The Excitement

Santa made a surprise visit to our apartment!

I had a strong finish to school before Christmas break. Unfortunately my teacher won't be back at school when we get back because she is having a baby, but I am hopeful that the permanent substitute that will be teaching us will be a good teacher. A few weeks before taking break, I had a project for our unit on weather. For it, we had to make a poster presenting the weekly forecast for a city in another country. I studies maps for quite a while trying to select a city and ultimately chose La Paz, Bolivia. Mom was impressed at how motivated I was to create my poster. If I could have, I would have stayed up late and finished it the first night! There was no grade on my poster, but it turned out great!
To celebrate the last day of school before break, Mom and Dad took us out to dinner and afterwards we went to the Chinese Lantern Festival! All of the lights were so fun to see; my favorite lantern was the whale. It was a huge lantern that was set on water and there was colorful coral all around it. The color changing swings and animatronic dinosaurs were also enjoyable. It was a great way to spend a Friday night!