Kiera’s Ideas.[;

          The two most important school and life goals that I have tried to work on is to concentrate on my grades and to have a successful life. I selected those two because they’re the two goals that mean a lot to me. Furthermore, I picked those two goals because they’re the most common ones. Likewise, my parents encourage me to do my best on those two goals. I really hope that I could accomplish those two goals by the end of the school year.

          My school goal is to concentrate on my grades. People say that my grades are already good enough. However, I think that I should still try & pick up my grades to something better. I haven’t been working on my grades that well. I get distracted by other things. For example, I always go on the internet. I need to stop that habit.

          My life goal is to have a successful & great life. In order for that to happen, I need to undergo all the stuff that will make me struggle. For example, I need to ignore rumors & bad influences. Those kind of things can slow me down. I think that I have been working on my life goal because I haven’t had a big problem. Likewise, I did not struggle. If I can continue to do that then maybe I can accomplish my goal.

          To conlude, those two goals are important to me. If those two goals are accomplished then my future will be great & successful. To tell you the truth, I actually learned from my mistakes.  Furthermore, these things can help me when I need the help. Not all things can happen right. There is always a right & worng way to do things.

A Picture of Grades;

A Picture of a Successful Life;

          My life between 6th grade and now changed so much. I’m more mature than before. Things changed so fast. Furthermore, I changed a whole lot. I think that I changed because of the friends I had. They made me speak out and other more stuff. Some things are the same because I still wanted to be me and not some other person. However, some things are different because I thought that it was about time I had move on. Read on to know similarities and differences of me.

          Things are similar since 6th grade until now. For example, I am still a UMS student. Also, I still wear glasses. I am still short as well. I keep up with my grades. Furthermore, I’m still smart. Last but not least, I believe that I’m friendly.

          Things can be the same, but also different. During 6th grade, I was in 6A, but now I’m in 8C. I was so shy back then and now I’m much more loud. I remember that I used to wear a back pack; however, I wear a purse now. Before I used to wear those thin, skinny, & metal glasses, but now I wear those thick and plastic glasses.

          In conclusion, I can see how much I changed. I never knew a person can change that much until now. The similarities and differences show that my personality is kind of nice and at the same time selfish. The similarites and differences show that my personality changed that much because I’m a much better person now. I’ll try and stay that way forever.

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          People are different in many ways. However, they can be alike. They also have different personalities. They could be short, tall and even nice or mean. Read on if you want to know more information on my two interesting classmates Jaydylee & Koleena.

          Jaydylee and Koleena are similar in some way. Of course they are both girls. Likewise, they are both filipino. Also, they are 14 and they are 8th grade. A lot of people love music just like Jaydylee and Koleena. Moreover, they love food very much. Last but not least, they are in this creative writing class.

          Jaydylee and Koleena are different in a lot of ways. Jaydylee is tall; however, Koleena is short. Jaydylee is in 8A, but Koleena is in 8B. They like a certain cartoon character. Jaydylee loves Hello Kitty. On the contrary, Koleena loves Tweety Bird. Jaydylee’s favorite color is pink, but Koleena’s favorite color is blue. They enjoy eating fruits. Jaydylee’s favorite fruit is bananas and Koleena’s favorite fruit is grapes. They like buying stuff. Jaydylee loves buying food and Koleena loves buying shoes. Jaydylee’s favorite brand is Sanrio, but Koleena’s favorite brand is Volcom.

          I have learned a lot of things from both of them. They are different in a lot of ways, but their responses are almost similar to each other. Jaydylee and Koleena are really great classmates. They cooperate with each other. In my opinion, I can tell that they have good personalities.

Koleena’s shoes & bag.

A picture of Jaydylee.

          There are many requirements in making a good presentation. First, you have to think of what you want to include in your presentation. You also have to make sure that you understand what you’re doing. Try not putting too much stuff into one slide. When you’re up there presenting, make sure you get your audience’s attention. Then, speak clear and loud. Get eye contact with whom you’re speaking to.

          I really like my classmate’s presentations. Most of them followed the requirements on what makes a good presentation. For example, Jaydylee used good information and pictures on her topic “pandas.” Moreover, Alana’s presentation was entertaining. Also, Taylor’s presentation had so much humor.

          My experience with the handhelds is great. I really enjoyed myself with it. Although we do lots of work with it, it is still fun! The quizzes on it were also fun too. We also get to play some educational games on it. It involved a lot of brain work, but trust me I enjoyed it.

          My experience can be betterr by trying my very best in completing my assignments faster and better. Like maybe getting better grades on the quizzes. I could also improve my experience more better by paying more attention and trying my very best.Some of the work is complicated, but using the handhelds is a bunch of fun! Those are the different ways I could improve when using the handhelds.

          For my project this quarter, my research is on beagles. This research was super easy. I found a lot of interesting information. I found some information that I didn’t even know about. It said that beagles search for rabbits and hares. If the beagle doesn’t live at a persons home then maybe they eat rabbits and hares. They also become very active.

          Their hobbies are playing, hunting for food, digging, and of course barking. Male beagles are bigger than female beagles. Male beagles have a height of about 14-16 in. and they weigh 22-25 pounds. Female beagles have a height of about 13-15 in. and they weigh 20-23 pounds. In one website, it stated that beagles come in a variety of colors.

          The difficulties I had in researching for beagles was that I couldn’t find the information I wanted to find. There wasn’t that much information to write down. Also, some of the information in the website wasn’t true. Overall, the topic I did on beagles wasn’t that bad. I had a great time. I kind of had a hard time, but despite that it was a great project to do.

          According to “Online Bullying Compels States to Act,”  cyber-bullying is something mean that other people do to threaten their peers. Bullying happens to a lot of people in school, but also online. They post bullitens on Myspace and send out messages to different people. You have to be careful with who you are chatting with. They might be a bully or an older person that would want to kill you.

          From the article “A Suicide Victim  and the Town that Turned on her Cyber-bully,” cyber-bullying is when people threaten you and say melancholy things about you on Myspace or other places when sometimes it’s not true. They can do lots of stuff to you when you’re online. Most of the time they can send instant messages to you. They can even take your email address and send out harmful rumors to your friends. Sometimes other people pretend to be someone and say nice things at first, but later on they will threaten that person. From what I know, they should stop cyber-bullying. There will be a lot of effects to that.

          The effects on cyber-bullying are that the person you are threatining can think of killing themselves. A lot of people commit suicide after they are cyber-bullied. Cyber-bullying is just so mean because whenever that happens to a teenager, they want to kill themselves. When a teenager commits suicide and their parents find out, they can get hurt very easily. That is so sad for them so people should stop cyber-bullying to prevent from people commiting suicide.

          According to “How parents stamp out on cyber-bullying,” cyber-bullying can be prevented by not talking to people that you don’t know. They should be careful on Myspace and any other sites you go to that involves chatting with people from anywhere because sometimes that person you are chatting with can be someone older. Don’t post personal information on your blog because they can find you and do something bad. Cyber-bullying can be prevented by having school programs that promote anti-bulllying. That can really help out.

          According to the article  “Cyber-bullying” from Wikipedia, the interesting things that I’ve learned are that you shouldn’t talk to people that you don’t know. Sometimes people pretend to be someone else and they threaten you. I’ve learned a lot about that and hope that it doesn’t happen to me. Parents should also talk to their children about who they are chatting with. I also learned that a lot of people commit suicide after they are cyber-bullied. I hope they put a stop to that.

          I am going to talk about recycling.  I know that a lot of people recycle and that it is a good thing. One person said that recycling ia a great way to keep our enviroment clean, but another person said that it’s good for the enviroment; however, when you burn things it’s bad for the atmosphere. Another student said that recycling lowers the amount of waste or pollution on earth. Some people said that people recycle different things. Recycling can also effect the world a lot.

          For the folowing paragraph, my classmates had a lot of different questions about recycling. For example, what are the different ways to recycle? Another one is what do they do with the things they recycle? Another question they would like to know is how do they recycle the materials? Another one is does recycling cause or help the eviroment? The last question is what is the recycling process?

          For this paragraph, I learned a couple of things. Paper is recycled by shredding it into small pieces and mixing it with water. The mixture is beaten into mush, called pulp, that flows onto a moving screen where most of the water is taken out. Wood or paper fibers remain and the fiber is pressed through rollers that squeeze out more water. It is then dried in a stream - heated dryer. The city’s garbage and recycling trucks bring the waste from all houses, schools, businesses, and office buildings to the facility for sorting. When liters of puppies or kittens arrive, they get to play in shredded newspaper in their pens — giving newspaper another use before going into the waste stream.

          Would you like to know my New Year’s resolutions? I hope you do. I am writing about New Year’s resolutions to make a lot of people know and also for you to think about yours. My first New Year’s resolution is to exercise more. The second New Year’s resolution of mine is to learn at least something new in school. Lastly, I need to cut my time going on Myspace & Msn.

          My first New Year’s resolution is to exercise more. I really think that I do need to because I’m out of shape. After I eat, I always sit down or lay down. My parents always tell me to go and exercise like run around or play basketball. I always say no, I’m lazy. I need to stop that. More exercise would be better for me. I think that it would be better for me so that I won’t get fatter.

          My second New Year’s resolution is to learn at least something new in school. I really need to learn more things so that I can know things about the outside world. I don’t know many things. When people ask me questions, honestly, I hardly have an answer for them. I really, really think that I should get to know more things to keep me on track.

          My third New Year’s resolution is to avoid going on Myspace & Msn long. That is a major problem with me. Whenever I’m bored, I always tend to go on Myspace & Msn everyday. I can never stand a day without going on Myspace & Msn. Also, if I don’t cut my time for going on Myspace & Msn, my eyes can get worse. If my eyes get worse, my lens of my glasses will become thicker.

          There you have it! My three New Year’s resolutions. The extrinsic effects that they will have is that when I exercise more, other people will want to exercise too. Also, when I learn some new things in school, others will too. Even when I stop going on Myspace & Msn, I will save power. The intrinsic effects that they will also have is when I exercise more, my fats and my belly will go away. Also, when I learn something new in school, I will build my knowledge. Lastly, if I stop going on Myspace & Msn, I can be more focused in my school work. I will accomplish my New Year’s resolutions by, trying my very best. I hope I really do accomplish them. I think accomplishing a New Year’s resolution isn’t easy. You need to stay focused.

          You should watch The Outsiders because it is a great movie. It is about this boy named Ponyboy who had a brother named Sodapop. There was also someone named Johnny and Dally. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally went to watch a movie. A girl named Cherry ran out of her boyfriends own car along with Martha. Both of them went to sit in the movies. Cherry ran out of Bob’s car (her boyfriend) because he was drunk again. Cherry and Martha sat in front of Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally. When Dally saw Cherry, he started bothering her. That is one part I remembered.

          You should also watch The Outsiders because it’s the kind of movie you could learn from. What I learned from it is “Always trust yourself”. I got that from the movie because anyone can do anything if you believe in yourself. Another part I remembered is when the church went on fire. There were children in there. When Dally, Johnny, and Ponyboy were driving by, they saw it and rushed over there. Ponyboy ran out of the car and went to help the children. Johnny ran after Ponyboy. Then when Johnny was stuck inside, a piece of the roof that was burning fell on his back. Dally ran over and helped. That is another part I remembered. Remember, The Outsiders is an excellent and nice movie. If you read the book, it would be better.