Strawberry Kiwi

The vending machine at our school has a drink in it called Strawberry Kiwi, made by Dole. It is probably the most popular drink in the vending machine. It is very delicious and many of the students enjoy it. I think they should put more then just one row because it becomes sold out so fast. It is always the first drink sold out, then some others are barely ever purchased. More people would buy drinks if they had more delicious drinks like strawberry kiwi.

Strawberry Kiwi is not only delicious. It is made with real fruit, and provides you with 125% of your daily value of vitamin C. Vitamin C prevents cancer and other harmful germs. Strawberry is such a refreshing drink to have if you’re hot after recess or gym class. Who wouldn’t enjoy this cancer preventing, refreshing, drink?

I have always enjoyed this delicious drink, and anyone who hasn't tried it, needs to go buy one right now.

In conclusion, Dole makes many other fruit drinks that are healthy and taste great. In my opinion, even if none of them are as good as strawberry kiwi, they should include other juices in the vending machine.

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Blogs

At the beginning of October, I published my first blog post. It was a write up I did about poverty. Ever since October, I have written up different blogs for LA. It is a weekly assignment, and we have one class to work on it before its homework. I’ve had different opinions on blogs since October.

My first couple blog posts I got marks that I didn’t like. I think for the first 5 or 6 posts, I got the exact same mark. However, I thought blogs were fun because I could say how I felt about a certain topic. I think that blogs were good for showing me how working harder improves my grade. I liked to see that when I worked hard it pays off.

Recently I haven’t thought of any good things to write about, so I don’t do very much in class. That leads to homework or getting a zero. Even though I don’t like blogs anymore, I think they are a good idea for teachers to do. They make students practice writing proper paragraphs, and I think they make starting essays easier. Blogs are supposed to be 2-3 paragraphs, and essays are supposed to be 5. It isn’t a big difference in length, and what you write about is the same.

After half a year of writing blogs, I think I will be prepared for high school essays, and writing assignments in general. Blogs have been a good use of class time, and they have taught me a lot. I hope that teachers still use blogs for grade 8 students, instead of one speech, or one essay a year.

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Middle School Track and Field Day

This Friday is the annual Middle School's Track and Field Day. Everyone in middle school goes to a different school to do track and field events. It is a friendly competition that people are strongly encouraged to try. However, there are different opinions if we should have this day, and whether people want to go or not.

I've been to 2 track and field days before the one this Friday. If you come in the top 5 for an event, you get a ribbon. I think this is a great way to encourage people to get more active and try doing more sports. If we get interested in track and field events we could get more kids in shape instead of sitting on the couch watching t.v.

I never liked track and field very much. I've always rather played a sport with more then just running or jumping. Track and field has different events if someone is better at throwing or jumping instead of running, but they mainly focus on one thing. I would like track and field day more if they put in other sports too. It's called track and field day for a reason, but would it hurt to add some other sport in on the side too?

In other track and field days, we have divided at the end of the day into our houses to work together in a basic obstacle course. In grade 6 I didn't like it because I was slower then most of the grade 7's and 8's. It’s a good idea though, because the people who didn’t win in the individual events can win in their house.