FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com MAY 1, 2014 • THE QUEENS COURIER 27 SNAPS QUEENS An Andean bear at the What are you planning for Mother’s Day? I’m going to make my mom a card and probably get her something from Bath & Body Works and spend the whole day with her. Alice Mungyu I’m taking both of my parents out for a nice dinner. Anthony Panio I’m going to buy my mother roses, and I’ll probably be taking her out to dinner. Mohammad Kazmi I’m going to a brunch on Mother’s Day with my mom, aunt and my grandmother. Kayleigh Mulvey I’m taking my mom and grandma out for a brunch date. Samantha Ubertini My family and I are taking my sister and mother out for dinner to show how much we appreciate them. Robert Nisonoff oped street talk I’m taking my mom and grandma out to dinner in the evening. Kaitlyn McKenna I’m going to be cooking a Columbian dinner for my mom, and purchasing her fl owers. Nicole Valencia Queens Zoo Photo by Jesus Cardenas BY HARVIND JAPRA Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us via our Facebook page at www.facebook. com/QueensCourier, by tweeting@queenscourier or by emailing them to [email protected] FIRST GRADE TIPS BY ISABELLA TAXILAGA BIOGRAPHY: My name is Isabella Taxilaga and I am in the fi rst grade at P.S. 122 in Astoria. My favorite things to do are reading, writing and drawing. I love to write poems, songs and stories about my family and what I feel. I really love doing this job and I’m very happy and proud to write for everybody. Anyone can write as much as they want and become really good — I did that, too. Writing makes me really happy, I hope it makes you feel wonderful, too! If you are in fi rst grade and you need some help, read my list of helpful tips: 1. When you have a math test, make sure to work a little bit slower because you don’t want to skip a lot of pages or questions. You should look at the page clearly and then you can get a few or all the answers right. 2. When you are cleaning out your desk every week or putting your supplies away on the fi rst day of school, keep it neat and organized so you could fi nd what you are looking for easily and fast. This one is really important, especially when you need a book. 3. When your teacher calls you to the meeting area make sure you go to the bathroom before. You should go when you are in the middle of working or when the class is busy working on something else. When you are at the meeting area it’s the worst time to go because when you come back you will not know what to do. You will miss something important that the teacher said. This one is important, too! It is almost the end of my year in fi rst grade, and it has been great! So these are the tips that I learned. You might feel nervous sometimes, but you can have a great year, too! If you are in fi rst grade or you are going into fi rst grade next year (like my brother), I wish you the best and I hope you fi nd these tips helpful. So smile and have a good year! Isabella was the grand prize winner of The Be Kind People Project’s national student writing contest. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Courier welcomes submissions from the public — of all ages and walks of life — for the Op-Ed column. We hope to publish as many as possible in this space. Please send opinion pieces of 300 to 600 words (remembering, of course, that brevity is the soul of wit) to editorial@queenscourier. com. Be sure to include contact information; we will need pictures of the writers we publish.
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