Saturday, February 17, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
It's Thursday!
Never fear, moms, dads, and siblings; your beloved 6th graders (whom I'm sure you have been pining for every day) return tomorrow!
Buttercup is going to be emailing me photos to post of yesterday and today's activities. Hopefully I will have them up by tonight!
Yesterday was amazingrace day, and the Purple, Blue, and Light Blue tribes tied for first place. We're going to have to ask them if going to Mass in the middle of the day helped unify their tribes.
This morning the students competed in the Plagues Relay, which is a crazy (yet awesome) reenactment of the plagues on Egypt. Each leg of the relay is representative of a plague in some way. Words don't really do it justice... someday I am going to post video. YouTube, anyone? The White, Yellow, and Green tribes were victorious over the plagues. What that mostly means is that you should look for members of those tribes in the 90th Annual Academy Awards in 2018.
Sorry this is short (I know... it's weird for Cupcake to be short!), but I will add more when I have pictures to post!
You are loved!
Buttercup is going to be emailing me photos to post of yesterday and today's activities. Hopefully I will have them up by tonight!
Yesterday was amazingrace day, and the Purple, Blue, and Light Blue tribes tied for first place. We're going to have to ask them if going to Mass in the middle of the day helped unify their tribes.
This morning the students competed in the Plagues Relay, which is a crazy (yet awesome) reenactment of the plagues on Egypt. Each leg of the relay is representative of a plague in some way. Words don't really do it justice... someday I am going to post video. YouTube, anyone? The White, Yellow, and Green tribes were victorious over the plagues. What that mostly means is that you should look for members of those tribes in the 90th Annual Academy Awards in 2018.
Sorry this is short (I know... it's weird for Cupcake to be short!), but I will add more when I have pictures to post!
You are loved!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Baby It's Cold Outside
Greetings from the cold mountain top! Whispering Winds gladly welcomes Sacred Heart School, Brawley, St. Mary's, Escondido, and St. John of the Cross, Lemon Grove to our 6th Grade Camp. There are over 100 6th graders here and we are having a wonderful week so far.
Yesterday was an exciting day of meeting new people, getting into our tribes, finding our "tree-mail", creating our tribe flag, re-enacting the parables of Jesus, going on a night hike, and closing with prayers for our friends and families. It was a little colder than we anticipated but we had hot and melty s'mores to warm ourselves up.
Tuesday is a blustery, rainy, and SNOWY day! Yes, it snowed today! It also hailed all afternoon and looked like Dip-n-Dots falling from the sky. We traded our morning hike for a movie and popcorn. We watched "Akeelah and the Bee" which is a true story about a 6th grader who wins the National Spelling Bee. We brought our pillows and sleeping bags to the warm and cozy conference room and enjoyed the movie while it snowed outside.
Then we learned about various exotic animals from Jessie and Wild Wonders. We were able to see and touch a Porcupine, Bearded Dragon, Hairy Armadillo, Kinkajou, Alligator, and a Chinchilla! Everyone got to touch the Alligator named Gucci. It was pretty awesome.
We all rested after lunch and the amazing hail storm and then we were off to crafts to create beautiful bead necklaces/bracelets, rope rosaries, lanyards, etc.
Tonight is our talent show and I am sure we will be highly entertained!
We start each morning off with morning praise where we sing our praises to God and have a chance to dance a little too.
Tomorrow is our Amazing Race day! Which tribes will win??? To be continued...
Yesterday was an exciting day of meeting new people, getting into our tribes, finding our "tree-mail", creating our tribe flag, re-enacting the parables of Jesus, going on a night hike, and closing with prayers for our friends and families. It was a little colder than we anticipated but we had hot and melty s'mores to warm ourselves up.
Tuesday is a blustery, rainy, and SNOWY day! Yes, it snowed today! It also hailed all afternoon and looked like Dip-n-Dots falling from the sky. We traded our morning hike for a movie and popcorn. We watched "Akeelah and the Bee" which is a true story about a 6th grader who wins the National Spelling Bee. We brought our pillows and sleeping bags to the warm and cozy conference room and enjoyed the movie while it snowed outside.
Then we learned about various exotic animals from Jessie and Wild Wonders. We were able to see and touch a Porcupine, Bearded Dragon, Hairy Armadillo, Kinkajou, Alligator, and a Chinchilla! Everyone got to touch the Alligator named Gucci. It was pretty awesome.
We all rested after lunch and the amazing hail storm and then we were off to crafts to create beautiful bead necklaces/bracelets, rope rosaries, lanyards, etc.
Tonight is our talent show and I am sure we will be highly entertained!
We start each morning off with morning praise where we sing our praises to God and have a chance to dance a little too.
Tomorrow is our Amazing Race day! Which tribes will win??? To be continued...
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