As I walked to school with my lunch that was in a plastic bag. Once we got into school and got in the building my teacher Mr. Williams took attendance and five minutes later we turned around and got on the bus. It was windy and there were leaves blowing all over the place. Last year my 5th grade at John Stewart elementary school was going to Leroy Oakes in St. Charles for team building. It was a fall day and it was chilly. I had my drawstring on my back with my lunch and had three coats on. We turned onto a road called Dean Street and it was bordered by grass. I saw the Leroy Oaks sign, and my bus went over a speed bump that threw my class off balance. After awhile my class off the bus with a skip and a jump in my step. Then I was super excited that our …show more content…
fifth grade class was at Leroy Oaks. Mr. Williams class was very excited along with the other three classes, fifth grade classes.
After, we played some fun activities like rolling down hills, which was this game where people crossed arms and then tried to have every body's arms straight. We also spotted deer. The deer were trying to hide from us when we saw them. They sprinted off faster than a cheetah when we saw them. We were able to have our lunch and then we played more fun games after that. My class went and walked all over Leroy oaks getting to see all of the nature. One guy who worked there taught us about acorns. He was hilarious, sarcastic, and was like go ahead and jump in the poison ivy. Next, we went inside a museum and did a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt was about raccoons and all the other creatures in the museum. I was not the biggest fan it but it went pretty quickly. All I had to do was look at some posters and in some drawers. Mrs. Palpant had a station where you had two rugs and you had to get across with six people on the mats and not touch the ground. It was hard to succeed because there are six people. I was always the person that had to move one of the mats up. The rugs were not very big only about two and a half by two. But, up next we were going to go in the water. I was ready to
have a net in my hand. Mr. Argabright told us about most of the earth is made of water. He told us about that while we were sitting in what seemed like a puddle of water. My fifth grade class played a game with a globe. When you catch the globe most likely you would land with your thumb on water and our class was so fantastic and we half the time the ball was caught with our thumb on land. It might of been how he threw the ball to us or just our luck. Mr. Argabright told us that we are allowed to go in the water. As I saw the stream the side were totally muddy and slippery. Sharp, pointy rocks were pointing out of the water. "Are you going into the water, Olivia?" I asked my friend. Next I could tell that she was going to have to think about it. "Sure... I guess," sighed Olivia. She was quite unsure of what she just got herself into. As soon as I was ready I stepped down the muddy steps into the water. When I slipped down the muddy steps and then regained my balance and then regained my balance. I was felt sloshy water rushing up and down my shoes. It was like a snake going up my leg just slithering up. After I could barely move my foot because of the current. Some of the class had not gotten in yet and some were already climbing on rocks. The boys on the rocks were pushing each other off, getting all wet. The boys Furthermore, I just stood where the water was kind of shallow. "Ava, if you move your net back and forth you have a better chance of catching a crayfish!" yelled Mrs. Allen, a chaperone helping with us on the field trip. After a few seconds, I started swaying my net back and forth like a dancer, it seemed like. Later I moved in deeper under a weeping tree. At this time I stood on a rock just under the surface of the water and it seemed like I was the king of the jungle. I went deeper in the water, still swaying my net back and forth. I caught a minnow or two. It was really hard to catch anything because the water was pitch black. It was as dark as the city with all the street lights out. I lifted up my net, nothing. Then, When I lifted my net up again, nothing and then again, nothing. Only a few minutes later I lifted up my net only to find... In my net there was a creepy, pinchy animal in my net. The little claws were just like clothes but bigger with little ridges inside them. It was brownish whitish and was crawling up and down the black net, luckily the net had little holes. If the net did not have little holes it might have found a way out. It was a small creature probably about 5 inches. It had these little antenna things pointing backwards that looked antlers. They had a tail that looks like the end of a mermaids tail. I touched it and it just ran around, I picked my hand right up. It had legs that were super tiny like a little four little toothpicks. I had never seen anything like it before. I noticed that the creepy, pinchy animal was a crayfish. "Go back and show them the crayfish!" shouted Ocean. "I will," I sighed. Though I was not trying to show all of the excitement that I was feeling at that moment. When I got about four feet and it was just my luck to find that... I tripped on a rock and fell on my knees. My knees were on a somewhat mushy ground but surrounded by rocks. As I looked down at my net that was in the water with nothing in it. My face was the only part of my body dry. Though I was so frustrated that there were rocks in the water and just wanted to kick one. The rocks were feeling weird on pruney fingers. "Oh, I just lost the crayfish!" I murmured in complete distress. After a few minutes, Steven yelled, "Hey why did you lose the crayfish?!!" As a result of already being embarrassed I did not respond because I fell in the water. Now I slished sloshed back up to the water, with my empty net. The net was black with little holes. That was not even close to how wet I was. Once I got up I walked up to shore the side where the teachers were standing and they saw what happened. They saw that I listed the crayfish and got all wet, I was so frustrated. Why did it have to be me? Doubting myself I went back in the water not thinking that I was going to catch another crayfish. After that incident I was not afraid to get wet any more. "Good catch," murmured Ocean. She did not know what happen to the crayfish. "Yeah, but I may have lost when I was going to show them. I tripped on a rock and got all wet." I replied. As I just mentioned what happened I was worried what she was going to say to my not carefulness. I did not know what she was going to say to that. "I'm sorry, I did not know that," gasped Ocean. By the look of her face I could tell she was surprised because normally I am not that clumsy. Her face was with a big O shape and the lowering of the eyebrows. I am normally super careful and watch what is in front of me and behind me. I always look down to. But today I was over excited that I did not pay attention. "That's okay, I was only the only one that caught one in our class that caught a crayfish. But you know just my luck," I told her. My legs were barely able to move at some points because my pants were soaking wet. The ground was so wet that it was like a mop that just soaked up a puddle of water. At one point I was just dragging my foot. "Mr. Williams class, you guys can go and change." "Let's go!" I yelled. After I got out of the water and then a few minutes later I sloshed up the hill then into the bathrooms. My legs were so heavy that I could not even run. My legs were heavy with all of the water suctioned to my jeans. I lost my energy super fast when I had tried to run. Even walking was somewhat hard. It was cold and I had to wet in along line. Though I was freezing I was excited when it was my turn to go in the bathroom to change into a fresh pair of clothes. If I did not trip over the rock and was careful I would not still be cold. The day ended and I was still excited that even though I fell in and got all wet, but I was the only one that caught a crayfish.
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