Fitness Testing

 

  In gym, we have been doing fitness testing. Fitness testing is when you run back and forth in the gym, you do push-ups and sit-ups and a flexibility test. I won the most points for the girls and Sam won the most points for the boys.

  Fitness testing is my favorite in gym, but it's also the hardest thing. We do one fitness text every year and we do practices too. Your partner keeps track of your score and then you keep track of theirs.

Destination Imagination

Destination Imagination is fun for people who are creative and like to be with friends. This year, I had a D. I. team. We were to choose a challenge: either to build something (there were certain things you would have to build, such as a structure to hold as many golf balls as possible) or to perform a skit (also having to follow some rules, depending on what challenge your team decides on). We chose to do a performance, and it was supposed to be a movie trailer. We had to make our own costumes, story, characters, backdrop (s), and soundtrack. Our story was about a girl who lived in England and was going to Ireland for boarding school. She wears the color only made for royalty, which is purple, by mistake to Ireland. When she gets there, she is thrown in jail with a slave who stood up for her. Together, they break out of jail, but just before they can escape, some mean jailers find them. They start chasing the girls, and after a while, the Irish girl slams into a wall by accident. The preview ends with the girls thinking they are caught.

At the tournament, we had an instant challenge and a central challenge. We did the Central challenge first, which was the preview/skit and then we did the instant challenge. The instant challenge was when the judges give us some type of building or drama project, without us knowing what it was beforehand. I’m not allowed to tell what the instant challenge was until DI stops after the global tournament, but I can tell you that Ms. Frackman was our judge. We won second place in the instant challenge and I think we won fourth place in the central challenge. If you like to use your imagination, you’ll love DI.

Iditaread

     In reading we are doing the Iditaread. In Alaska there are mushers. They are in a race for the Iditarod contest. Along time ago a lot of people were sick in Nome so they had to sled 1,112 miles with sled dogs. So now we are trying to read 1,112 pages for the Iditaread. Each page is one mile. There are a lot of towns to go through in the contest.                                                                            

     In each contest in Alaska you have to let you have to let your dogs rest for 24 hours somewhere on the trail. When you’re at White Mountain at the end of the race you have to let your dogs rest for eight hours. We have until March 21^st to read all of the pages. Along the check points we get prizes and so do they! My mushers are Pat Moon and Josh Cadzow.