Thursday, 20 February 2014

An invented Olympic sport - Speed Hockey, by Grace

Speed Hockey
Speed Hockey is a complex and fun game that everyone will enjoy, watching OR playing. To play the sport you need to know how to skate pretty well, and the rules are straight forward  but the sport is hard unless you know how to speed skate and know how to hold a hockey stick. It’s not as easy as it sounds here are the ways to play:
·     You start on the right of the ring and it starts just when the referee drops the puck and shoots the gun  and their off.
·     The players all want that puck so they can cross the finish line with the puck so they can win for their team.  
·     There is no body checking no high sticking and no tripping
·     The players all fight for the puck.
·     And you half to go through 2 laps before winning the game.
·     And the last and final rule is never be a sore loser.   
And that concludes are little lesson on how to play speed hockey. 


Monday, 17 February 2014

Alpine Ski - by Martin and Dylan

Ski lengths usually range from a minimum of 165cm for slalom to only a minimum of 220cm for men's downhill. The decision to increase the minimum length of giant slalom skis by 10cm in 2012 led to heavy criticism from racers, in particular Ted Ligety, who went on to win the overall World Cup title. 10 alpine skiing events have been held at the Winter Olympics since 1988. They are downhill, slalom, giant slalom, Super G and Super Combined, each with a men's and women's category. In men’s downhill Austria’s Matthias Mayer got gold medal, Italy’s Christof Innerhofer got silver medal,Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud got bronze medal. In Men's Super Combined Slalom,Switzerland’s Sandro Viletta got gold medal. Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic got silver medal. Christof Innerhofer got another medal, a bronze this time. They all had stunning performances. Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud got gold medal, America’s Andrew Weibrecht got silver medal. And two bronze metals were given, one was to a Canadian named Jan Hudec. And another metal went to an American named Bode Miller.

Justyna Kowalczyk


Justyna Kowalczyk won gold on Feb. 13th with the time of 28:17.8. This was her second course out of three over eight days. This was also the only gold placing over the three courses. Justyna Kowalczyk is a Polish skier who has been competing internationally since 2000. Her career as a skier has not been an easy one; this polish 31 year old was born on Jan. 23, 1983 and started skiing at age ten. She is the only Polish athlete to win a medal. Her country must be proud! Her first major medal was the sprint at the 2003 junior world championships. Then, she participated in the 2005 World Championships but was then disqualified for taking a substance called dexamethasone at an earlier competition. But she argued that she had taken it for an Achilles tendon condition, not to enhance performance. She was then banned from the competitions for two years, then reduced to one year, then ended on Dec. 8, 2005. Three weeks after returning to the events, Kowalczyk won her first World Cup medal, a bronze in the 10-kilo. race at Otepaeae, Estonia. She then won the 30 kilo. bronze in 2006, and in 2010, Kowalczyk won a gold, silver and bronze right here in Vancouver. Being the only polish skier to win the world cup seems like a lot, right? But no, she didn’t stop at one; she won three from 2009 to 2011. By the end of 2013, Justyna had earned 29 world cup victories and 62 podiums in 185 individual world cup starts since 2001. In Davos, Switzerland, she finished only 25th and 11th in her 2 events and then got another world cup gold in Asiago, Italy in the sprint. In conclusion, Justyna Kowalczyk is a very successful athlete.
By
-Isha and Alex

Sochi 2014 2-Man Bobsledding

Hello this is Isaiah and Jared and Joel here and we are going to talk about the Sochi 2014 Olympic game bobsleigh event. First, it is the Jamaican bobsled team. For the Jamaican bobsled team it has been rough. First the luggage did not come so they missed a whole day of practicing. Then, their protein powder got all over their shirts because the customs failed to close it when they were looking through it. So one of the guys had to run with protein in his eyes.

The first bobsled team were in the movie “Cool Running's” where it was the story about how they tried to make the running team but one tripped and they all fell down. So they waited two years and tried out for the bobsled in the Olympics.

Now a glimpse into the rest of the world.
In the 2 man bobsleigh for run 1 Russia got a time of 56.25 and is 1st place for now. Going 2nd was Switzerland with incredible speed got a score of 56.46. Going 3rd is the USA and Steven Holcomb drives U.S to first two man Olympic bobsled since 1952 with a good time of 56.34.

In run 2 the Russian federation got a score of 56.57. The Jamaican team qualified in the first round and got a score of 58.42 in run 1 and in run 2 they got a score of 58.81. Also in run 2 the Canadian team with Kripps and Barnett got a score of 56.70. Also Australia got a pretty good score for a country that is not very cold and got a time of 57.99. Italy got the bobsled score of 57.02. In run 3 Korea got a score of 57.73. The Russian federation got a score of 56.08 and that was one of the best scores. Also the Canadian team Kripps and Barnett got a score of 56.42. After the 3rd round only the top 20 made it and the 20th place was France with a score of 57.65. In the last round 4 the Russian federation got a good score of 56.49. Korea Won and Seo got a score of 57.08. And Canadian team Kripps and Barnett got a score of 56.94.

And here are some the final rankings:
1st Russia 3:45.39 gold
2nd Switzerland 3:46.05 silver
3rd USA 3:46.27 bronze
4th Russia 3:46 .30
5th Latvia 3:46.48
6th Canada 3:46.62 That is all folks. This is Isaiah Jared and Joel reporting

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Grade 6 Wish Poem

I wish I had a horse
I wish I had a dog.
I wish I could get Delourus the puppy.
I wish for a komodo dragon.
I wish for a pet panda.

I wish humans hadn't taken over the planet.
I wish I had a tardis
(Time And Relative Dimensions In Space)
I wish for world peace
I wish I had a pet.

I wish to compete for Canada at the Olympics.
I wish to be an olympic athlete.
I wish to be better at hockey.
I wish my friend went to the same high school as me.
I wish I had my own music studio.

I wish I was tall.
I wish my dad wasn't diabetic and that he didn't get a heart attack.
I wish my dad would take time off of work and hang with me.

I wish I won the lottery.
I wish my eczema would go away.
I wish my family and friends could never be ill.
I wish my dad could take time from school to play with me.

I wish for money.
I wish for Goku Powers.
I wish we didn't have fire drills at school.

I wish to meet Lana Del Rey everyday.
I wish I could go on a Disney Cruise vacation to the Caribbean.

I wish I could fly.
I wish I could talk to animals and they could talk to me.
I wish could have a lifetime supply of food for free.

I wish for money.
I wish school was just DPA.
I wish I could hear what animals could say and be able to talk to animals.
I wish I could fly while being invisible.

Monday, 3 February 2014

Grade 7's Wish poem

I wish to end world hunger and to end poverty,
I wish go to space.

I wish for a giant adventure filled with pop and gouda
and I wish I didn't have to wake up so early.

I wish we didn't need to move
I wish I had my own room (the big one in my house).
I wish...
To have a unicorn
And to own a horse.

I wish I didn't have to go to school everyday.
I wish I owned an N.H.L team.

I wish I could own lots of dogs,
I wish I could play softball all year round.

I wish I had my own bathroom,
I wish I could live right beside Nadia and Jacqueline.
I wish I could do a triple back flip.

I wish I had immortality
I wish I had infinite amounts of money
I wish I had an infinite more wishes.

Our "Yesterday"

Yesterday I woke up
Today I didn't, I lay in the warm silence awaiting my future,
I am not myself,not like I was yesterday,
Yesterday I was surrounded by friendship and love,
Today I am alone, solemnly on a journey to an unknown world,
Yesterday the door closed, and I opened a new one,
Yesterday I didn't know what was coming,
But that was yesterday.

Yesterday, life felt so simple.
The glistening image of ourselves in the mirror meant nothing more than a way to tell us apart.
Living each day in the present, not thinking about tomorrow, or what comes after.
Waking up and questioning the day, not the week, not the month, not the future...
Not bothering to think about why, only doing as you pleased.
No unanswered questions of the world, as adults held all the answers, knowing what to do every second of every day.
Seeds planted into our heads about life, and what comes after.
Being taught by the corrupt and greedy, not willing to change their point of view from that of the public eye.
The world was a smaller place, revolving around us because we lived life.
We had no actual view of life, and we couldn't have cared less because if we thought about the past or future, it would distract from today.
But today's not today anymore, it's yesterday.
Life isn't simple.
We aren't the innocent child that believed the world was peaceful and joyous, gradually morphing into people who realize life isn't perfect, who look back on their childhood and know;
Yesterday is gone, and it's never coming back.

Yesterday I walked to school, the freezing winds, 

Frosty against my cotton pants.
Yesterday I worked on my iceberg project,
Drawing, typing, printer running.

Yesterday my aunty perished, then tears rolling

Down my mother's cheeks -- all because of one
Simple phone call.

Yesterday I charged my iPod, looking at the

Computer screen. Gazing out at the sun beating 
Down on the pavement, it slowly falling as 
Nighttime approached.

Yesterday I slept in
Yesterday I woke up at 10:00
Yesterday I saw a movie
Yesterday I felt like I was going to die of school
Yesterday I had so much fun
Yesterday I could have fun waking up
Yesterday I could play hockey for winning and losing
Yesterday I felt nothing was a worry
Yesterday I felt like everything was so easy
Yesterday I rode my bike for the first time
Yesterday I help someone ride their bike for the first time

Today life is a hard
There’s HOMEWORK and PROJECTS
Today is an old boring Monday
And then tomorrow is a Tuesday.


Yesterday was fun, like laughing and cheers.
Yesterday was full of excitement.
Yesterday was amazing and magical and anything could happen.
Yesterday there was no such thing as popularity, everyone was surrounded by friends.
Big, small, tall, short, everyone was happy.
Yesterday I was friends with everyone and there were no such things as rivalry or dislike.
Now, today, I’m not so sure.
Today, friends have moved away, friends have found new friends, and there is rivalry and dislike.
Today is still full of adventure, but it’s also full of sorrow.
Today is loss and tomorrow is gain.
An endless circle of life and death.
Tomorrow I could find love.
Tomorrow I could find hate.
Tomorrow, today, yesterday, what do they all mean?
It doesn’t matter now, for it is only today.
Forget the past, don’t worry for the future, and just live today, full of love, hatred and death.
But how can I forget?
Thousands of worries, thousands of regrets.
Is this really what life is about?
Stress and conflict?
Am I really just waiting for the day when I can’t take it anymore?
Maybe it will be tomorrow.
Yesterday I was a little kid
I wanted nothing to do with broccoli
I still hate broccoli
Yesterday l loved strawberries
I still love strawberries
Yesterday I wanted to be a rock star
Now I say “god no”
Yesterday I loved SpongeBob
Everybody still loves SpongeBob, deep down you know it, no matter how bloody annoying he is, you still love it.
Yesterday I enjoyed teletubbies
Now I say what in the world are those things
Yesterday I loved pokemon
Nobody ever gets tired of pokemon, everybody has that urge, “I’m am going to buy a 300 dollar Ds and a 60 dollar pokemon game and play that stupid thing”.
I like to think that yesterday I was a nice kid
I was not…

Yesterday I was in preschool
Yesterday I loved playmobil.
The sets that take 10 seconds to build.

Yesterday I went to sleep at 6:00 and woke up at 12:00 at night Calling for mommy because I had
A bad dream.
Yesterday I was scared of the Zamboni driver because I thought he was mean and he would run over me.
Yesterday I was scared of spiders
The kings of the eight legged creepy crawly’s
Yesterday I loved pokemon
The game where I CHOOSE YOU!
Today I am in sixth grade with my best friends
Today instead of playmobil I like lego.
Today I go to bed at 8:30 (weekends-9:30) and wake up at 7:15 (Weekends-9:00-10:00)
Today I am scared of drunk people because they go crazy and grab you And swear up a storm.
The game I love now is either call of duty or NHL 14. My life has changed a lot.

Yesterday I was a kindergartener
Yesterday I loved the smell of veggies the sweet smell of carrots.
Yesterday I loved playmobil
It brought out my creativity.
Yesterday I fell asleep at 5.30pm when I was hyper and woke up at 6.00 and felt drowsy
Yesterday I did not care about money because I did not know what was coming up in my life
Yesterday I had a fear of spiders because every time I looked at spiders I think it would hurt me
Yesterday I had fear in my life of the upcoming things in life.

Today I’m a sixth grader with my good friends
My love of veggies became a hatred of them
Instead of playmobil I’m insanely crazy for kidrobot and also a collector
Today I go to sleep at 9.00 pm and wake up at 5.30 am
Now I really care about money because it can decide if I get a job or not
Today I’m not afraid of the pesky spiders because I figured out that spiders are just friendly
Today I’m very confident of life.
My life has changed a lot.

Yesterday I punched my friend in the arm

And she shouted out in pain.
Yesterday I had my FSA exam,
I went back home and ate some cake.
After my cake I went to Brendan's house and did some homework.
Yesterday I played some NBA on xbox 360,
After that I went to soccer, I came home and watched the Oilers vs the 
Canucks and the Oilers won 4-2. It felt awesome.
Yesterday after the hockey game I had a 
Shower and then watched some TV. 
After watching some TV I went to bed.

Yesterday the wait at the clinic was short,

I watched an old man with a turban and 3 fingers taped together.
I heard languages I couldn't understand. 
Yesterday I grew up fast. 
I watched candles on a chocolate cake and watched my self blow them out
And the wax dripping down the colourful candles. 
After I watched my mom slice the cake for me to eat. 
It was so good
It tasted like being a teenager.

Yesterday I was a toddler
Didn’t think of money
And how much thing were
I always wanted toys
No matter how expensive they were
I would stay close to my parent
I wouldn’t try different food
Like broccoli, brussel sprouts and olives
I would want to eat candy all day
And I didn’t care how unhealthy thing were
And fight with my sister
I would pull, punch, argue and bite
But at night I would sneak into her bed
And hug her and she would hug me back

But today changed
I’m taller and stronger
I care about money
And the price of the object
I don’t want many toys
And my sister and I are buddies
Try different food but although I was pikey
I would care about my health
And what I eat
So that my yesterday and today
But I can’t wait for tomorrow
Yesterday I never thought about my future, never looking ahead to school.
Never thinking about anything but fun.
Friends and girls were the people I liked, most boys were people I didn’t.
I knew what foods were good and which were bad.
I thought that the morning was just more time to play.
Yesterday, money was worth nothing.
I didn’t have a care in the world.
Yesterday, all of my friends were right in front of me.

Today, I worry constantly about what I want to be.
Now thinking about homework and TV.
Today boys and girls can call themselves my friends. I think about how I look, and worry about my friends.
Popularity matters.
Today I ate a fruit that was a dragon.
Today people have new meanings.
Today friends have gone and left my world.
Today, a million worries rest on my shoulders.
Today sleeping in means so much more.

Yesterday I was in kindergarten
Yesterday I loved eating sweet oranges
Yesterday I played with the mud and dirt
Yesterday I hated spiders and other bugs but I always loved ants
Yesterday I always fell asleep and almost never woke up
Yesterday I always made mini forts and always had to clean them up
Yesterday I hid when my dad came back from work and scared him
Yesterday I loved playing outside
Yesterday I always came over to my friend’s house and had play dates
Yesterday I faked my sleep so that my parents would carry me to my bed

Today I still love sweet oranges
Today I don’t play in the mud and dirt
Today I love spiders and other bugs
Today I still love playing outside
Today I still come over to my friend’s house

Yesterday I would want to be princess
Wearing my mom’s clothing and high heels
And wearing crowns and jewelry
Yesterday I always thought things were free
Demanding for that most expensive toy
Yesterday I would watch Dora all day
Wanting to go on a big adventure everyday
So I did roaming the halls jumping from couch to couch
Rolling on the floor and fighting the bad guy who would be my dad
Yesterday I wouldn’t have a care in the world
Trying to catch bees and stealing candy from Save On Foods

Things have changed
Today I walk home everyday
Take my Ipod and text my friends while watching tv
Today I am taller so tall I can reach the high shelf
Today I pay for my own things
Today I read thicker books

Yesterday I was I little baby
Yesterday I was sleeping in my crib playing with my stuffed animal
Yesterday I was eating my food and throwing it around the house
Yesterday I was forced to take a bath
Yesterday I was playing outside with my friends
Yesterday I was in my tree fort playing with my army men
Yesterday my gramma got a dog so I had someone to play with
Yesterday I feel asleep in my pillow fort
Yesterday I had help with my homework
Yesterday I was playing road hockey with my dad
Yesterday I pretended to fall asleep so my parents can carry inside
Yesterday I won my baseball tournament

Today I’m playing hockey
Today I’m in grade 6
Today I’m getting good grades
Today my gramma still has her dog.

Yesterday I went outside to see the creepy mushrooms of December
Yesterday I saw roaring trains through the car window as we reach one hundred.
Yesterday I sneaked down stairs from my sleepy room to watch some show from Australia as my grandma peels the apple’s skin off.
Yesterday I watched the meteor showers from the sofa
As I wish for something.
Yesterday I packed up my lunch bag for the first time and
I looked at all the giants at this prison of math.
Yesterday I heard the first “Did you know that” from Bill Nye
Yesterday I went to this odd, green place to kick a ball around into a bunch of patterns made from rope
Yesterday I wrote my name correctly for the first time
Yesterday I shoved down all my cake just so I could have seconds
Yesterday I did the traditional
“Shove the cupcake all over your face” at school
(Where my mum couldn’t get mad at me).

Yesterday I played with the skeleton head LEGO and the jetpack
Yesterday I sang “down by the bay” with my daycare lady
Yesterday I jumped on the trampoline and did Superman across it
Yesterday I wrote my ABC’s
Faster than Cooper under Mme. Charron’s desk.
Yesterday I jumped up from my desk to get the cool LEGO first
Yesterday I played at the McDonald’s Knee Burn Center
Yesterday I went to Kapitain Kids fun and got a HUGE burn on my back from the big slide thing.

Yesterday some friends were lost, 

Yesterday I had my best friends by my side
At the roughest of times.

Yesterday I was afraid of monsters 

Under my bed.

Yesterday I had a rough day,

But I knew that my parents were 
Right there next to me.

Yesterday I was tiny then I was tall.
Today I’m average.
I didn’t know my problems.
Today I know what I can and can’t do.
I didn’t know about myself as much as my parents did.
I drank from spoons instead a baby bottles.
Today I drink from cups.
Yesterday I couldn’t drink tea or coffee.
Today I like to drink tea or iced tea.
All I did was play, eat and sleep.
Today I have to find time to play.
Yesterday I woke up with no worries about
What to do.
Today I need to see if I have homework.
Yesterday I didn’t care about how much money I had.
Today every cent counts.
Yesterday I had no sorrows.
Life was full of happiness.
Yesterday I had no idea about life and death.
Yesterday I thought my great-grandmother had become a star in the sky and that it was cool.
Today I know what that really means.
Yesterday I didn’t know about the world around me.
Yesterday I thought everyone was nice.
Today I know about good and evil.
Yesterday I could trust everyone.
Today I have to find out if I could trust that person.
Yesterday everyone was my friend.
Today I know who I like and dislike.
I know who my friends are.
Yesterday I had no reason to cry.
Yesterday I didn’t know how to cry.
Yesterday I had my family and friends around me.
Today everyone seems to drifting away.
Yesterday I didn’t know why I had to go to school.
Yesterday I didn’t know why we had to learn.
I didn’t know why I had to get ready for the future.
Yesterday I thought everything would happen by itself. 

Yesterday I learned the alphabet.

Yesterday clocks ticked faster as it struck twelve,
Yesterday even when time was fast, it seemed slow.
Yesterday I learned to ride a bike,
Yesterday I learned to rollerblade,
Yesterday I had my eleventh birthday party.

Yesterday every time I went to the dentist
I got the little dino sticky notes and played Spy.
Yesterday I got scared at Crash Crawly’s because there was scary words
Yesterday I won a mini laffy taffy at Chucky Cheese
Yesterday I went to BCFFC and on the way there we listened to to the
Same songs every 2 hours.

Yesterday I felt so small and eager to grow up
 So safe inside the warmth of my parents arms
 I used to think anything was possible, nothing could bring me down
 I had no worries, doubts, or cares
 Yesterday I could wake up not caring about anything
 I knew what I didn’t like and hardly tried any new stuff
 I felt so free but, that was yesterday

Today is completely different
I care about a lot of different things
Like my appearance, and clothes
Unlike yesterday, when anything that didn’t smell bad was good enough for me
Today I know who my friends are
And who absolutely despises me
I have many worries
And lots of doubts
I get scared quite easily
And don’t enjoy dark basements
I try new stuff which I often enjoy
I am slowly growing up and life is getting harder
I sometimes wish that I could go back to yesterday