Fun Stories

All About Me

My name is Ethan. I am 7 years old. I am going into Grade 2. My favorite colors are blue and green. This is my first year at Sprout Lake. I live in Potomac, MD. I have a big family including my 2 siblings, Jacob, 5 and Chloe, 1year 10 months. I have been to 11 states in the USA. I went on a Bahamian Disney Cruise in January. Also, I visited Disney World. I had a great time!!! I am a fan of the Ravens, Orioles, Giants, Wizards, Terps, Knicks, Bayhawks, 76ers, Magic, and Eagles. I’m looking forward to making this newspaper.

The Coolest Thing I Have Ever Seen

The coolest thing I’ve ever seen is my desk that I got a day before my 7th birthday. It is cool because I love to do art…..in fact, I do a lot of drawing in this quarantine.

The Peloton Bike

I love to do exercise every day downstairs. We have a pop a shot but our peloton is better.

Fourth of July

On the fourth of July, I am going to local swim pool. I am hopefully going to get nachos if i swim!!!!

Favorite animal

My favorite animal is a fish. I love to swim and fishes love to swim that is why. The only difference is that fishes cannot swim strokes but I can.

Bethany Beach, Delaware

My summer vacation is the Bethany Beach, Delaware. We are only going if our favorite place (Candy Kitchen). We love it because we go in the ocean and swim.

Though Zoom and Skype share the same purpose, they are both very different. You may also wonder why Zoom got very popular and why people are using it more than Skype when they are practically the same thing. They aren’t.

ZOOM

Zoom can be used for anything. You can do online lessons, have conference calls, online classes, meet-ups and more. Zoom is a much easier software to use and it’s easier to use for classes. It has features like the host, the waiting room, features to use in online classes and work calls, but Skype does not offer that. To get on to Zoom, it’s as simple as clicking a link and you don’t need an account. For Skype, you need to be on the app and you need to create a Skype account. Skype is more like FaceTime and it’s really no different than… well, Facetime.

SKYPE

Skype is great! It’s a great place to see your friends again and you have easy messaging for when to plan calls. Scheduling Skype calls are super easy, just sending an invitation to come on to Skype at that time. Skype has been around longer than Zoom so some features weren’t thought of then. People are so used to using their phones, why not have a meetup, on the computer like you are using Facetime?

What would you rather use?

When school finishes for the day, I go outside to take a walk. I see a box on the porch on my way out. I see it is addressed to me. What’s inside? I wonder. I bring it inside. I throw my bag on the floor, grab a key, and open the box. I found a soccer ball, a tennis racquet, ice skates, a softball glove and some balls. I was wondering who it was from.

I grabbed a snack and went outside to go play ball on our wall.

When I finished playing ball, I went inside to call my friend, but then I remembered I could not. It was because of the COVID-19 break out. So I just went inside and watched youtube until my mom got home from work.

I told my mom and my sister what happened over dinner. They said that they wanted me to feel happy during the COVID-19 times. I was happy. Thanks. I am happy.

When I went to bed that night, I had a thought: Could I play some sports with my friend that you could be 6 ft apart? I thought, yes. Then I dozed off. The next morning before I hopped online, I told my mom my thought. I told her “yesterday I was going to call my friend to play ball, but then I realized that we could not socially distance while playing ball. I thought about it last night that there are some sports that can play while we are 6 ft apart:

• Tennis: if you and your friend are across the net, you are more than 6 feet apart...and safe.

• Golf: if both of you have your own clubs and balls, then you don’t have to touch each other's clubs and balls. While you are waiting for the other person to hit their balls, you can stand away from them so you don’t get too close.

• Kayaking: Each person is in their own boat just gliding down the stream, together but separate!

• Biking: Each person goes biking on one side of the street.

“Sounds good to me. Go finish school and we can plan one of these activities over the weekend and do then over the weekend”.

Sprout lake is an amazing sleep away camp with archery ropes and ect. It is also impossible to not make friends there. Once you spend a long time with the people at the camp it feels like they are family.

Here are some things that you can do if you are bored when you are stuck at home during the Quarantine:

You can paint rocks.

Get some paint and a few rocks. Go outside and start painting.

Read books

Find a book in your house and sit down and read it.

Make a Podcast

You can either take a podcasting class or download the app on your phone. Then you will have your own podcast.

Watch youtube

Take out your computer. Go to the google search bar and type “youtube.com”.

Give yourself a haircut

Put a mat on the floor. Take a chair and set it on top of the map. Put a mirror in front of you and look at the mirror while cutting your hair. Then you hair will be cut.

Adopt an epic new pet

If you know any pet shelters then you can go to that pet shelter and adopt a new pet. If you don’t know a pet shelter, then go online and go to the google search bar, and search for pet shelters. They drive to one of the pet shelters you found and adopt a new pet.(Examples of Pet shelters: Humane Rescue Alliance, City Dogs Rescue, Home alone Feline rescue, ect.)

Color and Draw

Take out some pencils and colored pencils and some paper and start drawing.

Tour the USA’s greatest national parks during Quarantine

Go find some national parks when searching online and start exploring!

Go enjoy and see 800 Frida Kahlo paintings in a virtual exhibition

Go to a virtual art museum and explore.

Join Mo Willems with his Lunch time doodle videos

Go to “youtube.com” and search Mo Willems and you should see lunchtime doodle. Click on one of those episodes and have fun drawing!!

Learn to play an instrument

Take online music lessons and you might be the greatest magician of all time

Paint your nails

Get nail polish if you don’t have any, and paint your nails.If you do have nailpolish, then go ahead and start painting!

Write Stories

Take a piece of paper and a pencil and start writing some stories. You can also write your stories on word or google docs.

HAVE FUN WITH ALL OF THESE ACTIVITIES!

You also don’t have to stick with only these if you even choose to do one of the activities above. Your choice!

What are electrolytes, why are they important and what do they do? Some fancy waters, drinks or sodas are made with electrolytes. These are chemicals- the good kind, that conduct electricity when they are mixed with liquid. They get you hydrated, reduce sweat, balance blood acidity and pressure, and actually help rebuild damaged tissues. That’s why when you are out all day doing sports, Gatorade can actually be good for you in a way because the electrolytes inside of it calm your body down. But if you are sitting around all day and have not exercised Gatorade is just a bunch of processed ingredients. Gatorade was invented because of the sports team; the Florida Gators. They drank this drink after all of their games and it is now used to do that everywhere. It’s getting really hot out there, so if you are out all day, try to find these drinks with electrolytes.

The coolest thing from quarantine is when I was playing with my switch and playing with my friend Lukas.i went on the water slide with him. I play Mario kart 8 on the switch. My favorite character is king boo.my favorite track is mount wario.my favorite kart is the land ship.my favorite glider is the wario wing. Lukas is 7. He's my best friend.

Today I went on a hike. I saw a rabbit it was black and white. We saw a train .the preserve is called crawbukie.we thaught we saw a eagle. At the end we went another way we saw a old old old old old swimming pool. We also saw a 4 car garage. The road to crawbukie is beach road. We had a great time.