Unfortunately…. when there is tons of snow outside it is difficult to play soccer. Even if you can get the ball to roll it is still wet…. not to mention running in snow is difficult.
Do you play soccer in the snow? If so, is there a particular way you do? Do you enjoy playing soccer in the snow better then on the dry grass? I sure don’t!
Photo Credits: Stew pendous
A very young, poor but optimistic boy named Andrio has a dream to become a professional soccer/football player. Andrio plays on a team with other very minimally skilled players. No one in the whole town he lives in is skilled enough to teach him high quality soccer. He works all day long and doesn’t even get a chance to go to school. Yet he still follows his dream. He has been saving up money to go to a soccer camp for years.
The day has come, it is time for him to attend soccer camp. Andrio feels incredible, as if everything was not even reality. It is to good to be true! He realizes he actually isn’t that bad of a player. Since he is playing with people more skilled then him he challenges himself. After a few more training camps Andrio realizes if he wishes to pursue his dream he must tryout for a select team or at least a better team then he is playing on now.
To actually be able to make the team he must first attend a regular house season. Andrio has been improving on a massive scale. Therefore by the end of the season Andrio gets a tryout chance on the select team.
The coaches are strict and they except much more than the house coaches. By the end of the tryouts Andrio believed he would make it. He had put in 110% in everything he did.
Now decision ending day had finally came. The suspense was building in Andrio’s head. He knew to become a pro he needed to make this team. It was like a stepping stone that you only had one chance to try and step on. If you missed it everything would be lost!
Photo Credits- Me
Who doesn’t like Christmas? The lights, candles, great food, awesome presents and best of all Santa Claus. And to answer the question I quess scrooge. On Christmas Eve my family and I go for a drive (or walk) to look at all the Christmas lights. The best part is deciding on which one we thought was the best!
My family loves the dinner we make. My grandma makes delicious, bright yellow mash potatoes with the best gravy I have ever tasted. My grandpa makes the perfectly roasted Christmas turkey. The dessert is brought in by my Auntie. She always has a gift exchange with her friends and shares all of the different types of goodies with us. To finish it off my mom brings in the trifle she always makes. It is definitely my favourite. Every layer has it’s own great taste. The fruit is ripe. The whipping cream is homemade, and the cake…. Well I don’t know about the cake part but it is delicious.
Once the dinner is finished our family always watches a movie. My brother and I always want to stay up after the movie but of course…. our grandma makes us go to bed.
I always get to open one present before Christmas. It is usually a smaller one.
One Christmas I woke up so early anxious to look at my presents and my presents weren’t even there yet so I went back to bed.
When I woke up in the morning I saw all the Christmas presents under the tree. It is my favourite time of year. I am allowed to open my stocking but I have to wait until my parents get up to open my bigger presents.
Everyone comes over on Christmas morning. My Grandparents, Uncles, Aunties Cousins and almost everyone in the family.
Next it’s snow playing time! Most of the family goes out into the backyard and has a huge snowball fight. The feeling of an ice shard hitting your body from the through of one of my uncles is not a good feeling. I even got a bruise from a snowball once.
Oh the hot chocolate…… yum, yum, yum. After I get in from the snowball fight my grandma makes the best hot chocolate. The way it warms me up almost makes me want to get cold again.
I love Christmas!
How do you spend your Christmas? Leave a comment and let me know.
For a link to a christmas games site click here
For a link to a christmas games site for younger children click here
Photo Credits
Snowflake by: CaptPiper
Red Ornament by: krisdecurtis
Gold Ornament by: FrAnthony
One fun thing we did in class today was make a pivot animation. The funnest part was making the elephant push the guy of the screen. The hardest part was adding music. In the end I was really satisfied with my video. Take a look!
Pivot Man Break Dancing from Jan Smith on Vimeo.
Hey Guys,
I decided to have another servey since survey’s have been really fun so far. This time the survey is going to be about your favourite soccer player. Cast your vote on the link below.
Click Here to take survey
Now that you have left your vote invite your friend to come and vote!
I look forward to the results.
Photo Credits: Wayne Rooney by: sam_herd, Cristiano Ronaldo by: azote, Ronaldinho by: Thundershead
Have you ever talked to a real astronaut? Our class has! This morning our class took part in a web cast with an astronaut who had been on the International Space Station for 5 months. His name is Clay Anderson. A “web cast” is where you can see the person you are communicating with and hear him at the same time.
I was one of the students selected to ask a question during the web cast. My question was about the water they drink in space. I did research on the topic before I asked the question and I figured out that water in space is actually the astronauts sweat and urine. Yuck! I know that would be a definite first reaction but if you think about it what other choice do they have? It’s really not that bad though because the sweat and urine is purified into real water, but just the idea of drinking something that used to be your urine would gross me out. Did you know they even use the lab rats sweat and urine! They can’t keep water in a space shuttle to supply quite a few astronauts for a whole 5 months. Not to mention having to control the water in zero gravity.
Astronauts have to use special equipment in space. They have to eat their food out of special bags. The have to put spouts on their drinks and they have to have a lid on pretty much everything. Imagine having to worry about everything flying around everywhere.
The astronaut told us about how they had to exercise for almost 2 hours. The reason for it is that when you are in space you weigh nothing therefore your muscles don’t have to work. When you are on earth your muscles have to hold you up. So if the astronauts didn’t exercise while in space when they got back to earth their muscles would be to soft to hold them up. Especially if you are in space for 5 months!
Imagine being in space for 5 months without ever seeing your family or friends. When we talked to Clay Anderson he told us about how he would host a trivia game with the ground team to pass the time. He would also pretend he was super man flying around in the ship since there was no gravity. Not a typical astronaut!
If you want to check out a great website based on space click here.
Photo Credits:
Astronauts on the ISS (picture above) by Chatarra Picks
