Ticket to Ride

Once, my dad taught me to play Ticket to Ride.  You play with trains, cards, tickets, and a game board.  There are different colored cards, different tracks, and different cities.  In order to win, you need the most points.  To make the most points, you can make the longest track, put down the most trains, and connect the most cities.

I like Ticket to Ride because it teaches us our colors, math, to plan, geography, and strategy.

Bye.

Love,
Nia

"Wedding!"

Saturday I was in a wedding.  I was the ring bearer-- the BRIDE ring bearer.  I held a little boy's hand.  I used my Halloween dress from when I was a bride on Halloween two years ago. 

We have been friends with the bride for three years now.  We met her in Pinchinat.  She introduced us to the groom.  I don't know how they met. 

My sister, Wildarne, was the flower girl with a girl from the bride's family.  The other girl's name was Widline. 

The bride's name was Kameta and the groom's name was Jephte, but everyone calls him, "Mono."  I don't remember what the little boy's name was.

That's all for now!

Love Nia

Crafts

Hello.

I really enjoy crafts.  It's one of my most favorite things to do.  Another one of my favorite things to do is read, but I want to talk about crafts today, not reading.

These are some of the crafts I've made recently.  I will explain them as I go along.

This is a treasure box I made.  It is made out of a cigar box, paper, glue, glitter, gemstones, and seaglass.  And colored duct tape.

This is it opened.

This is a book I made out of two really hard pieces of cardboard, string, beads, paper, stamps, glue and a pencil.

This is a piece of paper that I put in it for the inside of the cover.  I made it by crumpling up paper, then uncrumpled it and passing ink over it.

These are the paper and cardboard beads I am making.  I make them out of glue, sticks, and paper or cardboard.  After they are made, we glaze them.

This is my underwater scene.  It's an example of painting with paper.  I learned about my mom's aunt, Diana, who did this a lot.  I also learned about it in a book called, "Henri Matiss: Drawing with Paper."   He mostly painted, but when he got old, he couldn't paint.  So then he started drawing with paper.  His assistants would paint the background.  He cut out shapes in bed. And then his assistants tacked them to the wall and moved the position until he liked it.  I named this one, "Ocean Reef."

This is my tree I made the same way.  I named it, "Scrap Tree."

This is a piggy bank I made out of a Pringles can, the paper that I had under my watercolors when I paint, and colored packing tape.

This is a bracelet I made with the "ladder bracelet method."  I used wooden beads, paper beads that I made from paper I stamped, and elastic string.  The paper beads I made are falling apart on the ends, so we have to be careful.  Now I know how to make them better.

 This is an anklet that I made out of some paper beads that my mom made.  Since it is green and red, my mom called it, "Rockstar Christmas."  But I didn't understand and so I have been calling it "Rasta Christmas."

I have other crafts that I am going to make soon, so if you like crafts, be sure to come back again sometime to see what I've made.

Love,
Nia

Horses

Dear my friends,

I am learning about horses in my language arts book. They told me to write a story about something I'd like to learn more about. And I wrote a story about horses.

Here is how it goes:



Horses
I wish I could ride a horse. They are fast and fun. They are mammals. The name of how they walk is trot and the name of how they run is gallop. The name of how they talk is neighing and whining. Did you know a male horse is called a stallion and a female horse is called a mare? And did you know a young male horse is called a colt and a young female horse is called a filly? There is lots more to learn.

Love,
Nia

Schneider

Schneider is my little brother. He is one. He is walking now and he can hold a bottle by himself. He's really cute.

I am going to put some pictures of him and a video up.




Enjoy!

Love,
Nia

The rest of the book.

Hello everybody.

This is rest of my new book. We were supposed to do a page a day and then some days we had to skip school and some days our internet didn't work. Because it's working now we are just going to post the rest.

My mom laminated the pages and we got it bound into a real book in Jacmel, so now we can use it just like any other book! But only upstairs. Because it might get lost or ruined downstairs.


Thanks for keeping up. I am going to write another book in the series, but for now I am going to work on the game I am inventing called, "Adventure Dolls" so it might be a while.

I think that's it for today.

Love,
Nia

PS-- Leave me a comment about what is your favorite chapter and what is your favorite illustration.

PPS- My mom thinks the best illustration is chapter six. She doesn't have a favorite chapter yet.

Chapters Two and Three

Here's more! I am surprising you with two more chapters today.




Thanks for keeping track. Hope you like these. I will put up at least one more chapter tomorrow. Be careful, because it's about to get really scary.