July 11, 2006 - CSP Day 2
Trevon’s Day

When I came here early I went with my friend Christian and we played basketball outside. I lost every game then finally, it was time for camp. We got a binder and then we pressed on the paper and we made a collage from the National Geographic magazines. We worked hard; we cut out the perfect picture to talk about us and what we like. After that it was time for breakfast. We had muffin, juice and milk. We told funny jokes, we laughed and we went back into the class. After we came back we had a few minutes to come and finish our collage.

Then it was time for three activities. I started off at Art and we had to rip up paper, then we put it in the blended and it didn’t work. So Nicole went to ask Gammy if he had another one, then he said that was the only one, so Rose said, “Is it the wrong plug?” So we plugged it out and put it in a different plug and then it worked and we got to see it. Pulp was nasty and gray and mushy and makes you want to throw up. So while Nicole was blending some more, we went outside and we saw blueberries and strawberries mushed all in the bags, then we poured it into different containers. Then we moved on and went across the bridge and we saw vibrating bugs. Whenever one wanted to the bug vibrated. We walked on all the way into the park. One of the girls in Rose’s group wanted to write a poem about flowers, so she took a picture and she started to write. Next I said, “I want to take a picture of the vibrating bug.” So Miss Rose said, “We’ll take a picture of the bug when we walk back from the park to the camp.”

So a few minutes later we started to walk back. I saw the water bug and I said, “I see it, let’s take a picture.” She gave me the camera and said, “Try not to drop it.” I tried to take a picture of it, but it was too fast. Rosie took a shot of it. Naomy tried and she finally got a shot of one of the vibrating bugs. After we wrote our poems but didn’t get to finish. We used the mushy pulp and strawberries and blueberries to make art!

We rotated from Art to EE (environmental education). We started off with a clean bucket of water filled with three water bottles. Miss Hanifa was talking about there was one percent of freshwater in the world. She said that some waters get polluted from the sewage treatment, from the lake—the water comes from the toilet and the sink and that is all freshwater. We talked about how the water gets polluted and we put stuff in [to represent pollutants], like beavers bite trees and it goes into the water. In winter leaves fall out and then go into the water. The farmer puts pesticides on the ground, but the flies could go eat it and die. And when it rains all the water comes puts all the pesticides into the river and that’s non-point source pollution.

Today we played games. I liked the one where you had to hold hands and you had to catch someone so they could join you. I liked the game where you had to figure out how the C’s get to the X’s and the X’s get to the C’s [called Traffic Jam]. You have to think with your mind, you really had to think with your head to figure it out.