Like most people in America, I have two heritages. American and a country of origin. My country of origin is India. My family has really adapted to the American culture but to tell the truth, I'm most close to my Indian heritage. I do celebrate all the American holidays. We have fireworks on the fourth of July, turkey on Thanksgiving, trick-or-treating on Halloween and alot of other things but I know most about my Indian culture.

    In my culture we have alot of foods but what we mostly eat is rice and cury. We eat alot of fish and chicken too. In my culture we celebrate alot of holidays. We have Lent, in which we don't eat. On Christmas we go to church and pray then we have a special Christmas lunch. There is a special fast where we pick something we eat alot and don't eat it for 40 days. We have many other holidays but I can't name them all!

     In the Indian culture we go to church. In church children wear churidars and woman wear sari. Men wear dress shirt and pants(This is in America, I'm not sure what men wear in India). In India when you go to school most schools have uniforms. Otherwise we just wear casual clothes.

  In my culture dance is a big thing. Even in America we still do alot of cultural dance. Most people start young. I know I did. On my first dance I remember thinking, I am going to do horrible. I am going to mess up. Every body will laugh. In the end I did great and nobody laughed. Also we have alot of music. From hip hop to religous music.

  I am close to my American culture but I am much more closer to my Indian culture. I know so much about it but if I wrote all of it, it would take..... forever!

Should it be a hawk swooping down from the sky? A Tiger pouncing in the jungle? A dolphin swimming through the sea. Or a sunny warm haiwaiian beach. Maybe the cold freezing artic tundra. What should I draw?

This is what goes through my head when I think about what to draw. Most of the time I just doodle and make what comes to me but when I really want to make it good, this is what I think about. What to draw, how to draw it, and where to draw it. Even though I think my drawings aren't good my mom always says that they're great. She says that she has no idea where I got my talent from. Drawing is one of my many passions and I love it!

I love to do projects where we get to draw. I get exited when I get to do those types of presintations. I also love to try drawing something Iv'e never drawn before. I usually find time to draw at snack, recess, or after I finish my homework. I am passionate about this because I can draw anything. All I need is a pencil and paper. Also, it's something i'm good at and the drawings are my own. I can do it in a unique style that's mine. I don't really plan on doing anything with this passion. I just enjoy being creative with it.

Drawing is just being creative on paper. You can be unique and try new ways. Ways you created. Or you can draw like someone who's way of drawing you like. You can create anything with paper and a pencil. From a little star to a beutiful landscape. Drawing is a wonderful passion.

Whats up DooDas! This week we are still reading Artemis Fowl. I am the disscusion director,  K2Rocks is the quotable quoter, EdHardygirl is the connecter and DewDrop is the question maker. We have to read from pages 103 to 206.

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Oh no. Oh no. What are they going to do? What are they going to say? Conferences might be bad but going to your own conferences with your parents is NERVE WRECKING. Parent - teacher conferences are one thing but parent - teacher - student conferences are a totally different thing. In the South Paris Collaborative that's what we do. On my conference I had sooo many different emotions. I  was everywhere. Here's what happend.

"Mom is it almost our turn. It's been hours". "No it hasn't" She was right. What seemed like hours was only a few minutes. Finally after a few more minutes it was time for us. At first when I heard that I had to come to the conference I was exited but now my excitement had died down and I was just nervous. I looked at my teachers and felt like sitting down in the chair and running away at the same time. I stayed calm and slowly sat down in my chair. All of sudden I felt at ease. No. I felt empowered. Here I was, at my own conference, with my teachers about to talk to mostly me. This was better too. Now my parents didn't have to come home and talk to me. This way I could understand what I needed to work on better. The teachers would tell me directly. I liked this feeling and I would definitely like to come to my parent teacher conferences in the future. While we talked, I knew what I needed to improve on but I was exited about what I was doing well at. I felt like jumping up and down and screaming so loud that the whole world could hear me. When the conference was over, I realized that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Following the conference my parents I and talked about what the teachers told us and how I could improve. All the ride home I remember thinking, this is gonna be the best year yet at Denton and i'm gonna make it happen. I'm 100% positive it will be! It was a great experience and I would definitely like to come to my conference again. 

Do YOU have a reading assignments this week? And do YOU have no book to read? Well you do now. It's, "A Corner of The Universe" by Ann M. Martin. It's about a girl named Hattie who finds out that she has an uncle she never knew. Her uncle, Adam, is mentally challenged. He is almost 25 and has been living in a mental institute, his whole life. His parents didn't accept him because of this. They had wanted a perfect family. Hattie was the only one who accepted him. She and Adam had so many fun times together. Like when they took walks or just sat on the porch and talked to each other. There were also some scary moments for Hattie. Like when Adam tried to jump off the farris wheel.  Adam and Hattie were like best friends, until something happened that change this all. This book is very emoitinal. There are happy parts, sad parts and funny parts. This is a book you can laugh, cry, or just smile about. "A Corner of The Universe" is one of my favorite book and i'm sure it will be one of yours too. This really is a book you should read. So get off the computer, go to the library, and get "A Corner of The Universe"! NOW!

Hi, all you animal lovers! This is pretty simple... Please ask ten friends to each ask a further ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals for free'. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site! Please pass it along to people you know. www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ AGAIN, PLEASE TELL 10 FRIENDS!

Hi DooDas!! This is 02 Angelface. This week we are still reading "So B. It".I am the discussion director and question maker, 05 K2Rocks is the Word Wizard , 24 Dewdrop is the quotable quoter, and 19 Edhardygirl is the connector. We have to read from pages 65 to 115. This is due on Thursday November 5th

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This month all the reading groups are reading about acceptance. My group is reading the book "So B. It". It is about a girl named Heidi, who has no father, a mentally ill mother, and is taken care of her neighbor, who is afraid to go outside. She dosen't tell anyone about this because she is afraid they won't accept her for it. I remember a time when I wasn't accepted. I was the new girl in school and a another girl didn't like me for that. She was always mean to me and if we wre partners in something she would act as if I wasn't there. This made me feel really bad. Because of this I know how Heidi must have felt. I tried to change this girls Attitude by being really nice to her. In the end we became best friends.

I also remember a time when I didn't accept someone. I met this girl who acted funny. I thought to myself "know way we could be friends". Now I know that that was wrong but back then, I didn't. I changed my mined about this because one day I saw her all alone. I felt bad for her because she looked sad. I went over to her and played with her. I then found out that she was reaally nice and fun. Now we are good friends and I know she would feel really bad if she knew that at first I didn't accept her. This is how Heidi must have felt. If anyone knew her secret, her life would be totally different and if my friend knew what I used to think we probably wouldn't be friends.

Because of this book and this blog. I learned that just because some one looks or acts different, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be accepted. Someone should be accepted because of who they are. Because of whats on the inside. Not on the outside. If you want to be accepted, you need to be accepting first. So remember. Be accepting.

This year our class did land formation demonstrations. There were six demonstrations. I learned so much from every one. The first one was water erosion. From it I learned that water eroison can re-shape many landforms. For example water erosion shaped the grand canyon. It can erode many different materials such as granite,stone,sandstone and the material skyscrapers are made with. This is what what I learned about water erosion. Next was lake formation. From the lake group I learned that the larintyde was the last major glacier. It is what formed the Great Lakes. Also, almost every time, it was a glacier that formed a lake. This is what I learned about lake formation. After lake formation was delta formation. From this demonstration I learned that a distributary network is when a delta splits in half. I also learned that a delta is a triangular shaped body of water. This is what I learned about delta formation. Next was mountain formation. This demonstration taught me that folded mountains are formed when plates are squeezed together. Plates are huge suctions that divide the earth's crust. This is what I learned about mountain formation. After mountain formation was island formation. From this demonstration I learned that there are many different types of islands. Some of them are the coral island,barrier islands and volcanic islands. This is what I learned about island formations. Last was wind erosion. From ths group I learned that wind erosion can cause holes and sand dunes in the ground. I also learned that plants can reduce wind erosion. I thought that was really interesting. This is what I learned about wind erosion. These presentations taught me so much about land formation and how to present. I learned that when you present you should have fluency,memorize most of your lines and when your Presenting in a group you should work together. I hope that when I perorm in group presintations again I will work on these things and do my best.