Kabelo's Blog

Last week from Wednesday to Friday, the Grade 5's went on camp to High Africa. I found it really exciting getting to build a raft and go into the river. We had a lot of free time to swim in it as well. I really loved doing the low ropes or 'Long Walk to Freedom' as they call it. The leap of faith was very fun. When I started the jump it was scary and my reaction was priceless, but afterwards I realised how great it was. I was really enthralled by  the rock climbing, but I only made it halfway. Another thing I really enjoyed, was participating in the potjie competition. It was challenging working as a team for some of the activities like the rafting and the low ropes. Another challenge was having to deal with all the mosquitos in our cabin because nobody wanted me to spray the mosquito repellent. Camp was a fun experience with some challenges and I can't wait to go back to High Africa in Grade 7.

Last week we were put into partners for our ILT project. Lola was my partner and we chose the Cape Golden Mole as our creature. On the first day of ILT, our class did an assessment on problem solving that had to do with soil creatures . After that we started to create our sentences for our poster. I wrote down facts about it's habitat and I also wrote down interesting facts. The next thing we did was go to the IT room, watch a photo story about soil creatures and tally what we saw . When we came back we did some more graphs about the same creatures. The next day we started our posters using the supplies and information we had. Lola and I worked really well together and finished really quickly. When we were done we got to make an iMovie using all the information we had gathered. When we were back in class there was a lot of cleaning up to do. Friday the final day of ILT we made orals about our creatures. Lola and I first had to stick our bibliography on the poster. When we s