How to light the candles on Hanukkah

How to light the candles on Hanukkah:

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th of Kislev and lasts for eight nights.  On the western calender it is in November to December.  You light candles on Hanukkah.  The candles are placed in a menorah.  A menorah is a candle holder with 9 holders.  On the first night of Hanukkah there would be two candles in the menorah: the shamash and the candle on the far right.  You would light the shamash then sing the blessings.  Then you light the other candle with the shamash.  On the second night of Hanukkah you would do the same thing but light 2 candles with the shamash (swap the candles every night). You place the candles right to left in the menorah. You light the candles newest to oldest.  You go up to eight candles (not including the shamash), one for each night. For all of Hanukkah you light 44 candles.      

On the first night of Hanukkah, I donated to Doctors Without Borders and Heifer International; there was one candle on the right of the menorah and the shamash in the middle.  On the second night of Hanukkah, I got a Lego book and I ate five latkes.  On the third night of Hanukkah, I got a fuzzy pair of Crocs.  On the fourth night of Hanukkah, I got an over 900-piece Lego set.  On the fifth night of Hanukkah, I got a kindle fire I also went to the Schlessels house to play dreidel; I won.  On the sixth night of Hanukkah, I could of gotten an app but I didn't.  Same for the seventh night.  On the eighth night of Hanukkah, I got a robot that could read colors and codes called an Ozobot.  The 9 candles would be blue, red, green, purple and yellow but we ran out so they were dark blue, light blue and white.

There is something that is like an elf on the shelf called the Hanukkah bear but gives you gelt (chocolate coins).  The Hanukkah bear is light blue.  You can't touch it otherwise it will lose its magic.  It moves any where in the house in the middle of the night.  It likes to move up high just in case.  It might move on a book shelf or on a chandelier.

Story cube story:

    I was at the park watching a turtle.  An airplane flew by and dropped out a lamb (which landed on my head).  lightning struck the lamb and I had mutton for dinner.



                                                                  The end of the mutton

Story Cubes story:

It was just past lunch at school and we were doing a magic show.  It was my turn.  I put down a pyramid then showed them the inside of it and set it down.  I whispered a few words and raised the pyramid. There was not a beetle under it like there was supposed to be.  I looked under the table where I had hidden the beetle. The beetle was gone. Instead, there was a Lego building. I ducked under the table and looked inside it. Inside the Lego building was the beetle and a fish, which was trying to gobble it up.  Since I couldn't get inside it, I put a key inside, which I knew the beetle would crawl on. Then I took a magnet and stuck it on top of the Lego building and took off the roof.  There the beetle was, stuck on the key on the other side of the roof. A lady with a cane squished the beetle.

The end (of the beetle).

Story Cubes story:

It was 2:00 A.M., and I was sleeping.  I sensed something weird; my fish was not in his tank.  I went back to sleep.  When I woke up, it was 8:00, and I still couldn't find my fish.  I searched with my family for about one hour with flashlights and still couldn't find him.  After a rain storm that afternoon, a rainbow came out; I knew my fish liked rainbows so I stood by the pond.  For several minutes I couldn't see a sign of him but then he popped out of the water with a turtle tailing him.  I quickly pulled him out of the water.  When the stars came out, I compared his weight with his weight before. He weighed less.  He must have lost weight chasing and swimming away.  A bee buzzed by my ear and I ran inside and put him (who I would call lucky) in his tank.




the end

Today I played a few typing games.  They were, Typing Ninja, Stacking Cups and Pop a Balloon.  I was okay at Pop a Balloon, you can't really be good or bad at Stacking Cups and I am bad at Typing ninja.  You can't really be good at Stacking Cups because there is no timing and no losing.  I want to get another go at Typing Ninja tomorrow.

Prompt: November 19:  A cozy fire will warm up a chilly November evening. Pretend you are toasting marshmallows over the fire. Write about a new kind of toasted marshmallow treat you could invent other than s'mores.

My treat would be cookies with melted chocolate topped with a marshmallow with jam on top.  You should not cook the marshmallow for very long. It should not be very squishy. The jam should not be liquidy.  The cookies and jam can be any flavor.

Prompt:  November 26:  National Game and Puzzle Week is the last week of November. Think about the games and puzzles you have at your house. Which are your favorites?

My favorite game/puzzle is chess.  I like chess because it uses strategy.  If it didn't have strategy it would just be luck and there is no point in it. I think there would be no point in it because you have no control over anything. I like how there is no automatic win.  I also like how pieces move differently.
                                                                   

Story Cubes story:

Something was wrong.  My brother was missing. All that was left of him was a footprint.
After searching a while I found a few footprints across a bridge.  The footprints led to an oak tree.  There was an apple under the oak tree with a giant bite in it ( not human size ).  It was 4:00 now.  It would be dark soon.  By now I was getting really worried.  It was raining and I heard the distant crackle of thunder ( or maybe not ).  Suddenly lightning struck a flower next to me, and it burst into flames.  As I ran away from the fire, I bumped into something hard.  It was a monster ( that had my brother) .








The end ( of both of us ).


                                                                The end ( for real )