Wii

Wii is a home video game made by Nintendo. It leads the nation in sales and is the most played video game now. In December 2009 it broke the record for best-selling console in a single month in the United States.

The Wii has a wireless controller which can be used as a handheld pointing device and detects movements in three dimensions. another feature is the Wii Connect24, which enables it to recieve messages and updates over the Internet.

Children today play video games way to much, so i guess having a video game where they are more involved is better then the regular games. Wii now has Wii Sports and Wii play. These games get the children active and they actually do the motion they want their character to preform.

HERES A VIDEO YOU CAN WATCH ABOUT THE VIDEO GAME Wii!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73yDRm8KaWY

Vocabulary:

Video game: an electronic game played by images on a video screen.

Nintendo: type of video game.

Sales: used for selling

Console: an electronic system that connects to a television used in video games

Wireless Controller: no wires are needed to be attached in order for it to work

Detects: to discover or find movements

Three Dimensional: giving the illusion of depth of distances

Wii Connect 24: connects the video game to the internet

Sentences:

(1) Most young kids like to play ___________________.

(2) ________________ connects the video game to the internet.

(3) When you play the game sometimes you see it in __________________

(4) Billy sits on the couch far from the television but he can sit far away because he has a _____________________.

(5) Wii had the highest ________ by any video game.

(6) A type of video game is ___________________.

(7) The _______________of Wii, where everything is store, is the color white.


Grammar Point:

Through out this Blog i used many adjectives to describe the video game Wii. Go back through the Blog and find the adjectives I used. After that i want you to descibe something you like with five adjectives.

Saint Patrick's Day

My favorite holiday of the year is St. Patrick’s Day. I am 100 percent Irish and I love celebrating this holiday even when I was little. In high school I went to the city every year to see the parade but once I got into college the week of St. Patrick’s Day; I was always in Florida for Spring Training for the Molloy College Softball team. So this year is the first year in a while that I get to go to the city again to celebrate the holiday.

Saint Patrick’s Day is an annual feast day that celebrates Saint Patrick, who is the most commonly recognized patron saint of Ireland. It is celebrated on March 17 every year. Most people wear green ribbons and shamrocks, which started in the early 17th century. The shamrock is a three-leaved plant which is used to explain the Holy Trinity. The New York parade has become the largest Saint Patrick’s Day parade in the world. Many people march in the parade including bands, firefighters, military and police groups, cultural clubs. The parade marches up 5th avenue in Manhattan .

VOCABULARY:

Holiday: a day on which one is exempt from work.
St. Patrick’s Day: is an annual feast day that celebrates Saint Patrick, who is the most commonly recognized patron saint of Ireland
Parade: a place where a bunch of people get together to celebrate an occasion. Spring Training: every year before the season we went down to Florida to get ready to play in games
Saint Patrick: who is the most commonly recognized patron saint of Ireland. Shamrock: a three-leaved plant which is used to explain the Holy Trinity

SENTENCES

1). Most people wear green ___________________ on St. Patrick's Day.
2). Every year i go to the city to watch the _______________________.
3). My favorite ______________ is St. Patrick's Day.
4). Every year the Mets go down to Florida for ________________________.
5). The patron saint of Ireland is _______________________________.
6). On March 17 we celebrate _______________________.


Grammar Point

Over the past four blogs i talked about two of my favorite holidays. I want you to read over what I wrote and I want you to write what your favorite holiday is. It doesn't have to be a holiday known to most people it can be from where you come from or your culture.

Earthquake in Chile

The recent earthquake that affected Chile really hit me and my friends extremely hard. One of our best friends, Tim, moved to Southern Argentina in September because he has never been there before and he loves to travel. In the beginning of February he called us and told us that he decided he was going to travel for two months; he was going to take a tent and just travel to different places he has never visited before. The only thing we knew was that his first destination was going to be Chile and he was going to spend a couple of weeks there after that he was just going to go with the flow and see where it took him.

When the earthquake hit on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 3:34 with a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale and lasted for about three minutes. Many cities experienced the shaking, some were, Talcahuano, Arauco, Lota, Chiquayante, Canete, and San Antonio. The earthquake was also felt in the capital and in many Argentine cities. Seismologists estimate that the earthquake so powerful that it may have shortened the length of the day by 1.26 microseconds and moved the earth’s axis of rotation by 3 inches.

For at least three days after the earthquake no one could get in touch with our friend Tim. We talked to his family but they haven’t heard from him either. We got tremendously nervous, in anticipation for his phone call. Five days after the earthquake we got a facebook message from him saying that he left Chile a day before the earthquake and he was unable to get in contact with us only through the internet. I was very happy to finally here from him but I know understand the shock and emotions that people go through when they are unable to get in touch with a loved one and don’t know if they are safe.

VOCABULARY

Earthquake: a shaking or trembling of the earth.

Chile: country in South America

Travel: to go on trip or a tour

Tent: something that serves as a shelter; sheets of fabric with poles used for camping. Destination: a place worthy of travel or a long visit.

Go with the flow: to move on a course and see where it takes him.

Magnitude: great size, or long time

Seismologists: a science that deals with earthquakes

Microsecond: smaller than a second

Axis: the main line of direction

Rotation: moving around in a circle

SENTENCES:

1) The earth does a __________________ around the sun.

2) My friend Tim loves to ________________ and he visits all different countries.

3) _____________ is one country in South America.

4) I am going on a long trip and my _______________ is California.

5) When I go camping I like to stay in _______________.

6) He finished the race _________________ before Johnny did.

7) When I go out with my friends I usually ___________________________ and don’t care what we do.

8) When the earth shakes it is known as an _____________________.

9) The earth rotates on an _______________________.

10) When my brother Billy grows up he wants to become an _____________________ because he loves earthquakes.

11) The size of the earthquake is determined by its _____________________.

GRAMMAR POINT:

In the paragraphs above I talked about something that happened in the past. I used many verbs and most of the verbs were used in the past tense.

Can you find all the past tense verbs I used?

Write a paragraph using at least 5 past tense verbs talking about something that affect you greatly in the past.