At the beginning of Outdoor Education, everyone in the sixth grade had to meet up at a hill for an activity. For our activity, each group had to do Team Building. That is where you help your group fight through the challenges together. Our first team building activity was that we had to hold hands and cross through multiple of strings. That may sound easy, but we couldn’t touch the string at all! Whoever touches any of the strings, gets blindfolded. Eventually we all passed and it was time for the next challenge course. Our group had to pick up a stick with only using the front side of our index finger. We all had to pretend it was a bomb and that we had to put it to safety by balancing the stick with our finger. If one person pushes their finger upward, then the rest of the people that were holding it, lose balance. After all of our team building activities, it was dinnertime. After dinner, we go to our cabins and we sleep until the morning comes. Once morning arrives, its time for our first lesson of Entomology (Insects)!

Going to our first lesson of the day, my group and I go to Entomology. Entomology is where you learn about insects and how they live in their environment. The Entomology teacher put random insects on each of our backs. She did this because we are going to go to others and guess what our insect is on our back.  After we were finished finding our type of insect, we talked about each person’s insect and what it does. After that, we had to make our “own” insect that is made out of candy. I made mine look similar to an ant and others made theirs great as well!

Survival was a very fun and interesting class. We stood by a fire that filled my body with heat! Our group sat in a circle and we talked about how to survive and three things to survive in the woods. After we shared our opinions, our challenge was to make a shelter. We needed to make a shelter because if we were in the woods and we need shelter, we could make it from wood. We were allowed to pick 3 or 4 people to build the shelter with you.

Cleaning up and going to the next class, Nature time! Nature is all about outdoors. In nature class, we have to use our 5 senses: Touch, Smell, See, Taste, and Hear. We need to use all of those senses because there’s a challenge where you pick a partner and you blindfold them. Once you have blindfolded them you guide them to a tree and the person that is blind has to use their 5 senses to find what tree is which.

Later in the afternoon, it was time for my favorite class- Archery! I’ve been waiting to do Archery for a while! Archery is where you test your accuracy with bone arrows. You have to shoot at a picture of an animal and you have to hit a part of the animal. If you hit the animal, you have great accuracy. If you don’t, try again! There’s a contest where you have to pop a balloon with one bullet and if you get it, your team gets 25 points for that shot.

After Archery, our group went to Orienteering! I learned about compasses and how they work in orienteering! You had to change the dial at a certain degree and make the red arrow point north. You put a coin from where you are standing because you have to walk away from it. Once you have pointed the red arrow to north, you start walking a few steps away from your coin. Then you change the dial to whatever your teacher says to change it to and then you start walking a few more steps. Then you take huge steps and try to get back to your coin by using the compass. After we had finished practicing with our compass, you had to pick a partner to go with you in the woods. When you go in the woods, you have to use your compass and dial the degree to whatever your paper says, and take whatever steps the paper says. Each amount of steps will get you to a letter and you have to find all of the letters before time runs out!

After our journey, it was gym time! New Games is multiple of games you can play with your group. In New Games, we played games such as Frisbee, Ultra Nerf, and Elbow Tag. Frisbee is when you pass a disco shaped ball to your teammate back and forth until you reach a maximum of 5 catches. There’s a defense side where they have to block your Frisbee throw when you try to pass it to your teammate. In the end, we all switch sides and we have fun in the New Games!

After lunch, after lunch it was the scariest activity for me. It was High Ropes. High Ropes is where you have to climb obstacles way up high and sometimes you have to do tricks. This was the scariest for me because I am afraid of heights! Whenever I climb high and I look down, I feel like I would let go and fall! Some of my friends said High Ropes was a piece of cake but some others were afraid like me. Since I wasn’t the only one afraid of heights, I made a deal with my friends that if I climb the obstacles, they would climb it as well

All in all, it was time to pack up. Covenant Harbor became quiet again and all the kids were sad because we were leaving! But we all had fun and we all enjoyed the trip to Outdoor Education!

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Book By: Louis Sachar

Blurb By: Jagr F.

The book Holes is about a person named Stanley and he was arrested for stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes. He actually didn’t steal the shoes it just fell from the sky. Well that’s what Stanley thinks. He thought destiny had dropped the shoes from the sky. But destiny didn’t. Some kid went into a homeless shelter and stole the shoes. He didn’t know they were famous and he wanted them so badly because it looked fantastic to him. He didn’t have any money because he lived on his own. The persons name was Hector, Hector Zeroni. Hector put the shoes on and ran out of the store. Cops started looking around for the shoes and they found Hector wearing them. Hector was running across the bridge and stopped, he took off the shoes and threw them over the bridge! Stanley was walking home from school and out of nowhere, the shoes from the bridge fell on him. The cops arrested Hector and the cops found Stanley on the ground with the shoes on top of him. So that means Stanley was innocent but nobody believed him. They both had to go to camp and dig holes for that accident. They weren’t digging holes for a punishment they were digging it because they were supposed to find treasure. There is more to the story but the only way to find out is to read this fantastic book!

Book By: Mrs. Basil Frankweiler

Blurb By: Jagr F.

From The Mixed Up Files is a marvelous book! It is about a 6^th grade girl named Claudia and a third grade boy named Jamie and they wanted to escape from their homes because they did not like their life. Their allowance was low and they were poor. So Claudia and Jamie decided to escape, if you are wondering where they are going to live since they are young, their going to live in the Metropollington Museum! Jamie is also a good card gamer, he cheated on a game and his best friend gave him 24 dollars for winning! So Claudia and Jamie are going to eat at the Museum and live there for a while! But not forever!

By; Bill Dodds

Poetry Project#2

Poetry Project By: Jagr F.

Blurb by: Jagr F.

Book By: Shelly Pearsall

Crooked River is about a family that captured an Indian. The reason why the family captured the Indian was because another Indian killed a trapper, but that Indian killed himself. Then, they tried to figure out who did kill the trapper so they found an Indian that was a family member of the Indian that killed himself. The Family that tried to find the Indian was three girls, three sons, and one father. They did have a mom but she died. Right after she gave birth to Mercy (youngest child), the mom died. The three girls were named Laura (oldest girl), Rebecca (second oldest girl), and Mercy. The three sons were named Lorenzo (That is also the father’s name), George, and Amos. That Indian had a friend since he was young. The friend was Peter Kelly. He is a lawyer so he could save the Indian from being hanged. He has to be hanged because people think he was the person that murdered the poor trapper even though he didn’t. Rebecca and Laura want to save the Indian from being hanged for no good reason, so Peter Kelly will try to help his closest friend! The Indian’s name was Amik but Laura and Rebecca called him Indian John. This book is fantastic!