December

I had an excellent Hanukkah. Everyone came, incuding Aaron, Amy, mommy, Ruben, Miriam, Grandmother, Bubbe, and of course me! We ate latkes on my new plate that I made. I put applesauce on my latkes. I got to open some presents. Here is one of my cool presents. It is an iFish. When you plug your iPod into it it dances around to the music and lights up. It is funny! I also got a lot of books and gift certificates to Border's. My Aunt Margie gave me a watch kit with a watchband for every day of the week!

On the 3rd night of Hanukkah, I went with Mommy and my bubbe to shop for people at the Santa Fe House. We bought them some diapers, and toys for their Holiday presents. I also used one of my gift certificates for Border's to buy books for the kids there. The next day we delivered it to someone who took it to the Santa De House.

On Thursday, my Bubbe and I went to San Francisco.

The best part was going to Boudin's and getting a bread bowl and then going to the chocolate store in Ghiradelli Square. I also got to shop and go to the ocean.

On Sunday, Mahima and I went to see the movie Night at the Museum. For me it was my second time because I already saw it with my Bubbe. It was so funny! Then Mahima and her brother Arnav came over and we decorated gingerbread cookies.

Yesterday, my great grandmother came over. We celebrated Christmas with her. I ate potato soup and everyone else ate enchilada soup.

We watched too many slides. Halfway through I went upstairs to my computer because I was getting bored! Then when I was bored of the computer, I went to watch tv!

That is what I did this holiday!

Happy New Year!

My Hanukkah Wish List

Here are some things that I want:

1) The DVD for Molly: An American Girl on the Homefront

2) The DVD for Felicity (She is an American Girl too!)

3) A Border's gift certificate

4) A tv in my room (even though i know I am not going to get it)

5) An i-Cat. This picture is of an i-Cat. With an i-Cat, you can plug your i-Pod into it. They come in different colors. Each color has a different type of music that comes with it for free.

6) Any Nancy Drew kids book

7) Any book from the Weird School Series. (like Mr. Klutz is Nuts!)

8) Even though I know I am not going to get it...The big Samantha doll from the American Girls collection.

p.s. I wrote 8 presents for all 8 days of Hanukkah

Rick Recht came to town!!!

I played on stage with Rick Recht last night. It was EXCELLENT! I got to see my friends there. I went to the concert with my mom, my bubbe and all of my friends from CBS.

I got to play my favorite song, Salaam. The best part of the show was rocking with Rick all night!!! After the show, we got some some songbooks. I am going to try and play them on my violin. The first song I want to learn is Ki Va Moed. I love that song from the kids CD that he made. OH!!!!! I almost forgot! My mommy bought me a T-shirt that said "Rick Recht Band." I got it autographed by 3 different people, Rick Recht, Logan and Dennis. (Logan and Dennis play in the band too!)

This morning on our way to Sunday School we listened to my Bubbe's new Rick Recht CD, Tear Down the Walls. That CD is good too!

Instead of going to Sunday School for class today, we went to the Mudroom and painted plates and other things for Hanukkah. Almost everyone there went to the Rick Recht concert last night, it was cool! I hope that Rick Recht comes back to play again.

Resumen del Libro: Así es Josefina

Tuve que hacer un resumen del libro para mi maestra. Esto es lo que escribí:
Capítulo 1: LAS FLORES DEL RECUERDO
Vocabulario:
1) peones: trabajadores del campo
2) milpa: tierra para cultivar el maíz
3) sequía: no hay agua por mucho tiempo
4) riachuelo: un río pequeño
5) enjuagó: limpiar con agua
Resumen:
Josefina viene de Nuevo México. Vive con sus dos hermanas y su papá. Se murió su mamá un año atrás. En éste capítulo, Josefina y sus hermanas lavan la ropa en el río. Estan esperando la llegada del abuelo.

Capítulo 2: LA SORPRESA DEL ABUELO
Vocabulario:
1) arremolinar: juntarse gente, animales or cosas
2) aldea: un pueblo
3) repicar: sonar las campanas
Resumen:
En éste capítulo vino el abuelo. Él trajo la Tía Dolores para las tres niñas. Al llegar, ellos contaron cuentos de la caravana. ¡El piano de la Tia Dolores los salvó porque habian bandidos y el piano hizo un sonido muy grande! Al final, la Tía toco el piano y las hermanas lo gustaron.
Capítulo 3: UN REGALO PARA TÍA DOLORES
Vocabulario:
1) asina: así
2) conforme: de acuedo con
3) calmor: un ruido
Resumen:
En éste capítulo hay un fandango. Las niñas quieren estar muy buenas y bonitas. Josefina quería que la Tia Dolores tuviera un regalo. Ella se fue y escogió flores. Pero Florecita las comió. Josefina no tenía algo para dar a la Tia Dolores. Pero ellos plantaron flores nuevo. Esos son las cosas que pasaron en éste capítulo.

Capítulo 4: LA IDEA DE JOSEFINA
Vocabulario:
1) rociar: refrescar las flores con agua
2) cortés: buen educada
3) asunto: cuestión o cosa en que se trata
Resumen:
En éste capítulo Josefina tiene una idea. Ella quiere que la Tia se quedara. Ella quiere que se quedara porque podría ayudarlas. La preguntan y dice que no va a quedar pero va a regresar. Éste es lo que paso en éste capítulo.

Mi opinión del libro:
La autora hizo un buen trabajo en éste libro. A mi me gusta la serie de libros porque dice muchas cosas de la vida en Nuevo México. También me gusta la serie de Josefina porque hay una vista al pasado. Tú debes leer la serie.

Doy Gracias

Yo doy gracias por tres cosas en este Día de Accion de Gracias. Una cosa de que estoy agradecida es mi familia porque ellos son muy buenos conmigo. También doy gracias por los autores e illustradores porque sin ellos no hubiera libros. Ademas doy gracias por Pricilla Mullins porque ella cocinó el pavo para el primer Día de Accion de Gracias. Estos son algunas cosas de que estoy agradecido.

New Glasses

I got new glasses. They are awesome. I can see, it is a miracle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

B.A.M.!

BAM!

BAM is Body and Mind. At my school we have BAM posters all over. We do BAM every day. BAM is going to the track at 7:45 or earlier and running around the track as many times as you can. You can also walk. We do it because the nurse told us to! No, not really, We do it because we want to. We If you exercise in the morning before school, it will help you concentrate. It will also make you healthy.

By the way, the posters say "BAM! Do it for the rest of your life! It helps you be healthier and to concentrate. BAM!"

I do BAM every day because my mom tells me to. I also do it because it is fun to run with my friends.

Turkey Trot

I am going to be in the Turkey Trot in November. What you have to do is sign up for $11. Then you have to show up on November 18th at Donnelly Park. The kids run in the Children's Stampede. You get a T-shirt for running. I am going to run with my friend Katie. We will practice for it by running at B.A.M. every day at school.

GOBBLE, GOBBLE!

I Got Mail!

When I got to class today there was a letter waiting for me from my principal. She said that I can talk to the WHOLE SCHOOL with my friend Emily. We need to make some posters and practice what we want to say in English and in Spanish. That is COOL DUDE!

A Letter to the Principal

Today I wrote a letter to my principal about the dirty bathrooms at my school. I wrote it all by myself. My grandma help me with most of the spelling. My mom typed it up here for me. Here is my letter:

Dear Mrs. _______,
There is a problem at our school! All three girls' bathrooms are dirty! The toilet paper holder is breaking off the bathroom stall by the cafeteria. There is also graffiti in that bathroon in the last stall. Emily L. and I think that it is too much work for Rick to clean up. (the custodian)
Once I really saw three girls in 4 or 5 grade putting water in their hands and then throwing it all over the bathroom. I think that is not acceptable bajavior. Do you? Emily L and i got the idea of doing this letter because we are learning about sending letters to the mayor. You are a teeny bit like the mayor of the school. Continuing with the problem, will you please fix the toilet paper holder? Our solution is that people need to be CLEANER! Will you please remind the students at morning opening? We will volunteer to do it! Did you know that when Emily was going to the K-3 bathroom it was flooded? That is why we got the idea of doing this letter. Really, it is a lot of work for Rick the Janitor. Will you grant our request?
Hope you approve,
Sabina and Emily L.

P.S. Share this with the school please.
P.S. (again) May I scedual a appontment with you to talk about this?

Hello People!

Hello people around the world!

Did you know that today is Halloween Joke Day? Here are some jokes. I will number them and leave the answers below so you don't cheat!

1:
Q: What did the Mama ghost say to the little ghost before they drove off?

2:
Q: What kind of monster can dance the best?

3:
Q: Why didn't the skeleton dance at the party?

4:
Q: Why don't skeltons go to scary movies?

Answers:
1) A: Fasten your sheet belt!!!

2) A: The Boogie Man! (You get it? Boogie?)

3) A: He had nobody to dance with. Get it? Nobody - No body!

4) A: Because they don't have the guts!

My Birthday

My birthday is on August 23rd. I am going to have my party this Saturday because I will be in school on my birthday.

For my party I am going to have a Fairy Tale Theme. People will come in costumes. I am going to be the Sugar Plum Fairy. We might play pin the crown on the princess or frog, musical statues and the hula hoop game. My mom is going to help me make fairy tale worksheets too.

Here is my birthday list:
* A digital camera
* A Hello Kitty Binder you can zip up
* To use the internet on my computer so I don't have to use mommy's anymore
* A gift certificate to a book store
* A Polly Pocket magnet house

I really just like anything.

The Stanislaus COunty Fair

Yesterday I went to the fair!!!

: )

It was fun Odalys, Miriam y Osmany came too.

The best part was the COTON CANDY (and drinking all of mommy's diet Coke!!)

My Week

Monday and Tuesday I went to MSABCMOM'S school. It was fun! Once I went to Ms. Treviño's class of first graders. First means your#1! She sprayed us with her spray bottle. We played Elves and Brownies. The girls are brownies and the boys are elves. We are with the teachers and elves are at the gate. When she says GO!, the boys have to try to sneak up on the brownies and try to catch us. We were safe, though. I made a new friend, too - Jazmin. She is nice.

On Wednesday I went to high school with my Bubbe and I made new friends.

One of them was Adela. Adela was nice to me. She is pretty. The students´ final assignment was to make a game. Her group´s game was Jeopardy. I went to the bookroom twice with the kids because they needed to return books. The first trip was really, really long. Other friends I made were Carlos, Adriana, Jazmín, Flor, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Nacho and Edgar and the other Adriana.

Thursday I went to Court! I saw Ana, the secretary at my tío Nebur´s new office. Court was OK. Guess what? I drew a picture of the judge (Judge Steffen). At Court, tío made me petrified. He petrified me because once he went outside and left me with the other people, like the bailiff and the judge. The audience was outside. After that there was this one lady who said "I´m the nice one here." That´s enough about Court. The I went back to the office. I made a book about Ana. Two pages had pictures on them. Correction. Three pages had pictures on them. Five pages had words, like "I like you, Ana. You are really, really nice." Stuff like that.

Today I went to Grandmother´s apartment. I packed eight books with me: One Amber Brown, one Josefina in Spanish,and seven in English. We went for a walk. We walked passed the beauty shop, we went to the library that had more than ten dolls in there about the presidents´s wives! We went to the gift shop and Grandmother bought me a sewing kit. It is so cool. It has thread, tape measure, scissors, safety pins, needle holder, bobbins, needle threader, a thimble, buttons and snap fasteners. We made waffles and apples with cinnamon and sugar. It was SOOOOO good. Did I mention waffles with jam and syrup? Did I mention her lady bug waffle iron?

And that is how I spent my week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Toothless in Modesto

I am toothless. I lost another tooth tonight. I was trying to pull my tooth out in the bathroom and I saw a tissue. I twisted my tooth with the tissue and BOOM! It came out!

My Last Day

Today was my last day of school.

I am a third grader now.

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

La Pizza - I wrote it!!!

La pizza
(música: “La bamba”)

Para hacer una pizza se necesita
la salsa de tomate y otra cosita
y arriba y arriba la tiraré
la tiraré la tiraré.

Coro:
Pizza, pizza
Pizzería, pizzería, pizzería. (2 veces)

Para hacer una pizza se necesita
un poco de queso y la masita
y arriba y arriba la tiraré
la tiraré, la tiraré.

Coro

Para hacer la pizza mía se necesita
un poco de gracia y mucho amor
y mucho amor, y mucho amor.

Coro

¡Pizza!
¡A comer la pizza!

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Do you like my song? I am going to take it to school and share it with my class.

My Third Tooth - Continued

Last night I put my tooth under my pillow. I got $5 from the Tooth Fairy. I wanted to keep my mom's camera in my bed so I could take pictures of the Tooth Fairy, but she didn't give it to me!


I have three more teeth that are loose right now!!! I am working on geting one out right now. Maybe it will be out by the end of the day.

My Third Tooth

Last night at the synagogue, I LOST MY THIRD TOOTH! Yay Me! I couldn't put it under my pillow last night though because it was Shabbat. On Shabbat you can't write or use money. Tonight though, I can put it under my pillow. I told my mom that she must be the tooth fairy if she can't come on Shabbat. My mom said though that she isn't and that the Tooth Fairy is just respecting us because we are Jewish.

The first time I lost my tooth I got $5. The second time I got $3. This time, I think I will get $20. My Bubbe said that last time she thought that the Tooth Fairy only gave me $3 because she didn't get her paycheck yet. This time, the Tooth Fairy HAD to have gotten her paycheck by now! I will tell you tomorrow how much I got.

I Have Glasses

Today I got glasses. I needed to get glasses because I can't see things that are far away. I need them for distance. I like them. They are cool!

Baking Day

My friend Mahi came over yesterday to bake some stuff with me. We baked a Thunder Cake and Chango Bars. Both of them came from stories in our reading book at school.

Thundercake is a story by Patricia Polacco. It is about a girl who is afraid of the thunder. Her grandma makes a cake with her so that she won't be afraid of the thunder because she is busy cooking. There is a special ingredient in Thundercake, tomatoes! At first I thought I wouldn't like the cake because of the tomatoes. It was excellent though.

Chango bars come from a story called Jalapeño Bagels by Natasha Wing. Jalapeño Bagels is about a boy wondering what he can bring to school to eat on Heritage Day. His mom and dad have a bakery. His dad is Jewish and his mom is Mexican. They bake things in their bakery that are Mexican and Jewish. The boy finally decides to bring Jalapeño Bagels because they are a mixture of both of his parents. We didn't make the bagels but we did make another recipe in that book called Chango Bars. Chango bars are like chocolate chip cookies but in bars not in cookie shapes. I don't like them because they have nuts. My Bubbe likes them though. She goes nuts for NUTS!

After we baked, Mahi and I painted picture frames and then we played.

If you want the recipes for these desserts you can go to my Mom's blog HERE and get them. You should try them. They are delicious!

The Great Brain!

I just finished the book The Great Brain. The book is about a boy named Tom (T.D.), John (J.D.) and Sweyn (S.D.) These boys are brothers. Tom is called The Great Brain because he has a great brain that can solve problems and he can use it to be tricky. The story tells about their life growing up.
The funniest part in the book is when Tom charges everyone money to come in to their house to see the new watercloset in their house. They lived before toilets came in houses. Their was the first one to get one in their town because their Papa was crazy for new inventions. Everyone thought they thought they were crasy to have a toilet in their house because it would make the house stink! When Tom made the kids pay to see the toilet inside there was a sign that said "See the magic water closet that doean't stink. Admission one penny cash - no promises or credit!"

We are going to go and get the next book called More Adventures of the Great Brain later on today.

Straight Hair

Today I went to get my haircut. I asked Yolanda if she could make it straight. She said that she could but only for a day. I have curly hair and she can't change that.

First she cut my hair. Then she blow dryed my hair. After that she used a flat iron to sraighten my hair. It took a long time but I like it.

After that, my mommy took me to the picture studio and we got my picture taken with my new hair cut.

Peace Day

Today I went to a Peace event at the park. There was a bell that was ringing for all of the people who died in the war. Some people made posters and stood there holding them for people to see. There was a kid corner too. In the kid corner kids could build with blocks, play with play-doh, read some books, draw, write and have fun. I got to help some little kids there too. I wrote a poem about peace there.

Non-Violence:
Peace is better than violence
Love not hate
Love not war
For all people give a
little of what you have and...
Love

It was fun to go to the park. A photographer from the Modesto Bee came and took pictures. I might be in the paper!

Read Across America Week

This week was Read Across America Week. We celebrate Dr. Seuss' Birthday this week. He would have been 102 if he was still alive.

We did lots of things at school.


Monday: Hat day. I wore my funny snow hat.

Tuesday: Bring your favorite book to school day. I brought Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Wednesday: We were supposed to write letters but we didn't do it.

Thursday: YEAH! It was the most fun day of the week. It was dress up like a favorite character from a book.

I was Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.

I kept on giving BIG lecture to people who said "Hi Harry Potter" I kept on saying "I'm a girl - not a boy!" People wanted my autographs. This girl and boy called Taco and Burrito knew who I was.

Friday: Today - was spirit day. We wore Purple and Gold.

My New Haircut

Today I got my hair cut. Not just a trim - the "real" kind where it really got cut, a lot!

My mom's friend Yolanda cut it for me. My mom didn't want me to cut it short but she let me anyway.

After that we went to a park to play.

When we were done at the park we went to eat at a restaurant called La Parilla.

Now I am doing my homework!

San Francisco

Yesterday I went to San Francisco with my mom, Osmany, Odalys and their family.

We went to Pier 39 to see the tuilps at Tulipmania.

There weren't that many tulips at Tulipmania. We thought there would be a lot more. When we were there, we went on the Carousel.

After that we went walking to The Mechanical Museum by Firsherman's Wharf. The museum has lots of old mechanical games from amusement parks and carnivals. It was fun.

They even had the arm wrestling machine that was in the Princess Diaries movie.

Then we drove to Twin Peaks.

We could see all of San Francisco from way up there. After that we went to eat at a restaurant called El Zocalo. They had food from Mexico y El Salvador. I ate some flautas and my mom ate pupusas. To drink I had a Jarritos de mandarina.

We came home late and I was tired but it was a fun day. I was tired but I still had some energy to read before I went to bed!