First Grade Portrait

Our school pictures were taken really late this year on April 30th.  It happened to be the warmest day of day 2014, so I did NOT wear one of Mom's sweaters.  I decided to wear a bow tie because I wanted to look my best.  Mom tried talking me out of it, but I found one on my dance costume....

Tillicum Village

The older kids at my school studied native Americans last fall.  This field trip came from that, fortunately, the whole school was invited!  Mom and I carpooled with Teacher Andrea and her Family.  We were at Pier 55 forty minutes before the boat left.

 Forty minutes was a little too long.  I am behind my classmate in the orange shirt.  The sun was too bright!  Finally we got to board the boat!

Once on the boat, actors did a native American story for us about salmon.  We also learned that there are 296 islands in Puget Sound and in some places the Sound is over 1000 ft deep.

I liked being on a boat!  We went out of Elliot Bay onto Puget Sound.  It was a lot of fun.

We made it to Blake Island.  Supposedly this is where Chief Seattle was born .We got off the boat and walk into the Long House.

This is the Long House.

 Our hosts were smoking salmon in the traditional native American way!  Cool.

Huh?  You want to take my picture?

We got a traditional meal with mac and cheese.....the mac and cheese must have been because of all the kids.....I am allergic to both wheat and dairy.  Bummer.  It looked good.  After eating there was a show with more stories, costumes, masks, and dancing.  When that was over, I wanted

play on the really old play ground.  Mom and I had to chose our steps wisely to get to this area because it was covered in Canadian Goose poo!  Andy came out and I had a lot of fun.

Mom took this picture toward Vashon Island.  Mt. Rainier was hazy in the background.  Unfortunately her camera wasn't sensitive enough to pick it up!

Before we went, Mom took a lot of pictures of me in front of totem poles.

We got back on the boat and headed for downtown Seattle.  I had a good time.

We docked next to the big wheel.  Tomorrow we go to the local Farmer's Market.

The Museum of Flight

On Friday, most of the school met up at the Museum of Flight.

 While waiting for everyone to show up, we played tag under an airplane.

 We had to get stamped...

 and listen to some guy talk about the museum (this is always my least favorite part).

 Our group went to go look at the Space Shuttle mock up.  Real astronauts trained on this.

 We are standing in the cargo bay.

 We got to go on an old Air Force 1 (Kennedy/Nixon era).

 And a Concord.  I didn't find this interesting.

 The Space section was fun.

 In the mock space station, we got to look down at the earth.

Mom and I went to go look at the WW2 airplanes.  Overall, I had a lot of fun.

Seeing Old Friends

During Spring Break, we had the opportunity of getting outside and playing.  I saw some old friends from early childhood.  Our mother's met at a park in Bellevue, and the kid's played for 2 hours.

I played with Sabrina, Josh and Paige.

Yellow Belt!

After almost 2 years of karate, I have finally earned my yellow belt!  I am so happy.

The test was two hours, but it was worth it.

Sensei tied my new belt on me.

I look forward to earning my orange belt!

Montague Farm comes to the Bridge School

Mom's friend, Vicki Eberhart, owner of Montague Farm came to visit the Bridge School today.  Vicki is a fiber farmer, that raises angora rabbits and sheep to make awesome yarn. Her farm is located in NE Washington State in the Okanagan Mountain Range. Her yarns are known as Bunny Gold.

 It was really exciting that Vicki brought a mother angora rabbit (Alexis) and her baby (Silky).

Vicki held Alexis, and demonstrated hand cutting her fur and also using an electric clipper.

Angora fur and roving was passed around in the basket, it was very soft.

Vicki, also spun some yarn on an electric spinner.

There's the baby-Silky!  SO CUTE!!!!

At the end of her presentation, she let me, and all of the other children pet Alexis.  It was fun!

Read Across America Day!

This past Monday (March 3rd), we were to come to school as our favorite storybook character and bring that book.  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do.  One of my favorite books is: Zombies Hate Stuff by Greg Stones.  Another is: Zombiekins by Kevin Bolger.  Mom wasn't surprised.  She wanted me to choose so that she could make a costume.  

After thinking about it, I chose Unikitty from the Lego Movie!  Mom was surprised!  Unikitty is all happy and rainbows, and has nothing to do with the undead.  This is what Mom made me:

These were the two books that I brought to school.

Here were the books that everyone brought.  My classmates were dressed up as faeries, Nancy Drew, Tin Tin and more.  It was a fun literary day.