2004 Grade 5 Camp Day 2 Page

GlenKatherine
PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tuesday, 8th June 2004

At The Camp

The weather has been absolutely beautiful down here on the island (just check out the beach
photos, Queensland eat your heart out!). Everyone has picked up on the scheme of things and
the breakfast, lunch and dinner duty groups are going like clockwork. The children are really
putting in and looking after themselves and others (I bet that comes as a shock to some Mums
and Dads!!!).

Today’s activities were very local to the camp area. The participants were split into two groups
before lunch and then they were switched around after lunch so that each group did each activity.

At The Beach

It is only a 10 minute walk to the
beach at Cowes where today’s
challenges were held. Sand
castles and sculptures were
extremely competitive and it was
very hard to split the winners. In
the end, there were so many
catagories that everyone was a
winner! Well thought out by the
children with many entries
containing likenesses of Guy
Sabastian, Mrs Pierce and
parent helper Anthony.

The Beach at Cowes (looking to the West)

Guy Sebastian

Parent helpers just can't help themselves!

Mrs Pearce

The Beach at Cowes (looking to the East)

Parent helper (ugly) Anthony

The Beach at Cowes (looking to the North)

At The Wildlife Park

The other activity was a visit by bus to the Wildlife Park nearby.
Here you are permitted to feed the animals with the pellets
provided. There were many different types of fauna including
kangaroos, koalas, snakes, wombats, pelicans, whistling kites,
dingos, emus, cassowaries, parrots and even some Tasmanian
Devils and Flying Foxes (fruit bats).

Tasmanian Devil

Owl

Feeding the Kangaroos

Wombat

Kangaroo & Joey

Everyone
having
dinner

Emus

Evening At The Camp Site

The evening brought about some different mind
boggling group challenges such as “Who Wants to be
a Millionaire?” with the ultimate winner decided by
reducing teams to individuals followed by the ultimate
playoff between the remaining to contestants.

Later we all went out and did some possum spotting
with our torches. We saw two of them plus two galahs
and even a mop! (yes, I kid you not).

Everyone is looking forward to the activity rotations
over the next two days.

Mr Pollard hosts
"Who Wants to be A
Millionaire?" and
the contestants
battle it out.

JOURNALS
(as read by the student author to the other students).

The day was a blast, it went so fast. The beach was
fun and we won. We played with crabs and we got some
scabs. The Wildlife Park was cool but had no pool. I
fed a roo while it did a poo!! The Dingos were fierce
even more than Mrs Pierce. Now don’t start me on
Mrs Bevan, walk past her and go straight to heaven.
Jordan C.

Last night we stayed up until 3:00! In
the morning, half of the grade 5’s went
to the Beach. We had a sand castle
comp. And lots of games. We came
back & had pies for lunch then we went
to the wildlife park. It was fun! I liked
the wallabies & Kangaroos the best!
For Dinner fish & chips yummy! I’m
hoping to get a bit more sleep tonight?
Camp is so great it’s hard to believe I’m
here. I’m starting to miss some people
from Home. Camp is Great!
Alana J.

Today was fun, exciting, sandy, great and competable.
Because we wock up and had breekfast but unforcent
thing was that I was on breekfast durty. After the
tasty breekfast we got some freetime in. My
freetime I spock to my friends which wasn’t very
exciteing. So after free time we got into to groups
and my group went to the butyful beach to build sand
sculptures and we was just building ugly Anthony. Our
next activity was to go to the wonderful wildlife park
to feed the inisent animals. My faviti was the spiky
echina and the big kangaroos. Then it was time to go
back to camp. When we got to the gorges camp I
played table tennies. I got ½ way thourg my game it
was tea time for a lovely tea. Thanks for listning
Georgia.

Dear Diary, Today was even better than
yesterday. First some of us went to the
Wildlife Centre, it was awesome. We all
saw heaps of animals, we got to feed the
Kangaroos. They were so cool. The really
big kangaroos had really big teeth but it did
not hurt. A while after that we saw some
cute and cuddly koalas. (one of the koalas
got onto the ground, played for a while and
got up into another tree. Later on we went
to beach that was really fun we did some
sand sculpture. I did Mr. Fatchen with two
of my friends. Today was so Awsom!
Gabriella B.