Month: April 2017 (Page 3 of 4)

What We Did this Morning

What we did this morning was that we were talking about strategies on how we could deal with stress and solutions on how we could stop stress, what I normally do is that I drink cold water or I go to the couch and think for a minute or two and then I go back and I take things slowly. The way I deal with homework is that I drink a cold glass of water or I go outside and cool off or I take deep breathes but just because you have stress doesn’t mean you put off your work you still do it nut cool off when your stressed. What causes me to be stressed is that my sister is always mean to me and she calls me an idiot whenever I’m trying to help her out and when she says I do it wrong and when I’m actually doing it right she gets mad and she starts calling me an idiot and all sorts of names. Even when she gets mad at me and I get mad at her than I get in trouble when she started calling me names sometimes I think they hate me but that’s not it it’s just because my sister is older than me and my mom mostly believes her than me. But whenever I’m stressed I go outside and play soccer or I just take a deep breathe or go on the couch but I really don’t do that’s because my sister is always there so I just get cold glass of water. It works for me it should work for you too

Blog #11: Some embarrassing things that can happen in a basketball game.

There are a lot of things that are good and bad about basketball but today I will talking to you guys about some embarrassing things that can happen in a basketball game. Before I talk about some embarrassing things in a basketball game I need to remind you guys that even if something embarrassing does happen to you have to remember that the game is still going on and that the game doesn’t end till that last buzzer/whistle sounds so until then you have to keep playing and suck it up.

I have got embarrassed a lot ever since I started playing but I didn’t quit because I love basketball so much. I will try and remind you that if you are doing something you really love, give it 100% because if you are trying to succeed in that sport or hobby you are doing you have to give it 100% because if you give it 90% that other 10% might affect you in the long run.

Finally the part you have all been waiting for… Some embarrassing things that can happen in a basketball game.

The first thing you shouldn’t do is you shouldn’t make your opponent angry because if you do he might take out all your anger on you and that can cause a very embarrassing moment. The second thing that can happen in a game is that you can air ball (Air balling a shot means that the ball doesn’t touch the rim or net when you shoot it.) Air balling a shot isn’t bad it’s just that you can get embarrassed because people might yell out “AIR BALL!” and that can make you feel uncomfortable and embarrassed. Another thing that can happen is when you play got defence you could get ankle broken (getting ankle broken means that the opposing defender makes you fall because of a dribble move.) When you get ankle broken everyone starts yelling, “OOOOOOOOOH” or “EXPOSE HIM.” Trust me getting ankle broken isn’t fun, unless you’re the guy who breaks someone else’s ankles. Another thing you shouldn’t do in a basketball game is you should try and not miss a wide open lay-up. Missing a wide open lay-up is pretty embarrassing because it is WIDE OPEN, literally nobody is going to block you. I’ll be honest I missed wide open lay-ups before and I got embarrassed but remember what I said last time “The game is still going on and the game doesn’t end until that final buzzers goes off, so until then you have to forget it and keep playing.”

That is all I have for now and I hope that you guys will remember these tips when you play basketball. Remember, whenever you get embarrassed don’t put your head down and keep playing! Thanks for reading this blog hope you enjoyed!

 

My Experience Writing a Book (So Far)

Hello, reader. My name is Afnaan. I live on Earth, in the solar system, Milky Way Galaxy, in the vast cosmos of the universe. I am writing a novel called “The RuneScape”. The first thing you should know about writing a book is that it is quite difficult coming up with original ideas. If you have difficulty with that, I feel your pain. The way I came up with the concept of the RuneScape is first of all, I brainstormed. I failed to come up with an idea using that method (Brain-puking all my thoughts onto a lined piece of paper), so I tried the next best thing. I grabbed my books from my bookshelf and sorted them into alphabetical order (I’m not weird, I just think clearly when I do that). As I was sorting, a brilliant idea sprung from my highly logical, non-creative brain. Why don’t I just take inspiration from my favourite books? I thought. I found my favourite books (Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Maze Runner by James Dashner, Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan, and Legend by Marie Lu) from my neatly placed and organised pile of books (Not to brag) on my desk and read through those books again. Yes, I had that much time, because I had finished all of my math homework from the day before. I took some good ideas and plot-lines from the books and added my thoughts and finally reached a conclusion. I finally had a solid plot for my book! (Yay!)

I needed to inaugurate (Start) typing before the thoughts disappeared from my head in a puff of smoke. So, I grabbed my laptop and opened a word document and started writing. “Jack hated his life. He was orphaned when his mother and father disappeared mysteriously and never reappeared.”  “He had planned for ages to escape BIG HEARTS orphanage. With its dusty walls, creaky floors, and horrible mistresses.” I learned that you have you be very descriptive and paint a picture in the minds of your readers (And don’t use fancy words so that your readers don’t have to search up the meanings on Google every five seconds).

Fonts! Yay fonts! My favourite part of writing a book is choosing the font. For the title, you can use pretty much any font you want. But for the actual writing piece you have to use: Aster, Cambria, Cambria Math, or Bell MT. It’s best to use these fonts because they are distinctive and easy to read.

Last of all, you absolutely cannot write a book on your own. Keep writing, keep working, keep developing, but you will always need help in one of these areas: Writing, Illustrating (If you want to), the Cover art, and Publishing. Keep this in mind if you plan to be “Cool and independent” (Wow, I can’t believe I said that).

I hope you enjoyed reading my blog. I hope all of the people who desire to be an author found this at least a little bit helpful. I wish you a good day!

 

Blog#12 How I deal with stress

The 2 things I mostly do when I’m stressed is cool off and breath but I do have other strategies that I use.

When I’m dealing with stress and it doesn’t involve a friend or in other words a conflict I like to put on my headphones, play some songs in my playlist, and pretty much just relax. This helps me because I really love music to play, to sing, and to listen, just listening to songs makes me way more relax than sitting there doing nothing.

When I’m really stressed and I feel that I’m going to explode I know 2 people that will understand and that had gone through this type of problems before: my parents, I feel that when I talk to my mom or my dad I feel that I’m not the only one that has gone through something stressful and difficult and that make me feel way better.

In conclusion I feel that being by myself and talking to the people that understand could really help me relax and calm down if I’m stressed out. Maybe you can try these 2 thing to help you in difficult times.

 

Blog #12: My Ways of Getting Through Stress

Every once in a while you end up having stress, but it can be for any particular reason. My main reason for the confinement of stress is homework. Homework has occupied an excessive amount of time from me for almost every day. Why I have stress with homework is because I don’t want to get in any trouble by not doing it or forgetting to do it. What I do is plan ahead and I always try not to procrastinate, because what happens for me is I end up sleeping very late, and when I sleep late, I end up waking up late as well.
At other times, you just don’t have time to do it, because maybe you have an extracurricular or an after school activity, so what you should do is prearrange when you will do your homework, do some of it on one day and others on another, so that if you forget -which is a 50/50 percent chance- you won’t be doing them all on the same day, while staying up.
If other stress that come into your mind isn’t about homework, but instead are about your feeling then maybe you should take time to cool off, sometimes when I just got into a disagreement with someone, I usually would take time for myself, contemplate about what happened and think it through. For example consider the other person’s feelings, try to think in their perspective. Or maybe, you don’t care about their perspective because you’re just mad and depressed; thinking will also help in this scenario. Everyone has different strategies; all you need to do is try them.

Everything You Need To Know About The Gym Leaders in Pokémon Platinum!

If you visited this blog then you probably have Pokémon Platinum or simply just want to know more about the Gym Leaders in Sinnoh, either way you’ll find all the information you need in this handy blog.

Let’s start off with Roark, as a rock-type gym leader and a miner at the Oreburgh Mines, Roark rocks! Roark is the first gym leader in Pokémon Platinum and his gym is located in Oreburgh City. Roark is also the son of Byron and he has a Level 14 Geodude, a Level 14 Onix, and a Level 15 Cranidos.If you beat him you will be able to use HM06 Rock Smash and he will give you a TM as well.

Next up is Gardenia, (the lady of blooming plants and flowers).She is also the guardian of the Eterna Forest and a Grass-type expert. Her gym is in Eterna City as you may have guessed, and her Pokémon are Roserade, Cherrim, and Turtwig. If you manage to win against her grassy team, then you will be able to use HM01 Cut and she will also give you a TM too.

The third gym leader in Pokémon Platinum is Fantina, (the soulful dancer) and her gym is in Hearthome City. Fantina’s specialty is Ghost-type Pokémon and her Pokémon are Duskull, Haunter, and Mismagius. If you can beat her spooky team, then you will be able to use HM05 Defog and she will also give you a TM and the Relic Badge. She also occasionally visits the Lost Tower in Solaceon Town.

Up next is Maylene, (the barefoot runner) she is the gym leader of Veilstone City and her Pokémon are Meditite, Machoke, and Lucario. Her Pokémon can really pack a punch, so try to beat her quickly using Ghost, Psychic, Flying, and/or Fire- type Pokémon. After you defeat her, she will award you with the Cobble Badge and you will be able to fly back to any Pokémon Centre you want to go to with HM02 Fly. She will also give you a TM, just like all the other Gym Leaders have before her. Her specialty is Fighting-type Pokémon as you may have guessed by now.

Crash! Crash! Crasher Wake! Put out the fire! Crasher Wake! As a wrestler, poet, and Gym Leader, Wake sure is a tough guy! His gym is in Pastoria city, and his Pokémon are Gyarados, Quagsire, and Floatzel. Wake will give you the Fen Badge and a TM, if you can beat his watery team and you will also be able to use HM03 Surf. Wake is also the protector of the Pastoria Great Marsh.

The sixth gym leader in Sinnoh is Byron, a miner and father of Roark. Byron is also friends with Riley (the guardian of Iron Island) and he is a user of Steel-type Pokémon. He is the Gym Leader of Canalave city (you can get there by surfing) and his Pokémon are Magneton, Steelix, and Bastiodon. If you can get past his iron defense, he will award you with the Mine Badge and a TM. After you beat Byron you will also be able to use HM04 Strength.

The seventh gym leader in Pokémon Platinum is Candice (the diamond dust girl).Candice is also the leader of the not dressed for the weather girl trio and the Gym Leader of Snowpoint City. Her Pokémon are Abomasnow, Weaville, Piloswine, and Froslass and she will hand you the Icicle Badge and a TM, if you can beat her snowy team. You will also be able to use HM08 Rock Climb after you beat her.

 

The last Gym Leader in Pokémon Platinum is Volkner (the electricity guy and doubles battle partner). Volkner is also a friend of Flint and the Gym Leader of Sunyshore city, and his Pokémon are Electivire, Jolteon, Raichu, and Luxray, his team will really shock you so hit them back with powerful Rock or Ground- type attacks. Volkner specializes in Electric-type Pokémon and he award you the Beacon Badge and a TM after you beat his team and you will also be able to use HM07 Waterfall.

Now that you’ve beaten all the Gym Leaders you are ready to challenge the Elite Four and the Champion. You will have some tough battles ahead but if you can persevere through them with your Pokémon then you will truly be a Pokémon Champion.

Thank you for visiting this blog and I hope that you have enjoyed this blog/found this useful.

Sincerely Yours,

Gavin

April News

  • April 12Plant Walk to Central Park – 9:00 am sharp, we walk to Central Park where we will be met by Cease Wyss and Ms. Hotomanie. At 11:30 we will walk back to be at Maywood in time for lunch. Please come prepared for the weather! We are going rain or shine!
  • April 12Student Led Conferences – 2:00 pm to 6:45 pm. Students lead their visitor(s) through all the work they’ve done this term and last.
  • April 18All day field trip to Science World. Please bring a bagged lunch and snacks for the day.
  • April 21 – Earth Day. We’ll be walking to Central Park again this month in celebration of Earth Day and the fabulous fun we have in the forest! We’ll be joined by Ms. Aprim’s class.

blog #8

blog#8 New Years Reservation

Every New Year I come up with resolutions to help me live my life better. This year, I would like to spend more time focusing on my education. This resolution is important to me because it helps me learn how to control the thing in my life and myself.

Last year, and even some years before, there were a lot of difficulties I was experiencing, including  rumours, gossip, girl drama, and people moving away. Because of this, my mind was wandering a lot, and I got easily distracted, and sometimes I got off task, or I wasn’t paying attention. That’s why I’ve gotten the idea to focus on my studies and not about catching up on trends or having quarrels with other people.

I plan to finish my work on time and not to procrastinate because it leads to failing grades. I already have a schedule for each of my activities to help me segregate and organize my stuff. Sometimes at night I start my homework late, which means  I don’t get the rest I need to focus on things I need to work on. Of course I may not always be where I’m supposed to be at times, but I’ll just look out for myself so that I won’t get overloaded with the pressure.

In 2017 I think it will be a really great year, not only because I understand what I didn’t understand before, but because 2017 has already gotten off to an awesome start. Although this year it seems like the days are longer, I’m sure I can focus as hard as I can on my education then I did last year.

How to Evolve Eevee into all its evolutions In Pokémon Diamond!

If you clicked on this article you would like to know how to evolve Eevee into all its evolutions or just to learn more about Pokémon!

 

1st is Flareon, to evolve Eevee into Its fire type form you need a fire stone which can be dug up underground or found at the Fuego Ironworks.

2nd is Vaporeon, to evolve Eevee into its water type form you need a water stone which can be dug up underground or at the Solaceon ruins.

3rd is Jolteon, like all stones they can be dug up underground. This stone is the Thunderstone it can be found at the beach at Sunyshore city and like I said before it can be dug up underground as well as the Solaceon ruins.

4th is Umbreon, to evolve Eevee into Umbreon you need to give it happiness between 8pm and 4am and then I will evolve!

5th is Espeon, to evolve Eevee into Espeon you will have to give Eevee happiness between 4am and 8pm then it will evolve!

6th is Glaceon, to evolve Eevee into Glaceon you need to go to the icy rock in Snowpoint city level it near the rock and it will evolve into Glaceon.

7th is Leafeon, the evolution process is very similar to Glaceon’s you need to go to the mossy rock in Eterna forest and level it up there from then it will evolve into Leafeon.

Happy Evolving!!!

Blog #11: what I drew

I got confused when I am drawing anime, and I can’t draw what I’ve thought. If I want to draw a girl jumping, what I’ve drawing down the girl jumping, I could draw her bending her knees and nothing else—I can’t even call that          “jumping”. And I am pretty bad on drawing hands. What I thought is it looks like they are chicken legs.

What I first thought is—I should read (watch) more manga book or animation, but first of all, I didn’t have that much money and I don’t know where sells manga, and library’s books is not that comfortable for me to learn. Second of all that my phone has a Chinese app called “bilibili”, it have many anime in it, but the app says that bilibili was a Chinese app, so I can’t watch many anime because I am not in China.

I need more practice! I always say it to myself, but when I’ve done drawing many people, it looks like they are all the same, because I don’t know how to draw the activities that people doing.

The good thing is, my social media has many friend who are drawers. They draw so good that I can learn. But still, I couldn’t learn how to draw hands, the hands I drew was still called chicken legs, so I need to focus on practice for drawing hands, I hope they are not chicken wings anymore.

There’s more problems, I don’t know how to draw big dress. If I need to draw a character are going to a dance party, so I have a clothes problem already. I am going to practice more on that, too.

Still need learning, there’s more challenge.

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