Playathon '09

Playathon is a fundraiser cum practice marathon in my violin school. For the playathon I have to practice everyday for 30 days! So, I am going to blog everyday to track my practice! This time I am very motivated to practice so hard and play really good violin!!

Day 1 (4/18): They distributed the sheet for Playathon in Group Class today and I marked my home calendar that it is the "First day of Playathon". In the evening, my Mom and I played a game of "hotter hotter cooler cooler" with the violin. I hid an object (my rocket) and she had to find it. I would give her clues by playing louder if she got closer and softer if she went in the wrong direction. I did not realize 35 mts went by! At night, Mom and I cuddled up and listened to the CD while singing and clapping and tapping along.
Net Score for the day: Violin: 35 mts. AL: 20mts

Day 2 (4/19): Busy day ahead!! It is Sunday and there is Bala Vihar to go too and playdate with Akash in the evening. But, since I got ready early, I had 35 mts to spare. I played 26mts before we left and did Active listening in the car on the iriver as my Dad drove me to BV. I might do more later. Lets see!!
Well, that was it!
Net Score for the day: Violin: 26mts. AL: 10mts

Day 3: (4/20): Back to school on Monday! In the evening after school, we played Snakes and Ladders game with dice and played the Suzuki song corresponding to the total of the numbers on the board.
Net Score for the day: Violin: 30mts AL: 15mts

Day 4: (4/21): Did AL on my way to school and back. After dinner today, played with the CD. Gosh the CD is fast! PM was so fast! I repeated PM till I could keep up with the CD! It sounded pretty neat!
Net Score for the day: Violin: 20mts AL: 20mts

Day 5: (4/22): Mom and I played Bingo. Each shape in the bingo sheet meant a different song. Didnt realize 40mts went by. At the end, I got 2 little gifts when my bingo sheet was all crossed out.
Net Score for the day: Violin: 40mts AL: 0mts

Chess

Checkmate! The aim of chess is to trap the opponent's King. That's called a checkmate. A grandmaster is a very, very experienced player in chess. Here are some tactics that most people know: Fried Liver, Fool's Mate, forks, pins and skewers, Scholar's Mate (also known as the Four Move Checkmate), Smothered Mate, Two Rook or a "One Queen One Rook" Checkmate (the Queen takes the Rook's power) and King and Queen Checkmate.There are more tactics such as windmills, dicoveries, sacrifices, Fox in the chicken coup, The Deep Freeze, Lucena's position, Saavedra position, Philidors defense in the opening and endgame,etc. Chess is a fun sport and is not there to make people cry when they lose, but to have fun and be a good sport. Remember that.

Crystal Reaper

The Crystal Reaper is my favorite Lego Mars Mission toy. But the Crystal Reaper is not the only thing in the set, there is a dump truck (bottom left) and an alien jet (not shown). Pros, truck, jet, projectile, dumping bucket, 2 crystals in the back, treads that activate blades, claws, 1 commander alien, 2 regular aliens, 2 astronauts, alien test lab, hand-hold lasers,and stand mode and 3 lasers on alien ship. I might recommend it.

Hello, my name is AG. This is some stuff about me: my favorite colors are blue and red, I'm sort of in 1st grade and sort of in 2nd grade, I have black hair (that sometimes turns brownish), I have black eyes, I love to play chess even when I lose, I play the violin, I like to build with Lego pieces, I'm interested in astronomy, rovers that go to planets, geography, science, flight and nature. But what do I really love the most? My family!

Zenex's Easter stone hunt

It was Easter time in Africa. Zenex , the zebra who lived in Africa was getting ready for the Easter stone hunt. They were on teams. Zenex was on the Blue team. While Zenex waited, he read a book on ferns. It was a long time to wait between the morning and the stone hunt. He began to feel bored. At last the bell for the hunt rang and Zenex galloped to his team. "Go" said the judge. Zenex 's team started to pick up a lot of stones. The team that got the most stones would win. The Blue team picked up all of the stones remaining and they were no more stones left.Then the bell rang and the teams counted thier stones and told the judge how many stones they had. The judge declared Zenex's team the winner! Each Blue team member got a wreath as a prize. Zenex thought that day was the best one in his life.

Tenalirama and the thieves

One day Tenalirama spotted two thieves hiding behind a tree. Tenalirama called his wife very loudly.

Review for Eagle Command Base

The Eagle Command Base is a very good pretend fighting command base made of Legos. The rocket is cool because it has a cargo area. The fighting equipment are missiles, lasers and a rocket. Everything is powered by a pump. It even has a satellite powered by a crystal. And it has an alien test lab. It has 4 missiles.