Jedi Warrior Training

We had been to Disneyland for Hrishika's sprig break this year. One of the fun things Hrishika got to do was take part in the Jedi Training Academy in Tomorrowland terrace. We did not know about this before we went there. Hrishika is very interested in Star Wars, so when we saw a show with star wars characters we wanted to check it out.

Basically the Jedi Master chooses some 25 to 30 kids randomly from the audience in the age group of 5 to 12 years old. He seems to pick those with a lot of enthusiasm to participate. Hrishika was lucky enough to be chosen. Basically they make them all wear a brown padawan robe and give them each a light saber. Next they have to take an oath. Then they are shown some basic Jedi moves and out comes Darth Vader and each child gets to fight against him.

She had a real fun experience. At the end of the training they gave each child a certificate.

School House Rock

This year Hrishika got to take part in a musical, "School House Rock". PTA hired Starting Arts, an outside company to help with the musical. Basically Starting Arts asked for 100 kids in total, so they could divide them up into 2 groups of 50 each. Each group was further divided into four sub groups (A, B, C & D). Only around 70 kids signed up for the play, however. That meant there was only one group. What that translated into was more kids in each sub-group and kids had to perform in four shows instead of just two. So Hrishika was in Group C. Each group had to learn two songs plus a third song which all the groups had to perform. Hrishika enjoyed learning and performing. It was a fun experience overall.

Science Project : 4th Grade

For her 4th grade science project Hrishika worked on a simple electric motor with a switch.


The following are the materials used for the electric motor.




Here's the elctric motor with the switch open.



Here's the electric motor with the switch closed.

Mission Brochure : 4th Grade

As part of the 4th grade projects, Hrishika had to do a mission brochure. Her mission happened to be "Mission Santa Clara De Asis". Here's her brochure.

She drew the picture of the mission on the front cover.

In the middle of the brochure she wrote about how the mission evolved over the years to it's current state.

On the back of the brochure she wrote about some important facts about the mission and a map and directions to get to the mission.