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This was an activity Vedic did for his first day of the 2nd grade. This activity was assigned by the school teacher to all the kids in which they have to cut and decorate the man and write few lines about them self. “I like to play with Legos most. Mostly all play time I play with the legos. After one week I do Bee Star. Every day for study I do facterters and fact famileys. One week I went to my freands house. my mom works at Macys and my dad works at collgc.” While typing I realized that he wrote my dad work at collgc. I kept it as it is including his spelling mistake.

Vedic wrote this Watermelon Day Story in the school. Apparently there is a watermelon day that at least I was not aware of.    Nicely separated beginning, middle & end section.

Vedic & Yash built this big Spaceship using Lego Blocks

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Yesterday I woke up and went to school.I got a happy face. then I went  home and played .I did not know that we were going to watch the movie Star Trek but my dad told me that some of my best friends came with me. There names were Adam, Yash  and Yashvi .we liked the movie !  The best part in the movie was the ending . then we ate pizza and went home. I wish that will happen again tomorrow.The end   Written By Vedic Sharma

I have Redesigned Laksha Blog with the help of a new template plantilla-blogy-o2 which is shared by blogandweb.com . Take a look and let me know what you think. Recently we did the same with Yashvi’s blog - http://blog.laksha.net/2009/08/redesigned-blog-of-yashvi-vardhan.html .

She did it again with another traffic ticket. This time by not stopping before the white line at a Stop sign.

Vedic won the Grand Parents Day Essay Competition at HSCF New Age Sr. Group function. There were 27 participants in his category (Elementary School Category) and he won 1st price.Full list of winners are available at http://www.hindutempleorlando.org/new-age-group . Video of Vedic reading his essay after winning: My Grandparents – Grand Parents Day Essay Competition Winner from Laksha on Vimeo . Below is the script of his Essay: My Grandparents I have three grandparents, my “dada ji, dadi ji and nani ji”. My grandparents live in India. Sometime I go to India and stay with them. My dada ji is a homeopathic doctor. Whenever I get sick he gives me sweet medicine. I love my dada ji because my dada ji take me out for a walk and always play with me. And whenever we go for a walk my dada ji tells me stories. My grand ma takes me to temple. She even played with me and made food for me. My nani ji sing “Bhajans” everyday. She play with me and take me ...

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