Monday, March 14, 2016

Grade 5 Camp

.On Wednesday, we went onto the bus. I was sitting next to Hannah. I got bored, so I read a book called "Dork Diaries Drama Queen". When we arrived at High Africa, we went to a room where the staff could introduce themselves and tell us the rules.After that, we went to our cabins to unpack our stuff. I was in the same cabin as Hannah, Mylaya, Ashleigh and Gabi. I had to sleep at the bottom bunk, because my other friends wanted to sleep at the top. The whistle blew, and we went back to the same room. We started our activities and I was in group 2. I was glad that I was in team as Hannah. We came up with a name and walk ride. Our group name was called "Pineapple Rebels", but our walk ride was a fail. We hadn't finished our walk ride in time, so we just said any random thing that rhymed with Pineapple Rebels. It was a bit challenging, because most of us couldn't share ideas with each other, and the "bossy" people did all the work. During the middle of the day, we started our activities. My group's first activity was in a room. We had to put our chairs everywhere for all of us, but we added an extra chair. To play the game, one of the staff had to try to sit on an empty chair, but we had to try to stop him by sitting on the chair he is walking to. The rules are: you can't move your chair and you can't run. At night, we ate our dinner, and we cooked dough (for a starter) and we ate chicken. The dinner was DELICIOUS! After dinner, we went night hiking. Sonwabe and I were walking together. It was so scary, because some of the boys were lying on the floor and pretended to be dead people.

On Thursday, my friends and I woke up, I woke up because our neighbors were screaming a lot. We went outside to do our activities and we did boat riding. We made our own boat and had races in the river. After that,we had our free time, so my friends and I went to swim in the river. When free time was over, we had chicken and salad for lunch. When we finished lunch, we had free time and started our next activity.Group two did "the leap of faith" it was quite scary, because it was high. After our last activity, we went to have dinner and went to our cabins to go to sleep.Before my cabin went to sleep, our neighbors came over to have a party , but it was really short.When we all got tired, we went to sleep.

On Friday, I woke up again from our neighbors.my friends and I started packing up first, then we had breakfast. I had a pancake with syrup,toast with peanut butter and juice. When we finished eating breakfast, my group and I went to do rock climbing.I only managed to climb a quarter of the climbing board.After that, we had free time. I went to swim in the river with all my friends, but it was really cold. I got used to the water, so my friends and I splashed water at eachother. When free time was over, we had to pack our bags. My friends and I already packed our stuff, so we just chatted to eachother. when our time was over, we all went for a toilet break and went onto the bus. I sat next to Mylaya and we both slept on the bus, because we were really tired from all the activities we did.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Fun In ILT

When we started ILT, I was partners with Mikeya. We had to make a poster about a soil creature, and Mikeya and I decided to do the fennec fox. We had to get material to make a poster. We got a dark-blue poster and some decorations. Our poster was nice and neat but less creative, it still looked really good though. We thought that if we added more decorations, it would look less neat, so we only used pipe-cleaners as worms (because fennec foxes eat worms) and sand paper as soil. The day after we made our poster, we had to do an oral at school and only practice it in 1 hour and 30 minutes. We dicided to do an interview. Mikeya was the interviewer and I was the person that answered the questions. We wrote our sentences on a clipboard that Mikeya bought to school. What I enjoyed the most was making the poster.

Sticking our pictures down
Our finished poster
Saying our orals


Wonder

This year we have been reading an interesting book called Wonder, written by R. J. Palacio. We just finished reading it last term. It ...