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10 New Year’s Resolutions Parents Would Like Kids to Make

January 1, 2013 by 1 Comment

Kids New Years Resolutions for 20131. When I say that I completed my homework I will be telling the truth.

2. I will keep my room clean without being forced to do so.

3. I will listen to the advice of my parents and understand that they know what is best for me.

4. I will not wait until the night before a school project is due and tell my parents that I need their help to complete.

5. I will go to bed on time without secretly playing video games when my parents think I am sleeping.

6. I will spend at least as much time learning about my school subjects as I do watching YouTube videos to learn how to be better at sports or video games.

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Meet the Young Marines

November 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Emerald Empire Young Marines

Emerald Empire Young Marines in Veterans Day Parade

The Young Marines are a Drug Demand Reduction and leadership program supported by the United States Marine Corps. The Young Marines are sponsored by the Marine Corps League. Overall the Young Marine program teaches you leadership, responsibility, knowledge, respect, patience and how to live a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

 

The Young Marines were founded in 1959 in Waterbury Connecticut. Now Young Marine units are found all over the United States and Internationally.

 

Some of the activities we do include camping, field training, parades, first aid, CPR, map, navigation, shelter building, survival, drug resistance training and a lot more.

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Final Landing for Shuttle Atlantis Video

July 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment


Millions of kids are watching as Space Shuttle Atlantis makes a picture perfect final landing at the Kennedy Space Center on the morning of July 21, 2011, sonic booms are heard and mission control gives us memorable final words as the voice of mission control says.

“Piercing the predawn skies the Space Shuttle announces its arrival at the launch site with its signature twin sonic booms having gone sub sonic for the last time.”

“With a fitting elegance for its final moments of flight/Atlantis takes one last lap around the Kennedy Space Center.”

“Having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other is placed in history secured. The space shuttle pulls into port for the last time its voyage at an end.”

With the end of this era us kids can hardly wait for a new era in space exploration.

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Flag Day and About the Flag of the United States

June 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment


Flag Day is celebrated on June 14th in the United States. Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. This video is inspirational and shows the importance of our American Flag. The video gives kids, young people and adults a better understanding of what our flag is and is not. A must watch video for all that would like to know more about the American flag and the United States of America.

OoRah to the Scottish Rite Masons for the making and sharing of this video.

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Memorial Day

May 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment


As kids and teenagers holidays are often just another day for us to not have school. Memorial Day is a day that reminds us of the parents, and grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, friends and neighbors that have given their life so that we may live in a free society. In this Memorial Day video, United States veterans share their memories of fallen soldiers that they served so honorably with. On this Memorial Day weekend and every day Kids Speak for America remembers those that have passed and gives a big OoRah that those who have served and continue to serve our country.

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Trash is Cash

May 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment

As kids, teenagers and even adults we often do not realize just how lucky we are to be raised in the United States. Way too many of us want more and more to be given to us. Some of us expect the government to take care of us. [Read more...]

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Spring Break Fun

March 26, 2011 by 3 Comments

I am having a great spring break in Orlando, Florida and I hope all other kids have a sweet spring break too.

 

In Florida I went on an airboat ride. We went out on a swamp got covered with bugs but we saw an alligator and lots of neat colorful birds. After the airboat ride I got to hold a small alligator and it felt like leather on top. I learned that the top front part of their head will deflect a bullet.

 

I went to Busch Gardens and rode roller coasters. There was one called the SheiKra that went about 200 feet up and held you over a 90 degree drop for 4 seconds before dropping you off this 200 foot vertical drop. I got really wet when we went on the riverboat ride. The riverboat is fun but it wasn’t my favorite ride.

 

My favorite ride at Busch Gardens was Montu that was named after an Egyptian god of war. This is one of the world’s tallest and longest inverted coasters. On this ride you went up really high, did a lot of flips and curlicues so that a lot of the time you were upside down. It takes you out of a loop, into a curlicue and into an immelmann. An immelman is a loop and a twist where it takes you up high in the air and you come down in a different direction.

 

I went to Walt Disney World where I rode Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise and several others. I am not sure which one was my favorite but Big Thunder Mountain was fun.

 

At Epcot I really liked Tests Track. Test Track is a high-speed car simulation ride. If you go to Tests Track get in the single rider line because it is really fast and that day looked even faster than the Fastpass line.

 

We also went to 3 animal parks including Sea World, Disney’s Animal Kingdom and Busch Gardens. My favorite of the animal’s parks was the one at Busch Gardens. As far as rides at animal parks the Montu at Busch Gardens and the Kraken at Sea World were my favorites. The Kraken is a ride is the highest, longest and fastest roller coaster in Orlando. You go up about 150 feet in the air and get turned over several times.

 

We also rented go-carts. My dad and grandpa had better go carts than me because you had to be 16 to have the fastest go-carts. I power slid around a corner and the go-cart broke down on me. Still, it was a blast and I rode over 10 miles on it. At the go-cart track they had alligators that I got to feed.

 

At the condo I did lots of swimming, something I don’t get to do in Oregon this time of year because I don’t have a pool and it’s too cold. In Florida it is hot and humid around 70 to 80 degrees and I got sun burnt but the heat still felt really good.

 

Next we are going to be going to the Kennedy Space center and then flying back home and it is back to school.

 

The night I get back from Florida I have my first Babe Ruth Baseball game of the season and can hardly wait to start playing baseball again.

 

 

I hope you haven’t allowed politics to ruin your spring break. Have lots of fun, don’t worry about politics or school just kick back and relax. That’s all, I just wanted to say hello to all of you.

 

OORAH for spring break

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School Science Fair

March 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment

I like my school because it is very laid back for the Science Fair and for the fair there is a lot of kids that have projects about weapons that we would usually get in trouble for if we just talked about them.

Most schools would throw a wild crying hissy fit about a project about guns or cannons and I think that kids should be allowed by their schools to have a project about weapons such as guns, cannons, bows, etc as long as it is not about killing humans.

In my opinion if you block a kid off from certain things they will think it is really bad and be scared of it or learn about it on their own and not get the proper instruction. I believe that schools and parents should allow kids to do projects about guns, bows, etc that is my opinion.

Specifically, one of the gun projects was the type of dent or a hole different guns would leave in different targets and the kid used a 38, BB gun, 22 and Airsoft gun. One of the bow projects was what type of arrowhead would do more damage to a deer. One of the cannon projects was mine and it was about what angle would launch a tennis ball the farthest or in simple terms distance over trajectory. Another bow project involved how angle affects distance. Another gun project was about how what you eat affects your aim with a bb gun.

Since I enjoy weapons it made the science really fun.

OoRah to my school for allowing us to discuss weapons.

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What Kids Need to Know About President Reagan

February 6, 2011 by 5 Comments

When talking with kids some say I know Ronald Reagan was a President but who was he. Some Kids have heard that Ronald Reagan was just an Actor that became Americas 40th President. And yes he was an Actor but that was just a small part of his life that helped to make him great. Ronald Reagan grew up poor and went to college where he studied economics.  Later he became an actor, a spokesman and then Governor of California.

February 6th, 2011 President Reagan would have been 100 years old was he still living. Kids need to know that Ronald Reagan inspired America with sense and purpose. He believed not only in the freedoms that we as Americans have such as freedom of speech and religion but also that all people should be free. President Reagan brought down the Berlin wall.

Kids need to know that President Reagan believed that parents should teach their kids just how exceptional America is. He believed that if parents did not understand these freedoms kids should teach it to their parents. President Reagan was not like some Presidents that want to make excuses and apologize for America for being the great country that it is. Instead President Reagan wanted us to understand how lucky we are to be able to experience our life as Americans.

President Reagan was an optimist, a man that knew how to use the humor of everyday life and he was a man of deep conviction.

President Reagan was called by many names such as The Gipper, Dutch and Great Communicator. To me though he was President Reagan, 40th President of the United States and a great man who still inspires Americans to  protect our freedom in America, to seek freedom for the world and continue to make America and even greater place to live.

Some day I will get to visit the Reagan Ranch and the Reagan library where I will get to feel closer to his presence. Until that time I will continue to honor the memory of President Reagan by doing my small part to help keep his memory alive.

OoRah President Reagan

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Young People In Egypt Protesting for Democracy

January 30, 2011 by 3 Comments

I feel so lucky to have been born in the United States where I can say what I believe in and am not punished for doing it. I might be a Conservative Kid and do not like some of the things going on in the United States but am happy I do not live under a Dictator in Egypt or anywhere else. When I watch this video I see so many young people protesting that also want to be free to express their views and experience the freedoms we have in our country. I don’t understand everything that is going on there and maybe you would like to make comments to help me understand.

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