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Subject: Explorers from Mrs. Faint's Grade 3/4 class at Ocean Grove School
in Campbell River, B.C.,Canada.
Hello Everyone:We are members of We have been studying explorers and we
are looking forward to working on the Explorers Project.Campbell River is on
Vancouver Island which is off the west coast of British Columbia. About 30,000
people live here. There are lots of deer, cougars, black bears, trees, fish
whales, beaches and mountains. In the summer you can go swimming in the lakes,
rivers or ocean, golfing, hiking, fishing or bike riding. In the winter you can
ski or snow board. People work in our pulp mill, sawmills, mines and in the
fishing industry.Campbell River is a nice place to live.Our school has 228
students in Grades k to 6. Our school is only 5 years old so everything is
quite new. We have 28 computers in our school lab.We play sports such as
basketball, track, volleyball and badminton. We have a band for Grade 6
students. We have clubs such as art club, library club, choir, chess club and
student council.Our teacher is Mrs. Faint. Our class has 24 kids, 14 girls and
10 boys.Our teacher loves Math and elephants. We sit in groups of four. There
are 9 Grade 4's and the rest are Grade 3's. Mrs. Haines the librarian is
helping us with this project.That's all about us,The Grade 4's from Mrs. Faint's
class.
