Dancing Dreams

On April 19, it was the the Tim Hortons Community Clean Up. Kids from different places took time from the day to go and clean up the area around them. My class went out and walked along the roadside to a park near our school. We didn’t find much garbage on the way to the park but when we got to the park, we spread out to find garbage. When we didn’t find garbage in the field, we spread out in to the trails. There was a lot of interesting things in the trails… a pipe, a bucket, some golf balls, and some plastic bags. The pipe was too long to put in one of our garbage bags, so we had people carry it.  As we made our way back through the trails, we found a lot of other things like a chair, a lot of house siding, a water cooler, a Barbie car, and a rusty old tractor. Too bad we couldn’t take that back with us! Our 45 minute walk slowly turned into an hour and a half. It was definitely worth it though because we did something great for the community.

Edited by: Emma

CC flickr image: Trash Recycling with Disposal Container by epSos.de released under an Attribution license

Have you ever been to an Entrepreneur Fair? Well I haven’t, but all of the 7′s in my school are having one on May 23.  It is a program for kids between the ages of 11 and 14 to learn the ways of business. For the Entrepreneur Fair, I will be making hand bags. This survey is to help me find what everyone would like.

Edited by: Josee

If you’re looking for a good book to read, then I may just have the book for you! A book full of adventures, action and mystery. The 3rd book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. There are five books in the whole series. The first book is The Lightning Thief, the second is The Sea of Monsters, the third is The Titan’s Curse, the fourth is The Battle of the Labyrinth, and last but not least the fifth book in the series is the The Last Olympian. It was an amazing book to read for sure! Monsters, demigods, and gods popping in throughout the entire book makes you not want to put it down.

Thank you for watching it! Enjoy reading!

Edited By: Madeline

There are lots of things that you probably don’t know about me but here are just seven.

1. My friend and I were born in the same hospital room. I was born the day before her.
2. I’m doing my first dance solo this year.
3. I’m Scottish, Hungarian, Irish and English. ( My Dad’s Hungarian, my Mom’s Irish and English. Both my parents are Scottish.)
4. I’m allergic to grass.
5. I live in the same house that I was brought home to when I was born. I’ve never moved.
6. My best friend and I met at a hockey rink, when we were 7, because our brothers played hockey together.
7. I went to Hawaii when I was a baby.

What is something random about you that nobody knows?

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To me, dancing is every thing. I have dance every day of the week except Thursday but I skate on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Lot’s of people like to have nothing to do so they can hang out with their friends but almost all of my friends are from dance. I do lots of different types of dances like Jazz (a upbeat type of dance), Ballet (a soft, delicate dance that uses lots of muscles), Lyrical (a mix of jazz and ballet), and Highland. Highland is a type of dance that originated in Scotland and got brought over to Canada along with all people who immigrated over. I really enjoy dancing, so my mom always lets me do all the dances I want to. The other dances that my studio has that I don’t do are Tap (I found it sort of boring) and Hip Hop (I think it’s more meant for guys).

I have dance exams that I do once every year. I have all ready done my Highland exams and my Jazz exams are in June. Festival is also coming fast. 3 weeks!!! I’m excited and nervous about it. Do you dance? If you do, what types of dances do you do?

image: Fran Dance   by  paulcoxphotography released under a CC Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works.

image: Ballet Poster    by Oude School  released under a CC Attribution, Non-Commercial.

  New Year’s resolutions originated 4000 years  ago in Sumer, Mesopotamia which is present day Iraq.  They were usually centered on farming needs.  New Years started in the spring when the time came to plant again and ended in the winter when the planting season ended.  Did you know that 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail and 20% succeed? Half of them don’t even make it past January and February! The main reason people rarely succeed is because they set goals to big for what they can do.  I have four New Year’s resolutions that aren’t to big.

My New Year’s Resolutions:

Personal: To jump and not be afraid to fall when I’m skating.I’m going to do this so I can learn more things and learn new things. To over come my fear of falling, I’m going to fall more often. I’m going to do this by falling when I have to.

School: Participate more in gym because I never bring my P.E. strip. I’m going to fix that by getting my strip out Sunday night and making sure that I have enough for the week.

Community: Recycle more because I want to help my dance studio raise money to go to Scotland and so I can be more earth – friendly. I’m going to do that by drinking lots of bottled water and recycling the bottles.

Global: Bring awareness to countries living in 3rd world conditions. I’m going to do this by writing more posts on it and bring awareness to it so people can help fix it and make it so everyone lives in comfort.

I am hoping to be a part of the 20% that succeed and not the 80% that fail. I will make sure of that by telling my parents about my goals and helping me remember to do them.

image: The Start of a New Beginning     by: Michele Catania     photographer: Michele Catania     released under a CC Attribution – Noncommercial – No Derivative Works license

It’s almost Christmas time! I’m so excited! Christmas is my favourite time of the year because a lot of my family live in Port Hardy and Campbell River so I only ever see them at birthdays or Christmas time. I’m not sure if my family will spend it in Port Hardy or just at home but either way I am sure I will have an amazing time with my family.

Some traditions that I have during the holidays are having a coffee roll for breakfast which is bread rolled in on the side with jam in the middle and icing with sprinkles around the outside with eggnog.  Then my family goes to the living room and opens our stockings. After that we open our presents one at a time. When we are done we usually just lounge around for the rest of the day playing with our gifts. I can’t wait for Christmas!

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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There are quite a few places around the world that abuse children’s rights. Children everywhere have the right to be safe and be loved and have their needs met according to the Declaration on the Rights of the Child.

Article 9:

Children have the right to live with their parents unless it is bad for them. They have the right to live with a family who cares and loves them.

 I think this is important because if kids live with their parents but they are constantly getting drunk or doing drugs then it can lead to a lot of disadvantage’s for kids. They could beat their kids or just ignore them and then kids feel ignored. If kids grow up like that then they will feel unloved and it is very important to feel loved while growing up.

Article 21:

 Children have the right to care and protection if you are adopted or in foster care.

I think it is important to be cared for if you are adopted. If someone adopted you and then doesn’t like you why would they have been adopted in the first place? If kids who got adopted because there parents couldn’t take care of them then I think that they should be loved by their guardians. If kids are in foster care then they need to feel loved by someone.

Article 7 and 8:

Children should have the right to a name, and this should be officially recognized by the government. Children should also have the right an identity-an official record of  who you are. No one should take this away from you.

I think that this is important because if you don’t have an identity you might as well not be alive. If something happens to you and you don’t have an identity then no one will be able to find you or help you if you’re hurt because they don’t know who you are or where you came from. Some countries have kids who have no birth certificates so the kids get taken away and there is no way to track them.

Lots of countries don’t meet these expectations. There are 54 rights in the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of the Child. All of them should be met.  Children should be treated with respect in all countries not some of them.

I have never blogged before so I’m am pretty excited to finally get a blog. I’m very happy that I got such a wonderful teacher who lets us have blogs. I’m excited to meet new people through this experience and to be able to connect with people around the world. I can’t wait to actually get my blog going!