The worst distraction for drivers and children

Hi, today I'm going to talk all about the worst distraction for kids and grown ups.

THE DISTRACTION

Video games

THE PROBLEM

First, this one is famous to children like me, video games. Video games are fun and all but it's really just a big distraction because what if you were going somewhere? You would slack and be late and nobody likes that. And that's the problem. 

A SOLUTION

Parents can solve this by having the children not play for a while. That worked for me. My PS3 has been off for 3 weeks so that trick worked good on me to help me stay focused on what's really important. So now I am going to show you a video. This video is going to show what the worst distraction for drivers is.

                                        



There are a lot of distractions.
A distraction can be anything that stops you from doing what you’re really supposed to be doing, like homework, spending time with God, blogging, or working.

Remember folks don't have these distractions (especially for driving). Until next time my friends, be safe and stay focused.

Movie Review: Angry Birds

Ok so I went to my first advance movie screening and it was awesome. This movie was about friendship, practicing self-control and sticking together. Most movies come from books, but this movie comes from an app and I thought that was pretty cool. This is the second movie that came from a game app and the first one was ratchet & clank. I wonder if they will turn minecraft into a movie one day. The movie screening that I saw over the weekend was Angry Birds and it was cool.

In the movie, the red bird ("Red") had anger issues and he learned how to control them. In angry birds my favorite character is Bomb, the exploding black bird and he is also the second largest bird. I like him because he can explode. My favorite scene is when the mighty eagle made a bad first impression, you will have to watch the movie to see what I'm saying. When you watch this movie please let me know who your favorite character is.


It opens in theaters May 20 2016, so go check it out.

I would give this movie 3 stars out of 5, only because there are some inappropriate parts other wise I would have given it 5.

Celebrate everyday!

Have you ever wanted Mother's Day to be every day? Well I want Mother's Day to be every day, and here's why. First, it is respectful to do things for your mom all the time. Second, I am happy when
I do things for my mom. Third, it's just a good thing to do. Mother's Day is all about your mom so don't be selfish. You only get one so be nice and do nice things!

I learned that Mother's Day is celebrated on May 10th in Mexico!

                                                                   What did you do for Mothers Day?

Giving to others.

Hello my readers, today I am going to talk to you about how I felt when I was giving to others.
I will share my story with you... I seen a man sitting on the ground outside of an empty building in the cold and I was shocked and sad for him because I just thought that he needed something. And he needed something that could change his life or at least his night so I was thinking that I wanted to do something to help. I have seen other people sleeping on the streets before and I don't know why, but what ever the reason is I want to try to help. I remember when my grandpa gave his shoes off of his feet to give to a man that had no shoes on, my grandpa went to school with him when he was younger and I always think of that time. I felt really happy and it put smiles on everyones face when you help. That is what I want to do. This was a really great experience. So to give back what I did was I put supplies in a bag. The supplies I put in were toothpaste, toothbrush, pocket tissue, socks, lotion, granola bars, water bottles and chex mix.

I gave it to the homeless man and he shared it with a friend. Those people were sure happy. I like seeing smiles on peoples faces. 
I wanted to share these stories with you because I believe in this quote “Just because we can’t help everyone doesn’t mean we shouldn’t help someone.” No matter how small we are we can make a change.  

So how will you give to others this week? Share your story in the comments.

"Be The Good"

Thanks to Marie Forleo for sharing kindness and sharing what Mother's Day is all about. #IStandWithLove #MothersDay #TheCompassionCollective

Mother's Day Ideas

Mother's Day is coming soon... What are your plans?

3 ways to get motivated + 1

Hi there, today I am going to talk about three ways to get motivated. Do you want to get motivated? Do you want to feel confident? Well you've come to the right place. Well there are times I feel I need to get motivated like sometimes when I do my homework, I don't always feel like doing it, maybe you feel the same way. Well try these three things:

1. Believe. The first way that you can get motivated is by believing in yourself and thinking that you can do anything, even if you don't feel like it.
2. Get support. Second, get a motivational friend, this friend might say things like "good job", "you can do it", "keep up the good work" and those types of things. 
3. Be happy. Finally the last way is to find things that make you happy and keep doing the stuff that makes you happy and when you keep doing those things you will constantly be motivated and you'll get things done.
4. Bonus. Watch motivational videos on youtube and read good things

There are a lot of ways to get motivated, what are some of you favorite ways?

My favorite exercises

Hi there I'm back to tell you about my workout and I think you'll like it! Before I tell you about my workout let me tell you why it's important to exercise. It's important to exercise so that you will be strong and not weak, it is good for your body and you need to drink water to help your muscles grow and to not be dehydrated. After school I get my homework done and then I start my workout. Sometimes I feel tired and don't want to exercise, but I just do it anyway and take a nap after.

Here are my favorite exercises

10 push-ups


40 jump n jacks 


10 cherry pickers


15 sit-ups 

My number one favorite is bike riding 


What exercises do you like?

The best way to start your school day

Hi there, how are you? I'm doing good today I'm going to share with you what I like to do to help me do better in school and to be happy. The first thing that I like to do in the morning is pray it helps me to have positive thoughts. Then I like to get into the shower, because the water helps me to wake up. Next I enjoy eating a healthy breakfast, what I had today was yogurt topped with granola, cranberry and almonds with orange juice and a banana it was so good.

Soo good!

After I eat breakfast, I double check to make sure that my homework assignment is in my homework folder and a pencil is in my backpack then I am ready for school. When I pray and get in the shower with warm water and eat a good breakfast I do good in school. Today I did all of these things and got on a good color at school and the effects of me getting on a good color was going to the movies with my grandpa so that was rewarding. I was very proud of myself and will work on getting on an even better color tomorrow.

How do you start your day?

My summer

Since summer is coming up I wanted to talk about what I did last summer and maybe you can get ideas. I liked my vacation, because it was fun and enjoyable, I made a lot of memories. I went to the beach and I love going to the beach because you can find different animals that I don't usually see like crabs, clams, and I found a tiny shrimp (it was my first time seeing a live shrimp) and sometimes you can find whales in the water where you can see their tails and they are huge by the way. I went with my friends and I met new friends. Another thing I did in the summer was I went to the best place that I have been to which is the science museum in San Francisco we spent most of the day at the science museum. Inside there was a planetarium it was pretty awesome because it was about planets and I like learning about planets. I walked around the museum and seen a lot of different animals, like crocodiles, jellyfish, rainforest animals, penguins, and lots more. They said that the museum was the biggest science museum in California. Also while we were in San Francisco we ate a restaurant called Joe's Crab Shack and I had crab legs, corn, and shrimp it was pretty good and I had never been there before I would go again. Other things I did was invite my friends over to play games and my cousins came for sleepovers. I also went ice skating (now that was fun) and played outside most of the time. I am looking forward to this summer, I think that it is going to be even better. I want to ride my bike on a trail and go camping, go to the beach again, and maybe go to the museum again too.

What do you plan to do this summer?

My first garden

[Flashback to last week I mentioned how I bought a couple of plants], this week I am happy to say I started my very own garden. We went to a nursery to pick out what I wanted to plant. While I was there I learned that potatoes are best planted in the winter here.

A few of the plants we used

Also, I was told about the Native American story the three sisters of gardening and how they planted in an appealing way by planting corn in the middle, string beans around the corn, and zucchini around it all. 

Next, I had to get the planting beds ready. A bed for plants is a wooden box filled with soil. Filling the box was hard work because it was a lot of soil that had to be put in the bed. 

After that we had to measure how far each plant needed to be, then we planted them by digging up some holes in the soil. Lastly, I put the plants in the holes and watered them.

And that is how I started my first garden. 

There are a lot of reasons why you should start a garden, here's my top three:

1. It's fun
2. You'll get a new experience
3. You'll get good fresh food

Do you have a garden? If you do post a pic. If not, have you ever thought of one?

Fresno City College Festival

So last week my mom and I went to support our friend at Fresno City college. Our friend makes clothes for people to wear and sells them, I think it takes a lot of work to do that and she does a really good job. They had many different people selling things at the college on this day. I bought a small golden elephant it originated from Thailand that I placed on my backpack, it looks pretty cool. There were other handmade things like dinosaurs and dragons made from rope that was sold at this tent.

 I also bought some plants which were awesome to see, I have one that I really like it's called a peace lily it was 3 dollars. The other one I bargain shopped for by asking the price which the seller said it was 5 dollars I counted my money and I only had 3 dollars so I asked the price of a different plant and the lady said if you want I will sell this plant for 3 dollars now, so I got the plant that I originally wanted for a cheaper price as a bargain shopper.

Here's a picture of me showing my plants to my class.

I also bought a wooden sword from the festival it is really awesome it's like a real sword and it was 12 dollars pretty cheap huh? There are festivals every year! I'm looking forward to seeing what else there is next year! Thank you for reading, bye.

Getting on Purple

At my school in my class if you get on purple- good things will happen because purple is the highest color that you can get on the behavior clip chart. If you get on purple this is what will happen- you'll get to pick from the treasure box and there are prizes in it that you can pick at the end of the day. When I go to my special reading class we have the same colors, but with an extra color and the highest color is pink and if you get on pink the teacher will tell her other class about what you did to get on pink and it makes me happy because I was on pink. Starting from the bottoms the colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and (pink). In my class we all start off on green and then you have to work your way up. Purple means royal behavior, blue means ready to learn and green means I've got my eye on you. Those are the colors that you really want to be on, like if you were me and you weren't on those colors you'll be sorry 😰. The other colors mean not so good like red means parent contact and orange means you're not making good choices today and yellow means this is a warning space ranger. And in my reading class pink means super student. I was on pink before and it was real awesome being on pink, when I told people that I was on pink it was really good they were happy. So those are all the colors that I have in my classes. I want you to do good in school so that you can be a super student too. So listen to your teacher, follow rules, and always do your best to get to the highest color there is.

Do you want to be a super student? It's your choice good or bad. (And this post is for children by the way)

Spaghetti

Today I'm going to share a recipe with you and the ingredients are delicious.

These are all of the ingredients that you need and what to do with them

ground turkey
ground beef
carrots
celery
garlic
spaghetti noodles
onion
parsley
mushrooms
olive oil
garlic bread
spaghetti sauce

First you slice up the carrots and celery

Then you get some garlic and peel it

Then you take some parsley and onions and put it in a blender also with the celery, carrots and garlic

 

Next you take your ground turkey and ground beef mix it in a bowl with your vegetables from the blender and add two eggs with it and mix it all together with a fork.

Use a ice cream scoop to form them into balls and have an adult place them into a pan with grease to fry until the meatballs are dark brown color.

Next put some spaghetti sauce on top of your meatballs

Boil your noodles and eat with toasted garlic bread.

How do you like your spaghetti?

Reduce, reuse and recycle.

The digestive system

There are many ways to describe the human body. Have you ever wondered what happens when you eat food and how it reacts in your body? Well take a guess and really think about how food reacts in your body. Time to start the action, so as soon as you eat your food the food travels down your throat (esophagus), into your stomach where it turns your food into liquid called chyme and this is where your stomach kills any bacteria that get in there. Next after that I know that the food is done traveling through the stomach and into the small intestine to get the minerals out of the food. Then here comes the large intestine, the large intestine is where it all gets built up as a solid then it all comes out.

Here is a video that helped me understand the digestive system better and I would like you to watch it because I think that it might help you too.

What do you know about the digestive system?

What is the point of brushing your teeth everyday?

This week is for anyone that doesn't like to brush their teeth, not my readers of course because you like to. But you can share with other people that don't like to.

It is important to brush your teeth because if you don't brush your teeth you will have rotten teeth. When you drink dark soda you will have rotten teeth.  Please don't drink dark soda. You have to brush your teeth 3 times a day. How many minutes do you  have to brush your teeth you ask? Two is the answer.

Since you're my reader then you're a leader so if you know someone that doesn't like to brush, try to help them. Here's some tips.

Get a toothbrush that has lights on it, I had one that lit up then went off when two minutes passed. 

I had other toothbrushes that had spiderman, spongebob, and other characters and matching character toothpaste.

Make a game- if you brush your teeth the whole time and brush them the best then you win.

Oh and one last thing, don't be afraid of dentists they are very helpful and keep your teeth healthy.

Dinosaurs

Last week, while I was at Barnes & Noble I picked out a book called "Never Ask A Dinosaur to Dinner" and I liked it.

So I decided to do more research about dinosaurs and blog about these interesting creatures.

Dinosaurs ruled the world a long time ago. Dinosaurs have big teeth to eat their prey. Sometimes a dinosaurs prey is another dinosaur and others eat eggs and plants. The t-rex was the strongest dinosaur. Some dinosaurs are big and tall some dinosaurs are small. Some dinosaurs could actually fly, like the pterodactyl. Some dinosaurs can stretch their neck backwards to their back bone. The smallest dinosaur is one meter long. The word dinosaur means terrible lizard in Greek.

If I could be a dinosaur, I would be a velociraptor because it runs fast. Three velociraptors defeated one t-rex in the movie Jurassic World.

Which dinosaurs do you like?

What I Will Be When I Grow Up

Sometimes people ask "well what do you want to be when you grow up?".. It makes me want to zoom into the future and find out what I'll be doing.

I know that I will graduate from college like my mom.

 There are a lot of different things to do.

What do you say?

Okay I have been thinking of writing my own book and for my first book I want the help of my fellow readers. I think it will be fun to learn about what you want to be when you become an adult.  My mom will be helping me to put this all together, so what I need from you is for you to design two pages. One page for your story about what you want to be and the other page a drawing of your future self. I will be doing this too and to find out what I want to be when I grow up you'll have to wait for the book which will be in my online store in the summer time of this year 2016.


Have YOU ever thought of becoming an author?

Click Here for more information on how you can be published.

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Here's another recipe

Hi I'm here to share a recipe with you.

I want to thank my cousin Ty for sharing this with me and letting me share it on my blog (I've added to it)... And thanks to my grandpa for giving me the main ingredient (cucumbers). Thank you! So this recipe is easy and called the cucumber salad. Here's what you'll need:

Cucumber
Ranch
Tomatoes
Carrots

First, you cut the cucumber and then you mix in the ranch, tomatoes, and carrots. This can serve maybe 4 people. I like to eat vegetables in different ways - grilled, fried, steamed, boiled, and most of all I like this recipe with FRESH veggies. So it's your turn,to share with me what's YOUR fav vegetable? Share another recipe with me.

Things that come from trees and I'm talking syrup.

1. Chocolate
2. Hair dye
3. Gum
4. Toilet paper
5. Toothpaste
6. Syrup

These things all have something in common, they're all made from trees! Do you like chocolate? If so there's a tree that could make chocolate with its sap. Syrup is made by the sap of the tree, to get syrup you have to drill a hole in the tree in March or April to get the sap from a tree, next you cook the sap over a fire to make the sap into syrup and there will be some water left and that's how syrup is made.   [so think of that next time you're eating pancakes.]

What things can you think of that come from trees?

Bye.

Favorite Shows on Netflix

Favorite Netflix Shows

Happy New Year!

To start this year I have decided to share my top 5 favorite Netflix shows with you. 

Number 5 is Bill Nye because it is all about science from an actual scientist that does experiments on many things and I have learned a lot. Number 4 is Zoo Clues, the reason that I enjoy watching this show is because it gives animal facts and gives random quizzes to test your knowledge and memory skills. Number 3 is Wild Kratts because the main characters are brothers that turn into animals with creature powers that shows what makes the animal unique. A show that I like watching with friends is Brain Games, it is addicting because it gives you brain teasers and makes you think about normal things in different ways. So that was number two, now we're down to number 1 it is Planet Earth planetary science is my favorite subject and this show gives facts on how the earth was created.

I rarely watch t.v. because I prefer to play. As you may notice, most of these shows are nonfictional, with the exception of the cartoon characters of Wild Kratts, mainly because I like to watch real life scenes.

Thanks for reading! See ya next week

So, what are your favorite t.v. shows?

2016