Fitness Team Preperation

IALT: Re create our final design for Wednesday night. 

Today the fitness group came together as one both classes to do think about how we would demonstrate what we learnt on Wednesday night. Everything was going according to plan, everyone was involved even those who I thought were never! In the end we ended upcoming with the idea of remaking Family Feud, to Fitness Feud where it is just similar but just different at the same time. All 7 questions we made up were based on Fitness, to ensure that we weren't 
carried off to another topic. 

The questions we came up with was : 

1. What is your favourite exercises? Give three answers.
2. What type of food do you think is healthy to eat?
3. On a scale of 1 to 10 how important do you think fitness is? 1 being not important 10 being very important
4. How often do you think you should exercise?
5. Do you enjoy doing fitness?
6. What exercise do you think helps your body more? Why do you think that?
7. What do you think the purpose of fitness is?

As for the real thing, it was going to be in a Pamphlet shape, the questionnaire was going to be in the middle while some information and pictures of us doing fitness was going to be on the other two sides. If you don't know what I mean, take a look :

The blank side is where the pictures will go, to inform the parents on what we do everyday to increase our fitness skills. It's very hard because changes don't happen on the first day, you have to commit to doing your role , making sure it is your time to shine. I can't wait for Wednesday, but I might not come as I have to attend a very important training session, with my younger brother. 

It would be a shame if I didn't go because I am committed to doing my part . 

A challenge I came across was assigning roles to every member of my team, sometimes I wouldn't know what to give them because I was stuck, but I had the help of my other mates. 

Feel free to leave a comment.

Many thanks :) 

Origins Of Christmas Songs.

This morning my class and I were given a task from our teacher Ms Komor to research 3-5 different CHRISTMAS songs and search where they originate from. The 5 songs that I have chosen is "Jingle Bells" "Feliz Navidad" "All I Want For Christmas Is You" "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" I chose these songs because I know them well and some I know off by heart. My favourite song out of this is probably "Jingle Bells" because I sang this song at a young age. 

I was also given the activity to search 4 countries that celebrate Christmas differently. The countries that I have chosen is Serbia, Spain, Australia and India. Serbia have their own special tradition, they tie up their father and mother and their parents have to give them money to get them freed. Spain celebrate Christmas by getting a cheeky addition in the form of a character called the 'caganer.' Australia's tradition has it that Father Christmas swaps his reindeer for 'six white boomers' or kangaroos. 

India celebrate Christmas by decorating Mango Tree's, they also use Mango leaves and decorate their homes with the leaves. Did you know that.... Each year more than 3 billion Christmas cards are sent in the U.S alone? The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feathers? Christmas trees have been sold in the U.S since 1850? Christmas trees usually grow for about 15 years before they get sold? Oklahoma was the last U.S state to declare Christmas a legal holiday, in 1907? Christmas wasn't declared an official holiday in the United state until June 26, 1870? Alabama was the first state in the United States to officially recognize Christmas in 1836? All these facts are really interesting and some of them I didn't even know about. 

Out of these seven the one I think is the most interesting to me is that Christmas trees grow for about 15 years before they get sold! Many people buy Christmas trees and I think they don't even know how old they are. Overall, I think that this research really got my mind thinking and now I am ready for more research on Christmas. My family celebrate Christmas this year by going to church as Christmas is on a Sunday. Christmas marks the birth of Jesus, our saviour and redeemer. Something that I enjoyed was researching the different Christmas songs and finding out the meaning of the lyrics. 

Something that I found challenging was some of the lyrics of the songs because I used my own brain to figure out the meaning. My next steps in learning is to use my brain more often and search up more sites to find out the answer. I think we have Christmas Songs to feel the spirit and joy of celebrating Christmas, Music is my motivation and without Music I would be stuck. Many Christmas songs were published a long time ago but people today still listen to them. Christmas carols are always something that I look out for! 

Thanks for having the time to read my work for today! Feel free to leave a comment! Many thanks!