that wouldn’t be the greatest thing…

Loggers also make a lot of money, according to my dad’s old logger friend. my dad said that he would make nearly $500 a day from logging. I can’t seem how it can get you that much money though.

Maybe I could design a game where your job is to cut down virtual trees! I think that that would be funny, but probably not very fun. I guess I could do that so that people could get a taste of logging if they couldn’t do it yourselves. Maybe that would be a fun game after all…

What do you wanna be when you grow up? Do you think a virtual logging game would be fun, or lame? Leave a comment telling me if you think that a virtual logging game would be good or not (or you could say what you wanna be when you grow up)!

Back on the Log Train by: Claire L. Evans

Look at that picture. Doesn’t it look strange, weird or cool? Well, I think it’s all 3 of those. Do you think you know what it is? If you can’t tell, it is a picture of a computer screen that I took during the Glocal Project. The Glocal Project is a software run by the Arts Umbrella. With this software you can take pictures with web cams and then give them effects, make their borders smaller and give them a random size (like I have with this picture). Arts Umbrella is for art where they teach you things about art and photography.

We have 2 people here that are teaching us about art who came from Arts Umbrella and they are Josh and Francesca (Josh works there and Francesca is a volunteer visiting Canada from Germany). Josh taught us ho to use the software and how to move the pictures from the shared drive into our own folders.

We have taken probably over 1500 pictures in the 2 weeks they have been here, and tomorrow we are going to have an art show at Mark Isfeld (the high school that is pretty much right beside our school). Me and my friend Mitchell worked together on two posters. One of them just has a whole bunch of random pictures, and the other one has pictures of voki things and neon stuff (I like the one with the voki things and neon stuff more than the the other one).

My favorite picture that I have took is the one above. I pointed the webcam at the computer screen and I changed around the size of the pictures on it and I took it. I have many other blue ones like this. It is my favorite picture because I like the shade of blue that is on it. I can’t remember what the glowing orange dots were. Sometimes when you take a picture of the computer screen, it will keep showing the screen over and over again. It looks really cool.

Hi!

I won the Student Blogging Competition for my post Cool Globes!?. I’m glad I won, but that wasn’t even the post that I entered. I entered my post called How Blogging Has Connected Me To A Global Audience.

I can get a 12 month subscription to Edublogs, but I’m not sure if I’m going to use it or not. I’m probably going to give it to one of my readers or classmates. I can also get a badge to show that I won, but I’m not quite sure how to get it on my blog. I’m going to have to try to do that sometime… Or I might ask Ms. Smith to help me do it, because I’m really not sure how myself. A lot of other people won, and some of my classmates won too like Nicholas and Sam( or SpiderSam!).

Here are the other people who won: Makaya06, THS Lit 10, C-O Connections Blog, Read, Write and Knit, Taking It Further, Sacred Heart BLOGATHON!, English Social Studies Blog, Tara’s Blog and New and Fascinating English Blog.

I would like to thank Ms. Waters for organizing all of the blogging competitions, all of the people who entered the competition and Ms. Smith for being such a great teacher and letting us have blogs! Keep up the great posts everybody!