My Rhyme Poem

Rugby is so cool,
You cant play if you are a fool,
Getting wasted, tackling people till they don’t see the sun,
But it is all part of the fun.

Hockey is so great,
I play with my mate,
I have scored two,
It was a close game phew.

Orienteering is fantastic,
You have to be enthsiastic ,
If you don’t want to get lost,
Or you might get tossed.

Indoor soccer is awesome,
You can even impress your mum,
You have to be so quick,
To score your great kick.

Diamante Poems

Rugby

Muddy,intense

Running, tackling,kicking

Ball, posts, fields, lines

Running, passing, scoring

Fast, fun

Indoor soccer

Orienteering

Hard, tiring

Running, inserting, finding

Finishing, happy, thirty, exhausted

Hitting, scoring, tackling

Intense, incredible

Hockey

Bio-riddle on Bear Grylls

Bio Riddle

I was born June ’74 on the Isle of Wight

My sister called me Bear from that very first night.

My Dad taught me how to climb and sail

And Scouts started me off on the adventure trail.

Dad gave me a picture of Everest when I was eight

And I knew I would climb it, I couldn’t wait.

I started karate when I was thirteen

I practised hard and was determined and keen.

After school I joined Special Air Service SAS

Learning parachuting, climbing and explosives was best.

We also learnt about warfare in desert and snow

And combat survival - way to go.

But suddenly my world went black

A parachuting accident broke my back.

I thought the Everest dream had ended

Three broken vertebrae aren’t easily mended.

For eighteen months I worked through rehabilitation

And once again Everest was my motivation.

I succeeded to the summit at age twenty-three

And this experience really changed me.

I believe cheerful determination will overcome strife

And faith is the backbone of my life.

I’m now an adventurer, explorer, author and speaker

And for the betterment of people I am a seeker.

Don’t look down at the pavement – max out life if you can

And wherever possible help your fellow man.

This is the story so far of my time

But the question remains still, Just who am I?

Channel 50 questions

Here are the questions that I had to answer on Bear Grylls for my channel 50 project

A brief history

· My name is Edward Michael Grylls. I was born on June 7^th 1974. Straight away my older sister Lara called me Bear and I have been known by this name ever since.

· I grew up in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. It was here that my father taught me how to climb and sail.

· I was a boy scout and I learnt karate, eventually becoming a black belt.

· I attended the prestigious Eton College.

· I went to London University and gained an honours degree in Hispanic Studies.

· I joined the United Kingdom Special Forces and served for three years. I became a member of the SAS TA as a Sabre soldier. I learnt parachuting, climbing, explosives technology and combat survival in all terrains.

· In 1996 I was parachuting over an African desert when my chute failed to open at 11,000 feet. I cracked three vertebrae and I came within a whisker of being paralysed for life.

· I spent eighteen months in rehabilitation re-training my muscles to do all the things that we take for granted – sitting, standing, walking, even breathing. During this time I started to think and then plan my childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest.

· I spent seventy days on Mount Everest’s south-east face enduring extreme weather conditions and months of limited sleep. I had a narrow brush with death after falling into an ice crevasse at 19,000 feet.

· On 16^th May 1998 at 7.22 am I achieved my ambition and reached the summit of Mount Everest. I was just 23 years of age.

· I wrote a book about my Everest adventure and started to work as a motivational speaker and documentary maker.

· I continued to embark on adventures including crossing the frozen North Atlantic Ocean in an open inflatable boat and para-motoring over the summit of Everest. I was also the first person to jet ski around the landmass of England.

· I am probably now most famous for my TV series Man vs Wild where I go to the most dangerous places on earth e.g. mountains, jungles, sub-zero terrain, deserts, sea etc and show how to survive. Over a billion viewers watch worldwide in more than one hundred and fifty countries.

· I still write both non-fiction books and fiction adventure stories. I also raise lots of money for charities for children and young people. I promote the anti-drugs message for the UK Ministry of Defense and I front the worldwide advertising campaign for the Alpha course encouraging people to learn about what it means to be a Christian. I am a strong believer in conservation of our natural world and I actively promote the use of alternative energies.

· I was recently awarded an honorary commission as a Lieutenant – Commander in the Royal Navy for my endeavors in both adventures and charity work.

· I am married to Shara and have three sons called Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry. We live on a barge on the river Thames and also on a small Welsh island.

What do you consider to be your greatest contribution to the world?

I consider my greatest contribution to the world to be inspiring and encouraging people to get involved with the natural world and to get involved with God. I like being able to show people that if you have the correct knowledge and determination to stay alive then we all have the potential to beat the elements even in the bleakest of situations. This message can be applied to all situations in life not just the wilderness. I have done lots of work for charities for young people and I have used my name to advertise and endorse things that I believe will improve people’s lives.

To what do you owe your success in life?

I owe my success to my faith in God, my family and friends and my determination and sense of adventure. ‘’I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. The same is true in the world of survival; the survivors are always the men or women who give everything they have to the purpose of getting out alive. In life and survival if you are tentative you lose your power.”

What are the events that started you up the ladder to greatness?

Some of the events that started me up the ladder to greatness were:

· Climbing as a child and the picture my father gave me of Mount Everest when I was eight years old.

· Being in the SAS.

· Breaking my back and spending eighteen months rehabilitating with plenty of time to think about my life and where I wanted to go.

· Successfully climbing Mount Everest and then writing the book The Kid who climbed Everest, that tells about it.

· Making a deodorant advertisement for television “What makes Bear Grylls sweat?”

· Subsequently being asked to make a television documentary on the French Foreign Legion.

· Continuing to have adventures like crossing the frozen Atlantic, para-motoring over the jungle in Venezuela and the summit of Mount Everest, climbing unclimbed peaks in Antarctica and hosting the world’s highest dinner party at 7500 metres under a hot air balloon.

What do you regard as your gifts and talents?

I think my gifts and talents are my motivation to be an adventurer, my ability to do this practically and my ability to overcome great challenges. I have cheerfulness and a quiet determination to succeed and I also have a passion to share all these things with other people.

What are some interesting facts about your childhood?

· My sister called me Bear from the moment she first saw me and the name stuck.

· My father was a ‘sir’ and a prominent member of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.

· I grew up on an Island and spent a lot of time outdoors especially cliff climbing with my Dad. It made me feel different from the other children at school. I had done something that I thought was really hard and survived and that made me feel good.

· I started Boy Scouts at the age of eight and loved learning about the great outdoors.

· I had a picture of Mount Everest on my bedroom wall and I determined that I would climb it when I was old enough.

· I loved acrobatics especially doing flick-flacks and somersaults.

· I started karate at the age of thirteen with my friends, they were fitter and stronger than me but I had more determination.

· I attended the very exclusive Eton College.

What role did your parents play?

As I have written, my father was the greatest influence in my life. My mother, although less of an adventurous person, was also very supportive of me. Sometimes she was adding to my adventure without meaning to - because my mother refused to allow my father to take me climbing when I was a child it made the climbs all the more exciting because they were forbidden. After my accident my mother spent hours nursing me back to health and ferrying me around to appointments. When I told my parents that I was going to climb Everest, at first they were very against the idea but my mother had always said “Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do, long after the mood you said it in has left you.” Their resistance eventually turned into fierce support and without their help to get funding and work through the rigorous training I never would have made it.

What trials and tribulations if any did you have to go through?

· Selection for the SAS. After months of training I was failed after one particularly long and hard march. However I decided to try again. It took two years of my life, with more blood sweat and tears than I could imagine but I threw my heart and soul into it knowing that pain, cold and discomfort don’t last forever but achievement does. I can’t remember the pain so well now but I am still really proud.

· Rehabilitation from my parachuting accident. I suffered terrible nightmares (re-living the accident) and dreadful pain especially at night. For three months I was confined to a bed and my plans and dreams for the future were shattered. I did not know whether I could stay in the Army or whether I would recover at all. I took the picture of Everest down from my wall because there was no longer any point in having it up there. When I finally made it out of bed I spent all day doing stretching exercises and physiotherapy. After eight months I had recovered but I had to make the very hard decision that I would have to leave the SAS.

· Climbing Mount Everest. First I had to convince my family who called me selfish, unkind and stupid. My mother even said if I died, she would leave my father because he was the first to agree to it. In the months ahead I often felt completely beaten by the exhausting work of having to train so hard and having to find sponsorship. Only around one person in fifty who attempts Everest actually achieves the summit and the odds of someone under thirty achieving it are only one in a thousand. It is really hard to survive when it is freezing and to keep going when it is scary. Every day you have to get up after very little sleep and slog your guts out. There is day after day of extreme conditions and lonely hours of climbing through the cold and the interminable storms. At 19,000 feet I fell down a crevasse we were crossing because of a major icefall. I swung in the darkness on the end of my rope, the ice continued to smash around me, I swung my ice axe but it wouldn’t hold on the glassy walls, I was shaking in waves of convulsions absolutely sure that I was going to die. It was only because of the amazing skills of two Sherpas that I survived.

How would you like people to remember you?

I would like to be remembered as an adventurer, an inspirer, an encourager, an overcomer and as a Christian. I hope to be remembered as someone who cares for other people, especially those who are vulnerable and as someone who cares deeply for our natural world and wants to preserve it as well as enjoy it.

What is it like to be you?

I am not especially brave. I struggle with lots of things and I am much too sensitive for my own good. I often feel both afraid and vulnerable in the world we live in. I do take risks but by nature I am extremely cautious. I am really aware of the law of averages: the more times you get lucky, the worse your odds become. Of course often my life is a blast, exciting and full of adrenalin rushes but it is the bigger picture of the world that is really important to me. I want people to enjoy and celebrate the amazing world that we have been given but also to look after it and to look after each other.

Do you think your accomplishments will be remembered a century from now?

Yes because of the TV shows. Yes because the more sophisticated society becomes the more people want to return to nature. Yes because there will be more pressure to conserve our planet. Yes because I hope I have inspired people and made a significant difference to some peoples lives through the charities I am involved with and yes because I am doing stuff for God, which should last for eternity!

Are you satisfied with your accomplishments?

I am definitely satisfied with my accomplishments. I have pushed boundaries and broken down barriers as well as helping other people to push their boundaries and break barriers, both in terms of adventure and life in general. Even though there have been terrible times I really have enjoyed everything I have done. There are still many challenges left for me both in adventure and life in general. I know I will rise to the challenge to take them.

Haiku Writing

In the nice warm sun,

The trees were blowing swiftly,

Shaken by the wind.

Kids are having fun,

While playing together,

In the nice spring sun.

These are the haikus that I made in literacy.