Sunday, 18 April 2021

My summer plans for 2021

 Covid has broken out and hurt more people than imaginable. It's hard  to imagine a time without wearing your facemask in public, or without fearing Covid-19. Summer is a vacation, time away from work. But when you can't really go to any other place but your home and local supermarket it's hard to just chill and allow the summer vibes to flow in. So here are my restricted plans for the Summer under the reigning pandemic. 


1. Visit my grandparents if I can

2. Work on my novel

3. Read/revise

4. Play with my pets

5. Make YouTube videos

6. Celebrate my birthday


May 28th- My last day of school. 

May 30th- bday 

may 31st- go to grandparents

Thursday, 15 April 2021

How to go about a social media detox

 Okay so it's simple, right?. No phone for a week, easy-peasy. Well along with annoying temptation and not being able to check up on your friends and pals, a social detox (time away from the internet and your mobile phone/devices) may be tremendously difficult for the average individual. So in this exclusive blog post here on Kayla's Blog, we will venture into the complex list of tips and tricks on how to go about a social media detox. 


    1. Resist the urge

Easier said than done. You may wish to just post a selfie on Instagram or start a streak on Snapchat, however ask yourself the query; "Do I need to do that right now?". And do not attempt to try and find a loop hole, you do not need to head onto the internet. In fact you should have a house phone (a phone in witch you keep at home and can only call people on) so that you have no excuses to call somebody as if you really need to the house phone will be there. 


2. with every detox go stronger

What I mean by this title is to do more extreme detox's. Start off with a day of no devices, then three days, then perhaps a week, then slowly engage onto a month or more. 



Make sure to be careful with what you post/comment online/on the internet!. Take breaks from it every now and again!!.
























Thursday, 1 April 2021

Gift Ideas For Children/kids ( 7-14)

 Purchasing a present or a gift for a child is difficult, they all possess their own personal hobbies and interests. Yet in this blog post we have gift ideas for everyone!, regardless of their differences!!. 


1. Fidget toys

These are terrific!. Kids can spend ages happy and content with these!.



Simply do a Google search and you will discover a lot of examples. Amazon has plenty!.


2. sowing kit for kids

It is always nice and traditional to keep traditions in the running, especaily if they are vital such as sowing.


3. Journaling kit!

Does your teen ADORE journaling?. Do they like to read, write and draw?, well if so then this makes an awesome present!. 




4. Science toys/kits

Perhaps a telescope?, an encyclopedia?. For the smart kido's this is the way to go!. I sure know I adored that science kit I was gifted as a child!!!.















My to-read booklist

 



I adore books. 
This is my first to-read booklist. Now, in my next to-read booklist, you will see the books I want to read that I don't currently have yet, albeit in this blog post you'll see some books I actually have. Ready?, then let's dive in!!.





1. The cat and the corpse in the old barn by Kate High

I am actually half-way finished this and I'm just loving the murder mystery and all the animals Clarice helps!.



2. My story- Titanic by Ellen Emerson White
Well I have actually finished this!



3.     My pear shaped life by Camel Harrington 

                                         Almost completed!.                                                                  



















Secondary school- How To Get Great Grades

Grades are vital. To sincerely master secondary/high school, you must self-teach yourself the most significant mindset to apply to the procedure. Accordingly, said mindset is a key component in the procedure. To extremely and in additional wreath, utterly begin to attempt secondary school and gain points, you must inspect your personal mindset. If all proclaimed, your mindset is contemporary, and 'needs a bit of work' , then adjust your mindset. Accept exigent changes with the current level of persise/certain education.


Make sure to raise your hand and answer the questions!. Once you do you'll obtain the information better. 



Do quite a bit of studying- invest time and effort into it. Add it into your routine. Each day after school, study for an hour.

How I feel about online school

 Another non-school lockdown was announced in my country two days before the 4th of January 2021.     And when my secondary school switched to the Microsoft Teams platform to do the schooling, it arose many issues for me.

This is not my first time doing online school, I did this form of education back in the last few months of primary school, A.K.A the huge lockdown. However that was on the platform known as Seesaw and Teams differs tremendously to that concept of primary online teaching.

As a bit of background, my school had started using teams last year during the immense lockdown and the staff had always felt that there would be another lockdown so they kept Teams. And they were correct. We were told to send in our homework ever since we began secondary on Teams so we were used to the basic strategy of the platform. However, when we converted full time to the online teaching via the Teams platform, various/numerous issues began to occur. 

Let us begin with the statistic of overload. If you are unfamiliar with MS Teams first of all, instead of homework, you send in a photograph of the assigned obhair (Gaelige for 'work'), into the assignment set by your teacher. The assignments were rather hectic and abrupt in coordination to the concept of a new person to the platform. Allow me to explain. I was 'new' to Microsoft Teams and the assignments were rather difficult to keep up with. I desired to go to sleep early as per each night, yet with another quick glance at Teams a tremendous quantity of assignments were due that night. It was tiresome, what ca I say?. The assignments kept on overflowing and my brain cells overloaded. It was difficult to actually obtain the sources of data/information when so many of the assignments were due. Upon deeper inspection it was crystal clear to me that I certainly was not the only individual in depth of a workload tackling online schooling. Plenty of my classmates spoke up personally about their issues with the amount/quantity of obhair being produced rapidly and my younger cousin and younger sister felt the exact same way about the immense workload. 

Online school is as though as rocks, however together we can make it through this.