Field Trips

  My favorite Field Trip that I have been to was Camp McClain. It is my favorite because we spent two days there and in those two days I had so much fun. The first day we arrived, we got to our cabins and settled in. We then got into our groups for our activities. After the activities we went to the food area and got our food. The food there was amazing and so rich. At night we were in our cabins and we told a few stories and joked around. Then, we out to play a huge game of capture the flag. There was a lot of cheating going on but still it was very fun. We played for about and hour and a half before we stopped. By then, my team had one 4-1 and were celebrating. We then we then went up a hill for some camp fire fun. We told stories, sang songs, and messed around. When we got back to our cabins we brushed our teeth and calmed down. Our teacher left the cabin to go to another cabin so we decided to prank him. We were gonna turn off all the lights and pretend we were sleeping so that he would be surprised. When he walked in he said, "Nice try," And that's when we knew that we failed. We then messed around some more and one of my friends threw his pillow at the fan and was told to go to bed, that was very funny and we teased him about it a lot. aw then went into our beds and just talked for about two more hours before going to bed at 6 o'clock am. Then when we woke up at 7:30 am we went to the docks and lay down fishing. We stayed there for about 3 hours before packing our things up and leaving. So Camp McClain was probably my best field trip I've been on.

Holocaust Blog

December 12, 1943
This week mother has picked up a disease that we do not know of. We have been in our little beat up apartment in the ghetto since 1939 when the Jews were kicked out off  Germany, now we are in December and Christmas is only a few weeks away. Mothers sickness is suspected to be from not picking the lice out of her clothes like the rest of us. It is also because she has been working excessively to bring food to the apartment cause father got sent to Auschwitz. I miss father so much and I hate the Germans for taking away from us. I have grown skinny cause the food in the ghetto is very scarce and mother is starting to worry about my health but I keep telling here to relax and not worry about me that makes her worry even more. There has been snow for almost 6 days now and it keeps falling and me and a few others have to shovel it out and that is like a job you can never imagine because your feet are burning from how cold the floor is and your sweat gets frozen on your skin. I came home one day to find mother making food and then I think that her sickness has gone away but then she falls on the floor and collapses but lucky for us we have a doctor who lives in the apartment that is above us and as soon as I call to him he rushes to our apartment and helps mother regain consciousness. Then he tells us that the Germans are coming to take the weak Jews from the ghetto and send them to a work camp so that  they can work for the Germans making war goods. Soon, the following week the Germans come and take the weak Jews just as the doctor said, and take them away and we never see them again and one off the weak is mother. I am now so heart broken that I don't know what to do.

Jesse, Anamoo

Daniels Story

“We must live, and when this is all over, we must work to make the world a better place.  And if we die, we will die knowing that it was not our fault, that we did our best, and we can go to our deaths in dignity… I want you both to live…And to remember...You must choose love.  Always choose love.”  

(from Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas, page 70)

A time when someone choose love was when in the Hunger Games Katnas and Peeta. They choose love over everything else and together they survived and in a way changed the world. They were in the Hunger Games and they had to survive by eliminating other players by killing them. A time came when Katas and Peeta had to choose love because, one of Kaunas's friend died and it was only her and Peeta now. At first they, didn't like each other much then gradually they learned to accept each other. Eventually, the eliminated player by player and in the end they had to choose which one of them would die and which on would survive and since they choose love they almost killed themselves by committing suicide, but then they were stopped by the people who were running the games and they both lived.

Leap Year

  I don't really know a lot about Leap Year, but I read about it online and it stated that every 4 years an extra day is added on to February. So here is a a little bit about Leap Year online. According to telegraph.co.uk, "leap year, where an extra day is added to the end of February every four years, is down to the Gregorian calendar's disparity with the solar system. A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days. So leap seconds - and leap years - are added as means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons." I think that it is really cool that an extra day is added onto February every four years, and that it comes down to a calendar and its disparity with the solar system.