My Mommy: A True Story

Hello everybody! I have an agreement with my Mom that I will not do blogging while the school is going on but on few special occasions, I asked her if I could do it. Thankfully, she let me just like today. I wanted to post this book that I made in my Art class in school. It is about My Mommy.  

The outline was provided to us  by our art teacher and it is up to us what we would write in it about our Mom.  I will let you read what I wrote through the pictures.  By the way, this is the first time I uploaded the pictures.  My Mom showed me how to do it before.

My Mom did not want me to post this but I want to because she was carrying the mini purse I made for her on Mother's day.  I would like to  take this opportunity to  thank  my Mom for everything that she does for me and my brother.  I could  not ask for  a better Mom, she is the BEST!

I also would like to thank all of YOU who voted for my Doodle4Google entry.  It has been a great experience.  IT would be  nice if I could win  because my school would benefit from it too.

Happy Mother's day to all the Moms and  to the best MOM in the world, my own MOM!

My Official Entry to #Doodle4Google Contest

Just a short post to invite you to vote for my #Doodle4Google entry below.

You can cast your vote here https://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html#d=d1-10

I hope that you can spare  a minute or two to visit the link and vote.  It would  mean so much to me and  to my school!    Thank you!

Mayor's Award during the #Doodle4Google Assembly

On April 30th, Google representatives from New York and California came to St. Joseph to reveal Ms. Burrito's official entry  for the Doodle4Google contest this year.  Among the 250 entries from West Virginia, her entry was the one chosen by Google to represent the state.

It was a really nice assembly that the school and Google have put together to honor the little Miss.  Below are the Google reps giving an introduction.

 The Mayor of Weirton, also came  and gave Ms. Burrito  the City of Weirton, Mayor's Award. 

 I thought that it was really nice of the Mayor to come and celebrate with us on her special day.

 It was very touching that he knelt down on his knees when he presented the award to our daughter.

 He told the little Miss that very few people get that special award.

  Thank you very much Mayor Kondik for making this  special event  extra memorable!

The proud 3rd graders at St. Joe's!  

A special thanks to the dedicated  people of the school for  doing all the work to make this special event possible.   From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!

Tin Can Robot #GiftedProgramProjects

My Mom has a migraine right now so she let me make this post about the project that I did from the Gifted Program that I am in. In my class, there are two of us who are in the Gifted program and we always have fun when we go there on Thursday.  I love it because  get to do things that our other classmates doesn't do in our regular classroom just like these projects.

Our teacher in the Gifted class  gave us  the tin can robot  kit and we brought  one can to build our robot.  

I had so much fun doing this because I learned how to  put screws and other  cool stuff around the tin.

I name my  robot Crush Crush and my friend named hers Cherrie Cherry because she brought a cherry can.  Crush crush can walk.  We put battery in it so it can operate when you turn the switch on.  My Mom  recorded a video when I  was letting  this walk, she said that she will update it  when she feel better  later.  Thanks Mom!

Another project that we did is this 55-pieces 3D puzzle foam kit that we assembled into the subject that we chose. Before we made this, we did a research and made a short report about it, the history and other important facts.

Mine is the Empire State Building and my friend's  was the  Statue of Liberty.  Building this project is fun but tricky.  I tore up a couple of pieces because they were hard to  insert into the holes but I  hot glued them back  when I brought it at home.  

Based from what I read, The Empire State Building  has been named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Timeline of EJ's Life

We helped Mr. Burrito in making his Time line project, Wednesday of last week.  Doing this project is so much fun.  The only thing that  is hard is choosing which picture to use as we have so many and they are  only allowed  one photo for each year.  

Mr. Burrito was very determined to have it done last Wednesday although it wasn't due till Friday so we helped him  do it.  His timeline includes:

• 2007 - He was born in Weirton Medical Center
• 2008 - We were in Korea
• 2009 - We visited the Philippines for the first time.
• 2010 - We are back in West Virginia
• 2011 - We went to Disney World
• 2012 - We explored other   cities in West Virginia including Chester.
• 2013 - We went to Texas, Lake Eerie in Ohio, and a  roadtrip to Black Waterfalls.
• 2014 - Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh and Doquesne University

Ms. Burrito or Rylie's Timeline is  much colorful  than what we did with  the little Mister.  He is a boy so we thought of making the design a simple one.  He was proud  of his timeline.

The Best Way You Can Help Your Child do Well in Their SATS

Helping your child through the stress that exams can bring can be tough. You want them to do well, but you definitely don’t want to be one of those ‘pushy parents’ that doesn’t allow your child any free time away from the revision papers. There are some very simple techniques you can try though, so read on to help your child do their best in their SATS:

Helping With Revision

The only thing that will help your child do well in their exams is planning. By helping your child to make a clear revision plan, you’ll help them to feel more in control of their work. Here are some great tips:

• Create a revision timetable for each subject.
• Break your child’s revision time into smaller chunks to help them better digest important information. Hour long sessions with little breaks at the end of each one are usually effective.
• Make sure your child has all of the materials they need. This could be essential books and other materials; you could even hire a tutor to help your child excel in certain subjects. MathsDoctor.co.uk supplies quality maths tutors at great prices, for example. 
• Make notes short and sweet by using postcards and flashcards as prompts.
• Buy your child new stationary, including highlighters and coloured pens to make the information more interesting.
• Go through notes with your child yourself, and then listen as they revise a topic.
• Time your child doing practice papers. 

Supporting Your Child

• As revision and exams can be so stressful, it’s important that you make home life as stress free as you possibly can. It also helps if other members of the household are aware that your child is under extra pressure, so allowances should be made.
• If your child has study leave in the run up to their exams, you should try to be home with them as much as you can so you can share breaks and ease their worries. 
• Healthy snacks and nutritious food will help fuel your child’s brain ready to take in all of the information. Encouraging a little exercise can help too, by getting them away from the computer and books for a while. 
• Try not to nag your child or make any demands when it’s time for their exams. Arguments are counter productive!
• The day before the exam, make sure your child goes to bed early and get’s a good nights sleep. Discourage late night cramming sessions! You should also make sure they eat a good, healthy breakfast on the morning of the exam. 

Bribes and Treating

Some children are bribed to do well in their exams, and offered gifts or money to do well. This isn’t a good idea, as it gives the idea that the only worthwhile reward for hard work is money! It also tells your child that you don’t trust them enough to work hard on their own. This can affect your child’s sense of self worth, and also make them grow up expecting something for nothing. 

Encourage your child to do well for their own sake. However, feel free to treat your child at the end of their exams, with perhaps a trip to the cinema, a theme park, or something else everyone can enjoy.

The tips above will keep your child motivated and ready to get some amazing grades on their exams!

Image Credit: Flickr

Bookends and Hangers that Kids Adore from KIDorable

You guys probably know by now that we love Kidorable products right?  I remember the very first time that we got the new  bookends  from Kidorable, we were  smitten of how they were designed.  It definitely  encourage you to  organize the books and return it from the shelf when you are done  reading.  Then last Christmas, we  added another set of bookends for Mr. Burrito's books and  tried their very pretty and durable set of hangers.  The hangers were for the  little Miss so of course, the Mister  was like "How come I did not get any hangers?"  Oh boy, you can never win with these two.

Anyway, I  got them another set of   bookends and they both adored the ladybug design.  Even my Husband  loved it.  They recently bought additional books during the book fair at their school so this  would really  help them arrange  their books orderly and neatly.  You can buy this from their website for  $30.  This  would make a great gift kids who  loves to read books.

To settle the little Mister's jealousy about her sister's  pretty hangers, I got him 2 sets of Space Hero Hangers.  Between my two kids, it's the little boy who is more organize.  He make sure to hang his coat and  put away his shoes and bag when he arrive  from school.  I have to tell my daughter  a couple of times before she would change her school uniform.  Sometimes she thinks that I love her brother more than her because I keep reminding her what to do.  Parenting is never easy, don't you think?

Anyway, my son was really delighted to see that he has his own hangers now and he  absolutely adore the design of it.  This hangers  are available in two sizes and you can buy it for $20 each set.  Kidorable have many products that kids would really love to have.  They have raincoats, rain boots, umbrellas, hangers, bookends, and more.

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