Summer 1998

SUMMER 1998 PLANS of the 20 Curious Kids in Mr. Canu's bilingual 3rd grade, 1997-98 San Elizario Elementary School, El Paso, Texas

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A Cristina Arreola My plans for the vacations are:
invent math problems,
draw about my family,
a diary of what happens,
a fiction diary,
multiplication tables,
mental calculations,
estimations,
and reading books.

Me, in the vacations I'm going to have fun with my friends,
go to the Western Playland amusement park.
And I'm going to have my birthday party on June 18, 1998, when I'll be 9,
I'll invite my friends to play.
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C Martha Cárdenas I'll tell you about my vacation. I will go to Denver, Colorado, to live there two months and then come back to be in the Mrs. Rojas' class with my classmates of this classroom and I hope that nobody is missing. And I will study the multiplication tables a lot in the summer.

I will go to Denver, Colorado, go to amusement park Western Playland and the fairs and I will have a good time a lot and we will go to the stores in Denver, Colorado, with my family, but my dad cannot be with us in our vacation because it is he has to attend to the little store he has, so that he can get money.
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D Alfredo Cardona Jr. What I will do during the vacations: my dad and my mom will take us to Fort Worth with our cousins to go with my uncle Balo and my aunt Lisa, also to go to the parks, to the race track, also to jump over some holes that are there, and sometimes we fall into the holes and there are ants in some of the holes. And I will write what I do there.
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E Zulema-Liliana Carrillo What I am going to do during the vacations is that I am going to invent math problems, I am going to do my diary about all that I did during the week and also I am going to make a drawing with my family and behave well.
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F Marco Antonio Ceballos What I am going to do during the vacations, I will make a diary and problems and reading and do my homework, that is all that I'm going to do when we go on vacation.

What I will do to have fun, I'll use my bicycle and play Sega.
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G Julio Cesar Eggenhafer In my vacation I'm going to live in Colorado and Nebraska and next school year I will be in another school over there.
I'll do an experiment with fire and I'll make flags with papers painted with paint, I think.
And I'll do journals of what I do and of San Elizario.
And I'll do sports, play Super Nintendo 64 and go on the motorcycle, go to restaurants, and build a tree house.
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H Xochitl Favela I'm going to stay in San Elizario. I'm going to make diaries. I'm going to go to swim at the pool and have a picknick.
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J Jesús Frias
Me, for my vacations I will do math problems and the tables I'm going to study them and I'm going to go to Juárez (the Mexican city adjoining El Paso) and I'm going to go to swim and I'm going to write what I do every day and I'm going to play with my friends and play Sega and I'm going to read the books that are at my home.
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K Ixtzel Garcia I'm going to Denver at my grandma's and also my cousin, if she behaves well, will go with me.
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L Corina Gonzalez During my vacations I'm going to do math problems and diaries and read, drawings of my family and me. During my vacations I'm going to go visit a my grandma, skate, swim, and go with my friends.
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M Perla Gonzalez In my vacation I'm going to do problems of math and I'm going to put it in my diary. And I'm going to do the best I can doing writing. And I like to do writing. And I like to do problems of math too, because I like to do math. And I am going to go to Mexico to visit my aunt, my uncle, and my cousins. I'm going to go swimming. I'm going to go and visit my grandma. I'm going to play with my cousins.
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P José Magallon I'm going to stay at home and be the sponsor of Usagi, our class pet, a toy rabbit who is going to vsit some of our friend classes in other places in the world.

I will go one time to the amusement park Western Playland. i will go with my uncle to work selling oranges in a roadside stand near Campestre school in Socorro.

I will do my diary with pictures.
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Q Manuel Marquez What I am going to do in my vacation: math problems, some divisions, multiplication tables of 2 to 10 and I am going to California with my family to visit my uncles.
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R Hector Mendoza Me, in the vacations I'm going to go to Tucson, Arizona and I'm going to stay during the vacations. Then I'm going to come back and I'm going to swim in the pools and i'm going to go to the zoo to see the parrots and I'm going to see my uncles. I'm going to play Super Nintendo 64.

I'm going to make a diary of what I do in the vacations, multiplications, divisions, additions, subtractions, every day and I'm going to learn the tables real good.
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S Pedro Muñoz What I'm going to do in the vacations is math, reading, art, sciences, writing, diaries.

Excursions, going to the store, going to the pool, going to the movies, playing Super Nintendo. Chances are I don't think I'll go to California, chances are to a waterfall, going to Carlsbad Caverns, going to the desert to see my aunt, going fishing, going to my uncles', going to my grandma's.

Playing with my bicycle, with my board games, playing with my dogs, playing with my ball and with my cousins.
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U Nancy Ramírez In my vacations I'm going to do my multiplications of the 5s and I'm going to play house with my friends and make a diary of how my vacations were and many things to learn a lot when I enter fourth grade. And also I'm going to go to Houston. I go there because my grandma is sick.
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V Gemma Roldan My mom says that we are going to go to Chihuahua (Mexico) and we will be in Chihuahua for one week, then we are going to come back to San Elizario.

Some other week we are going to go to Disneyland and another week to Zacatecas (Mexico) and I'm going to be happy because we are going to go to visit Disneyland, Zacatecas, and Chihuahua.

Also I will do diaries of what I did in my vacation.
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W Elisa Ruiz Me, during the vacations I'm going to Juárez (the Mexican city adjoining El Paso), I'm going to ride my bicycle and also with my two brothers and my cousin. I tell you that my parents will take me to the central park and I will go on 5 rides so as not to spend the money on all the rides and I'm going to Juárez because I was born in El Paso, but we went to live in México and now I am living here at my aunt's and sometimes I'm going to play with my friend Brenda.
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Y Fernando Solis Me, I'm going to do problems and I'm going to put up my pool and I'm going to get into the pool and sometimes I'm going to my cousin's home and I'm going to ride his motorbike and when he isn't there I'll ride my bicycle. Or if not, I go to my neighbor's and play soccer and sometimes we'll watch movies and I'm going to make a picture.

I'm going to make a diary, and math, and multiplications.
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