The Map of Snake Road Adventure Center

INTRODUCTION

We left school at 9:15 and were set off to Snake Road Adventure Center. It took us a long 1 hour and 30 minutes to get there. We arrived at about 10:45. We knew our cabins mates right before the trip. We chose our cabin mates on an index card. My cabin people were Gregory, Ryan, Chase, Vincent, Jonathan B., Jagr, Aiman, Jack, Robbie, Matthew T., and Noah. We were introduced to the staff and the major rules. One of the rules was the five-finger rule. The thumb finger meant that you must be good. The index finger means no blaming. The middle finger meant no swearing. The ring finger meant commitment. Pinky meant cooperation. Then, we went to our cabins. There were 3 boys’ cabins, all in the Engebretson Lodge. I had cabin A. The camp was shaped like a hill and the bottom of the hill was the Geneva Lake. The top of hill or cap was the big field, were we played most of our games. At about 11:20, we went into our activity groups. My activity group included Jack, Liz, Antonio, Robbie, Xotchitl, Paul C., Matthew T., Michael, Colleen, William, Alyssa, and Bella. Mr. Schnurlien and Mrs. Diane led our group. At 11:30 we went to the big field to play some Big Group Games. The Snake River staff led this.

TEAMS COURSE

After the Big Group Games, we had grilled cheese for lunch. Then we did Teams Course. The purpose of these games was to work together to accomplish the game. We first made 4 different puzzles without using our mouths or moving around. There we played magic carpet were we had to flip a carpet from one side to another without falling of the carpet. William figured out the idea that we should flip the carpet from corner to corner. This idea worked. This game taught us how to be able to work together without disagreement. Then we went into the woods and used a giant teeter-totter. What we had to do was we had to sing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” when the teeter-totter was in a balanced mode. This taught us how to work together and have a one-group mind. This was because only one person could move, not the whole group to accomplish the challenge. We then went onto 3 islands and a raft, which was when we had to make a bridge out of 2 boards and a rope. We had to figure out how to stay on one idea the whole time. I figured out that we should be able to put one board on top of each other to make a bridge. This was the idea we kept the whole time. Then we played Portal, which was when the group was connected in a chain and we had to get from one side to another through a tangle of strings. We couldn’t touch the strings. This taught us to work together. On every puzzle, there was one person that figured out an idea that finished the puzzle. The others just had to follow through with the idea. After a spaghetti dinner we did relay races and went to sleep at 10:15 PM.

NATURE

I woke up at 7:00 AM and had breakfast at 8:00. For breakfast I had bacon and eggs. Then I started my activities. At 8:45 AM I started Nature. At Nature we learned how to use our senses and I was able to use my senses to get a prize. The first activity I did was using my sense of touch to feel a rock and try to get it back. This taught me to use my sense of touch to find the rock. Then I used my four fingers, beside my thumb to be able to get candy and put it into my bag. This taught me that it was hard to get things without my thumb. Then I tried to use my sense of touch to find a tree that I felt before without my sense of sight. This taught me to be able to use my sense of feeling to be able to find a tree. Then we used our sense of smell to find 5 clues with my activity group but I was not allowed to speak. The most difficult think about the scent hike was that we couldn’t actually speak on the hike. This made it harder for us to communicate with each other. At 9:50 I went to Entomology.

ENTOMOLOGY

Entomology is the study of bugs. I learned in entomology that the Viceroy butterfly mimics the Monarch butterfly because the Monarch butterfly has a gad taste to animals, so that if the Viceroy looks like the Monarch then the animals will not want to eat the Viceroy. I got a bug that was called the blue-eyed Prancer. I learned that it had big blue eyes and had about the same characteristics of a dragonfly. I was able to make a bug out of candy. I also learned that the dragonfly is the only bug that can eat and fly at the same time. I learned that I was pretty good at making something out of scrap. This I learned by having to make a bug. I also learned that it is hard to know all bug types, because I got one that I didn’t even have a clue about. I made an ant looking bug, but with smaller legs. Then I got to eat it. At 10:55 I went to Orienteering.

ORIENTEERING

Trying to Find a Penny During Orienteering

Orienteering was when we had to go around the camp using a compass. A compass works by having one magnet connected to the magnetic poles of the Earth. This is why the compass has an arrow that points north and an arrow that points south. If you wanted to travel 30 steps S then you would put the direction of travel at 180 degrees and then you would put ‘Red Fred In The Shed’ and that would make your direction f travel looking south. I learned how to use my eyes to see what was an object in the distance and to step some amount of steps to it. We first had to take a penny, put it on a spot on the ground and use our compass to walk around some amount of steps and get back to the penny we put on the ground. Then, we used the compass to navigate ourselves to get from one tree to another, and we had to visit 3 different trees before we got to the finishing stop, which was an exit out of the woods. The hard part of orienteering is that you have to be looking the right way, which is hard, because there is still a degree that could be off. Then at 12:30 we had lunch.

BASIC SURVIVAL

In basic Survival, I learned how to live in the wilderness. I learned what to bring if you are going hiking, what to do, and some safety precautions. I also learned how to make a house out of woods very quickly. The three things somebody should bring on a hiking trip are food, shelter, and a cell phone. The cell phone is for calling an emergency number if you’re lost. But you should bring a friend or parent along too. I learned that a stick that might look big enough is actually smaller than you think. I learned this when I was making my shelter out of sticks. Then we went to New Games.

NEW GAMES

New games were not very new actually. The games we played were ‘Capture The Flag’ and ‘Kickball’. They were not very new to me. I felt very confused because we didn’t play ‘New Games’. My favorite game was Kickball because I am better at that game. I also like this game because there is always a time of rest, and a time of playing. This made me do better went I was in Outfield. My team lot on the first game (Capture The Flag) and lost on the second game (Kickball). I learned about myself that I could be able to win with a little bit of teamwork. Then we went straight to Archery.

ARCHERY

The Archery Range

At archery we got to use a bow and arrow. This is when we got to be able to learn how to shoot and some safety procedures. The safety procedures are that we have to wait until everyone is done shooting to get our arrows. Then, we have to get our arrows by putting our index finger and thumb on our left hand, and then pull the arrow out wt our right hand. We first tried to hit a picture of a deer with our bows and arrows. Then we had to try to hit balloons. I was one inch away from a balloon. I then learned that use your thumb as an anchor. The teacher there was very good at archery. I learned about myself that I am not very good at aiming. Then we had dinner.

CLIMBING TOWER/HIGH ROPES

I completed all the elements of high ropes. I did one were there was a balancing beam, and I had to use it to walk from one side to another. The only thing is, is that it was more than 10 ft above the ground. It was hard psychologically, but it was very safe. Then there was one were there was a group of tires. I had to jump from one tire to another. The first jumped I jumped to the third tire. This shows that it was pretty safe. Then there was one were you had to go on swings and go across to one side to another. Then we got to use a tight rope, and we had four ropes that we hanged onto, and used to walk from one side to another. They were all easy, but hard to do because I kept tensing up. Then there was the climbing tower. This was 1500 cm, or 50 ft. That made it a hard climb. We had to use rock climbing to get to the top and to get to the bottom was very fun. We used a zip line. This let us go down the 50 ft very fast. I felt scared at first when I was about to get to start. Then I took one step, which led me to a blazing gust of wind. I felt relieved after the zip line.

DORM TIME, MEALS, AND BIG GROUP ACTIVITIES

Every time before or after a meal we had Dorm Time. This was when we could write in our journals and we could be relaxed for 30 minutes or more. This was also a time were we played the card game ‘BS’ and we talked to each other. At Dorm Time, we were able to take a shower or just take a quick nap. Also the meals at Outdoor Ed were the best. I will tell you all the meals. Monday lunch we had grilled cheese. Monday dinner we had spaghetti. For Tuesday breakfast we had eggs and bacon. Then for lunch we had pizza. Dinner was chicken strips. Wednesday breakfast we had sausage and eggs. Lunch was tacos. Then there was the activities were the whole group participated in them. This included everyone in the school who decided to go. The big group activities were Big Group Games, Relay Races, and Campfire. Group Games consisted of three games called "Everybody’s it Tag", "Brawl Ball", and "The Blob". Relay Races were when we were in crazy relay races. One was called “Waiter, Waiter!” This was when we balanced an eyeball on a paper plate. Then we did a campfire, which was when we had a campfire and made S’mores. All these activities, Dorm Time, Meals, and Big Group Activities are things that may or seem important, but they were.

CONCLUSION

We left Snake Road Adventure Center at 12:45 and arrived at 2:20. We were done with Outdoor Ed. This was very fun at we had a lot of fun. One thing I left to the finish was Carpet Ball. This was the best game at camp. This was a game were you had to place two balls and tried to hit your opponent’s two balls. This was very fun. I was one of the best players in the game and I learned that even though I may not be the best at sports, I could still be good at something. I am not very good at sports. Carpet Ball was one of the things I will remember from Outdoor Ed. I also learned how to have good sportsmanship.  At the end of Outdoor Ed, I had learned a lot of things about myself. The trip to Outdoor Ed was the best field trip this year!

This is the scale I used to measure how big a chair would be.

30 (2=year old's height) =      70 (adult's size) X = 84 in

36  (how big the chair was)         X    (What it would look like to us)

So for an adult to see the world like a two year old it would look 84 in.

My favorite part of the project was build a model. I think this was the most interesting part because we actually built a model for this assignment. I liked the part of the project assignments that we actually got up and actually looked at how to get information on the assignment.

Please click the link below to view this student’s bacteria lab investigation.

Spice Inhibitor Lab

This is a histogram I made on Excel in math class. This graph is J-shaped, this is probably because most people go to 1 country, because they live in one, and another country for what country they came from or just for vacation. There are 2 outliers, the people who went to 12-14, and 15+ countries because that means they went to more than 1 country per year, which is not common because most families don’t waste so much money on just vacations. I go into the 0-2 columns; where there is the most people are in. I went to Korea a year ago, and I’m already in America, so that is why I go into the 0-2 columns.

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Marie Murphy!  I am looking forward to the Science Olympiad, in Marie Murphy.  In the S.O. we do many things, mostly with partners, or ourselves.  I am also looking forward for the many field trips.  There is a “camping” field trip and a lock-in for orchestra both of them are “over-night” field trips.  I don’t know any more future things, but I hope they will be exciting!

I also want you to see many of the rooms that I go to in Sixth Grade.  You probably already got this letter in room 161that room is my English class.  I wasn’t you to go to room 163, which is the room right next to this room that is my homeroom class taught by Mr. Ogden, and my Science class.  In the same hallway is my Math classroom (room 172) and my Social Studies Classroom (room 165).  If you go to the end of the hallway (to the main exit) on the right is my Creative tech class (room 166).  Now if you go out of the hallway and into the 8^th grade hallway and on right of the 8^th grade hallway is another hallway.  This hallway leads to my music room, where we used synthesizers (room 141)

I have 2 goals I want to accomplish over the school year.  1^st, I want to be good at everything, and to do this; I will need to make as much as I can over the year.  I also need to not miss any of my classes.  2^nd, I want to do most of the things I will learn this year so I will need to have a good long-term memory, and practice the thing I learned over and over.

I hope you will have a god time at this open house this year.  This is an overview of what I am excited for and hoping for this year.  I hope you enjoyed this letter!

Sincerely,

Youngjin

We call this Blabberize because we could use for the site Blabberize but it didn't work for us but this is a pod-cast with my Kindergarden buddy, William. William said the first line, then I said the second, he said the third, and I said the last.

By David Lubar

Blurb by Youngjin K.

They’re trapped, and can’t use their powers, but they have their true talents. ‘Trash’ is a person with super powers, and so do his friends, ‘Cheater’, Martin, ‘Torchie’, ‘Lucky’, and ‘Flinch’, all get trapped in by a evil person to use there powers for himself. I liked this book because it had humor, suspense, and a little sci-fi. I did not like the book because it had too much use of their super powers and not use of their real powers, their true talents.

I would recommend this book to a person who likes a good sci-fi novel because it has all the things that go into one, except UFOs and aliens. My favorite character is Martin because he is the only person referred with his real name, and in the prequel, he was the person that figure out that they had super powers. The main character changed from being thoughtless, to a good team leader. I would rate this book 4 out of 5 stars.

By: Eva Ibbotson

Blurb by: Youngjin K.

Karin’s father, the king of Bergania, is assassinated and if Tally and her friends at Delderton help him from getting away from Karin’s parents from the palace and if they don’t then, Karin gets pulled in to his bleak future of him and the palace, dead. Destroyed by the Nazis. But he can be saved and he depends on the people of Delderton for that. I liked this book because it has a problem you might think of but then it is not the problem. I do not like this book because when it switches places in the book it gets confusing.

I would not recommend this book to a friend because it has lot of confusing parts in the book. My favorite character is Kit because he comes from a different country that plays cricket and he doesn’t understand any of the other games and he becomes a very humorous character in the book. The main character changes from a little tiny country girl to a girl who is a life-saving person.