Child's Perspective

A while ago I asked for ideas regarding classroom activities that I could possibly use at school. For those of you who haven’t read about the little angels you’ll find it HERE. Thanks so much to all of you that contributed. We have been able to incorporate a number of the ideas so far. These include: shapes on a hockey rink; using a fictional cap to pick a team of NHL players (and follow the players points for the rest of the season); biographies and report writing and finally this coming week we will be working on what it means to be part of a team.

One of the ideas that I got was to let the pupils do a bit of research on the British national hockey team and their potential for the 2010 Olympics. As you probably know GB did not qualify for 2010, so we subsequently abandoned this idea for the much more colourful world of the NHL.

I put them into pairs, they chose a team and eventually a topic which they would like to write about. I told them that I would put the winner here on my boards!

It would be fair to say that this has been a painful process, mostly due to poor skills in expressing themselves. However, they (well the majority) have tried their best and were so excited that they may have some of their own writing online. Special mention also has to go to my colleague Claire, who has worked tirelessly with the pupils on this…I’m at least a quarter of the way to persuading her to be a follower

Please don’t expect an awful lot from what you are about to read as they are very much “I did this…and I did that…and then I did this…” children. I have put the winning piece below first on this board. It was written by two absolute superstars who have put a lot of homework time in. I am also, for comedic value, adding another one at the bottom. This was my personal favourite and made me laugh so much I cried! It’s a very humorous account of Dan Boyle’s tough time with an incident involving an electrical fire…which was clearly worthy of virtually a full piece of work! No spelling was checked/corrected in the production of this particular piece of work, I left it in it’s original state.

Enjoy…

PIECE 1(Winner)

AGE BEFORE BEAUTY?
The reason we are writing our blog is because we took three quotes from the Guinness World Of Records as follows:-

Anaheim Ducks – Teemu Selanne

1 “Got the most goals scored by a rookie (76) in a season, and the most points by a rookie (132)”

2 “First Consecutive 40-goal season by a over 35 year old”

Detroit Vipers – Gordie Howe

3 “Gordie Howe born 31.3.28 played until he retired at 52 years old, came back to play one game at 70”

The question we are trying to answer is do you get better with age?

Teemu Selanne had 11 games with 12 points during his debut SM-liiga season. He ranked up 58 in 44 games. He continued his winning ways by being the NHL top goal scorer in 1998 and 1999. Selanne suffered a slight drop of performance during his time with the sharks, but he still managed to score 54 and 64 points during his two full seasons with the sharks.

Despite undergoing knee surgery in 2004/2005 and not playing any games he came back with a vengeance because he scored 40 gaols and 50 assists for 90 points in 80 games in August 05. Selanne recorded his 1000th NHL points on January 30th 2006, with his second goal against the Los Angeles Kings.

He has generally maintained an exceptional standard of playing and was rewarded the “Bill Masterto Memorial Trophy”, in obvious recognition for his perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. Being consistant has also got its’ monetary
rewards as he signed a $3.75 million contract in 2006/08 and a $5.25milloin in 2008
This proves that at his age advances he can still demand the money! – So he must be good.

To conclude with the Anaheim Ducks he recorded 677 career points in 2008 when he was 38 years old.

Perhaps he will be asked to return to playing once retired like Gordie Howe, because I think he will be able to score!!!, as he has got better with age and experience like a

“A good bottle of Brodeur!” oops my mistake.

PIECE 2

DAN BOYLE

Dan Boyle is 32 years old which isn’t old and was Ottawa in Canada. He is 5feet 11 inches and he shoots with his right hand which id good. He is undrafted and plays defence. Now he plays for the San jose Sharks, he used to play for Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers.

His first team was Florida Panthers. He played his first two seasons in the Panthers American Hockey legue.

Then he came off a contract on July 4th 2008 and he got traded with brad Lukowich to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for players.
At a game in 2004 when it was Stanley Cup Finales with Tampa Bay Lightning aganst Calgary Flames, meanwhile a big electric fire broke out at Dan Boyles house in Florida causing over $300,000 of damige. Dan was very sad I think because electric fire is really dangerous and his sticks might have been in his house and they would burn. Dan might have not known about the fire and it would effect his playing. But they did win Tampa so the fire was ok. $300,000 is a lot of money and maybe it could be repared. I don’t think the electric fire would make him play bad.

Dan Boyle is a good player and has good history.