Today was the day for the 5th grade auction! It is like a bidding. Pretend we were bidding for a picture frame:
Person in Charge of Bid (PCB): "Who would like to say the opening bid for this picture frame?"
Bidder: "$50!"
Competing Bidder: "$75!"
Another Bidder: "$150!!"
PCB: Anyone? Going once...Going twice...Sold!
And then, the person who said $150 gets to keep it. Here's what I spent, and what I have spent ON (of course, school paper money, not real money):
$3000 on 2 charm necklaces
$2300 on 3 bath bead test tubes and confetti eye mask
$3000 on vanilla swirl body lotion
$3000 on a $10 Walmart gift card
$700 on Wild Cherry Lifesavers, Hard
$0 on free sample of one Fireball
$0 on free sample of one package of Skittles
$5000 on A TELEVISION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you believe the last one?! You can earn money and bonuses by behaving, and turning in work on time. I did that for the whole school year, and you see what it got me?! I still can't believe it... I WON A TV!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
5th Grade Graduation!!!!
I cannot believe that I just got my DIPLOMA, and GRADUATED just YESTERDAY!! I would have posted this post up yesterday, but I had trouble logging in.
The graduation was great! All the 5th graders got our diplomas, and after the GRADUATION, it is CONGRATULATION, and CELEBRATION!!! There was food, drinks, snacks, dance, and games! Even someone to DJ the dance!!! He controlled the music that most people were dancing to. The games there include:
-A bowling game with huge soda bottles filled with one cup of sand, and decorated to look like Hawaiian hula dancers, with leis and grass skirts! They were lined up in a triangle, point toward us, and we can knock them down with coconuts! Bowling! It was hard, because the bottles were filled with sand, making it difficult to knock them down.
-A jump rope contest! Who ever can jump longest without messing up wins!
-A game where you stand on one foot, balancing on an upside down bucket, and holding two containers filled with water spread out at around a fifty degree angle, and each one weighing around 4 pounds each. See who can stay balanced the longest.
-A LIMBO STICK! I participated in the limbo, spending most of my time there. HANDS CANNOT TOUCH THE GROUND! Or elbows. Or knees. Or back. Or anything else that is NOT feet. ONLY your feet can touch the ground. You can get a second chance if you accidently touched the stick. There's even hula hoops.
The party was so much fun.
But a 5th grade graduation is a once-in-a-lifetime chance...
It was really fun, and enjoyable. All the classrooms had different colored T shirts. We even saw our teacher wear a hot pink T shirt! That is the first time he has wore pink! All the T shirts say the same thing. On the front:
"Our future is so bright..."
And, on the back:
"...we have to wear shades!"
We actually wore shades! We received the sunglasses and secretly hid them until it was time to stand up, put the shades on, and turn around to our parents!! EVERYONE was wearing them!! Parents were flashing their cameras proudly. We got to keep the shades!
It seems worth it to finally get your diploma, and CELEBRATE about it!
The graduation was great! All the 5th graders got our diplomas, and after the GRADUATION, it is CONGRATULATION, and CELEBRATION!!! There was food, drinks, snacks, dance, and games! Even someone to DJ the dance!!! He controlled the music that most people were dancing to. The games there include:
-A bowling game with huge soda bottles filled with one cup of sand, and decorated to look like Hawaiian hula dancers, with leis and grass skirts! They were lined up in a triangle, point toward us, and we can knock them down with coconuts! Bowling! It was hard, because the bottles were filled with sand, making it difficult to knock them down.
-A jump rope contest! Who ever can jump longest without messing up wins!
-A game where you stand on one foot, balancing on an upside down bucket, and holding two containers filled with water spread out at around a fifty degree angle, and each one weighing around 4 pounds each. See who can stay balanced the longest.
-A LIMBO STICK! I participated in the limbo, spending most of my time there. HANDS CANNOT TOUCH THE GROUND! Or elbows. Or knees. Or back. Or anything else that is NOT feet. ONLY your feet can touch the ground. You can get a second chance if you accidently touched the stick. There's even hula hoops.
The party was so much fun.
But a 5th grade graduation is a once-in-a-lifetime chance...
It was really fun, and enjoyable. All the classrooms had different colored T shirts. We even saw our teacher wear a hot pink T shirt! That is the first time he has wore pink! All the T shirts say the same thing. On the front:
"Our future is so bright..."
And, on the back:
"...we have to wear shades!"
We actually wore shades! We received the sunglasses and secretly hid them until it was time to stand up, put the shades on, and turn around to our parents!! EVERYONE was wearing them!! Parents were flashing their cameras proudly. We got to keep the shades!
It seems worth it to finally get your diploma, and CELEBRATE about it!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Sea World Trip!
Yesterday, on May 1st, we went to Sea World, Orlando! I woke up at 4 AM, got ready, and arrived at school at around 4:50. At 5:15, we left for the buses. My group and our chaprones are on the #4 white Astro bus. It took about 4 hours to get to Sea World. It was around 10:00 when we got to the parking lot in Sea World, Orlando. We checked in at the turnstiles, and went inside to EXPLORE...
Everyone except for one chaprone and I went on the KRAKEN, the rollercoaster. We had waited ONE HOUR in line for this 2 minute and 2 second long ride.
We (meaning everyone, including me!!) then went on the Journey to Atlantis ride sometime later. It was scary, and wet, but fun. We boarded the boat on the ride after 45 minutes of waiting. At first, the ride was smooth, and mermaids showed us the way to Atlantis. But, then, the mermaids let out an evil laugh, red eyes peeked from the sides in the dark, the color was draining from the tunnel. The boat was moving toward a VERY STEEP hill, emarald eyes flashed, and then, we DROPPED down and made a huge splash at the bottom. Then, the boat moved toward the back, and went up another steep hill. I thought it was over. WRONG! The boat climbed up the steep hill, then made ANOTHER DROP down!! NOW, it's over. I felt like I was going to fly right out of the boat during the drops. Everyone was pressed down against the backseat during those very fast and steep drops. After the ride, we were soaking wet because of the splashing water at the bottom, and because the people in the sidelines squirted us! If you insert in quarters into the geyser machine, and press the red button, you get to geyser the people who just finished their drop down.
We also went to "Shark Encounter". We walked through a glass dome that was about this thick:------------. The sharks were swimming beside and overhead of the glass tunnel. It was amazing; live sharks swimming around and over us. We also went to Penguin Encounter. I saw LIVE PENGUINS!! I loved it! It was snowing inside the glass! They were waddling and swimming all around the mimic habitat.
We went to Stingray Lagoon. The stingrays there are about the size of huge dinner plates. They also let you feed them too! I didn't feed the rays because they were selling the stingray food, and I have to save my money for MY food.
The trip was exciting and fun!! I loved yesterday, walking around Sea World for 8 hours (except for that part). It was tiring, but when we got back to the bus at 6, we relaxed and watched movies until we got back to school at 10:30 PM, our parents waiting at the school to pick us up. That trip was so much FUN!
Everyone except for one chaprone and I went on the KRAKEN, the rollercoaster. We had waited ONE HOUR in line for this 2 minute and 2 second long ride.
We (meaning everyone, including me!!) then went on the Journey to Atlantis ride sometime later. It was scary, and wet, but fun. We boarded the boat on the ride after 45 minutes of waiting. At first, the ride was smooth, and mermaids showed us the way to Atlantis. But, then, the mermaids let out an evil laugh, red eyes peeked from the sides in the dark, the color was draining from the tunnel. The boat was moving toward a VERY STEEP hill, emarald eyes flashed, and then, we DROPPED down and made a huge splash at the bottom. Then, the boat moved toward the back, and went up another steep hill. I thought it was over. WRONG! The boat climbed up the steep hill, then made ANOTHER DROP down!! NOW, it's over. I felt like I was going to fly right out of the boat during the drops. Everyone was pressed down against the backseat during those very fast and steep drops. After the ride, we were soaking wet because of the splashing water at the bottom, and because the people in the sidelines squirted us! If you insert in quarters into the geyser machine, and press the red button, you get to geyser the people who just finished their drop down.
We also went to "Shark Encounter". We walked through a glass dome that was about this thick:------------. The sharks were swimming beside and overhead of the glass tunnel. It was amazing; live sharks swimming around and over us. We also went to Penguin Encounter. I saw LIVE PENGUINS!! I loved it! It was snowing inside the glass! They were waddling and swimming all around the mimic habitat.
We went to Stingray Lagoon. The stingrays there are about the size of huge dinner plates. They also let you feed them too! I didn't feed the rays because they were selling the stingray food, and I have to save my money for MY food.
The trip was exciting and fun!! I loved yesterday, walking around Sea World for 8 hours (except for that part). It was tiring, but when we got back to the bus at 6, we relaxed and watched movies until we got back to school at 10:30 PM, our parents waiting at the school to pick us up. That trip was so much FUN!
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