NC Museum Of Natural Sciences

Last week the 6th graders went to the NC museum of Natural Sciences. We went there for the whole day. There were many things to see a the museum so I’m just going to tell you about some of my favorite parts of the museum. One of the first things that we saw when we walked in the museum was a replica of the Titanic hitting an iceberg. 

On the second floor there was a snake exhibit and that was really cool to see. When you first walk into the museum you will see a giant globe witch you can go inside and watch a movie in. The best part of the globe is on the 3rd floor. You are on the very top of it and you can almost touch the ceiling.

On the second floor there is a lab where you can actually see people working on animals. There is also an animal dentist which we thought was really funny. The best part of the museum in my opinion was the 3D printing lab. In the lab there was a tun of 3D printers printing animals for the museum. 

 

Photo by 6th grade teacher

Camp Hanes

Last Thursday the Durham academy went to Camp Hanes. They split up the grade into two separate buses. We threw our luggage on the bus and jumped on it. We drove for about two hours. When we got to Camp Hanes we got all of our stuff out and went to our cabins after we got assigned to them. The next day we went rock climbing!

There was not only rock climbing there was other things like pixie sticks. where you climb up these big logs and get to the top where there is a big net that you walk across. the other side had slanted posts that you climbed to get to the same thing. and it leads to the big net that drops down that you hang from. 

One other thing that I liked was canoeing it only took us like two minutes to learn and then we were on the water. It was fun! Then we had to leave to go to another activity. I still think that was the best thing that we did.

But before long we have to drive back to Durham Academy but the one good thing is it was a Friday so that means no school the next day.one thing that I really liked about this trip was I got to do things that I usually could not do at home like rock climbing. I don’t have a big rock wall at my house.