Second Antarctica R.A.W. challenge winners
Shelbi Avant and the entire 6th grade from St John’s Catholic School have been very busy during the past several weeks. They participated in each of the Antarctica R.A.W. challenge categories and submitted two different entries for the art section. WOW!!
WAY TO GO – St. John Catholic 6th Graders!!!
Enjoy their entries!
READ
The class read the book Guide To A Planet: Frozen Poles
ART
1st submission – Food Chains in Antarctica
From Toothed Whales… to seals… to penguins… to fish and squid… to krill… to plankton - these students strung their Antarctic food chain together in a dazzling display.
St. John Catholic School - 6th grade - Antarctic Food Chain project.
2nd submission – Globe project
The point of the Globe project was to see if the class knew which animals belong near the North and South poles. Animals included: the beluga whale, harp seal, weddell seal, penguins, blue whale, cod, walrus, leopard seal, polar bear, arctic fox, snowy owl, skua, caribou, squid and the musk ox.
St. John Catholic School - 6th grade - Globe Project.
How do you think they did?
WRITE
Shelbi Avant and the entire Title 1 enrichment group submitted this 1st person essay of Polar Explorer – Matthew Henson.
Here is the essay:
'My name is Matthew Henson. I was born in Maryland on August 8, 1866. When I was 11, my parents died, and I was an orphan. I then ran away to board a ship and become a cabin boy, someone who is employed as a ship’s servant. While I was on the ship, the ship’s skipper, someone in charge of a ship, kindly taught me to read and write. In 1890 I joined with Robert E. Peary (Peer-e) on his first Arctic expedition; I was one of the first men to travel to the North Pole, I’m sure that anyone, can understand how great being one of the first men to travel to the North Pole feels! Quite something isn’t it?
On May 8, 1900 Peary and I passed the farthest point north ever reached by other explorers. Then in 1906, former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt awarded Peary with a medal for reaching the farthest point north, he always did get all of the glory. I spent two decades accompanying Peary on his expeditions. I later received my own medal; a duplicate of the one Peary was given. I even published my own book: A Negro at The North Pole. I can honestly say, my life has been quite an accomplishment, and I honestly don’t regret making any choices that I’ve made.’
Keep up the great work!!!