Thursday, March 5, 2009

March Essay Writing Contest


Intro:Water splashing in your face, kids screaming, running, knowing they are free to go anywhere without getting into any trouble. Tubes shooting down the slides. Screams shooting down right after them. Little kids hopping across the lily pads trying not to get wet. The giant waves of the wave pool making the kids in tubes drift away back onto land just to make those kids try to get back into the water just to be drifted back out again. Then finally, the howling of the tornado comes as people scream for there very lives then the tornado swallows them whole and spits them back out 5 seconds later. It’s like a kid not eating his vegetables at dinner.

Three Things:One of the greatest places that I’ve ever been was the Grand Mound Great Wolf Lodge. Three things I’m going to talk about is the water park, a game there called MagiQuest, and just the hotel itself.

Body Paragraph 1:The water park was an amazing experience at the great wolf lodge. Dozens of rides for kids of any age. There was a kiddie pool for the kids. A giant water playset for the older kids. Finally the water slides for adults and teens and those few daredevil, try anything kids. Oh yeah I can’t forget the wave pool. So first, the kiddie pool was fun for me and it’s a kiddie pool. It was great for kids under the age of 5 and adults over the age of 60. Anyway, there were two slides there for the kids. One was in the shape of like a ship and the other had just a regular slide, so all in all it was good for kids. But, they also had these water guns coming out of a jetski or something like that. Next, the bigger water park for kids over the age of 8 was a pretty cool one. At the very tippy top was a bucket that holds up to 140 gallons of water and it dumps the entire bucket every 5 minutes. That’s a lot of water. As you scale this house like water castle, you’ll find tons of buckets full of water to dump on people, ropes to pull to dump water on people, and there you’ll find two water slides, a red and a yellow one. These water slides made you go pretty fast to. If you were in the right position. Next, there were these lily pads that floated in the water with a rope net above you and all you have to do is make it from one side to the other. Finally, the howling tornado, the grand daddy of them all the howling tornado. Imagine sliding down the belly of a beast then being spat out into a pool of water. The howling tornado is the biggest attraction of the great wolf lodge. Now that i'm done with my water fun its time to talk about a game there called MagiQuest.

Body Paragraph 2:MagiQuest is a game that takes you around the first five stories of the hotel. On the stairway you'll find talking treasure chests, talking animals, magical pictures and many more mythical objects. What you do to play is you go to the MagiQuest shop and get a magic wand that activates the magical objects. After you have your wsand you go to a talking tree, there you'll learn how to play the game. As you go through the hotel you are put on quest's such as the great wolf quest, the dragon adventure and you go find magical runes that get you points during the game. The whole point of the game is to complete all the quests, adventures and find all the runes. As you find these runes or master these quests and adventures you level up from student magi to Master Magi which is the highest rank in the game. This is just a game you can do just to keep yourself occupied while your at the Great Wolf Lodge. This is what the game MagiQuest is all about.The game is like a magical wonderland of action and adventure. Now I'll talk about the hotel itself.

Body Paragraph 3:The hotel is amazing place filled with many animals. The hotel was like a forest filled with tiny little critter's.It has many different stores, food, and rooms. One of the stores is the gift shop. The gift shop's carries many different items from fake pooping wolves to shirts and sweatshirts. Where you get breakfast and dinner is The Loose Moose Cottage. The eatery is as good as american apple pie. Having French toast for breakfast and Cheeseburgers for dinner was a great taste of savory flavors in every bite. Finally, our room that we got was the Kids Kabin(thats how the spell it at the Great Wolf Lodge) had many drawings on the walls, little animals crawling out of the walls, comfy beds and TV of course. P.S. the animals are painted too. The biggest room out of all the rooms is the Wolf Den. I snuck my head in an empty one and it had two bedrooms, two bathes and a kitchen. It was like and apartment room.

Conclusion:Well I hope you enjoyed hearing about the Great Wolf Lodge as much as I liked telling you about it. The Great Wolf Lodge is a great place for families and friends to go visit. By the way, if you go water park first no matter what.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

08 Soccer Season


COLLIN FEWKES
08 SOCCER SEASON
PER 1
2-4-09

Body Paragraph 1:
The season was underway once the ref blew that whistle my season kicked ff as we dribbled the ball down field. Martin took it up field, passed to Giovanni, passed across field to me. I passed it back to Martin. Martin took the shot but the goalie stopped the ball. We were disappointed but we had to keep our head in the game or else it would be all down hill from there. After they tried to score we got the ball back and we were going to score. Martin juked left and right as he brought the ball to Mid Field. Passed it to me as I took the ball to the goal I instantly passed the ball to Martin and the goalie. That was the First goal of the season and it’s never felt so good.

Body Paragraph 2:
All the players on the team were amazing. Even though I don’t remember all the players’ names. Let’s see, Martin was Mid, Giovanni was Left-Mid, I was Right-Mid/Forward, Anthony was Goalie, and that’s all I could remember. But we had the best coach you could ever have, even though he’s tough, that’s what helped us win all our games. And we had some assistant coaches but no one knew their name.

Body Paragraph 3:
The last game was the worst because we only played one team that entire season which was only three games. Today was the third game and it was time to score as much as we possibly could so we were on top of our game. There were so many shots on goal, passes. Assist’s, blocks, steals. Finally, the end of the game came around, the final score 8-0 us. We owned you could say, but we were bummed that it was the end of a great season.

Topic Sentence:
This essay is all about my entire 09 Soccer Season.

Conclusion:
My 09 soccer season was so amazingly awesome I didn't want it to end. I was amazed to see how well we played as a team, it was like we were all one player because we never allowed a goal that entire season I we were ready for more games, but sadly we had no games left and that was pretty much it from there. The season was amazing, so were the players, the coaches, the fans. the victory. That's why I never wanted that season to end

Friday, January 16, 2009

Visualizations 5/5




R:I had to visualiations from my book Mr. Toads Mad Adventure
Q:"Oh so many lovely boats floating on the water.How pretty, how charming,who can think about cleaning on a day like this".
S:(Mr.Toads Mad Adventure,pg 1)


C1:Mole is staring out to the river thinking when he suddenly see's his friends Rat and Badger come.


C2:I pictured Mole on a deck while the moon is glistening off the river and you see the shiny reflection in the tree's




Q:"Now we've done it.Out at at night in the Wild Wood.We stayed ti long at the Mud turtles birthday party."


S:(Mr Toads Mad Adventure,pg 6)


C1:The little fiwld mice have over stayed their welcome,now they're all alone in the Wild Wood until the little weasels came along.


C2:I imagine dark and scary woods at night with spooky trees, bats, night owls and the menacing weasles.

Harry Potter:Half Blood Prince


Harry is in his 6th adventure and in a lot of trouble.Voldemort wants his revenge on Harry for stopping him in the first place. With the help of Dumbledor, Professors and Friends, Harry will have to train harder then ever if he wants to defeat the man who took away his family and who has killed many more people. So harry is in search of the Half-Blooded Prince and if he finds items to protect himself he wii then have the tools he needs to defeat Voldemort. There is a twist in this book however, a death you would say. Yes a death about a very important person in the story, so here's who it is......................... Just kidding. Pick up the book and find out.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows


In the 7th book of J.K Rowlings famous series Harry Potter, this book is definetly a great book full of twists and turns, ups and downs, left and rights. Harry is back at Hogwarts and so is Voldemort but with Dumbledore gone and no one to teach Harry, he will have to rely on his brains, skill, and the help of friends. This book is perfect for anyone who loves fantasy, romance and action. Also, there is one big part in the story. BUT I'M NOT TELLING. So pick up this book if your in for a good story.

Garfield 5th Treasury


Garfield is in his 5th treasury of greatness. Witness all the past comic strip as Nermal Visits, Odie falls, garfield makes a face out of eggs and bacon on Jon and Just enjoy that friendly scale of his. Garfield has had lots of comic strips over the years and since this is his 5th look over all of his comic strips that span from the 1990's to the 2000's. Enjoy this fat cat mania.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Garfield Blots out the Sun


This fat cat is back in action getting ready to cause more havok and mayham. Jon and Odie have to deal with it because Garfield will rip their eyes out if they don't so not so lucky for Jon and Odie. In these adventures Garfield does all of the following: Kicks Odie, tortures Nermal, tries to eat a bird and gets beatin up. So you better watch out for blackouts probably because Garfields blocking the Sun.