Monthly Archives: December 2017

What are Four Different uses of a Christmas Tree?

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Sunset over Washington DC - Christmas Day
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Could you use a Christmas tree for anything else but a Christmas tree?

Hi everyone!

I’m going to share with you four different ways to use a Christmas tree. It’s weird to think of using a Christmas tree for anything else but a Christmas tree, since a Christmas tree is called a Christmas tree. But here are some ideas.

  1. You could use a Christmas tree as firewood for your fireplace during Christmastime. Keeping warm during the holidays is very important, so why not use your beautiful tree as your main or backup supply!
  2. You could use a Christmas tree as a supply of air fresheners for your car. If you have a tree that smells really nice, like pine or fir, maybe. Every time your car smells disgusting and you don’t want to go out and buy a regular freshener, you could just grab a pair of scissors, march out to your backyard, and snip off a clump to use in your car.
  3. You could use a Christmas tree as just a plain simple decoration in your back or front yard. Trees make things look very simple, and provide great shade in the summer if they grow a lot.
  4. You could also use a Christmas tree as a main prop at a party. You could set up one of those pools in your yard, and people take turns balancing on a log on the water trying to knock their opponents off. The log could be your beloved Christmas tree, in which you had good times with last Christmas.
  5. Lastly, you could use a Christmas tree as a house for your pet squirrel that you adopted. You could set up the tree in your kitchen and have your new squirrel climb all over it as it’s new home.

Well, that’s four things you could do with a Christmas tree! Do you have any ideas? What would you do with your Christmas tree?

Happy blogging!

Gabi

Throw, Throw, Throw!

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Hi everyone!

I bet lots of you have heard, or even tried some of the events in track and field, or athletics. Every year at my school, grades four to seven go to the local track and have a whole day of track and field fun, with friendly competition against two other schools.

I’m  part of the real track club, which isn’t part of school, and my Dad is the president of the club! My Dad is one of the top javelin throwers for his age in the world, and his all time personal best is 72.72. (seventy two meters, seventy two centimeters)

He is fifty years old, and this past track season broke the Canadian record for his age group. He competes in all the throws, and I’m nagging on him to try a 100 meter or a 200 meter sprint this up coming season.

As for me, javelin isn’t my best. My best is about 17 meters. But I’m getting better! But right now I’m focusing more on another throwing skill. Hammer! This past summer I went to a junior development (JD) championship on the mainland, and I threw a huge personal best (PB) in hammer, and got a first place medal, so I was ‘provincial champion’ in hammer!

I threw 23 meters, as a standing throw, and if you read my post about Anita Wlodarczyk, at the top of the post there’s a video that has a link to youtube where you can watch her world record throw. In the video, when Anita throws, she turns. I just stood, swung it around, and let go. It looks a lot more impressive when she does it.

I’m working on my turns, and my goal for hammer is to keep pace with my older sister. She is 14 right now. She threw 31 meters in hammer this past track season. Next season she’ll be fifteen. I am twelve right now. Next track season I’ll be 13. So If she threw 31 meters when she was fourteen, then I need to throw over that mark when I’m 13.

Basically my whole family throws! My Mom used to do track, and she did sprints and javelin, you now know my sister, my Dad, and I all throw, and my grandma throws in all the events and she’s eighty!

Here are all the throwing events:

Discus, like throwing a heavy metal dinner plate, where it rolls off you fingers and flies into the air.

Shot put, like a cannonball that you push out into the air.

Javelin, like throwing sticks really far.

Plus hammer, like a shot put on the end of a wire with a handle that you swing around your head and release.

Have you tried track and field before? What’s your favourite event?

Thanks for reading!

Gabi