My interview with Lindsay

Questions
1. Do you play any sports? What kinds?
I do Dance and Karate.

2. How many hours a week do you spend doing these sports?
I do dance for one and a half hours and Karate for one hour.

3. What is your favorite sport to play?
My favorite sport to play is baseball.

4. Are you in a program or do you play with your friends?
I am in a program.

5. What are your hobbies?
My hobbies are dancing, singing and acting.

6. When did you start doing dance?
When I was two years old.

7. When did you start doing singing?
When I was two years old.

8. Did you play any sports in the past? What sports?
I played baseball and soccer.

9. If you stopped why?
Because I got bored of playing them.

10. What sports/hobbies do you think you will keep doing/playing?
I think I will keep doing dance and karate.

11. If you could go back what would you like to have started at a young age?
I would have liked to done gymnastics.



Summary
Today I interviewed Lindsay Grasso. I asked her eleven questions about her extracurricular life past and present. I learnt a lot about Lindsay that I had never known about her.

Lindsay started dancing and singing at a very young age, when she was only two years old. She wishes she had started doing gymnastics when she was younger. Currently Lindsay participates in two sports, she does dance and karate. She does both of these sports in programs at the Jewish Community Center. She dances for one and a half hours and does karate for one hour each week.

I already knew that Lindsay was a dancer because Lindsay and I are in the same Jazz dance class – and we’ve been in the same dance classes before at the JCC. She’s a great dancer!

When I asked Lindsay what her hobbies were, she said dancing, singing and acting. She’s obviously done lots of interesting extra curricular activities and still is.

Sari Pullan 6B

National Council of Jewish Women

The NCJW is an organization that does many programs that help people such as: books for kids, operation dress up, wellness program, kosher meals on wheels, Jewish book fair and many more. I am personally volunteering for books for kids.
Books for kids is a program that collects used books that are in good condition. It gives them to kids in schools who don’t have enough money to buy their own books.
I chose this organization because it is a really good cause. In our class we get to read for 25 minutes each day and I think it must be really horrible for kids not to have books to read. I also chose this program because I can really connect to it because the children who I am giving the books to are my age.
Kids can support this organization by donating books they no longer read. They can also put their time and effort into volunteering to help sort and deliver the books to the schools in need. They can also help by raising awareness about this program.

Adam S.

Homework

Thanks to all parents and students who brought in the permission forms for my study.


Spelling charts due tomorrow.
T.O. project plans due Wed.

Questions
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1. Did you do any activities when you were younger? I did soccer and gymnastics.

2. Do you do any activities now? I do ice hockey and I go to the gym and do a fitness class.

3. How many hours a week do you do your activities? I do fitness classes for one hour a week and hockey for 8 hours a week.

4. Do you have any siblings that do the same activities as you? No I have a sister that does dance.

5. Do your parents do any of the same activities as you? No my mom is training for a marathon.

6. What it your favorite sport to play? My favorite sport to play is ice hockey.

7. Were do you do your activities? I do fitness at the JCC and ice hockey at UBC rink.

8. Do you want to do any new activities next year? Yes I do I would like to do karate.

9. Would you want to stop any of the activities that you do? No I would not want to stop any of the activities I do because I love them all.

10. If you could do it differently what activity would you have started when you were younger? I would have started ice hockey earlier.

Summary

I found this project very interesting. What I found out was that girls and boys in our class do very different activities, for instance my favorite activity is cheerleading and Max’s favorite activity is ice hockey. There are not many similarities between cheerleading and ice hockey. The one similarity that I did find is that we both enjoy playing team sports. I think that is because team sports are more social than if you are doing a sport by yourself. Something else I found out is that Max and his mom do more of the same activities than Max and his sister. Max does fitness classes and ice hockey. His mom also does fitness classes but his sister only does dance.

In this project we learned many things about each others’ after school activities. One thing I noticed was when the question came up about if you could have done it all over again what activities would you have started when you were younger, Max and I both chose our favorite sport that we love doing now. I think that is because we thought that if we started in that sport earlier then we would be better at it now.
Another thing I have noticed by doing this project is that Max uses most of his time playing ice hockey, and he really enjoys it. That is a really good thing because when you are doing a sport many hours a week like Max, it is good for you to you love that sport so much or you will be wasting your time with something that is not so fun for you to do. Galia Horwitz 6B

Interview Paragraph (6B)

Today I interviewed Mr. Benny Freedman about his extracurricular activities. I found out about Benny’s past and present (private) life. (Just kidding!!!). We had an intriguing conversation about after school activates.

I found out that Benoit not only likes sports, sports and more sports, but also music (especially guitar).

Benny started playing baseball at the (extremely young) age of 3 (except he was playing T-ball) and has been improving his game (pitching and al). And since then, it quickly became his favorite sport (main reason because it is a strategic game). He plays it 4 times a week (no wonder he gets injured a lot).

If Benny could, he would have gone back in time and have changed his decision to ice hockey (because his parents won’t let him play it now).

Also, I learned that Benny’s favorite hobby is sports. He has been playing sports for as long as he can remember.

Everyday he has a sport (no time for homework?). If Benny could, he would have wanted to change his favorite hobby to guitar, because he would have more practice than he has now.

Interview Summary By: Bram Samuels

Hi, my name is Bram Samuels. I was interviewing Adam Cohen. The goal of this interview was to find out about the person you were interviewing’s extracurricular life. I asked 10 questions and came up with this info that I’m about to present. A thank you too Adam Cohen for letting me interview him.
In the past Adam has participated in basketball, field hockey, ice hockey, skating, and piano. One thing Adam wished to continue was piano. He continued with soccer, drums, and basketball though. Adam’s previous extracurricular life has shown he loves sports. Out of all his past activities, soccer is his favorite.
Currently Adam plays drums, soccer, and has Bar Mitzvah lessons. He averages having 7.5 hours of activities a week. Currently his favorite sport is soccer. He has activities daily. His Bar Mitzvah lessons are 1 and a ½ hours long.
Adam’s extracurricular life is exciting, busy, and fun.
Once again, a big thanks too Adam for letting me interview him.

-Bram S. 6B

Danny's Summary

Summary
My name is Danny Greenberg, and today I interviewed Taya Polo. I learned a lot about her from before she was living in Vancouver and from in the present. When she was young she decided to play soccer at age five because she saw her sister playing it and wanted to too. Then at age seven she started to take lessons. When Taya was four years old she was inspired to do gymnastics because she saw people performing it on the TV and she really liked it.

When Taya was eight years old, she moved from Edmonton to Vancouver, and decided to stop playing soccer. Last year she stopped doing gymnastics and took up non-competitive dance. Most of the people in her dance class were nice and cooperative, but some were mean and not fun. Her activities take place for the whole year except in the summer. Taya also wants do to the yoga classes at the school.

Taya is planning to do all of her activities again next year and might start one or two more. If she could change anything about her past in extracurricular activities, she would have kept with gymnastics and that she started the yoga classes in grade five.

Danny Greenberg 6B

Interview Summary

Interview Summary

Today I interviewed Jacob K. It was very interesting to learn about what he does outside of school. In Jacob’s free time he enjoys playing hockey, soccer, basketball, football and he also enjoys martial arts and playing the guitar. Jacob does each of these activities once a week and states that every week he learns how to improve his skills.

In the past Jacob was enrolled in swimming lessons, hockey and soccer. Jacob no longer does swimming lessons because he had already learned how to swim independently. Jacob still enjoys in participating in hockey and soccer weekly.

In the beginning of these paragraphs I mentioned that Jacob was enrolled in Hockey, Soccer, Basketball, Football, martial arts and playing the guitar. These are not only his extracurricular activities they are his hobbies as well. Although he enjoys all of his hobbies his favorite one is hockey because it involves constant movement. Jacob had trouble choosing which hobby he was best at so he decided to choose two, which are martial arts and hockey.

The last question I asked Jacob was “If you could go back in time what would you want to be enrolled in”. Jacob answered guitar so that he could progress more when he was older. Overall it sounds like Jacob has a lot of fun during his free time.

-Aviva G. 6A

Marc Levin’s Summary for Our Practice Interview

Marc Levin’s Summary for Our Practice Interview

In my practice interview I interviewed Mikaela Ergas-Lenett about her past and present extracurricular life. Just to reflect for a bit, I found it very interesting to interview a girl because I got to see what little girls where doing at a young age.

When Mikaela was younger she was doing ballet, tap, drawing,. Sadly, now she is doing only drawing. Because of a major increase of homework over the past years Mikaela has had less time to do extracurricular activities.

Even though Mikaela didn’t pursue the majority of her child activities, she is doing different ones, like, cheerleading, hip hop, jazz, lyrical, drawing and acting, because she wanted a change in her activities.

If Mikaela could go back in time she would have kept on going with ballet, because it would have helped her with her dances that she is doing today. Also if she could have started an activity earlier it would have been cheerleading.

Marc Levin 6A