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Why Should Students Blog?

From Mary Kruel, a teacher widely known for her online classroom work:

I think that the biggest advantage to blogs is that they provide an authentic audience for student writing and work in general. In the past the teacher was usually the only person who read student work. With a blog, student work can be read by classmates, parents, extended family members, school community members, project partners, classroom teachers, pre-service teachers, and anyone around the world who locates the class blog. (Personal correspondence, December 2008)

Washing Dishes

by Lizeth

The job that I hate the most is washing the dishes it is gross. It is gross because sometimes the dishes have left over food then you have to scrape it off. The dishes also smell gross. Doing the dishes is the most boring chore you just stand there washing the dishes. Sometimes I try to get out of doing the dishes by saying my stomach hurts or I try to get my sister to do it if she doesn’t want to wash them for free I try to ask her if she wants money to do the dishes.

Worst Job

The treacherous job of... cleaning the cooler!

by Shane

I’ve had plenty of bad jobs, for example I scoop the dog’s poop as a daily chore but no job will be worst then when I had to clean out cooler. Every year we close up the cooler for the winter and have to clean it out before we use it. Last year I had to clean it out me for spring break the moment in opened it up dried pigeon poop went every where. I had to take off all 4 cooler pads get them off the roof, without dropping them, and wash them. It took, at lest, a half hour for each pad to be clean and to dry. Then came the hard part, I had to dared each 40 pound cooling pad up the ladder, the catch with one hand. With that done, 20 minutes later, I realized I had forgotten to clean the main part of the cooler! It to me anther 4 hours to clean out the main part of the cooler and when your afraid of heights it is so not cool! Finally I got it to work with a lot of luck and a lot of duck tape. I partially shoved everything of the roof and went down the ladder so fast my sister commented that she never saw me go down a ladder so fast. All in all it took me 6 hours to complete. It was some of the worst hour of my life!

Cleaning My Room

by Shawni

The job that I dislike the most is cleaning my room. This job takes a long time to do and is boring. I always have to clean my room because my mom freaks out. If I don’t clean it she’ll yell me just get mad. Once I get tired of the yelling I start to clean.

When I clean I get really bored so I hate doing it. I always have to have a friend over or watch television. My room is always so messy so it’s even worse. It seems like it takes forever but its not that bad.

Once I strip my sheets and put them in the washer I can take a brake. Then I switch them to the drier and get back to work. Once everything is in its place I make my bed and I’m finally done.

It feels good to have it clean and my mom is happy. After it’s cleaned I try to keep it that way.

10 minutes

by Chelsea

5/29/09---

I think the hardest thing I have ever had to do is write a speech that is ten minutes long. It’s called a Valedictorian Speech and I have to write one because I have the highest grades in the class. It needs to be about my class and our motto and tie into our education, future, and what we hope we can accomplish.

I knew that I would have to be Valedictorian and write that speech because Paul got a B+ in English at the beginning of the year. All because of a book report that he didn’t turn in. I’ve been writing this speech for about two weeks and I’m almost finished. You’d think that I’d have a lot of pages written because it’s about people that I have spent eight years of my life with but it really isn’t. I went for three whole hours of trying to work on it but never being able to write anything I liked. I was so mad that I was going to go talk to Hubbard and tell him that I refused to be Valedictorian. But then my mom came in and asked me how much I had done. I showed her a blank page.

My mom started asking me questions like what I was going to write about and stuff that had happened to my class that had to do with the speech. I told her what I was thinking and she said I should write that down. She left and I thought about it for a while when I realized she was right. It was much easier to write from then on but I would still get stuck once-and-a-while.
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6/2/09---

I finished my speech last night and just read it to Mr. Hubbard. He thought it was pretty good and said it had a lot of excellent material. He also said he liked the way I opened my speech by talking about our decisions affecting our future. He said all the stuff in my speech was true and that he really liked it. The biggest thing he had to say though isn’t so good; he said that if my theme (thesis) was my class motto (which it is) then I would have to do some changing around to make that really clear because at this point it’s not very clear.
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6/3/09

Last night I started fixing up my speech because he wanted all my changes to be done by Thursday. I’m doing pretty good but I still have some questions.

My Worst Job

by Paul

Cutting tiles for the new remodeled bathroom

My dad assigned me to cut tiles with a tile cutter and I’m thinking that it would be easy. It ended up that when I cut it I had to break it also. I still thought it would be easy, but when I tried to break it would break crooked or break it in half where I didn’t want it too. Then since it did that I would have to cut it with a table saw and that was hard because sparks would be flying and it took a long time to cut it all the way. I also only had about 2 hours to cut all the tiles. Then I put it in it would be too big. Then I realized when we had extra tiles when I messed up I’d try to do it again with a different tile, but it kept messing up. I was getting really mad then my mom decided that we just put a messed up piece on anyway. Then when the 2 hours were almost out a piece was too small, but we put it up anyway. Now I get to look at my crooked piece right next to the bathroom window. It was hard and the chore that I most disliked and am hopeful that I will never do that again.

Chore

by Reenie

The chore I get most frustrated with is cleaning my room. The reason why I don’t like cleaning my room is because usually it takes 1 hour to make the bed. When I make my bed I have to spray Febreeze on it so it smells good or I have to change the sheets. I also have to organize my desk. I hate organizing my desk because it usually is messy. Another one of my chores is I have to put my clean clothes away in my closet. My mom used to do that for me but then she decided we have to do it. I also have to organize my closet. When I organize my closet I am so bored. It’s the most annoying part of the chore. Then the last part of cleaning my room is vacuuming. I hate vacuuming also because I have to move furniture around and then put it back and the sound is plain annoying. Cleaning my room is the most annoying and frustrating chore I have to do.

Raking Leaves

by Horacio

The worst job I ever had was when I had to rake all the leaves on the yard. I hate doing that because I had to be out in the sun instead of watching TV. I also have to put the leaves in trash bags. Then I have to throw it away and carry these huge bags of leaves to the trash cans. That is why I hate to rake leaves.

My Hardest Job

by Greg

I think the hardest thing to do is babysitting my brothers because I have to make sure everything is alright at all times. Like if my brothers are fighting I have to make them stop, or I have to change the T.V channel for my baby brother. There is a lot of things I have to do that it’s hard trying to list them all but the one ting I can’t stand the most is making dinner for my them. I can’t stand it because Brad eats like 5 times more then the normal man eats, Nick eats like 5 times less then the normal kid eats, and I need to make just enough food for all of us. Also I’m the one who has to clean up after dinner too like put the food away if there is any left, do the dishes, and sweep the floor. But after the night I kind of feel good because I’m made it through the day and no one got or anything and I think it makes me a better person because I did it. And that’s why babysitting is the hardest job.

Poor Bryan!

by Bryan

Sometimes when my mom leaves for a few days I need to keep the house in shape. I need to walk the dog and make sure they stay in the house because they like to run off. They also like to get in the trash so I need to keep them away from it. When she leaves my friends come over and help me make a mess around the house and my mom hates it when my house is dirty when she comes home. So I do the dishes and keep the living room clean.

Sometimes she will leave me with some stuff to do for her like leave a check for someone or wait for someone to come by the house so I need to stay home. But the cool thing about her being gone is that I can play music as loud as I want.

Washing Dishes

by Amanda

OH MY GOD, WASHING DISHES IS ONE OF MY MOST BORING CHORE! When I wash dishes I just stand there and look at the boring dishes, soap, and water. Sometimes I feel like I can just stand their and die of boringness! One time I stood in front of the sink and I was gazing out the window and I forgot that the water was still on. I usually do dishes at least once every week and I can’t stand it!

I try to get my sister to do dishes too but, she says,” NO! DO IT BY YOURSELF!!” First, I usually clean out the sink with Comet. Next, I fill the left side of the sink with water and Dawn soap. Last, I put as much dishes as I can in the sink full of water and soap. Then the boring work starts! When I wash dishes I also dry them and put them away. All done!

The Job That Is the Hardest For Me Is Walking the Pigs

by Molly

When I have to walk my pigs it is so hard for me. Having to chase them around and then trying to make them lose weight or practice showmanship with them running around. I know you are all thinking well that is not hard well it is for me because I have no stamina. So when I do the pigs I pretend that I’m not felling good. Even though I do it4 months out of the year every year it is really tier for me.

So I will explain what you have to do when I do it. I ride my quad to my auntie’s house I go to the barn and I get the pigs up have them get some food and water before the run walk. I have to open the gate and get them out of their house because the pigs like their nice cool house. Once they are out the pigs go strait to the MUD! The nice mud the always messy item to be with the pig so you have to try to get them out and that could take a while. Once you get your pigs out you want to keep them running for about an hour and keep them out of the mud.

So after you walk them or run them you can give the pigs a break let them lay in the mud or water whatever they want. After you did your little running let them back in feed them and say goodnight to them. I gave you the routine that I do some things are hard and some are easy I hope you like my summary now I have to play in the MUD!

The Hardest Chore

by Marissa

The one chore I dread the most is washing dishes. I hate doing dishes, because they are extremely boring and a little disgusting. One main reason doing dishes is boring, is that you are just standing at a sink washing plates, cups, bowls, and cutlery. There really is no other movement to do which make the entire job very tedious. Though other chores aren’t very fun either, at least there is actually movement besides washing and drying. I also really do not like washing dishes because of how disgusting it is. When you are washing dishes you are pretty much just sticking your hand in water that has chunks of old food in it. And, if you do not have gloves to wear when you are doing dishes your hands might discover some very gross things inside the dirty dishwater. When I do dishes I really can’t think about what I am putting my hands in, I just do them absent mindedly. Also, when I do dishes I often will listen to music to make the time go by faster. Overall, though washing dishes isn’t the chore of my choice, I often can make it go by quick and make it seem a little funner.

Hard Chores! (Chores That Are Hard)

by Genesee

One of the hardest chores to me is cleaning the bathroom. I hate cleaning the bathroom because it is boring, time consuming and some parts of it are hard. The first thing I have to do is sweep and spray tile-x. Then I mop the floor. After mopping the floor it is time to scrub the toilet. While I scrub the toilet I feel sort of disgusted because I think of all the people who have been on the seat and all the things that have fallen on in the toilet. The next part is simple. All I have to do is wipe down the sink with comet and water. Then I do these in whatever order I feel like it. I have to clean the mirrors, refill the dispensers, change towels, and make sure there is extra toilet paper. One of the worst parts is scrubbing the shower because the stains are hard to get off the ground, and then when you rinse the shower all the dirt doesn’t come go into the drain. That part is frustrating, but the most frustrating part is cleaning up all the hair. The hairs won’t come of anything and if you sweep it out in the beginning it’ll come back while you’re mopping. Then the hair gets wet and it’s hard to get off of the toilet and floor. This is really, really, really frustrating. This whole process takes about an hour. The whole time I’m wishing that I could do other chores. I also feel like going to sleep. I guess the reason I picked this one above the others is because it is frustrating, boring, and time consuming.

Let's Clean Up

by Ginger Girl

Once upon a time there was a girl named Autumn. Now Autumn had 2 lambs and her sister Allie had one. Every day they had to take the lambs on a walk. One blazing day the girls’ parents were not feeling well. The girls decided to take there brother and their lambs for a walk. They went down past their house, past the mailbox, past the speed sign and almost to the creek. By this time the girls were very thirsty so they voted and decided to go back to the animal pens. After putting away the lambs the girls went inside to wash their hands. Well their mother wasn’t expecting them back yet so she got mad and said that they hadn’t even gone past the mailbox and it wasn’t long enough. After her outburst their mother decided that the girls should take better care of there animals. So the girls cleaned the excrement out of the pens, Bleached the water buckets. And washed the lambs when they were done the lambs were much happier.

Hard Chores

by Jessie

There are a lot of hard chores to do around the house. But, one of the hardest chores I have to do is give the dogs a bath. The reason this chore is so difficult is because the dogs don’t enjoy bathes. My two dogs, Max and Sam, will do anything they can to keep the cold water off of them. I have to tie my dogs to a poll and hold them in one spot when I try to give them a bath. Sam has to be held by someone else while I shampoo her and rinse her off. Then, when I’m done rinsing her off, she shakes off on everything and rubs all over the furniture. When she does that, everything gets wet, hairy, and starts to smell like wet dog. Next to puppy breath, wet dog is the worst smell that comes from a dog (farts and the smell of poop only lasts a few minutes).

Babysitting

By Danielle

The most difficult job I’ve had to do will probably be baby-sitting. I had to take care of two kids. The girl was 4 years old and the boy was 2 years old. Their names are Danny and Chochi. Their mom Fabiola was going somewhere with my mom so that’s where I had to baby-sit them.

The first thing I did with them was watch kid movies. They wanted to watch Winnie the Pooh. During the movie they wanted soda and popcorn. I got irritated and started to think “I can’t take this anymore”. Then my mom called me and said “Danielle, Fabiola just told me she was going to pay me $30 for baby-sitting. Then I thought $30 is worth it.

After the movie was done they were hungry. I asked them what they wanted Danny said “cereal” and Chochi said “Soup”. So I made her soup and gave Danny Cookie Crisp Cereal. They were full after that.

After they had dinner they started watching cartoons. They were watching Dora the Explorer and Spongebob Squarepants. They were starting to get tired so I got them blankets and made them a little bed so they can be comfortable watching TV.

At last, they finally fell asleep. I was so relieved and tired myself. Once their mom got home she gave me $30 and I took them and said thank you. That was the hardest job I did.