This post is about a water tracker app that I found recently. Enjoy!

My mom constantly nags me about drinking more water. I think it gets really annoying but she’s right. We all need a lot of water to stay healthy so we can do more fun things in life. I remember a couple of years ago my oldest sister had a water tracking app but it wasn’t the regular kind where it shows a chart. It has a plant that you water by pressing the amount of water you drank. It does require the exact measurements of the size of water you drank it just needs you to press for example a cup, or a water bottle if you drank a whole water bottle.

It gives you a plant that you are responsible for and when you drink water you water the plant. The app is called Plant Nanny. As time goes by and you make the plant healthy and strong you can move onto different plants and help water them too. It isn’t an app like the health app you get on your phone when you get it and its also not really a game. It is really useful for people who need a reminder but also doesn’t want to get nagged. It also teaches responsibility.

I have just started this game and I have already forced my self to drink more than I would without my mom telling me. My plat is still at the first stage and I want it to grow a lot more already. It feels like I have gotten attached to it already. I named my first plant Hazel. There are also other apps that his company has made to help make exercising and becoming healthier more fun. Here are some of the other apps: Fortune City (helps with expense tracking), Walkr (helps with fitness). They are all made from the company called Fourdesire. You should check out their apps!

I hope you enjoyed! – hmsjosephine

Pictures-

I screenshot all of the pictures from my phone

This post will be about animals. Enjoy!

 

Do you have animals? I used to have about 28. Well, 28 as long as your counting fish. Originally I bought two guppies, then a few months later I found out I bought a pregnant guppy. If you don’t know about guppies and how they treat their young well you’re about to find out and it’s not so great. When they give birth they will eat their young if they are not hidden. So every time I would see a mini guppy I would get a very tiny net to fish them out. It would take about 25-30 minutes to take 5 guppies out of the tank because they are so fast and small I can’t really see them. Though taking them out of the parent’s tank is hard cleaning the tanks are worse. When you get all of the fish out you think the worst is over, well it’s not. After you take the fish out you have to clean the nasty tank filled with fish poop and leftover food, it’s gross. So my advice for getting fish is to either get the male guppy or don’t get a guppy at all.

I have two dogs, Guinness and Charlie. They are both about 10 years old. Charlie, we got from a shelter. Charlie is a mixed light brown dog. He first belonged to a military family but then they just left him on the street. I have been with Charlie for a while and still remember how we named him. When Charlie was younger he was super energetic and was really fun to play with because I was young too. I feel like I have grown up with him and I just don’t want to think about what will happen to him when he gets too old. Now that he is about 10 years old we kind of act the same. He is always tired like I am and he always wants to curl up in a ball when he is cold. We also are afraid of heights and when he is afraid of the thunder my whole family stays with him.

The other dog, Guinness is a pure black lab. We got him from a lady who had just gotten into a bad divorce and could not keep him. She came to our house and she asked if we could take a dog. At first, my mom was very hesitant because our other dog had just died and he meant the world to my mom. She had just gotten over what happened to my other dog and wasn’t thinking about another dog. But my mom let Guinness into the house to see how he felt in our house and straight away he went in and when my mom gave him food he ate it. It seemed he was really comfortable in the house and we took Guinness in. Although Guinness was free all of his medicine for his arthritis and leg problems are in the place of buying a black lab. Guinness will also eat my other dogs’ food and still feel hungry after that so that’s why we have to separate them when it is meal time. Also, one last thing, when I said Guinness was comfortable in our house he was just being himself so he would have done the same to any house.

I hope you enjoyed- hmsjosephine

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Guppy

Charlie and Guinness (the photos were taken by me)

Hello, this blog is about holidays. Please enjoy!

Do you think all holidays are necessary? I think that some of the Holidays that we make in America aren’t always that necessary for us. For example valentine’s day, I get why people like the holiday so much but it is (in my opinion) one of the most useless holidays. I also hate the holiday because people always get chocolate and I hate chocolate. (So it’s like the second day of the year that most chocolate is bought. And I don’t want to support the chocolate factories.) If you get someone chocolate for someone then it may be forgotten and melt in the place you put it. I think that if you want to show someone you love them you should tell them instead of getting them a material gift.

There are different types of holidays. I put them into 3 categories. First, religious holidays. Those types of holidays include Easter, Christmas, Hannakuh, etc… Second is the meaningless ones. Like, Valentine’s day and Halloween. The third is the section for people who have done something good for the world. For example, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Veterans Day and more. Those categories tell me whether to honor that day or treat it like a regular day. The only thing wrong with my categories, I don’t know where to put thanksgiving! (There is a special exception for Halloween.)

Do you feel like the better holidays (the more fun ones) are at the end of the year? Because I do. October you get to go to houses and ask for candy, In November you get to eat your heart out, And in December you get presents. Those are my favorite holidays. Who wouldn’t like those holidays? (except for some people because of their religions.) The beginning of the year is so boring and it feels like you have to wait two years to get to the better side of the year.

That’s what I think about the Holidays. I hope you enjoyed! – hmsjosephine

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Pumpkin

Heart

Christmas Tree

This blog is an audit about what I did in my past blogs. There will be two parts so stay tuned!

Part 1-

• How many weeks of the challenge did you participate in?

I participated in 7 (not including this one)

• How many posts did you write in the ten week period?

I wrote 8 (including this one)

• How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers, or other visitors?

I haven’t gotten any comments from classmates, teachers, or other visitors

• Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?

The post I most enjoyed was “Science from A-Z” because I learned a bunch more science words (If you haven’t read it yet read it!”

• Which web tools did you use to show creativity on your blog?

I used the appearance in the help section on edu blogs

• What are your plans for your blog now? Will you keep posting?

My plans for my blog next year will be to have more color and creativity

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Part 2-

Some suggestions about my blog from Kailey.

Kailey- ” If your paragraphs were bigger then you could put more detail and it would be more interesting”

I responded- “Ok, so what was your first impression of the blog?”

Kailey-” Well I think you got straight to the point and I liked the turkey picture!”

I responded-” Thanks, so when you first look at it you don’t feel like you don’t want to read it. Like it doesn’t seem boring and long?”

Kailey- ” No I think it was interesting and unique to you”

I responded- ” Ok so what captured your attention?”

Kailey- “The pictures really captured my attention and the title got me interested”

I responded- ” Did they distract you or were they just there?”

Kailey- ” I think that the pictures were good to get you hooked but I wanted to go back to the pictures every couple of sentences”

I responded- ” Well thank you for reading my blog and giving me feedback”

Kailey- ” Your welcome”

 

Read Kailey’s blog! https://hmskailey.edublogs.org/

Also, have a very merry Christmas! Hope you read next year!

 

 

Shopping is one of the hardest things to do for me. Its tiring and if the store you wanted something from didn’t have what you wanted just angers me. For me, shopping is an actual chore. People who actually like shopping are like superhumans to me. Why can’t we just go online shopping instead of dedicating a whole day to it because it takes so long to get what you need? Just recently I had gone shopping and for an hour (which felt like 30 min) and I went into one store looked around the whole store twice and found one thing. I was so exhausted from getting that one thing and still didn’t get what I needed.

I went to another store and it was a shoe store and I quickly got what I needed. It was only about thirty minutes in then. Then for the next thirty minutes, I was looking around for the other things I needed and literally found nothing for the next thirty minutes. Well, actually I did find one thing it was a cafe that had acai bowls. Even those weren’t good. They had a very small amount of fruit in it and the actual acai was bland and did not taste good.

Then the next day I did some online shopping and got so much in under 30 minutes. This proves my point that online shopping is a lot easier than physically shopping. Although it does take some time and it does pollute the earth so does bringing clothes from the mainland to sell here. I feel like when you do physical shopping it gets so boring and it is very time-consuming when you’re trying to shop for something and people are asking you to buy their product. That is my opinion on how I feel about shopping.

-hmsjojo

This post is about a day I had please enjoy!

Have you ever had that day where everything goes wrong and you feel like you want to go home? Well, I have. It was Friday 1/11/2019, I woke up and did the same as I usually do until I got in the car. I live about 30 minutes from school and if I forgot something too bad for me. Also, I couldn’t ask my parents because of them also working in town 30 minutes away from home. So I get in the car and 10 minutes on the road I realize… I forgot my phone. I didn’t want to believe it because I remembered I had it in my hand. My dad asks me what I’m doing
(because I’m looking around the whole car for something I forgot at home.

I tell what is happening and he makes this great idea to call my mom (who was still at home). He calls her and guess what she says “Jojo, you left your phone at home.” and I’m thinking ” oh my god I’m so dumb”.  Finally, I accept what I had done and start to calm down. We get to school and it early, like there’s only a few people. I put my stuff down and sit outside of my homeroom teachers room. There are only two other girls and I explain to them what happened. One other girl had to go so it was just me and the other girl.

We start talking and she reminds me to do some work that was due in a couple of days (like why not get it done early). Then we go to the first three classes and it was really interesting because I could think a lot more about the classes and I wasn’t worried about my phone. I knew that my phone was safe and it couldn’t get lost or taken at school. Then the rest of the school day I could interact more with the people around me and learn more. The other good thing about that day was that we were assigned a book to read, called The Giver.  While I was waiting for my mom to pick me up I was reading the book and got really interested in it. This was really good because I usually don’t really like books but I was so enthralled it was crazy. That’s my story about my day without a phone.

– Jojo