The main purpose of the farm is to keep and re-create existing farm and forest lands at the University of British Columbia into an internationally important center for agriculture, forestry and food systems that can be self sufficient.
I chose this organization because I think it is important to keep our earth, living and healthy. I also enjoy getting dirty, using my hands and working hard.
Young people like me can support U.B.C. Farms by going there and either planting and/or picking the crops rather than just donating money. This is how the organization builds a strong, local community.
I can make a difference, by proving that doing helpful deeds can make the world a more enriched and healthy place to live.
The class may be interested to know, that every Saturday from June 4th to September 24th, between 9am and 1pm the U.B.C. Farm holds a market where one can buy 60 different types of produce that has been grown on their land.
Marc L. 6A
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
U.B.C. Farm at the University of British Columbia
Matt&Noah's Tikkun Olam Summery
Matthew and Noah chose Special Olympics because it is a world wide organization made to help people with intellectual disabilities create self-confidence, social skills and makes them feel proud from their personal accomplishments. On top of their daily activities, Special Olympics host the Special Olympics World Games every four years. More than 2.5 million athletes of all ages participate in Special Olympics sports training and compete in more than 180 different countries. The organization offers a whole year of training and competitions in 30 Olympic summer and winter sports.
Special Olympics cause is to help people with disabilities participate in world wide games. Special Olympics enrich people with disabilities to have the experience of participating in sports. This organization allows individuals to compete with people that are like them. They get the chance to feel the emotions of winning, losing and to compete, which probably is a new experience for them. Noah and Matt are going to interview one of the athletes and get to tell you the experience of a real athlete in the Special Olympics.
Matthew and Noah wanted to experience what its like to help people different from us using our sports skills. So we found the Special Olympics organization. Matthew and I thought this was a very powerful organization that we can relate to (sports wise). Matthew and I wanted to choose an organization that we could physically meet and help the people we are helping, and that is why we chose the Special Olympics organization.
Matthew and Noah are not giving money we are going to physically help and get to play with these athletes that aren’t like us. Noah and I are going to have a great time participating and meeting these people. We are excited to get involved in this organization and leave wit a new experience. We are looking forward to helping these people in this organization.
By: Matthew & Noah 6A
Hey Mr. G this is Sari and Galia's tikkon olam project.
The Lipstick Brigade
I wash my hair every day, I clean my body every day and I brush my teeth every day twice a day. Imagine not being able to wash your hair, to clean your body or even to brush your teeth. You might not realize it but in this world there are people who can’t afford these simple cosmetics. The organization I am participating in is called The Lipstick Brigade. The Lipstick Brigade collects cosmetics and donates them to homeless shelters. People can go to the homeless shelter and use the cosmetics, feel good and not be ashamed about the way they look, or unhappy about the way they feel.
I chose this organization because whenever I brush my hair in the morning with a simple brush I feel good about myself and ready for the new day. When I heard about how some people can’t afford simple brushes like mine I didn’t think it was fair because I think it is important for everyone to be able to have personal hygiene. That is why I decided to help out with the Lipstick Brigade.
Young people can help the Lipstick Brigade, by volunteering their time, not by raising money. Two examples of giving their time are: They can help organize, package and distribute the cosmetics donated by other people. They can also help by spreading the word to friends and family, asking them that when they go away to a hotel to bring back the little bottles of shampoo, soap and conditioner. There are many other ways kids can help the Lipstick Brigade. All it takes is a little creative thinking and a few hours.
Galia Horwitz+Sari pullan 6B
The Lipstick Brigade
I wash my hair every day, I clean my body every day and I brush my teeth every day twice a day. Imagine not being able to wash your hair, to clean your body or even to brush your teeth. You might not realize it but in this world there are people who can’t afford these simple cosmetics. The organization I am participating in is called The Lipstick Brigade. The Lipstick Brigade collects cosmetics and donates them to homeless shelters. People can go to the homeless shelter and use the cosmetics, feel good and not be ashamed about the way they look, or unhappy about the way they feel.
I chose this organization because whenever I brush my hair in the morning with a simple brush I feel good about myself and ready for the new day. When I heard about how some people can’t afford simple brushes like mine I didn’t think it was fair because I think it is important for everyone to be able to have personal hygiene. That is why I decided to help out with the Lipstick Brigade.
Young people can help the Lipstick Brigade, by volunteering their time, not by raising money. Two examples of giving their time are: They can help organize, package and distribute the cosmetics donated by other people. They can also help by spreading the word to friends and family, asking them that when they go away to a hotel to bring back the little bottles of shampoo, soap and conditioner. There are many other ways kids can help the Lipstick Brigade. All it takes is a little creative thinking and a few hours.
Galia Horwitz+Sari pullan 6B
St. Paul's Hospital by Adina
Description of Saint Paul’s Hospital Foundation
The St. Paul's Hospital Foundation raises money to purchase equipment for patients, support research and advance patients care at Saint Paul’s hospital. Saint Paul’s hospital is an academic health science center in downtown Vancouver. Saint Paul’s hospital serves patients from downtown Vancouver, the city of Vancouver and the entire province. Saint Paul’s hospital specializes in five main areas. These are HIV/ AIDS, cardiac disease, renal disease, elder care and mental health. In addition to looking after patients Saint Paul’s hospital is a center for research and medical education. The Saint Paul’s hospital foundation raises money to support all these areas.
I decided to choose Saint Paul’s hospital foundation because I am familiar with the work they perform because my dad works there. Another reason I chose Saint Paul’s is because I wanted to find a way to help people who are ill. I hope that by me helping out at the foundation I can help make a difference in these people’s lives.
At Saint Paul’s kid are not allowed to directly help out with patients for numerous reasons. But there is much more kids can do than helping patients directly. The Saint Paul’s foundation raises money which goes to help patients. In order to do this they have to do a lot of office work. This includes sending mail outs, filing things, phoning people, designing pamphlets and other forms of advertising. Kids can help with all of these activities.
My plan is to volunteer my time there helping them with these fund raising activities. I want to be there to help with what ever they want me to do and I am going to bring work home so I can get even more work done. I am also planning to bake goods and sell them, then give the money to the foundation for them to improve the emergency room which is very old and needs to be renovated.
So far I have already learned a lot about Saint Paul’s hospital ; I know now what they do to help people and what they need to improve on. I am very happy I chose this foundation because I am confident that what they do is very important.
Monday, May 12, 2008
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
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Hebrew Binder Inspection
Hey guys there is a hebrew binder inspection on thursday for Morah Mirit. No loose sheets and must be organized. Bye
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Homework
First part of T.O. project write up due on Wednesday. Make sure it is polished and proofread. Remember, this will be going in your portfolio so it needs to be written formally without any slang at all.
Please also remember to bring in your parent permission forms for me on Monday.
Have a great weekend!
Holocaust Education Center
The Holocaust Education Center helps educate kids and adults about the Holocaust. It has a library that only has books about the Holocaust. So you can take out books that will give you a lot of information about the Holocaust. The exhibit going on right now talks about the Nuremberg trials, which were the trials that convicted many war criminals of the Holocaust.
I chose this organization because, I have already been volunteering at the Holocaust Center for eight months. So I thought it would be nice to do a project about it. I like the Holocaust center because I think it’s important for people to know about the Holocaust. What will happen when all the Holocaust survivors are gone it will be are job to tell there stories so the memories never die.
There’s lot’s of ways to get involved. You can volunteer there a couple of hours a week. You can also become a member to help support the museum. Another great mitzvah would be to donate money to fund exhibits. I hope I have explained about the Holocaust Center and what it does.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Happy Birthday Israel
Yom Huledet Shameach!
Marc L.
