5th Grade Oceanography Trip

At the beginning of every school year the 5th graders go on their Oceanography Trip to wrap up their Oceanography Unit, and Jennifer got to go along on the trip. It is a very busy 2 days full of stops and learning and fun. Among the many stops, they go to the dunes for their traditional picture of all the 5th graders (see below). Stops at Strawberry Hill to view the Sea Lions, South Beach to do Sand Sculpting, Tour the Coast Guard at Yaquina Bay, then back to the beach for some play time, then to Izzy's Pizza for dinner. Then we spent the night in the gym at Newport Middle School.....The next day we were supposed to go look at tide pools, but a storm came in and we could not get to them, so we went to a little museum. Then we went crabbing off a dock beneath the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Then off to the Newport Aquarium for classes and learning different things by walking around and reading all the plaques. It was a bunch of fun, but very tiring. And oh....what memories!!!!!

Girls on one side......Boys on the other - in the Newport Middle School Gym

Taylor not so sure about dissecting that squid

One of the sand sculptures

Traditional picture of all the 5th graders at the top of the dunes