Nikhil Kini's Blog

Feb 11, 2012 - Every year, Lowes does a special project during the weekend just before Valentine's Day and this was no different. Our project today was a "Valentine Card Creator". It was a fairly simple project where we built a box that can be closed or left partially open and become a board for creating Valentine's day card. I also loved this project because it had a lot of stickers and some Valentine's Day cards.  The ladies who run the event for us were very nice and gave us some candy and stickers.

We finished the project and I also purchased a Lowes Build and Grow young builder's tooklit which came with a small hammer, an apron and some goggles. Maybe I will post a picture of that soon. Besides that I had a normal weekend day. We did a little shopping and played at home.

Last few days before ....not Valentine's Day but the day after...

Feb 6, 2012 - Today is another milestone in our school year. It was the 101st day at school and so our school had the theme of the 101 Dalmations. Over the weekend, my parents and I prepared my Dalmations costume. It was quite hard to find a long white full-sleeve shirt in the stores but we managed to find a good half-sleeve shirt at one of the stores. My dad had the bright idea (turned out to be not so bright in the end) of trying to iron on some patches on the shirt but that did not go off very well, so we went about the old fashioned way...Paint!!.

We went to the local Michael's store and bought some black paint and painted spots on the shirt. It dried overnight and we had a nice shirt ready to go. My parents came to the school to see the 101 Dalmations Parade where we walk around the school and the kids from the higher grades cheered us on. After we did 2 rounds around the school, we all went to the cafeteria to take some pictures. We had also made some dog ears in school on Friday so we looked really cute. My mom put a little black dot over my nose to help with the cute factor.

My parents came to watch the parade and take pictures and I was really happy they did. 100 days of school, I have so many more to go.

Feb 3, 2012 - 100 days of school. Today was the 100th day of school in my Kindergarten year. Its a big number but we made it this far or should say, our teacher made it this far. To celebrate our 100th day, we were giving a simple homework of bringing 100 items in a sandwich bag to school. It could be anything like paper clips, stickers, buttons, coins etc. I collected 4 things in sets of 25 and that was my homework. It was fun counting to 100. We also had a small party in our school to celebrate the milestone. We had some cookies, crackers, chips and other things. 

100 days at school is pretty cool. I have had a good time so far and I love going to school. I like my friends and teachers and all the activities we do at school. I like being the teacher's helper and participating in "Where in the world is Team Hatrick?" Another few months and I will be in 1st grade.