Thato S's Blog

Last week Wednesday on the 9th of March to the 11th the grade 5's went to High Africa for camp. The minute the bus started driving I got very excited. On camp we did a whole lot of games and activities. My favorite activity was the leap of faith. I had a harness on and I had to jump from a high pole. It was scary and fun. I am sure I overcame my fear of heights. Another part of camp that I really liked was when we swam in the river. The cabin I was in was very nice. The only thing I didn't like was the bugs in the bathroom. I had to use the next door's bathroom. The most challenging activity was when I had to race on a raft with my group against another. First we had to build the raft which was not too hard. Racing the other group in the river was the difficult part. My group lost because the raft fell apart in the river. Another challenging part of camp was when I had to make a chicken potjie with my friends. The onions burnt while we were making it, but it was still delic...

Last week ILT started. My partner for the ILT was Charlie.We had to chose an animal that lived underground.We came up with a meerkat. On the first day we went up to the IT room and made tallies for a maths activity. I drew a pictograph using the information from he tally and I wrote down three questions. Charlie did the table and a bar graph. After the tallies Charlie and I prepared our information about the meerkat. We wrote down our paragraphs for the poster. The next day Charlie and I started making our poster. We wrote our paragrphs in neat and cut out the pictures. I drew a big meerkat for our poster. I had lots of fun and exciting times with Charlie when we made had made it. My favourite fact about the meerkat was  that they could see their enemies in the sky from more than 300 m away. Our next activity the following day was to make an oral about our creature. Charlie and I pretended to be reporters and it was really exciting. Working with Charlie for the ILT was really wonde...