Rubber band Improvisation (Jan. 7th 2015 by Ethan

The crescent moon is high up in the sky

The rabbit jumps over the sculptural toothpaste bottle

The lips kiss the buried treasure ring and the tooth flies away

Snow (Jan. 5th 2015 by Ethan)

The snow storm was epic and beautiful.

I had a snowball fight and I made big snow angels and a snow volcano. I even got to rake the snow on the roofs of my house.

I think snow is lovely and wonderful.

Paint a word picture using adjectives that appeal to the five senses; sight, touch, hearing, smell, taste (Sep. 24th 2014 by Ethan)

Sight: beautiful dresses lined up in a row, pretty and colorful day and night, inside a clothing store.

Touch: I like my stuffed pigeon, soft, cozy and warm, blue and bright all day long.

Hearing: Lovely music playing on the car, coming from all sorts of languages. English, French sometimes Spanish and Italian.

Smell: Sweet roses in a bush fully grown and big, big, big.

Taste: Sweet candy in a box makes my month watery so many times; I would like a treat from now and then.

The Old Hatbox (Aug. 26th 2014 by Ethan)

(Using given words to write a story.

Given words: path, damp, math, plants, trash, crash, grass, stamp, hatbox, lamp)

Once there were a boy and a girl who lived in an old village with their parents and a cat. Besides their house there was a narrow path. There were pretty plants and grass growing along the path. 

One day they found an old hatbox in their closet. There were lots of holes and cracks and scrapping paints on it. It used to belong to dad. The parents thought they could use it to put the stamps, but the kids thought it would be great to make a lamp out of the hatbox. Suddenly they saw the cat chewed up the box and crashed it, they had to throw it in the trash.

Next day the boy and the girl went to school and the teacher gave them a math test, the paper were a little damp but they did not worry and did great on the test.

Weather in the USA on May 6, 2015 (by William, after knowing Ethan's home state is having tornado...)

This picture shows a tornado night in Oklahoma.  The evening is very dangerous.  There are very heavy rain, hail, hotel, tornado, moon, sun, cumulonimbus cloud, and BeeBee’s house.  Norman and its alley are in danger and Florida has heavy rain.  

Meteorologist William Chang reports that Alhambra will have rain tomorrow.

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (by William, this week's reading report)

(Note: Mom thought this is a touching story--she had tears reading it, I thought part of it's funny--so it's added to the blog.)

My favorite book is Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.

The book is about Sarah visiting Anna’s home from Maine because Anna’s mom died the day after Caleb was born.  Now Caleb was a boy and Papa placed an advertisement in the newspapers for a wife.  Sarah took a train from Maine to live with them for a month. Sarah fixed the roof before a squall came, taught them how to swim in the cow pond, cut Caleb and Papa’s hair, planted the garden, and she decided to be Papa’s wife.

My favorite part is when Sarah returned home from town with the colors of the sea – pencils in the colors of blue, gray, and green. The kids were relieved when they figured out Sarah just bought colored pencils, flower seeds, and a song book from town, not with the train ticket back to Maine.

My favorite character is Sarah.

I like this character because she was a very loving person.  When their neighbors gave 3 hens to Sarah to eat, she kept them for eggs.  When the dangerous squall approached she ran into the rain to get chickens and roses.

Someday Sarah may bring her family back to Maine to visit her brother William.

Lost Teeth (by William)

I lost two baby teeth last Friday.  One during recess, and one at bedtime. 

After I got back home from school, I showed my mom the lost tooth in my pocket, and mom was very impressed and said “good job” (for staying calm and going to the nurse). 

I made a deal with the tooth fairy and got $25 bucks for all my baby teeth that fell off—five total.  The tooth fairy recycled, reused, and polished my worn out baby teeth, and now Summer, the baby girl I know (mom’s God daughter) finally has her two top front teeth. 

I will donate $5 (out of the $25) to Operation Smile because my mom showed me pictures of kids with clefts and they have hard time in school by covering their mouths.  It is a good thing to help them out.   

You can do that too http://www.operationsmile.org/