Hello guys, in todays post, I am sharing with you a video that I made about how to create a new folder on your desktop. We did this in school and these videos could be used to teach these skills to younger kids. I hope you enjoy this video!!
I made this video using a computer app called Screen Cast-O-Matic. it worked really well and I totally recommend it!
Thanks for watching guys!!💙I hope you learnt about creating a desktop folder!!
“Landscape” by johnsamuel is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
It all started two years ago. We were living happily on the farm. Just mum, dad, Jake and me. Jake and I look very different. I Looked a lot more like my mum than my dad. I had the same sandy blond hair and piercing green eyes. Yet my brother was practically a spitting image of my dad. They both have chocolate brown hair and hazel eyes. It was happy times back then, we got along so well. I wish it could have stayed like that. Two years ago our parents split up. It came as a shock. Jake and I had started to suspect that it might happen when our parents started fighting. They were fighting because dad didn’t want to live on the farm, he said that it was time to ‘spread his wings, go to the city and have some fun’. He left a few weeks after that fight. At first mum didn’t seem too upset until one night we found her sitting on her bed crying. Jake and I had no choice but to work harder on the farm so mum could have some time to herself. It was the next week we found out that we were about to have a step mum. You would not believe how angry and upset mum was. She kept saying, ‘I thought he said it was only temporary.’ Over and over as she walked about doing her normal chores. I’m Ema and now it is two years later and I just turned fourteen and Jake, twelve.
Dad came to visit about 5 months later, with his fiancée Bella. The first thing I noticed about her was that she was pregnant. I ran back inside without saying anything. How could dad do something like that? I had to face it, I was going to have a stepsister or brother, whether I liked it or not. I looked out my window and saw mum yelling at dad. I was glad she was so I didn’t have to myself. When I finally did go down to see dad, I was reluctant to speak to him and cautious of Bella. She seemed nice enough but that didn’t change anything, she could be the nicest person in the world and I would still hate her, dad was trying to replace mum with her and that would never happen with me. When they left it was like a huge weight had been lifted up off my shoulders. Mum instantly ran to her room, we could already see the mascara running down her face as she tore through the door and into the house. “Do you think she’s okay?” exclaimed Jake worriedly. “I don’t know.” replied. “I hope so.”
One year later, 2 weeks or so after my thirteenth birthday, dad phoned to say Bella had had the baby. It was a girl and her name was Lisa. Mum broke down completely. She wasn’t okay for days on end but Jake and I had to be strong and hold our family, or what was left of it, together. When I told Jake the news he went quiet and tears filled his eyes. So yeah, so much for that plan, I guessed then that I would be doing a lot more from then on.
All our troubles started when the rain went away. The crops needed the rain to help them grow properly. With the rain gone, it meant that Jake and I had more chores. On top of feeding the sheep and cattle every morning, we now had to water the crops. Now that we were watering the crops as well, we couldn’t keep as careful a watch on the sheep as we used to be able to. We also had the added weight of our new step sister to add to the pain of our dad leaving, and mum only just having recovered from the shock, making everything harder as we missed him so much.
The next day mum tripped and fell. She was carrying the pig feed to the barn and she tripped on the tall oak tree’s roots. She couldn’t get up so I called Jake and we carried her to the house. She was in so much pain that we decided that it was best we called the ambulance so she could at least get a check-up. It turned out she had broken her leg, and would need at least 3 months to heal.
“You and Jake will look after the farm won’t you?” asked mum as soon as we got home. I assured her that we would and left her to rest.
We were 3 weeks into the dry season, after the rain had finished, when Jake and I started to notice things happening. Things like the sheep being scared and when we go to investigate we can’t find anything. We thought nothing of it at the time but now I realise that was a mistake.
The first sheep disappeared one week later. We thought that maybe it had died and another had just dragged it away. I guess it didn’t help that it was a baby because we thought that it had just died from lack of food. We started to think more of it when two of our largest sheep disappeared. We notified mum instantly and even though she was still many weeks away from being fully healed, she hobbled over with her crutches to help us search for the sheep. When we were searching, we found a bloody trail that suddenly ended with a hole disappearing into the ground. We knew instantly, that this meant foxes.
Hello Readers. Happy St Patricks Day!!! I love this day because it represents leprechauns and luck.😍 St Patricks Day originated in Ireland and people normally associate it with the colour green. It is considered a lucky day and people used to think about leprechauns and some even dressed up as them. Leprechauns are believed to be similar to genies. Even though leprechauns give out money, They are often believed to be found at the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold.❤
Now that you know a bit of the back history to St Patricks day, go have some fun on this lucky day!
Hello!! Welcome back to another blog post about hockey! I will be writing about the two hockey players who I find the most inspirational. Alyson Annan and Jamie Dwyer. They are both amazing hockey players and both represented Australia at the Olympics for hockey.
Alyson Annan: Alyson is a female hockey player. She scored 166 goals in her Olympic hockey career. She is arguably the best Australian hockey player of all time. She was voted the best hockey player in 1999. She also was a hockey coach for young hockey players from 2012 to 2013. She was a great team player and had great hockey skills.
Jamie Dwyer: Jamie Dwyer was also a phenomenal hockey player. He is originally from Perth WA and he originally played for WA. In his career he has played over 350 matches for Australia and has scored over 220 goals for Australia. He has been to the Olympics three times, the commonwealth games three times and the world cup twice. His position is usually a midfielder or striker.
These are the two hockey players who I find most inspiring. they have both been nominated for many hockey awards and hoave achieved many things in their careers.
Hello readers. In today’s blog post I am going to explain to you guys how and when I train.
I have a very tight training schedule so I occasionally find it hard to keep my daily routine going that is why I have to make sure I have a strong mindset and can take criticism not as a hindrance but as a way to make myself better. So I try to do some hockey everyday. Every morning I go outside into my garden at home and do some stick juggles. Doing stick juggles is basically tapping the ball on your stick. Your stick is in the air and you are holding it as if it were on the ground and you tap the ball up and when it comes down again you tap it again. It is a relatively difficult trick but it improves your hand-eye coordination. I try to do at least 100 per day. I do this alone as I can focus better. I also have hockey team training on Wednesday afternoons after school. During the training session we work on things that we don’t do so well at or we need to do better at. On top of that, I normally play two competitive hockey games a week. I play on my usual team and I also play up for the senior team.
Although I do sometimes find it hard to get the motivation to get up and do my hockey practice, I remind myself that it is one step closer to becoming better and working myself higher up in my hockey skills.
I hope you enjoyed reading this post and learnt about how and when I train and have received some motivation to do training for whatever you do, whether it is a sport, instrument or studying.
I found this cool video of some hockey tricks the video is below or you can click here to watch it. The video shows some hockey players doing some really cool tricks.
Treat others online the way you want to be treated.
What is netiquette? Netiquette is the code or behavioural code that is necessary for safe internet use.
Top 10 rules for Netiquette:
I recently watched a video on cyber safety and I find it very true and relative to netiquette to check it out go to #Game On or watch it now. The video is beneath this.👇 Hope you like the video and have learnt something about netiquette.😊
Hello readers and welcome to another post about hockey. I am going to give you advice on how to chose the perfect hockey stick. If you are a beginner it will probably be different to if you are advanced so I am going to do two different sections.
How to chose a hockey stick for beginners: If you are in your first or second year of hockey or are just not very confident, then I would recommend using a grays stick or a mazon stick. they are both reliable brand. I started out with a grays stick and it lasted me three years. to choose a size when you are a beginner it is good to measure it like to following; stand upright as if you are standing in a hockey turf and stand the stick curved end on the ground and the top of the stick should be about at your belly button.
How to chose a hockey stick for medium to advanced players: For medium to advanced players, any stick with fibreglass is usually good. so sticks like this include brands like princess, atlas and kookaburra. I have a princess stick and am very happy with it so far. Even if you are an advanced player you can still use one of the sticks mentioned in the beginner section. As for size, according to Cairns Hockey if you are aged between 10 and 15 a good size to chose is 16.5″. This enables you to drop down low to the ground and play hockey properly and be stronger behind the ball.
Thanks for reading and I hope I have helped you with learning how to choose the perfect hockey stick.😇
Hello readers! Today I am writing this blog post to let you know about field hockey. This is purely for the readers who do not have much experience with or do not know much about hockey. So field hockey is a ball sport, every player is required to have a hockey stick, mouth guard and shin pads when they are playing a game of hockey. There are 11 players on a field including the goalie. There are also 2 subs who sit on the side line ready to swap with someone if they get tired. This makes up a full team of 13 players.
Different coaches call different positions different things. I will tell you what my coach calls the positions. We basically have 3 lines and then the goalie. We have a front line which is where the centre forward is. The centre forward starts with the ball at the start of the game and they are the main goal scorer. Also on the front line are two players who play the position called right wing and left wing. Obviously, they stand one on each side, one on the left, one on the right. their job is to stay high on the field near the opposing team’s goal box ready to help the centre forward.
In the next row is the inner’s and centre half. So there is a right inner and a left inner. They stay square to (in line with) the centre half. They can help score goals but they are mainly there to help the back row and the front row. They basically keep the flow of the ball going. The centre half is the biggest role. they basically have to go everywhere they can, they can help the back row and they connect with the front row to help them score goals. I usually play centre half or right inner when I play hockey.😛😛
The back row is made up of halfs and centre back or high full back. The halfs are left half and right half. They control the back half of the field on their side. The high full back acts like a centre guard. They stop the ball from coming through and towards the goal box. The two halfs must cover the corners from either side of the goal box up to the halfway line.
There are two more rows but I am going to combine them because they are very small. The first one in the low full back because they collect any stray hockey balls that get past the high full back and halfs. It is their job to clear the ball from the circle. they are usually the one to take free hits from the top of the circle. The other position, the final one is goalie. They must stay on the goal box the whole game. They may use their hands and feet to save the ball. They are also given a hockey ball but they have a slightly different one that has a curve near the end.
This is a basic outline on how hockey positions work. I hope you have learnt something and have a better understanding of hockey now.💜
Treat your password like a toothbrush. Don’t let anyone else use it, and get a new one every six months. – Clifford Stoll
I think that cyber safety is important for anyone who is on any kind of social media because it is important to know what you are agreeing to.
Things you need to know to stay cyber safety
– If you post a picture online, anyone can use it
– Don’t send pictures to people you don’t know in case they send it to others and they use it against you
– Don’t share your password with anyone
– Be careful what you post because anyone can see it
Some tips on staying Cyber Safe
– When creating a profile, never use your full name
– Never tell anyone your passcode
– If you don’t know someone, don’t send them pictures or any details.
I think that these are all important tips if you wish to stay cyber safe and prevent anyone from stealing or copying your identity.
I hope you have learnt something from reading this post!’
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master
I am writing this blog post to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of computer use. I hope you can learn something. Happy reading!!
Advantages of Computer use:
If you need to take something somewhere, instead of taking sheets of paper places, you can take a laptop instead
If you have family that lives far away for example America and you are in Australia, computers make it easier to contact them.
For example in school if you have to carry textbooks to all your classes, if you have the electronic versions you don’t need to carry them around.
Disadvantages of Computer Use:
If you are messaging a note to someone they cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
If your computer gets hacked by someone you may lose work and not be able to access sit so you would have to start again
If somebody finds one of your online social accounts, then they could access all of your personal information and steal your identity
I hope you enjoyed reading this and have learnt more about the advantages and disadvantages of computer use.
