Sophia goes to Disneyland!

My Trip To Disneyland

By: Sophia E.

This fall break I went to Los Angeles. I visited with my Great Grandma, Great Uncles, Great Aunts, and lots of my cousins.

Great Grandma Helen 

I went to Disneyland. Disneyland was having their Halloween party. I got to wear my costume and go trick-or-treating in Disneyland. I rode a lot of rides. There were some rides that I went on for the first time. In Disneyland the ride that I went on for the first time was Space Mountain. My dad and I made droids in Disneyland. My dad named his MX-CO, and I named mine GREEN REBEL.

At California Adventure the rides that I went on for the first were The Tower of Terror and Radiator Springs Racers. We walked 9 miles on the day we were at California Adventure and we were there for 10 hours.

I went swimming every day at the hotel we stayed that was not far from Disneyland and California Adventure.

On the way home from Los Angeles we stopped at a restaurant called The Anderson’s Split Pea Soup. Half of it is a restaurant and the other half is a gift\souvenir shop. Some of it was a bakery too.

That’s my trip to Los Angeles.

Academic Update: December 11, 2015

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Irie has a Minecraft Birthday Party

Irie has a Minecraft Birthday Party

This year my birthday party will be Minecraft theme. We are going to have a scavenger hunt, a selfie with Steve station, and pin the tail on the cat. We will have food, brewing stand, cake. It will be a lot of fun.

I like Minecraft because there are really cool things in it and I like all the animals.

Academic Update: December 4th, 2015

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Diego sees the world....DISNEY WORLD!

Diego’s Fall Break Trip

Hello my name is Diego and I am going to blog about my trip to Disney world. It all started on Thursday when my parents told us we were going to the San Diego Zoo. Then I realized we were in Reno and taking the plane that landed us in Denver. We then took our next plane to Florida. When we landed, there were a lot of cool stores like Seaworld, Harry Potter, and a NASA space store. Next we headed to the luggage. There were a lot of people waiting. Then we carried are luggage to a man that wanted us to show our magic bands.  We passed by the man and my mom asked him where we were. I said San Diego, but my mom surprised me and said we were in Florida at DISNEY WORLD. I was so excited and then we went to The Disney Express bus. It took us to the Mighty Ducks hotel. (we were staying for 8 days.) 

The next morning we went to Magic Kingdom. They have a brand new ride there it is called, The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. After the ride we went to go get lunch. Then that night we went to a souvenir store. I didn’t get anything :( but my brother Alex got an autograph book. The next day we went to Epcot. It had the best rides ever. My favorite ride was Figment. It is about a purple dragon named Figment and a scientist that travel into your imagination and talk about the five senses. The last part was fun because we went around in a circle  to each country. 

The next day we took the bus to Hollywood Studios. We missed breakfast and we ate at Starbucks there. Our first ride was the great movie ride. It is about a guide who takes you into the movies and you go through a scene from a movie. For example:  The Wizard of Oz, you go into a room and it shows a part of that movie. My favorite ride was the ROCK AND ROLLER COASTER. It has two flips! That was an epic day. The last day was Animal Kingdom, first we went to Dinoland and went on a ride called DINOSAUR. It’s about going into a time machine car and try to find the Iguanodon (dinosaur). My favorite ride was Expedition Mount Everest. It’s about going on a train that goes into Mount Everest and you stop when you get up there because the Yeti broke the tracks! Then you go backwards and go outside then inside and see the story of how it happened. He went to the top and ripped the tracks! Then you go down and when the ride is about to end, he sticks out his hand and tries to get you.

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Luke goes to Maui!

Hello! I'm  Luke and I want to talk about my Fall Break vacation, I hope you like it.  

My family and I go to Maui every year but this was one of my favorite times. I left my house with my family and we went to the airport. Then we went on the plane. It was a long plane ride. After the flight we had to walk in the Maui airport for a long time. Finally, my family and I made it to the hotel and my mom said I could go to the pool. I swam a lot and I relaxed. I had fun but the day was over after dinner.  I didn't know yet that I was going to make a friend the next day. 

The next morning I ate breakfast and went to the beach. Then my mom saw a boy about my age and she introduced him to me. I thought to myself, "Wait a minute, I saw this boy yesterday!" His name was Jordan and we played at the beach together. After that we went to the pool. We played on big blow up flamingos and swans.  We ended up being good friends and playing every day until he had to leave.

After Jordan left I was sad but the next day I made 2 other friends.  Their names were Nick and Brady. They were brothers and were from Colorado.  We had so much fun! We learned to scuba dive together.  Also we got to swim with Sea Doo jets that went super fast. 

The next day I went snorkeling with my mom and dad.  It was rough so there wasn't a lot to see.  But we did see some colorful fish and pretty cool coral.

I had so much fun the time went by super quickly.  I will never forget that time in Maui!!!!!

Maya celebrates Dia De Los Muertos

The Day of the Dead     

The day of the dead is a holiday that the people of Mexico celebrate to honor their friends or ancestors who have died. The Day of the Dead is  celebrated on November one  & November second. They celebrate by making sugar skulls, and a special bread called “Bread of the Dead”, some people might also dress up like skeletons. They also make offerings

Here below  is a image of a offering.

They put pictures of the ones who died and put stuff of what they liked on the table like day of the dead bread or flowers, but not any kind of flowers, they use the orange colored ones.

The day of the dead is celebrated in public places or private places it is often in homes or graveyards. In graveyards people clean the graves of their loved ones which they decorate with flowers, photos, candles, food and drinks. Musicians are hired to play music around the graveyard. I like to eat sugar skulls. Here is an image of a sugar skull.

The meaning of sugar skulls was that they would put the name of the person who died with frosting and put it on the person’s altar. They would make beautiful and colorful  patterns on them. Some would even make sugar coffins. Here is a image of a sugar coffin.

People also like making little cute Day of the Dead cookies they use the cookie cutter of a gingerbread boy to make the outline of the skeleton then they decorate it and it’s done!

People love making art out of the day of the dead like making pictures and also might buy skeletons here below are the images.

Here is a video of The Day of the Dead.

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I love celebrating the day of dead 

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Eric's Unforgettable Vacation

An Unforgettable Vacation!!!

By: Eric

During last summer my family and I went to Dominican Republic. We had a lot of adventurous fun.

We spent a lot of time on the beach and pool. Even though I don’t like salt water it was very clean and warm so I decided to swim in it.

In this other picture my sister didn’t want to jump inside the pool because she was worried her hair would get wet. So my dad had to pull her into the pool.

My parents planned a surprise for us! As we went inside the bus I asked my dad,”Where are we going?” He didn’t say anything. The bus stopped I saw the big sign that said “Petting Zoo”. My sister and I got very excited and we ran through the enormous doors. Finally my parents said,”You are going to swim with dolphins!” My sister started to scream because she was so excited!

We changed and sprinted to the pool where the dolphins swam. They made us put on yellow life jackets. We were too excited so after they went over the rules we got in the pool as quickly as we could. There were three dolphins two adults and one baby. As one of them swam by I felt it’s soft,silky,smooth skin. It felt like a smooth stone. The two adults jumped over our heads! They kissed my face and I got to hold on to their fins and lay on it’s stomach then they swam through the pool very fast. The little one didn’t know as much as the adults did so he just swam under and next to us. After that we went and got to pet animals.

In this picture I went inside a fake dessert or the place where they keep their iguanas. This was one of the biggest iguanas they had. We also got to feed spider monkeys. We gave them sunflower seeds. Another surprise that our parents planned for us was to go snorkeling! We got to wear red life vests this time.

I saw a blue and yellow tang fish, clown fish, and black  fish. My sister and I tried to catch one but they were too fast. When we were going back our guide let me drive a little bit.

Almost every night we went to a fancy restaurant.

We also spent a lot of time at the club house.

I got to zip line five times it was so much fun!!!

There were many interesting objects like this statue there were many of them around our resort.

My sister and I also got temporary tattoos mine was a anchor and my sisters was a music key with notes around it because she loves music.

This was an unforgettable vacation I will always remember swimming with the dolphins,snorkeling,and the beautiful,clear,warm water of the Atlantic ocean.