Andersen Elementary School - End of Year Awards Ceremony

On June 10, Daelin had his end of the year ceremony. Each student gets an award based on each of their unique personal qualities. Daelin was recognized as the friendship student in his class. He also was recognized for his reading counts points of 142! His teacher set a goal for him at 100. We are very proud of him, and look forward to seeing what he accomplishes in 2nd grade.

On June 11, Darrien had his ceremony. Darrien received his certificate of promotion, the citizenship award, and the PE central challenge (which means he successfully completed 4 of the 6 PE challenges). He said if we were here all year he would have had all 6! Bummer! Lastly, he got the President's Education Award. We are so proud of him as well. The ending of 5th grade means the start of middle school here in Guam. We are excited to see him succeed as a 6th grader. He is excited to be apart of the sports program and taking intermediate band.

Ritidian Point Beach 2

Here are some of the boys playing!

Ritidian Point Beach

Today was the last day of school! YEAH, we made it through another school year. We decided to kick it off by going to another new beach. My friend Paula and her boys took us. It is their favorite beach. It was just as peaceful as Haputo, but without the 3/4 mile hike down! I loved it! You can even snorkle there! Which is something the boys and I want to try. We just have to get the gear. Here are some pictures of our day! Two of them are of the beautiful black butterflies that greeted us as we approached the area. It felt like we were in a butterfly habitat there were so many!

Daelin's 1st grade end of the year project

At the end of each school year the 1st grade team transforms their classrooms into different habitats. Then different classes come to visit them and listen to their presentations. Daelin's class is very interested in dinosaurs, so the teacher decided that was going to be their habitat. Specifically the Mesozoic Era! Others teachers habitats were the farm, ocean, rainforest, etc.

Each student had to chose a different dinosaur to research. Daelin chose the Daspletosaurus. This is his research report.

Daspletosaurus

by Daelin Campos

My dinosaur's name is Daspletosaurus which means "frightful lizard". Daspletosaurus was a large, meat-eating reptile. It ate the meat of other dinosaurs, so he was a carnivore. The Daspletosaurus lived in marches and swamps. Daspletosaurus lived between 73 and 80 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.

It was 9 ft tall and 26-33 ft long. The Daspletosaurus was on top of the food chain. Daspletosaurus had two fingers on each hand. It had tiny horns behind its eyes.

Daspletosaurus is related to the Tyrannosaurus-Rex. He had a massive skull that could reach up to 3 meters in lenght on a short s-shaped neck. Daspletosaurus was like a little brother to a T-Rex.

Here are a few pictures that I took of the presentations. The first one is of the bamboo that the class painted. I never thought at first grade they would have done this many projects! I love it!

Haputo Beach 2

More pictures of when we finally got to the beach! It is so peaceful and instantly makes you relaxed and feel refreshed! We were the second family there on this day. The boys picked up sea cucumbers or sea slugs and we saw fish. Wonderful day!

Haputo Beach

On Sunday, we decided to take a hike down to a beach that plenty of people have spoke about. We haven't had the time to go to the beach lately, so we were more than ready! This particular beach is located on the smaller Navy base about 10 minutes away from us. Alot of people we have met considered it their family favorite beach spot. That made me even more intrigued to visit! As I mentioned, it is a hike to get down there. If we had younger children, I do not think we would be able to visit. The boys had a blast with the hike and the fun once we got down. It is so secluded and calm that it is now our favorite beach so far! Take a look at the pictures and you will understand. It is just beautiful!

The first picture is of the opening to the beach after the hike, and one of the water is from up high, close to where the hike started.

Update

It has been a few months since I have visited and blogged! First off, I apologize. As some of you know it was a hard adjustment moving here for me. The family did great. I, on the other hand am just now coming around.
I got my school thing figured out. That was a huge stressor lifted off my shoulders. I have met some really nice ladies through the PTO. I just recently joined an excercise group that meets on M-Th-Fr at 7:30 am after the children are off to school. We walk to the track which is about a mile then we do circuit drills rotating legs, arms, legs, and abs everyday. I have found it to be a great way to keep yourself motivated since there is accountability! One Saturday a month we do a 5k. I love it! My goal is to run the next one. Yesterday I walked with a friend to help her through it. Now, since she knows she can do it, I will run next time and then run back to her to help her finish up.
The boys were busy with soccer 4 days a week. Now we are awaiting the first season of tackle football for both of my boys. They will be apart of the Yigo Jets. We have the meet and greet with the coaches on Wednesday. We have already gotten them their football shoes and will start shopping this week for pants and practice jerseys. We had Nana send us thermos coolers for them. I couldn't find them on island anywhere!
Daniel has already went on one TDY to Japan for 3 weeks. He says his shop is very high stress. On Monday, he will start on the mid-shift 11pm-7am. I hope it works out!?
Other than that we are all doing fine and enjoying life on Guam. School is out on June 11, then we will start seeing more of what the island has to offer. So be on the look out...