VBS St Paul Church 2015

August 15 2015

my dad brought me and my sister Rose to VBS. The theme was Dive In (The sea or ocean). When we got there, we got name tags. The lady’s name was also Rose!  We first played hot potato with a stuffed frog.  Then we did an Ice Breaker. You would have a half of an ocean creature and you would have to find the other half. The person with the other half would say their name and you would say your name to know each other. I got a half of a pink fish and I think (i forgot) I also got a I forgot sorry.

Then we got into our groups. I was with Alexis, Deandre, Rebekah, another girl, another girl, and Rose. We were the older kids group. Our leader was named Tim. After, we went to the Saturday School Kitchen for our lesson. It was why Jesus died on the cross and how he came back to life. We learned it at the other VBS school last week. Then we did activities for the sayings in the Bible and we went to the back down for game. There was big janga, but I played the other game where you have sticks, and 3 holes. You get into 3 teams, and each team pulls one stick at a time. You try to get the sticks to go into the other holes when they fall down. But if they fall into your hole, it doesn’t count as a point.

At snack time, I ate brownies, watermelon, some frutopia juice, and some green grapes.

Then we went upstairs for crafts. We made a message in a bottle. We filled it with colored sand, shells, and rocks. Then you would put a verse from the bible inside. Then you would put the cork to cover the hole on the top, and attach a picture of a sand dollar.

Then we went home.

C0D3 C4MP L4S1 D4Y

Today was the last day of our code camp. Our? Yes our. Faye, my sister Rose, and me! It was located at the Britannia Woods. We had a field trip to the Ottawa University, and the trailer office of prototype D. But Erica wasn’t there. So to not be bored, a teenager named Saphora let us go upstairs to play on the computers. Obviously I played Roblox, but it was laggy. 😦 When Erica arrived, she showed us a video about the prototype D’s old office which was in a dark basement. So they earned money and bought a trailer which became their trailer on wheels!

Finally the van came. It was air conditioned! I thought it was chilly. We got to the university, and we went into a room. But the room beside it, I saw someone designing a place in Roblox studio! I told Rose and Faye what I saw. On our computers, we went on tinkercad to do the tutorial. Tinkercad is a website where you can design your 3D item you want to print. But we just did it to learn. After about 30 minutes, we did a group photo and ate outside. The van came, and brought us to where the trailer was parked. When I looked in, I was amazed! They even build an upstairs on top of the office. It was very impressive! They had solar panels to charge their computers and their 3D printer! They grew plants and vegetables, even peppers! Some people were scared and thought that they would fall down the roof and die! But it was basically impossible because there was string that made it hard to fall. What I thought was the most impressive, was that they built the whole roof, and activated the solar panels, and now are making balconies for other businesses. But when they design their 3D stuff, they use a more professional way. But one of their computers aren’t that strong, so sometimes the program crashes.

C0D3 C4MP

August 13 2015

Today at coding camp, we went to the Fuel Industries and we also went to Shopify. Fuel is a company who makes different sorts of games like “Cut the Rope”, “Girlsarcade.com” and more! Shopify is a website where people can go online to the site and get help to sell their product.

Erica rented 2 large vans that can fit 20 people in total (not counting the driver seat and the seat beside). Our first stop: Fuel industries!

The outside of Fuel industries was plain. Appearances were deceiving. But when I went inside,  I totally changed my mind! It was very colorful, and I could already tell that they were very smart and had lots of brains! We first say their picture gallery, which was where they would take only the face, and glue the face into another photo. It was very funny but creative! My sister asked why the company was called fuel. Our guide Phil answered that it was because of something about the fuel tank they had. I’m sorry that I forgot but yeah. Then we went down the stairs that they called the “pit” because sometimes it felt like going down a pit. Going down a pit feels very scary. We asked a lot of questions! Then we went into a audio studio, where the staff make sound to go into the game or video. He told us that sometimes he didn’t have the right sound to fit into the game or video so he had to try and figure out a way to make the same sound but in a different way. If a game needed a narrator, then a staff named Rob would do the job. Then he showed us a game he made, and he also did the sound.

Then we went to the green room. It could have been the magenta room or the pink room, but it had to be a unpopular color like gold. Because if say in a movie, someone had to have only one leg, they would put on a long green sock, because when they edit the movie, they would remove the green, and also the green sock so they could put a metal thing that would help people with one leg still walk!

Code Camp 2015

August 11 2015 at Britannia Woods community house for Maker Space

Today was the first day of my Code camp. My friend Faye and my sister Rose will also participate in it. For the first day, we first started with ice breakers. What are ice breakers? (That’s a question I asked!) It’s when you say your name and answer the question that everyone has to answer. So you get to know each other. After ice breakers, we said different kinds of apps you could play or use. Here are some examples:

Roblox, Moviestarplanet, Yahoo, Candy Crush, Cut the rope, Jetpack Joyride, Chrome, Instagram, Facebook, Angry Birds, iCloud, and Twitter.

If you decided to make an account on Roblox or have one, please friend me. Add AvaMint cuz that’s my username. 😀  Then a teenager helper did a so called “Magic Trick” but I did not think it was one. She had 25 cards, one side was orange, and the other was black. And she flipped a few cards. Then she asked someone to flip one card from black to orange, but she wouldn’t look. When a card was flipped, she turned around and actually figured out which card was missing. At the end, she told us the “trick”. You had to remember the cards that you flipped, so you would know which card was turned around.

After that activity, we split up into two groups, and did a game where you would have to get into a line, memorise which arrow you would write down, and one person at a time, run to the paper and write that arrow. But you would also have to remember the person in from of you’s arrow. Because when your whole team finished writing all the arrows, we would have to check to see if it was right. If it isn’t, then the other team wins. But if both of the team’s paper is right, then the first team that finished wins.

Then Erica layed on the ground25 pieces of paper. 5×5. 5 in each row and column. Then a helper would tell us a math question, and we would have to draw and X on the answer square. Example: 5-2 is 3 so you put an X on the 3rd square on the first column.

After the game, we painted an app of our choice. I painted Roblox, and my sister painted Chrome. But really, her’s looked so realistic! Faye painted the bird for twitter. She only had one mistake which was a little white dot. Not even bigger then a real period! So I wouldn’t really call that a mistake! Because

Summer Camp Gymnastics 2015

This year, my father registered me and my sister for gymnastics summer camp. Our instructor, Christin, taught us many things with ball, hoop, rope, and ribbon. I thought ribbon was easiest, because we didn’t learn any throws. I liked hoop best because we did competitions like keeping it on your hips the longest while it spins. I won a couple of them. With ball we did some throws, rolls, and catches. Rope was the hardest, because Christin gave us a lot of throws and catches to do. The hardest was to throw one knot, make it do a full turn, and catch. I rarely catch any! But some of the other throws and catches are pretty simple. My favorite one is the throw where you do the gymnastics knot, and you rotate backwards three times, and then you throw and catch. My other one is where you skip backwards three times and you throw and catch!

Inventor Fuzzywig’s workshop 2015

Tuesday August 4 –  Friday August 7 2015                    9:00 am – 12 noon

Day 1 – Tuesday August 4  (FIRST DAY)

My dad brought me and my sister to the PineGrove Bible Church for a summer camp. It is for kids ages 5 to 12. I was in the BayMax group. My dad signed us in. Then Marmie (a helper) gave me and my sister Rose a name tag with BayMax! We first headed to the portable outside for crafts, and we made a frame with the sentence for the week.

Corinthians 2:17

Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone, a new life has begun.

Then we cut out some gears and a robot and glued it on the frame. Then when time was up, we went back inside for story time. The two teenager helpers told us a story about Macheus and how Jesus changed his life. He a tax collector and everyone didn’t like the tax collectors because they asked for more then they owe. Until one day, Jesus came, but Machues was too short to see him. So he climbed up the nearest tree. Then he saw Jesus come to him, and Jesus said “Let me go to your house. For I will stay at your house.” Now everyone was mad, because Macheus stole money, and it wasn’t fair that Jesus still wants to visit Macheus. So after a few days, they made Jesus die on the cross. 3 days later, he rose from the dead, and stayed on earth for 40 days. Then he went to heaven. Daniel (one of the helpers) explained that Jesus died for our sins. He could have rose up from the cross he died on, but he knew that if he died, he would save us from our sins. Jesus never did sin, but he came down to save us, so we could join him in heaven.

Then after story time, we went outside for games. We played many games about robots, like robots activate, which is Octopus game but with a different name. Then we played stop the bot where everyone except one person who will be the inspector. Then you chose a robot, who will hold the cloth but still part of the circle. The inspector will be at the opposite side of the robot, and will try to take the cloth away. A few more rounds later, we went inside the church to have snack.

We had pretzels, crackers, a marshmallow, carrots,  and some grape, and if we wanted, we could make our own robot. After snack, we did an other song with actions, and then went home!

 

Wednesday August 5 – Day 2

We started of with an other song and then we first went outside for games, meaning that we were going to have snack first! We played stop the bot again, and then we played a game where everyone sits in a circle, someone is the leader, a and someone is the inspector. The leader does different movements, and the inspector tries to figure out who is the leader. The inspector gets three guesses, and then it’s game over. Then we went inside to eat jello. I didn’t like jello, so I got yesterday’s leftover snack instead.

Then we went upstairs for storytime, and Daniel talked about a kid names Mephilbbosheth and how he was a prince, and his older brother and dad died in war. How one of the nurses were afraid that he would die, so she ran away with him and hid him and took care of him out of the city. But she dropped him by accident and he had both of his feet crippled. Then the new king arrived. He was good friends with the killed prince (Mephibosheth’s brother), and had a promise, that if one of them died, the survivor would be kind the the rest of the family, so he made the guards find Mephibosheth, and brought him to the palace. Mephibosheth was very scared, and thought he would die, but the king adopted him and gave him land, food, and all kinds of riches. The end!

After storytime, we went downstairs and did an other song with The song is called “Change“. Then we went home!

 

Thursday August 6 – Day 3

We started making some marshmallow creations but there were also other activities. We started a new song called Glory, and did the actions. Then my group went upstairs for story time. They told us about a person, who told others about Jesus. Then a treasurer from a city came to where he lived to learn about him, but he couldn’t because he wasn’t a Jews. So he went home from the desert, very sad. Then, Jesus sent the person who tells stories about Jesus to the desert. He didn’t know why but he went, anyways, and he met the treasurer, and asked him “Do you know what your reading?” The treasurer said that he didn’t, and then the other person explained it to him.

At crafts, we made a robot necklace with those circle thingys you use when your building something, pipe cleaners, and a string. Mine was a skater robot! LOL XD

After the crafts, we went downstairs and outside for games. The helpers got two bins, and split us into two teams, and gave one person at the start of the line a cup with holes. We were supposed to fill it with water and run or walk and put it in the other bin. The first team to fill the other bin wins!

After break, we got to eat our snacks. They gave us watermelon, cantaloupe, and water. Then we sat down and did the actions to the song glory.

Friday 7 Day 4 (LAST DAY!)

My dad brought me and my sister back to the Pinegrove Church, located near 2144 East RD Acres by car. My sister went to the memory verse lab to memorize the verse of the day. I didn’t because I don’t usually have time to memorize the verse. As for the last day of VBS, they bought lots of hot dogs and hot dog buns  for the BBQ at the end of the day. My dad let us stay for it. We first started off with PROFESSOR FUZZYWIGS! He said he created a wonderful invention, called a “water retainer device”. The invention was actually a cup though! And he said to poke a whole on the bottom of the cup and drink it from there! But Daniel drank it from the top, and professor Fuzzywigs was very impressed! We sang and did the actions to the song “Totally transformed”.

Then Marmie dismissed us and we first went upstairs for storytime. Sheldon (the other helper) told us a story about a person named Sol, who believed in God but thought that the stories about Jesus were fake, and thought that killing them was right and what God wanted him to do. So he killed everyone who believed in Jesus, but one day, in the desert, on his way to the last village, a bright light appeared, and that bright light, was Jesus. But the light was so bright that Sol was blinded. Sol thought that he should return home, because he met Jesus, meaning that he was real, and because he was blind, he couldn’t travel any further. So he went home, and then and old man who believed in Jesus and God came to him. Sol asked why he came to him, because everyone was afraid of Sol and that he would kill them. But the old man came to him, because God told him so. Then, the old man made his eyes open, and now, Sol was not blind anymore! So he went to travel, but not to kill people, but to tell others about how Jesus changed him.

After story time, we went outside to play games with Hannah, the game helper. We played a new game called red light green light. One person is it, and everyone else goes in a horizontal line. When the “it” person shouts green light, everybody tries to get to the other side. But if the “it” person shouts red light, he or she turns around to see if anyone is moving. If someone moves, they go back to the start till someone gets to the other side without getting spotted.

For snack, we got a plastic Ziploc bag with different sorts of cereal and some pretzels. They also gave us watermelon and cantaloupe, and also some honeydew! It was very tasty!

After snack, we headed to the outside portable for crafts. We made a maze with a box, and in the box was a maze. We had to use straws and glue them to the lines in the maze, and when we were done, they would give us a marble.

Then for the end, we did the song Glory and got out maze and they even gave us loot bags! Mine has the big kind of bar of Coffee Crisps. It is my favorite chocolate bar! I also had a pencil with an eraser and some silly bands. I also got a mini notebook.

As for the BBQ, I got a beef hotdog and some carrots, juice, and all dressed ruffle chips! Then we went home!