Nicholas’ Soccer Blog

This year lots of stuff happened in school. Like our Hornby Island camping trip which I wrote a post about around the beginning of the year. That experience help build a great classroom community between ourselves as classmates and that has carried through the year. The same goes with blogging because we all comment on each others blogs and write posts for our classmates to read. We also all share ideas through blogging.

Events we did this year to help our classroom community were-

• Hornby Camp
• Christmas Musical
• Spring Musical
• Track and Field
• Blogging
• Halloween Party
• Christmas Gift Exchange

What fun events did your class do this year? Leave a comment and let me know.

Photo by, Olli A

Drum role please… well I could tell you now but I would rather tell you in the next sentence so here it is… do I have to tell you now, no, OK the winner after a long thought through decision is… Oh, oh it’s on the tip of my tongue. Never mind enough of the silly business the actual winner is… Brianne from “The Chef’s Lounge”

Congratulations Brianne you will recieve a 12 month free blogging subscription as her prize.

Brianne you need to leave a comment on this post and let me know if you want the prize then I can place it on your blog.

Hi Readers,

Over the last couple of weeks our class has been taking part in a program called Arts Umbrella. We had teachers from Arts Umbrella come to our class, their names were Josh and Franziska. I wasn’t to big on the whole art idea because art is not one of my favourite subjects, but I found out we were doing a different kind of art. We used a program called Glocal. Glocal software allows users to make abstract and creative art through photos and technology. The way I made this picture was by using the Glocal software if you hadn’t already guessed. I plugged in a mini camera web cam. I set the grid to 4 by 4 and put a bigger border in just by the click of a few buttons, then I pressed the space bar and the photo was created. Your probably wondering what is in this picture, it is an electricity kit that was in our classroom because we had to use objects that were in our classroom or the computer lab. By the way some of the boxes are supposed to be blurry because I wanted the image to be abstract. The clear parts in my image reminds me of packaged unhealthy T.V. dinners. One thing I like about the image is that it is very colourful and it leaves the observer guessing what is in the image unless of course I was to spill the secret which I already did earlier in the post.

Leave a comment and tell me what you think about Arts Umbrella, Glocal and my image.

    Josh and Franziska

Hi Classmates,

As you know I have an extra free twelve month blogging subscription. I decided to create a challenge so I know who to give the subscription to.

You must write a post on something that is your favourite, for example favourite food, favourite place, favourite thing to do. Leave a comment on my blog once your done so I can check your post.

The due date is June 1st  The winner will be the participant who writes the most entertaining blog post.

The challenge is only for my class. Have fun and be creative.

One of our assignment in our class was to make a project for the heritage fair that relates to Canadian history. I did my project on my grandfather (a whaler). I wrote about how he worked at the last whaling station in Canada and all sorts of other things. You might be wondering what whaling is well it is were humans harpoon whales and eat the meat of the whale. We also use whales blubber and melt it in to oil, the ivory from the teeth and ambergris which can be used for perfumes. 

I presented my project to the class and I made it to the district fair (the next round). At the district fair we had to present our projects to the judges first and then we were able to participate in some activities. We went to a museum, an aviation (flight) library, and a artifacts room. The following day the projects were presented to the public and the awards ceremony took place. Me and one other student from my class advanced to the regionals in Port Alberni.

The day started with judging as well. Once the judging session was completed the other students and I went to the Alberni Valley Museum, we saw a clever machine that showed us what changes the temperature of the earth. There was also rock displays in the museum.

The next activity was the library which was interesting but not my favourite. My favourite activity was the mill. We road on a train for about half an hour to the mill where we got off for the tour. The tour was great I was able to observe the whole process of the logging chopping and processing of the wood.

The following day was time for the public to have a look at our projects. Once that was finished there was an awards ceremony, I won the committee choice award but they didn’t tell us who is advancing to the next round, they will be telling us next week. I will let you know if I make it

Thanks for reading. Leave a comment and tell me about projects in your class.

P.S. I am just about topublish my post with the results on the sports survey so hurry to get your answers in!

Hi Readers,

I have been blogging for quite some time now and I have visited a lot of blogs. One of my favorite blogs is Goal! by Michael. I like it because I am a soccer fan and that blog is also about soccer!

The other blog that is my favorite would be Technology in our classroom by Ms.Wyatt because she always has challenges and activities on her blog for her readers to participate in.

Well those are my two favorite blogs leave a comment and tell me what blog is your favorite.

I would probably not want to be a drum set. The reason is who wants to get beaten up by sticks (drumsticks) all day. Also a big boulder (foot pedal) would be smashing into me as my heart beat!

I doubt I would enjoy being a flute either because I would be all happy with my performance and everything but then the flute player would destroy me (take me apart for storage). Spit… oh I hate spit. One harsh note and loogies are all over the place.

Bees! I hate them! Why am I always being played outside. Those bees make me sound terrible when they go through me! By the way, I am now a Saxaphone and as you can tell not enjoying being this instrument either.

This was a quick imaginary post by Nicholas. Leave a comment and describe the downsides of being an instrument!

Photo by, fvancini

Hi Readers,

I was reading a post by Sue Waters called- “The Edublogger First Birthday Celebration”

She tells her readers to write a post about one of her many choices. I chose “Tips For Building a Blog Audience”.

I am not an expert but I will tell you how I build my blog’s audience.

1. The first thing a think about when trying to attract visitors to my blog is how are they going to know my blog even exists if I don’t leave a comment on their blog. Therefore the more comments you leave, the more comments and visits you will receive (sort of like the be nice and people will be nice to you theory if you know what I’m talking about).
2. The second most important thing for building a blog audience is leave the readers with an easy way to leave a comment. For example in the post I wrote before this about my soccer cleats and also in many others posts I always remember to put in a question at the end or somewhere in my piece of writing. If my post was just a story that would make the reader have to think much harder, and therefore he or she might just move on to another post. If there was a question in the post the reader could simply… answer the question.
3. Another minor way to attract an audience is to have an interesting avatar for when you leave comment. What I mean by that is if you have a avatar with a pizza on it maybe the person who sees your avatar will think you are into food and maybe that person is to, or if you have a soccer player avatar like me the person might assume you are into soccer.

I hope you this post helped you with building your blog audience! If you have any tips for me leave a comment and let me know. Thank You for reading!

Photo- “Business Man on Computer” by, kylemac

Hi Readers,

A few days ago our class got the privilege to have a guest visit from a robotic engineer. He played a video for us that told us about a robotic competition called First Robotics. He was promoting the competition to our age. The video showed us clips of previous challenges.

Participants built robots to perform a task. One of the tasks was to build a robot that could successfully go through a maze without hitting the edges of blocks. It had to knock blocks of the top of a boulder and other challenging tasks. The robot had to be previously programmed which means there were no remote controls involved. There were also bigger battle robots which could be controlled by remote.

Later on, after we had finished watching the video he brought in his robots. It was very exciting because he had a robot called the vexplorer. We were all going to get a chance to drive it!

Together we figured out what all the different controls did. These vexplorers (the robots we were driving)  could be programed to act on their own but in our case we just drove them with a remote control. Some of the buttons lowered the claw, some opened the claw, others moved the robot around. The coolest part of the whole experience was that there was a video camera mounted on top of the claw that would make everything the robot could see appear on the screen. We were not aloud to look at the robot, only at the screen.

The vexplorer could perform tasks such as picking up a pop can or juice box. Other bots specialized in picking up tennis balls. My favorite robot to drive was the tennis ball robot. I thought it was the most spectacular because it would spin a wheel placed on its claw backwards in order to “suck in” the tennis ball.

The robot shown in the picture was not one of the robots we drove. The robot we drove was similar except with a claw coming out of the front.

Thanks for reading and bye for now!

Photo by: shygantic

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