Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
~Alexander Graham Bell
EOCs. They are on our minds and seem to be completely dominating our instruction time. But really, we're not doing anything any differently from what we've done all year. It is just in more of a review format right now, as the exam is only days away. So while we are spending every moment in class practicing and preparing for success on the test, tell me this: When is a time you have had to spend days or weeks really working hard to get ready for something? Maybe for some type of performance or game? Maybe for your driver's test, or for getting a job you wanted? How about an occasion when you spent a great deal of time and energy creating something new--an assignment for school or something for home or a friend? For this week's entry, describe a time you had to practice and prepare for something important to you, and then tell us how it turned out. Did all your hard work pay off? Did you realize you should have spent a little more time practicing instead? Let's take a break from practicing and just relax, reflect, and write for a while! :)
I loved horses as a kid. I loved them so much my parents bought me and my sisters four horses! So exciting, I know! We started showing them at the age of 5. My parents had to pay for horse lessons so we could get better at showing them. My sister and I rode our horses everyday. We had a saddle in our living room where I would practise posting without stir-ups. I had some monster thighs! All of that practise did pay off though because Kels and I acutally soon became the best and always won in our division. Everybody hated us. Not over exaggaterating either. I loved showing horses!
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One thing I work hard is soccer, we practice everyday unless we have games that day.I think that everyday we have practice i get a little better everyday. The other thing is keeping up my grades up, because those are very important in my future. I plan to go to collage, and get a good career. I think the only other things i tryed on so far was my job i got and my permit.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger and I had to take a big english test I thought that studing might would help me, but I wasnt sure. But I studdied for at least 10-15 minuets. After seeing my test score, I realized that I did good and that maybe studing can do more for me then I thought. So from this point on I only study for tests that I think that are going to be hard, and if they turn out easy then I will know that I did good cause I studdied.
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Every summer I help my grandma prepare for our United Methodist Women's School of Christian Mission. My grandma is on the board and teaches classes, so she always has to put her stuff together. I spend hours upon hours making posters, powerpoints, crafts, anything and everything she might need for her classes. Then after all that work, we head to Topeka and move a whole truck load of stuff into the class rooms. For all the work we spend you'd be so surpirsed it's only a three day retreat, but I love helping her every year and I love spending it at School of Christian Mission. It's always fun.
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There are a lot of things that I try really hard on and don't get the benefet out of it at all. There have been times where I have studied for days and don't do as well as I wanted to. No matter what I do I can't seen to get there grade or what I want. So what is the pont of trying. But when i do i feel amazing about what i have accomplished.
ReplyDeletewell just recent something that i have been studying for is a spanish test that i really needed to do good on so i could be passing her class.so i studied and studied then when it was time to take the test i got and A on it and i was very happy. so it is true when people say practices makes perfect
ReplyDeleteEvery Summer, two weeks before school, I have to practice going to bed early and waking up before noon. It takes a lot of self discipline and determination. It does pay off when that first day of school comes around. Your already used to waking up that early and don't feel so tired.
ReplyDeleteThis season for basketball we had four weeks of preparations for our first basetball game. It did pay off well though we won. But it was nice knowing that all that work everyday, except for weekends, for the four weeks really payed off and we were in good shape for our upcoming games.
ReplyDeleteone thing that i put alot of time in to is makeing an old computer a place where i could hide things, it took me about 2 hours and 2 old apple computers, and i took the back shell off of one and the front screen off the other, it didnt turn out as great as i thought it would but it was still fun. another thing i had to try hard to get down was sliding on my long board, i try to go as much as i can and when ever i get to i usally do it for a coupple of hours. it takes alot of practise to get good but is is somthing that is relly fun and i like to do with my friends
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Well, I'm a black belt in Karate.. and one time i had a tournament; i didn't practice at all and won 1st place.
ReplyDeleteI have had to prepare and practice for many things in my life. When I was little I had to practice for a dance performance that was gonna be a spectacular event and we practiced for a good 5-6 weeks and more I bet and then at then at the very end I fracture my ankle and I cant dance. It was real depressing. Ive also had to work hard at soccer practice to be able to beat the other team and practice is not all what it seems when coaches know you can do better so push you to do better and you just have to push yourself to practice more cause in a long run it will pay off. Just like they say "No Pain, No Gain!" lol.
ReplyDeleteHmm, Well not really anything specific, But after screwing up my first year and a half of High school, i realised i want to be able to support my family, put my parents into retirement, Join the marine corps. So it all depends on what i do now, how hard i work in this moment. Not what had happened in the past. Looking into my future is all dependent on now.
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Yes, I had to study to get my permit, I actually studied for a month. I studied for it befor school, during school, and after school. My hard work actually paid off because I got my permit and I was pretty proud of myself for that.
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The time i had to work on something for a long peired of time was when i do musicals and plays. you work hard to memirize lines and where to stop and stand at then finaly working on loudness . The performance come around and it all pays off in the long run . after and the pracice you got it down and hope that you had fun with it.
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one time i spent 3 months planning and getting ready for quinearra (which at last miute failed and did not happen)but i spent a week gettig ready for my first job at McDonalds i was perfecting my smile my speech and way of standing. When i was in 6th grade we had to have a science expiement so i did mentos and diet coke it took me one week to buy and prpare the miirails and i had to measure the height of the diet coke as it went in the air. I had to do a few trials.
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Actually, the biggest thing I've ever felt the need to prepare for would be in wrestling. The biggest tournament at the end is one to be proud of just making it. To get ready for it I'd prepare all season. In 7th and 8th grades, I went. I worked hard, and strived for greatness. Both times I made it, and I placed. I placed 3rd my 7th grade year, and 6th my 8th grade year. Thinking back on it, I feel I could've worked a little bit harder, but I'm still proud that I placed back-to-back.
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Weh I was about thirteen years old, I was in Karate. Me and about ten others were practicing for a demonstration at a tournament to represent our school. We practiced everyday for a week. The practicing payed off and when we did our demonstration it was prefect! I got to do a backflip and land then spin backwards and kick someone back... I nailed it!
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This week I was informied by Mrs.Snow that I should blog about how i can jump onto a box that is chest high. I have practiced this in weights we started at the beginning of the year with small boxes and gradually grew to bigger ones or the biggest one then started adding weights under the boxers to make them bigger which is quite hard. All in all i have practiced hard at making sure im able to jump onto the box every time it gets taller!
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That was some seriously awesome jumping too!! Your extra credit will be for Research and Media Literacy! AMAZiNG!! :)
DeleteI dunno how you did it, man! That was great! I can barely jump on the medium one. My jump spring sucks.
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Something that I've worked on for weeks and weeks is getting better at soccer. I've learned eye foot coordination and how to work together to get yourself where you want to be. Right now our JV team is doing really well, 7-2-1! Hopefully more wins to come. Another thing I've worked on my whole life is keeping good grades which has payed off. Practice makes perfect!
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ReplyDeleteWell, I didn't do my best preparing for the drivers test, but today, we had a competition in band, and we did amazing. We have been preparing for it since January. That's a longtime, and we were playing the same music all this time. Imagine how annoying and boring the music would get after playin the same thing that long! We got a one (which is the best rating you can get) in every single event (:
Geometry: the concept from inferno! I ALWAYS have homework in that class. I work for only a couple hours on it and by the time I'm done, my brain feels fried from all of that working! EOCs in english I think are going to go ok for me. Mrs. Snow's a good teacher :). I remember when I was younger, I was in choir and we practiced for weeks on a whole CD to perform in places like at school or in Kansas City. We even sang in the KC Royals Stadium (The Star Spangled Banner). It was really cool and practice paid off :)
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When i was younger i had to practice for baseball everyday after school with friends or on the field with the team because i wanted to be better it was when i first started playing and i wasn't very good, But i found out that the more i practice the better i got.
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This is going to sound really nerdy, but I have had to prepare for days to play Skyrim. I was at the end of the game but my character wasn't strong enough to make it through yet, so I had to go and do a ton of the smaller games in order to beat the real game. It took a while.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I can think of that I had to work for is, Working at the Deer Run Zipline. I went on the thing all the time and knew all the rules forwards and back. The only problem was that, my boss didn't know if I could handle it. Months went by and I was still shadowing the guides like i always had. Soon enough I was doing things on my own, but still not working. One night after hours a large group of people came in and were going to pay full price, but all the guides had gone home, while i was working late at the ice cream shop. My boss came running down and said, "You're on the clock bud," i was super confused. At first i thought, duh, but then i figured out he meant the zipline. That night i ran my first tour and with a record breaking group size of 13 people! It was all well worth the weight and effort.
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Well I am actually doing that now... I have been for the past few months, been trying to get a job at game stop. It's got to the point that I already know all the workers and the hireing maneger. The reason why i'm trying so hard is the Hiring maneger recently told me last week he was letting one of the people that worked there go. So he told me to just come in about once a week just to show intrest. The only hard thing i"ve learned is to figure out the days he works so next time I go in I think that will be my next question. I really hope I get the job because I really need the money and even though I am a girl, I would love to get a discount on videogames and all the new stuff they are now getting in. So like I was saying my fingers are crossed and i'm really hopeing I get the job... But if I dont I know a place where I already have a garenteed job... So eaiter way I get hired! hahaha
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Well I enjoy cooking so when I cook it takes a lot of time to clean the food, cut it, prepare it, and then cook it. The preperation and cooking time really depeneds on what im making though. Like for example yesterday I made homemade chicken and dumplings. I learned how to do it basically on my own but I got the idea of how to make them from a woman that my grandparent's are friends with. So I decided I wanted to learn how to make this. The cooking of the chicken wasn't very difficult to figure out. But at first I found online you can make the dumplings from biscut dough so thats what I did. After the second or third time I made chicken and dumplings I looked up a recipe online of how to make the dumpling dough and figured it out. Personally I think the dumplings taste better when they're homemade. I found out that there is a lot of steps into making a good batch of chicken and dumplings. In order to make the chicken and dumplings first I had to clean the chicken, then cut it, put it into the pot of chicken broth on the stove and wait for it to cook. Then I had to make the dough for the dumplings, roll out the dough, and then use a pizza cutter to cut out the dumplings. So all in all the steps to make this delcious treat aren't very difficult and I'm happy that I learned how to make this because now it's one of my family favorites for dinner.
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Nutrition and wellness i had to present a food demo last friday. I didnt know what to make, it was 180 points and i was freaking out. But the night before my presentation i came up with something to make. I decided to make homemade strawberry and chocolate cupcakes and this special occasion jello that has over 5 flavors mixed in to it. I thought that i was gonna horrible since i did everything on the very last minute, but it turned out amazing:) Everybody loved what i made so i guess everybody got a double dessert :)Yeah i honestly think that i could have taken more time on planning what i was gonna do but everything turned out just fine :)
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I remember being in band it was always practice, practice, practice. Same with choir and sports. I've done a LOT of practicing in sports. But ever since I quit its been more about music and art. Which doesnt bother me at all. I make these huge collages and they're quite time consuming.
ReplyDeleteright now i dont really need to perpare for anything except for EOC and i always do my home work and try to keep my grades up and to try my best every single day.
ReplyDeleteone thing that i have had to work hard for and still pratice a lot for is basketball. i practiced so much in basketball because i want to be the best i can, glorify God, help my team win. a time when we practiced a ton was the week before we went to nationals and we had two a days for a week and a half. once we got to nationals we didnt do as good as we could have but all of the hard work prepared for the next year.
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A stressful time for me is always when i have to do book reports or essays. I always stress about creating reports for my teachers because I want to be good enough to get the best grade I can. For some reason I always find myself procrasinating on this subject.
ReplyDeleteWell, recently we have been working on these dances and songs for this culture even tfor our church. We have been pracicing for about 2 months now. They arnt the esiest dances and songs either. We also have to learn sifn language and we will be preforming this even infront of thousand+ people. All the work that we, or i, have put into this is totally worth it.
ReplyDeleteYa know? i dont want to seem lazy. but ive never really practiced or worked really hard at anything. except for my sexy body. i somewhat practiced for gymnastics when i was younger but thats about it. i practiced pretty hard but never got to compete cuz i had to move
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Well, whenever I auditon for district band, i have to practice pretty complex music for weeks. I have to prep for at least a week to be able to go in there and audition well. So far, I've had success both this year and last year. I have made alternate for district jazz band and second chair trombone in the district concert band. That's a pretty big achievement. All the practice definitely paid off.
ReplyDeletewell, Ive been preparaing for something for about three weeks now. a french poem called "Marie" ive got it memorized with motions and Im prepared to compete in joplin. but it was hard to memorize it. i didnt stop. cause 1st place sounded great to me!
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I have spent everyday for the last year preparing for my dance recital in June. I dance everday for 3 hours! It gets very tiring, but all the work I have put into dance will make it a great performance. I have done other dance recitals in the past. They were fantastic! Every year I feel like I'm getting better and better at dance! Whether it's the technique part of dance or the part of entertaing the crowd. All I know is I love it!
ReplyDeletei had to prepare for my concerts. we work really hard and try to get the songs prefect before going to stage and proforming in front of a lot of people.
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ReplyDeleteA time that i really had to work hard was when i first started playing softball, the championships were comming up. when the championships came we all worked hard but couldnt win it in the end.. maybe if we spent a lot more time practicing different scenarios then we could have made a better chance for ourselfs.
I worked hard for 6 months just to be able to get the opportunity to build my computer. Working for my parents and just barely getting the money I need. It felt like it took ages but I soon had the components needed to put together my computer. I spent the next 2 weeks looking into putting it together before I made an attempt at it. After I felt I had the appropriate amount of knowledge relating to it, I had put my mind to building it. Needless to say, building computers is like the equivalent to building a Lego set now.
ReplyDeletethe only time i try really hard is when i take tests. im not good at them but i try really hard at getting an Aplus. there is a nother thang i work hard at it is work. when i do work i do it right the first time so i wont have to do it a scecond time. those are the only times i work hard.
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I had to work all winter and then we had like 3 weeks of practice before we had our first baseball game. I love playing baseball games, but I don't really like practice because there is a lot more running and a lot more drills than there are in games. Escpecially as a catcher because most of the catching drills are hard.
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When i was in middle school at kirbyville we spent 3 weeks doing 2 a days preparing for the kirbyville kick-off classic that we really wanted to win and we did because of all our practice!
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For my little brothers participation in an AAU basketball league my family and i have to work every tuesday to help pay off his payment. I have to either work in concessions, or watch children. It's very stressful, mostly because i dont get paid.......Anyways, i had to practice my math skills to be able to make change, or id have to practice taking care of children before they started counting the workdays.
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I eat good breakfasts and study about an hour each day during pirtate time. Goemetry is the one i study most for cause of the grade I hyave in thier. English i feel ok about. Other things i study for are quizes and work etcs. SuperMan10
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ReplyDeleteSomething I have had to practice and practice for is colorguard. Last year we didn't have practice that often and we ended up in last place. This year we have had a great turn around! We got a new guard dirrctor and have practice 5 to 6 days a week! We all worked very hard and as a team! I don't think i had ever worked so hard in my life! It really paid off. we ended up getting bumped up a class and recieved third in champianchips! :D I am very proud of my team and guard. Its very true. You might not ever be perfect, but you can sure get close.
something i had to practice for was soccer when i was younger and lived in Aurora. We lost badly to a team that we played in the begining of the season and had to play them again at the end. after all of our days and weeks of practice and playing other games we ended up beating that team two to one. so all of our practice had paid off.
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With everything i do i try to work hard. Somthing I remember most about working hard for is the Destination Imagination skit that i did with a group in my gifted class. Each year we have a few months to create a complicated and dinamic skit according to the criteria given by the jugdes. In this particular one we had to create an allusion using somtime of art created by one of the people in my group. we also had to start with somthing at the beging that chances during the skit and becomes somthing else at the end. I was responsible for creating the script and manager of the set. I had to work hard to keep everyone on track and we made it all the way to state for our compitition!
ReplyDeleteI have had to prepare the most for the choir concerts for all the time I've been in choir, which has been since 5th grade. High school concerts are definitely the hardest to learn , obviously. My choir director tries his hardest and puts forth a lot of work to make our performances the best they can be.
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I thik practicing helps out with alot of things in life if your looking to suceed with your goals or even just to pass a test. Its helped me in alot of situations such as football or getting my permit last year. in 8th grade football was a big concern with practicing. espically against our rivalsm, ozark. We praticed out butts off the week and in return we killed em. Or as fpr my permit, I know for sure that if I didnt study, i wouldnt have been waking out those doors with the permit. Alot of the answers were word by word in the book which helped alot. Superman10 3rd hour.
ReplyDeleteThe time that i have worked the hardest and studied for a long time is when i was working on my eagle award for boyscouts. we put in a total of 240 man hours on my project. after my project of cleaning and painting was done it was time for all the paperwork. once the paperwork was submitted then it was time to prepare for the interviews with scoutmasters and then the board of reviews for the final decision of wether i would become and eagle scout or not, and yes i now have obtained the rank of eagle scout.
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I have to practice every day for track after school and that can be very difficult sometimes. I am a sprinter and a jumper so I get to choose whether to go to the sprinters work out or the jumpers workout. I usually choose to do the jumping workout because it is 3x easier. I have had to do the sprinters workout recently because all my events are in sprints. I strained my hip-flexer last week so I have been out of the workouts all together so that is kinda nice besides the straining my hip-flexer part. I hate preping for EOC's at school though because it seems like we keep going over the same things over and over and over again. I know that it is helpful but it seems like we're trying to beat a dead horse. Plus its kind of boring to review but i'm sure that it helped me on my final test.
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something that i had to work really hard at was color/ winterguard. it took months of hard work, and at times i didn't think it was worth it. but it all paid off in the end seeing that our winterguard got third for finals, it took a lot of effort and time. but there were also times that i'd wish i could have done so much more in practices and in my own time. but it was all worth it and it amazed me on what is possible with a lot of practice
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everything takes practice nothing is easy as pie to get passed.In track i had to practice for several weeks before our first meet. on top of that grade were struggling to keep up so it was tough and eoc are almost here and i cant wait to be done with testing and for summer to start!!
ReplyDeletesomething i had to work hard for was to get my drivers permit i studyed for a week
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Something i had to practice for along time would have to be for my Kick Boxing match:) I practiced for About a month or 2 everyday,for about 3 hours day :) The day of my match,i bit my opponent :) I worked hard,i put my heart into it and i won :)
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The sad thing is, I almost never prepare for anything in the foreseeable future. I have, however, spent my whole life teaching my self to sing, never once having lessens it took a LOT of time to get to where I am now. I listen to myself as I sing, making constant improvements as I move though the song. I am never kind to myself. I'll say "Ran out of breath there, didn't hit the right note here, I sounded like a cat in the dryer at this part..." and so on and so forth.
ReplyDeleteI had to practice for the spelling bee one time. I studied for weeks and it didnt pay off cause I didn't get to go. But also in 3rd grade we had to make an autobiography about oursleves and I spent like 2 weeks working on it and I got a lot of bonus points on it.
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Well the one thing i have worked hard for is getting my grades up last minute. I mean i occasionally try in class, though when i do slack i end up with a stack of work, so i have to completely zone into my work and zone out the outside world temporarily. But zoning them out helps me get my work done and it pays off when i see that grade rise and know im graduating a successful sophomore year.
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I worked hard to get my grades up this year. I was slacking off in class didnt wanna do my work at all. But it hit me i need to get my work in its not that hard to do it. So i started paying more attention in class and started doing my work. My Grades are a lot better now from what they where from the start of school.
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I had to spend 6 months of practicing my driving in order to take and pass my driving test. During last Summer I always drove to the apartment of my sister so my mom and I could spend time with my nephews. It took 6 months of little things like that in order to take my test. Due to some inescapable errors, I had failed my first driving test. I spent the next week improving on what I had fallen short on so that next time I would know that I was prepared. Needless to say, I had gotten my license that next week and it was most definitely worth all of the time practicing spent for it.
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