February 19

People Shouldn’t Take Steroids

We all love our favorite sport players, but what makes them so good? Sometimes it’s hard work and good practice, and also the very strong players might use steroids.

Some people inject steroids to build bigger muscles.

What are steroids you may ask? It’s a drug that makes you stronger but also makes you meaner, and it’s bad for your heart. “Ya I know who wants to be mean to others and to your heart?” They don’t but they want to be stronger.

Some ways it’s good for your body. (if a doctor gives you a prescription for them) But some sports players abuse them and bribe doctors to give them some. def Bribe: pay or give a lot of something to people. The abused one is called anabolic steroids which will make you bulk up. The one prescribed is called corticosteroids.

In the MLB, NHL, NFL, and lots of other leagues for sports you can’t use steroids. But how do players still use them? Well they might take them before each game and stop before they get tested for steroid uses in their blood.

How can tell if they are using steroids? They look really creepy like a strong man but with huge muscles. Like this.

The dangers of taking steroids are insomnia, manic behavior, mood swings, irritability, lack of good judgement, Increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

This is why people should not take steroids.

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January 17

Too much time online hurts kids

How much time do you spend outside?  kids need to stop going online and spend a day outside for a change.Well if you do then you should stop going online that much. Most kids spend about 10 hours a day online to play video games! Kids spend too much time online. It is important for kids to spend time with their family and friends, kids need exercise, and kids injure themselves when they lose games.

Photo Credit: Lucélia Ribeiro via Compfight

Children at school

Kids that are addicted to computer games

Kids need to spend some time with their family and friends. Kids ages 8 – 18 spend about 75 hours and 15 minutes every week going online and that is bad because kids are choosing to play on their computer instead of playing with their family and friends.  Kids need to spend more time with their friends and their family.

Kids also need exercise. British kids spend less than 30 minutes outside a week! In fact 37% out of 1,000 parents have never taken their kids looking for wildlife, which means they have never taken their kids hiking, biking, or camping.

 

Some kids even  injure themselves whenever they lose video games. According to the China news 1,600 non violent video gaming kids were 2.4 more times likely to have self-injured themselves over the past 3 months. Violent video game players were 5 times as likely. Losing video games can also lead to depression or can also lead to family problems.

So stop going online that much if you want to live a longer, healthier, and happier life. So be more active and try not to be one of the 23% of kids who say they are addicted to video games. It’s not healthy for you sitting in front of a screen half of the day. You will miss fun activities with your family and friends, so don’t get addicted to video games! Video games online sure can be fun, but limit your time when online.

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January 17

People should have less soda

  People should drink less soda

 

By Mia Gallo

Free Soda Can Mock-Up Template

Do you care about your health? If you do,   you should not have soda as much it has a lots of  sugar which is bad for you, soda has a lot of calories, and soda can give tooth decay.

 

Soda has much sugar and that amount of is unhealthy for your body.  and that is a lot and is too much sugar for one day.Soda has 121/3 teaspoons of sugar. You need about 21/3 teaspoons of sugar every day. Can you stop having soda as much because it is only good to help you read and write. When you have too much soda it can get you very jittery and that from the sugar and caffeine.

Soda has a lot of  calories. Even small cans are 30 calories and also can be 90 calories and big cans are 138 calories! It is wild that the big cans of soda are 138 calories?

Soda can give you tooth decay, it has so much sugar and some people drink too much soda and it can make you all fat and can be very very bad for you. Also like I said it can give you tooth decay.

If you have learned anything, be aware that you don’t drink too much soda and have a great and healthy life. Like I keep saying SODA IS BAD FOR YOU1!!!!!!!!!

 

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August 31

Boring is easy, so be awesome!

“You were made to be awesome!” according to the one and only Kid President. We all need a little encouragement every now and then since it’s not easy being awesome all the time. And, don’t forget you need to have hopes and dreams to reach for.
It’s the start of a new school year and the perfect time for a peptalk from Kid President. Check out his video. Which road are you on? What are your hopes and dreams for this school year? Who encourages you? What will you create to make the world awesome? Let us know.

 

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March 28

What is empathy?

Today our school counselor came to visit and we talked about a very important topic–empathy. What is empathy? And how do we show empathy towards others. We role played how people can show empathy towards others especially when we don’t have anything in common or we are not friends. Afterwards, we shared our thoughts on a Padlet wall. How do you show empathy towards others?

 

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December 2

Bring Back Chocolate Milk

Chocolate milk

Chocolate milk is full of sugar.

Schools banned chocolate milk because it has too much sugar and makes students less healthy. Too much sugar can cause diabetes and it can cause kids to be overweight. I think we should have chocolate milk at school lunches because chocolate milk still has protein, calcium, potassium, vitamins. I think some kids that don’t drink milk would mostly choose chocolate milk over plain milk . Chocolate milk gives kids vitamins and minerals.

There are many great reasons to bring back chocolate milk.Chocolate milk also tastes good. More kids would drink milk again if chocolate milk was on the menu.   Kids mostly would prefer chocolate milk than plain milk because it’s sweet and cold.                                                                                                                                                                Kids would benefit from bringing chocolate milk back to school lunches.  Kids will pick chocolate milk because it’s sweet and has sugar that doesn’t mean we should ban it. It has some vitamins,potassium,and calcium. Experts say that chocolate milk should be banned cause it has too much sugar. I think they are wrong because chocolate milk does contain healthy stuff and that is why we should bring back chocolate milk.

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November 21

What are you eating in the school cafeteria?

Do you care about the students who don’t know any better than to eat unhealthy? Do you care about what your child is eating? If you do, you should watch what your child is choosing to eat at lunch. So many kids are getting sick or are obese from school cafeterias.This is unacceptable, because these are the future generations of our nation.These are the kids that will grow up to be scientists, engineers, explorers; so, we DO need to take care at least to be sure they eat healthy!

Young kids are eating this food, and it develops a liking to this food.When people eat this food, it can make them sick and then they can’t do many things, like run and play.One of the worst illnesses to get is diabetes,and it can be really bad to have.When these children grow up, they make poor eating choices.

If kids eat the bad cafeteria food at school they will eat it at home, too, because the food in school cafeterias might taste good, but isn’t good for your body.Some schools serve pizza for breakfast and lunch, and then the kids eat it for dinner, too.

At some schools, the kids don’t even know what lettuce is! Much of the food in school cafeterias is at least 40% bad for you. At some schools,what they do to make chicken nuggets is basically grinding up the chicken, bones in, later breading and cooking, and worse. At some schools french fries count as vegetables! The meat they use is treated with growth hormones and that can get into humans. Then of course the milk is bad too. If there is also natural milk, the kids choose the flavored milk.

Each year, hundreds of kids get sick from cafeteria food.The food in school cafeterias is not healthy, especially to young kids.Some kids know this and are okay with it, but they should not be. Most kids don’t though, and they need to. If kids know this, they might want to stop eating the cafeteria’s food!

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November 20

Bring Back Dodgeball

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Do you like dodgeball ? Kids across the country have played during recess and in PE class for years and a lot of people say it is fun. We need to bring back dodgeball for schools that got banned from dodgeball.

Dodgeball can be a safe game for kids to play. Why not use gator balls. Kids won’t get hurt. Gator balls are soft foam balls that are easy to throw. I have played dodgeball with wall balls and it hurts but when I used gator balls I didn’t get hurt.

It is a PE game so that means that you could play it during recess and PE we could have another game to play. It is a fun game and a lot of people have played it and they say it is fun. My school does not have dodgeball so at PE we play the same game over and over.

Dodgeball builds  teamwork and is a good form of exercise. It builds teamwork because people have to make a plan. A way of using teamwork is all the people in through the balls at once. I have played dodgeball and we had to make a strategy.

Dodgeball is fun and a lot of people play it. If we bring back dodgeball a lot more kids will be happier at school when they play dodgeball. Our school and other schools will have fun and be happy. I hope you will agree to bring back dodgeball to schools.

Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball for picture above.

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August 14

Junior Lifeguards

Yesterday was the first day of JR.Lifeguards also known as JGs. I was excited and happy to go.

The first thing we did was warm up we did 20 push ups, 20 sit ups and 40 jumping jacks, it was hard but my best friend was there so it was fun. Then we did a run/swim test in the bay so the lifeguards could sort us into groups of our speed. Then we walked 1 mile to the beach, did a sprint, ran into the water and swam back. The 2 hours went by fast. It was a great day.

The 3nd day was hard we did warm up the we used padelbord

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Junior Lifeguards

Junior Lifeguard Warm Up At Mission Beach 😉

 

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May 17

Itchy, Scratchy, Poison Oak

This poison oak is flowering.

Do you know the saying, “Leaves of three, let them be.”?  Did you know it is about poison oak? Poison oak is called poison oak for a reason, it’s poisonous. Poison oak is a plant that can be either a vine or sometimes a bush. There are different kinds of poison oak. West Poison Oak grows in the canyons around San Diego. Rose Canyon is full of poison oak. . It grows all along the west coast from Baja California, to California, to British Columbia in Canada.

Poison oak looks very different at different times of the year. In the fall the leaves get red and orange. In winter, the three leaves separate and fall off and we touch them thinking they are normal leaves. In spring poison oak has new leaves of three so let them be. Lastly, in summer they are still like spring and they grow berries and flowers that are poisonous. One very poisonous part of poison oak is the berries. They have greenish flowers and poisonous waxy white berries. The berries on poison oak are as poisonous as the leaf. If you ever come up to poison oak or berries and flowers The poison oil, on the leaves react to our skin when we touch the leaves surface. When we touch the leaf its oils itches our skin. Its oils react to our oils on our skin and the rash is a red blistering rash. Which causes a rash that if you don’t cure right away it will get worse because its oils will spread onto our oils.

Some animals don’t react to poison oak. Deer actually eat poison oak and they don’t get a reaction at all! Birds hide themselves in it so they stay unreachable from predators that react to poison oak. The birds aren’t bothered by the poison oak.

When you go to a canyon make sure you don’t touch any plants with three leaves. A way to remember it is “ Leaves of three let them be”. Remember it’s Toxicodendron Diversilobum (poison oaks real name).

 By Eeekster (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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February 1

Bring back the chocolate milk

Two whole years ago our school banned chocolate milk because it was unhealthy but I know something that might bring it back to our school. Chocolate milk can be healthy. Kids really like chocolate milk so they’ll drink it and many kids are tired of getting just plain old milk. Kids will buy chocolate milk so the school will earn money. These are some of the reasons I think our school should bring back chocolate milk.Chocolate milk can be healthy you know. For example TruMoo chocolate milk is healthier than Hershey’s chocolate milk, Horizon chocolate milk, and even Silk chocolate soymilk. TruMoo chocolate milk is healthy because it has less sugar, it has less calories, there is no artificial sweeteners, there is no extra fat. Now that sounds like a healthy drink to me.

Guess what? Chocolate milk can get the school more money. Do you know how? Well two years ago when our school banned chocolate milk kids stopped buying school lunch because there was no chocolate milk, and guess what while the school had chocolate milk kids were taking two chocolate milks because they liked it so much. To stop kids from doing that I  consider that whenever you see a kid doing that tell them that they can’t take two chocolate milks and tell them that taking two chocolate milks is why the school banned chocolate milk in the first place. But guess what? Maybe even more kids will buy school lunch because of the chocolate milk.

Did you know that bringing back chocolate milk will influence kids to drink milk? Well it probably will. Even though its chocolate milk it’s still milk and it still provides you with vitamins and calcium. So it’s a tasty lunch while you are still getting the Vitamins and Calcium.

This has been why I want the school to bring back chocolate milk and I really hope you agree with me and try to bring back chocolate milk.

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February 1

Alcohol is bad for you

Cosa NeraAlcohol can be bad for you in many ways. Your brain, heart, and many other parts of your body are changed with the alcohol. Next I will tell you how the body changes.

The alcohol affects the brain. The brain functions slower when you drink too much, as well as not being able to walk normal. Instead of talking you slur. It causes mixed messages to your brain, which will cause serious damage.

This is how it affects your heart and liver. The heart rate speeds up, and you get low blood pressure. You have a higher chance of having a stroke. The alcohol is processed in the liver.Over time it can cause a fatty liver (abundance of fat.)

Alcohol can change our behavior if we drink too much. When your behavior changes you either become tired, aggressive, and hyper. Also people do things that they would not do if you had not have drank that much, like giving everyone a hug or wanting to fight.

I feel alcohol is not worth the side effects that control your body. I don’t feel safe around people that drink a lot of alcohol. Now that I have told you about what it can do go help me make a difference.

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