Oregon Trail is now installed on all of our computers! Woohoo! The 5th graders were definitely excited about it and wanted to play it all afternoon. We had quite a bit of time that they could play it; the girls had their puberty talk, leaving the boys with some extra time. We did a little recess and then we came back in to play the Oregon Trail some more.
One boy was pretty good at it. The other one... not so much. His people kept getting sick and dying. The first time he played, he named the people after his real-life family members. Then he forded a river and three people drowned: he and his mom were left. Then she broke her arm and died.
The next time he played, all his oxen got sick and died. A thief stole all his clothes and food. All the water was bad. And his people got dysentery, cholera, and diphtheria. And he kept running out of food.
The third and fourth graders had better luck. One 4th grader made it all the way to Oregon!
We finished up National Treasure in class today. Oh I love watching movies with the 5th graders! They were gasping in all the right places and were figuring out the clues as it went along. It was great. Now they want to watch the second one in class...
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