<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7056667043705783096</id><updated>2015-12-01T10:12:55.560-08:00</updated><category term="Blog Challenges"/><category term="Blog ideas for kids"/><category term="blog prompts for kids"/><title type='text'>Blog this, Kids!</title><subtitle type='html'>Weekly Blog Challenges for Kids, Tweens and Teens</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogthiskids.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7056667043705783096/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogthiskids.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jacqueline Smith</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5AdkKHMbVQ0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAPE/69j6AIPYWqE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7056667043705783096.post-8358827752777606352</id><published>2015-04-25T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2015-04-27T17:38:53.554-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Link-Up #6: What&#39;s a movie you&#39;ve watched more than once?</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0hrN0O7PUA/VT7GejWV9VI/AAAAAAAAA1s/p0mZOxSzh0M/s1600/Kids%2Bblog%2Babout%2Bmovies.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0hrN0O7PUA/VT7GejWV9VI/AAAAAAAAA1s/p0mZOxSzh0M/s1600/Kids%2Bblog%2Babout%2Bmovies.jpg&quot; height=&quot;255&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cliparts.co/clipart/2455360&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;clipart source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Maybe it was the soundtrack, or maybe it was the story that hooked you. Maybe it was the characters, or maybe it was the cinematography, that was most fascinating. Maybe it was all of those things that made you sit for another hour and a half or so to watch the same movie again. And again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;One of mine is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204342/?ref_=tt_rec_tti&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Muppets&lt;/a&gt;. Our family watched this, let&#39;s just say, a few times. It&#39;s a feel-good story&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;about team spirit and determination. All the characters are interesting, my favourite is the incredibly vain Miss Piggy - &quot;I didn&#39;t come five thousand miles to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;not&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;be on TV!&quot; Plus, t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;he songs are fun to sing. Sometimes we put one of the songs on, like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU4mqvGw-wY&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;we built this city&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;, or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;mahna mahna&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; to enjoy them again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Tell about one of your favourite movies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Don&#39;t have a blog? 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Write your own set of wonderings about anything you choose.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Don&#39;t have a blog? Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogthiskids.blogspot.ca/p/norms-for-participatingyour-own.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to submit your response.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Have a blog? 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Choose one action, that if everyone did this often enough it would make a difference to that place, either in a negative way or a positive way. Explain with lots of details and examples what difference that one action, repeated by everyone, would make.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Don&#39;t have a blog? Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogthiskids.blogspot.ca/p/norms-for-participatingyour-own.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to submit your response.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Have a blog? 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title=&quot;click to view in an external page.&quot;&gt;An InLinkz Link-up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script src=&quot;//static.inlinkz.com/cs2.js?v=116&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;!-- end InLinkz script --&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogthiskids.blogspot.com/feeds/1982887852253912692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://blogthiskids.blogspot.com/2015/04/blog-challenge-3-that-was-awesome.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7056667043705783096/posts/default/1982887852253912692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7056667043705783096/posts/default/1982887852253912692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogthiskids.blogspot.com/2015/04/blog-challenge-3-that-was-awesome.html' title='Link-Up #3: That was Awesome!'/><author><name>Jacqueline Smith</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/112431096623162281698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5AdkKHMbVQ0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAPE/69j6AIPYWqE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UiXVE__2Umo/VSBG57lyRvI/AAAAAAAAAqY/XAAIpmJXu6M/s72-c/blogthiskids.blogspot.ca.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7056667043705783096.post-6786994246239719697</id><published>2015-03-28T17:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2015-04-18T05:33:45.255-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog Challenges"/><title type='text'>Link-Up #2:  Stuffed Toys</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IEFMPXIuFh8/VSmJa8WNkFI/AAAAAAAAAwE/OkHgVq8l5FQ/s1600/cuddly%2Bstuffed%2Banimals.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IEFMPXIuFh8/VSmJa8WNkFI/AAAAAAAAAwE/OkHgVq8l5FQ/s1600/cuddly%2Bstuffed%2Banimals.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Write a blog about stuffed toys.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;First decide how to approach the challenge.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Here are some ideas to start with:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;write about your favourite stuffed toy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;make guesses about why stuffed toys are so popular&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;make an infographic showing stuffed toys facts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;make up a story about one&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;tell a true story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;[your idea here]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;To get my photo looking like a sketch, I uploaded it to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://photofunia.com/categories/drawings/sketch&quot; 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In this challenge, we are looking for artefacts from imaginary worlds - the worlds of video games, picture books, novels, movies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;For example, an artefact from Minecraft would be an armour or an ore of some kind. An artefact from the Percy Jackson series would be the Riptide (Percy&#39;s sword) or Zeus&#39; lighting bolt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;1. Decide on an artefact that is interesting to you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;2. 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