Gymnastics

Everyone has their favorite sport! Some like, softball, basketball, track and field, swimming and of course soccer. All these sports are great. Well my personal favorite is gymnastics!

I started gymnastics when I was 4 years old. And ever since I've always done it. Except for two years. My mother couldn't find a gymnastics center and the gymnastics at school was for beginners and I was more advanced. After those two years they had a more advanced after school gymnastics activity. So I decided to join. Now every Saturday at 1:30 I go to a gymnastics class. Sometimes my teachers can be quite mean. Well they are more strict than mean. But I always need to,

• Warm up
• Keep focused
• Always try my best
• Never give up

If I do these and I always practice them then I will be able to improve my flexibility. So if your favorite sport is track or baseball you have to do your best no matter what. Even if your coach is mean sometimes. But if you don't warm up then you could stretch a muscle. That's what happened to me once when i lived in Costa Rica. I arrived late for gymnastics class and missed the warm up. So we were on the floor doing cart wheels, but when it was my turn I ran and skipped and did a cart wheel.

But in the middle I stretched a muscle. I had to go to the doctor. He said I would be fine but I would not be able to do gymnastics for a long time. I couldn't believe I wouldn't be able to do gymnastics. Its like living without chocolate for chocolate lovers, or baseball for baseball players. So I had to spend time at home and do nothing. See, it's good to stretch or you could be in trouble and not be able to do something you really like. So practice and try your best at your favorite sport always.

The telephone!

The telephone is one of the most important inventions. Without it how would we be able to communicate? Alexander Graham Bell was the first to invent telecommunication. Alexander was born on March 3,1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, Boston. Alexander was always interested in the education of deaf people. In Boston he became a teacher for the deaf, he was also working on an invention that would allow a few sound waves, over a single wire at the same time. After he finished his job with the sound waves that would go through a wire he was determined to be able to talk through the wires to another place. Then he hired an assistant, Thomas Watson, and they did Alexanders dream happen. When the first telephone was invented they did not like it. They wanted it to be more perfect.

On August 2, 1922 Alexander died. He was not able to finish his invention. Many have tried to finish the invention but it would not be the same. A few years after Antonio Mucci was the one who finished the invention. We use telephones almost everyday. Without it we wouldn't be able to contact each other.

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."

—Alexander Graham Bell

SPCA!

Hi everyone!

A few days ago a lady that worked in the SPCA came and gave us a presentation on what they do there. She says that they don't have many things for the animals. I think she did a wonderful presentation and I think we should help them by donating:
used towels, puppy pens, water and food dishes, toys,food (dog,cat,rabbits, etc.), and other things the animals will enjoy having. We could also do a bake sale at school and donate all the money we raised, or we could use the money to by something for them.
For example we could buy some puppy pens or food for the animals. The lady who came also said that they don't have a very big place and it's not very noticeable, so they could get enough money to buy another place, but that would take a while. Also I think the middle schoolers should go to the SPCA for a field trip at least once a month. The SPCA doesn't only need money and stuff for the animals but they also need help. So schools should go and help them bath the animals and other things they need.
I hope people who read this have enough time to go help the SPCA.

Why I Chose My Title!

Hi I'm Alexandra but people call me Alex! I chose this title because I love cookies!

I love any type of cookie, chocolate chips, oatmeal cookies, etc. And i just thought how cool it would be if cookies were pink! I thought that the color should be pink because a lot of people I know like pink. So since they like pink The Pink Cookie seemed like a good idea. If you picture it you see a pink cookie on a plate with chocolate chips in it. It is a cool idea to have pink cookies!

I like pink cookies because it is just like a normal cookie but pink! How cool is that? So I thought it would be cool to have pink cookies in the world. They would taste like strawberries and chocolate. A lot of people like strawberries too. So people should pass the message and cookies should be pink and not brown! So pass the message and make cookies pink!

Well I like sports like gymnastics and soccer. I really like to do PE except if its soccer. Sometimes it can get very hot outside, especially in August. Well I like drawing and I love chocolate. I like swimming too! Those are the things I like best.