Friday Treats

Audrey and Halle shared another adventure of Chip and Nut, fiction that they have been working on all year by themselves.

We also wrote our letters for Mother's Day outside to take advantage of the wonderful, warm sunny day.

Highlights of the week from Aspen

My highlights of the week are I went swimming with my friend Parker.  We made a swimming pool in the back of my dad's truck.  My dad called it his redneck swimming pool.

We are learning about the Ching Dynasty in class.  We learned that Empress Cixi likes power a lot.  She also likes telling people what to do.  She was regent 3 emperors and when the emperors were almost ready to rule, they all died of mysterious circumstances.  She likes to spend money on stuff that she needs and not the country.

We just finished our research dynasty papers. I feel very proud of it.

Highlights of the week from Josiah

The highlight of my week was finishing the sixth Harry Potter and I can't wait until I get the 7th book.  Another highlight of my week was writing my "How to draw animals" piece in writing.  And also, we made these really cool things out of coffee filters in Japanese class.  First you fold it until it turns into a really small triangle, and then you dip it all three corners in paint, and then you unfold it.  We also are having fun in our book club because we are getting really good at keeping the talk going.  We discussed how we could save bees.  

I hope extra recess gets more votes.

Isabella in Guadalajara

I went to the city where my mom grew up: Guadalajara. Guadalajara is the second largest city of Mexico. Here I am in the "Plaza Fundadores". This sculpture represents the foundation of Guadalajara. Did you know that it was founded 471 years ago, on February 14th? Just like Valentines day!

We visited a building were my mom worked many years ago. It's a cultural and very old building.

You can taste many yummy fruit in Guadalajara, such mangoes, pineapple, bananas and more!

These is a typical bread. It is called "pan dulce", sweet bread. My favorites are "conchas". My favorite flavors are vanilla and chocolate!

A type of soup named pozole. It was good.

My aunt Tere took me to my favorite bookstore. It is called "Gandhi". She got me some books and games.

My cousin and I had a horse ride! It was so fun!

I played a lot with my cousins' dog. Its name is Rocky.

My cousins and I set up a lemonade stand. We made 60 pesos!

My family!

I lost my 7th tooth while being there. In Mexico, instead of a tooth fairy, it's a Magic Mouse who comes to let some pesos under your pillow. He left 40 pesos under my pillow!

On our way back, I played with my mom's iPad. Look at this picture of my mom taken with photo booth! So funny!

Highlights of the week for Felix

 This week we came back from spring break and saw our brush paintings were hanging on the lights.  Also, Uto Sensei taught us how to make paper origami boats.  Today, we are writing letters to Ms. Braxton's class.  I am not doing mine right now because I am doing this blog.  Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Zach and his friend Will helped out in our class.  They did our mini groups and book reviews.

For a slide show of the brush painting work of this class, click on the link below.

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Highlights of the week for Anna

We learned about the Ming Dynasty.  It was found by a son of a poor farmer.  We are going to present our poems to Ms. Braxton's class. I will read it in Japanese.  I painted a crane to present to Ms. Baxton's class as well.  I painted another crane to take home.  These paintings are painted based on Chinese brush painting philosophy which are calm/serenity, nature, simple, and suggest.

Highlights of the week for Thea

After learning about the Yuan Dynasty and Marco Polo's travels, we learned about the Ming Dynasty this week and we copied the notes down.  We did brush painting.  I painted bamboo and cranes and other little creatures.  We did pin down in gym.  I'm looking forward to going to ballet.  Today I have ballet.

In the Ming Dynasty, the first emperor was the son of a poor farmer.  The farmer was so poor he had to give way his children.  He was given to monks at first and the monks weren't able to keep him so he became a beggar.  One day he got tired of it and went to go fight the Mongols!  And then they beat them and told them to never come back.  After he became emperor, he name it Ming Dynasty because it meant "bright".  He didn't let foreigners come into China and instead send his people out to explore the world.

I am also looking forward to spending time with Nin, my grandmother.  There are three people who are having birthdays this weekend, Eli and Aerin have birthdays on Saturday.  Nin has a birthday on Sunday.  And I am coming to Nin's birthday party.