I was once a part of an exercise program called Joey and the Butterflies. It’s basically for childhood obesity. My mom told me that she got a call from the school saying that I was selected to participate in a field trip about Weight Watchers. The school was going to get $10,000 and it was going to be...
Read MoreHave you ever ventured through corn or fed a long-horned goat with just your bare hands. Well you can now. At the Corn Maze you could do every one of those things and even more. You can venture through various amounts of corn mazes. But be warned. You may get lost so be careful to get a...
Read MoreBom Dia. I’m a senior at Friendship Collegiate Academy in Washington D.C. and a member of the Global Kids program, a program created 20 years ago to promote global awareness among youth. I was invited to participate in the Global Gateways program--an ephemeral merger between the...
Read MoreWhat is Wikipedia? It is an online encyclopedia. It was started in 2001. It’s free. It’s one of the Internet’s most-visited web sites. It has more than three million entries. But how accurate is Wikipedia? Some people say Wikipedia is not very accurate. Why? It’s not written by experts. It’s...
Read MoreNOVEMBER 21, 2011. This past Sunday, I went to see the movie everyone is going nuts and bananas about. Did I mention that “Breaking Dawn” Part 1 was AWESOME!? There were many twists and turns when Bella and Edward...
Read MoreNOVEMBER 21, 2011. You probably already are familiar with the famous Kim Kardashian. Well she married a famous basketball star Kris Humphries recently. Unfortunely they divorced and were only married for 72 days....
Read MoreWe all have those moments and sometimes they're awkward, annoying, stressful so I just wanted to tell you some of mine that I think almost everyone can relate to and comment your moments that you have....
Read MoreJune 14, 2011. In this series I will talk about people who were inspirational and who stopped segregation in Alabama. I am eleven years old and when I first heard about these things, it made me feel like we were not treated equally. I felt this way after I saw the movie, "Selma Lord Selma" and learned about...
Read MoreI recently read the book "Dear Dumb Dairy #5: Can Adults Become Human?" from the series by Jim Benton and Jamie Kelly. Katie, the main character, talks about school, home, her mom and dad. It is a very funny book. For example, one day when Katie got home she was stunned to find...
Read MoreTHE NEW IPHONE 4G is OUT!! Everybody will probably be flying through the door like a bird. Some people will buy them like there's no tomorrow. If you know you want the new Iphone 4g, then you better hurry down to the closest...
Read MoreOn Wednesday May 11, 2011, I participated in our 3rd Annual Southeast Idol Talent Show. I was the DJ and I played music for the people who were singing and dancing. I had fun watching this show. We have the talent show every year...
Read MoreJune 10, 2010. Did you hear about the new Beyonce video? I think it’s called "Move Your Body”. Yeah, I heard it's awesome. It was made to help Michelle Obama fight childhood obesity. On April 27, 2011 Beyonce made a video to...
Read MoreMy trip to the Newseum was great. It had lots of fun things to do. First, we went to the cafe to get a snack and the food was great. Then we went to see a 4-D movie. 4-D is the next dimension in movies. It is a lot better than watching a 3-D movie because the movie felt like we were actually in...
Read MoreI honestly believe that middle school and junior high kids are divided into five “F's”. Famous, Fabulous, Fakers, For Reals, and Forevers. I would say Freaks, but that not what they are. They are indifferent.Who doesn't know what a Faker is. I mean, when you become a Faker, you might not...
Read MoreBeastly is very different from Beauty and the Beast the Disney version in many ways. The movie Beastly is set in a high school. It was about a rich young man who gets turned into a “beast”. The boy has a deadline before he has to stay a “beast”. What the beast has to do is get a girl to fall in...
Read MoreKids Listen up!! I want to introduce to you the new DSi XL 3D. It is a Nintendo game. It cost almost $240. It is the only handheld game in 3D. You can buy this at GameStop. This game will bring a lot of pleasure to you...
Read MoreOn March 26, 2011 The Egyptian Gazette News reported that a snake escaped the reptile exhibit at the New York, Bronx Zoo. They had to shut the zoo down until the snake was found. This is an Egyptian poisonous cobra. Scientists say...
Read MoreMTV published an article written by Alvin Blanco on February 24th, 2011, about the controversy on Beyonce’s photo shoot for the magazine, L’Officiel Paris. To begin, the controversy of the shoot was that Beyonce, a fair- skinned woman changed her skin color to a dark brown color. During this...
Read MoreFever by Laurie Halse Anderson is a touching novel about a teenage girl named Mattie. Her life is full of ups and downs, but mostly downs. The story takes place in 1793, when “yellow fever” spreads around her hometown in Pittsburgh. She ends up having to escape along with her grandfather to...
Read MoreI attended a pep rally for Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday where our principal, the dean of students, other teachers and students talked about the earthquake in Haiti....
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