40 children will have to try and fix a very old pioneer country. They have to spend 40 days in an old pioneer country with no adults, no teachers, and 4 leaders (who are also children). The council (4leaders) will have to start getting to know the children because the have to give one of them a two pound gold star worth $20,000. All of the kids are not having a very fun time being back in the old days and working. They have to live in an old cabin, on the floor, and with a very thin mattress. All of the kids have no idea how to cook and they had to throw out some of their food because it wasn't cooking, and a girl named Sophia really took charge and she's not even in the council. Some of the children have already broken down on the first day because they miss their friends and family. On the second day breakfast was a lot better than dinner on the first day. Also lots of people on the second day didn't get any food for breakfast and others got a lot of extra breakfast. Some of the older kids were picking on the little kids and even the council. Michael is another kid that is again not a part of the council and he stood up to everyone who was fighting and gave a small speech about how everyone at the country needs to work together. The town failed in 1885, so the leaders that read the book had to split the kids into 4 groups. The green, blue, yellow, and red teams. Everyone really does like the groups that they're in. Lorel (I think that's how you spell it) helped a first grader on her team because he broke down because he misses his mom and dad. Later on someone went to a bunkhouse and wrote with chalk on the bunkhouses. The children believe that the two older boys may have done it. There is going to be a showdown to see who will have what job and what their paychecks will be. Everyone is going for the upper class because they have no specific job and are paid $1 for a certain amount of time. The youngest kids (yellow team) want to prove that they can do anything that older kids can do. The red district was the upper class. The blue district got the merchants. The yellow team got the cooks. The green district got the laborers. All of the districts had to pick a reward since everyone finished the challenge in an hour, One of the choices was 7 outhouses or a TV. That would be a really hard choice for me. But really if they picked the TV nobody will have time to watch it or they would just sit and do nothing. They did end up picking the outhouses so now they have a total of 8 outhouses to use. Everyone really liked the breakfast that the yellow team made. The blue district really liked their job as merchants. Sophia really wanted to get herself a bike so she danced a little on the street for money and she ended up buying the bike for $3. Jimmy is thinking about going home but some 10 year olds are trying to make them stay. At a meeting everyone was starting to fight so the council is going to try really, really hard to make the town work harder at everything. Jimmy decided that he wants to go home because he misses his family a whole lot. Sophia received the gold star from the council and she gets $20,000. Sophia also gets to call her parents and tell them that she won the gold star and $20,000 because of her hard work. I really liked this because you can see that kids can work together and make a working nation. All of the kids worked really hard when they figured out that they could win $20,000.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Kid Nation!
40 children will have to try and fix a very old pioneer country. They have to spend 40 days in an old pioneer country with no adults, no teachers, and 4 leaders (who are also children). The council (4leaders) will have to start getting to know the children because the have to give one of them a two pound gold star worth $20,000. All of the kids are not having a very fun time being back in the old days and working. They have to live in an old cabin, on the floor, and with a very thin mattress. All of the kids have no idea how to cook and they had to throw out some of their food because it wasn't cooking, and a girl named Sophia really took charge and she's not even in the council. Some of the children have already broken down on the first day because they miss their friends and family. On the second day breakfast was a lot better than dinner on the first day. Also lots of people on the second day didn't get any food for breakfast and others got a lot of extra breakfast. Some of the older kids were picking on the little kids and even the council. Michael is another kid that is again not a part of the council and he stood up to everyone who was fighting and gave a small speech about how everyone at the country needs to work together. The town failed in 1885, so the leaders that read the book had to split the kids into 4 groups. The green, blue, yellow, and red teams. Everyone really does like the groups that they're in. Lorel (I think that's how you spell it) helped a first grader on her team because he broke down because he misses his mom and dad. Later on someone went to a bunkhouse and wrote with chalk on the bunkhouses. The children believe that the two older boys may have done it. There is going to be a showdown to see who will have what job and what their paychecks will be. Everyone is going for the upper class because they have no specific job and are paid $1 for a certain amount of time. The youngest kids (yellow team) want to prove that they can do anything that older kids can do. The red district was the upper class. The blue district got the merchants. The yellow team got the cooks. The green district got the laborers. All of the districts had to pick a reward since everyone finished the challenge in an hour, One of the choices was 7 outhouses or a TV. That would be a really hard choice for me. But really if they picked the TV nobody will have time to watch it or they would just sit and do nothing. They did end up picking the outhouses so now they have a total of 8 outhouses to use. Everyone really liked the breakfast that the yellow team made. The blue district really liked their job as merchants. Sophia really wanted to get herself a bike so she danced a little on the street for money and she ended up buying the bike for $3. Jimmy is thinking about going home but some 10 year olds are trying to make them stay. At a meeting everyone was starting to fight so the council is going to try really, really hard to make the town work harder at everything. Jimmy decided that he wants to go home because he misses his family a whole lot. Sophia received the gold star from the council and she gets $20,000. Sophia also gets to call her parents and tell them that she won the gold star and $20,000 because of her hard work. I really liked this because you can see that kids can work together and make a working nation. All of the kids worked really hard when they figured out that they could win $20,000.
