Letter Writing

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In Room 3, we have been learning how to write letters.  A letter needs the following things:

·       A salutation

·       An opening sentence

·       A closing sentence

·       An ending eg From …..

·       An addressed envelope

Below are a selection of letters that some of us wrote to Santa.  The names of the’ authors’ will not be printed so you may have to ask us if we wrote any of these published letters.

To Santa

How are you feeling?  I will leave some cookies out for you.  Can I please have an iPod because I helped my Dad plant potatoes?

From ???????

To Santa

I hope you are well this year because it has been very cold this year.  Please may I have a new Leap pad 2?  I would like to know how many elves are there?  And how many reindeer do you have?  How do your reindeer fly?  Do they have wings or do they use their legs?  How do your elves make all the toys in time?  Here is a joke for you - what do elves first learn at school?  The elphabet.  I will leave you 2 cookies and one glass of milk.  We will leave the reindeer some carrots.

Love from …………

Dear Santa,

How does a reindeer fly without wings?  How does Rudolph’s nose glow?  Please can I have a butterfly pillow pet because I have been nice to my friend’s at school?   I will leave you a piece of celery, and for the reindeer a muffin and a glass of milk.  Haha – just kidding.

From …….

Dear Santa,

How are you?  Are you busy making toys?  This year I have been very good at listening to my Mum.  Can I please have a M.G.P?  How many elves do you have?  I will leave you a drink of milk and a carrot for the reindeer.

From ………..

Dear Santa,

How many elves do you have?  Does Rudolph’s nose glow?  I have been a good girl this year.  Can I please have an M.G.P?  It is a type of scooter.  I will leave you a glass of milk and some carrots for the reindeer.  I don’t believe you deliver presents in one night, I think two nights.  Be careful of my cat, he might meow at you.

Love from …….

PS What does an elf learn first?  The Elphabet.  Haha – just a joke!

Dear Santa

How do your reindeer fly without wings and how many elves are there?  How many reindeer are there?  How do you get through my chimney because you look kind of fat, because you eat a lot of cookies and you drink all of my milk?  Be careful because my chickens might peck you.  Don’t eat any eggs!  If you see any eggs put them in the fridge please.  Please can I have an M.G.P scooter because I have to get my brother out of bed.

From ………

Mercy Charism Cross - Recipient Number 5 for 2012

Room 3's latest recipient of the Mercy Charism Cross

We are lucky enough to have this wonderful person in Room 3.  She has received the Mercy Charism Cross this week for being a kind and considerate member of our class who listens carefully and follows instructions.  Congratulations to her!!!!!

Sock Puppets

Sock Puppets

Five of us proudly showing off our new sock puppets

Earlier this week, Mr Gray showed Room 3 how to make sock puppets.  He had raided his sock drawer so that we could each have a sock.  All of us got to pick out decorations such as gemstones, pipe cleaners, pompoms and eyes to make our puppets look cool and awesome. Only Mr Gray and Miss Swney were allowed to use the hot glue gun.  We felt very happy and excited to make these sock puppets.
By Hunter

Another Mercy Charism Award

Congratulations to this fantastic person as she has been awarded the Mercy Charism Award for this week.  We are so proud of her.  This is the third consecutive week that someone in our class has received this award.  We must be doing great things.

Tour of Southland

We are waiting for the Tour of Southland cyclists outside our school

"Share the Road," we yelled as the cyclists from the Tour of Southland rode past our school.  These are our ideas

Things we heard:

• beeping horns of trucks and cars - Robbie
• bangers - two plastic tubes that we blew air into and bang together to make lots of noise - Ben
• people yelling "Share the Road" - Ben
• cyclists racing past - Holly
• chains going around as the cyclists peddled - Brooke  

Things we saw:

• police cars - flashing lights; making sure the cyclists/spectators/crowd do not get run over - Hunter
• motorbikes - Conna
• bangers floating away in the wind when we did not hold onto them - Caleb
• cyclists - one cyclist was in front of all the others - Greta
• pilot vehicles - to let other people on the road know that the cyclists are coming - Cole
• support vehicles - vehicles in case a cyclist gets a flat tyre, warm clothes, food, water - Kate
• ambulance - Thomas
 

 

Share the Road

 

Today Sacred Heart School had a visit from Constable Herrick, who came to talk to us about safety tips when riding a bike.

  
Greg, his trusty sidekick, rode into the school hall on his carbon-fibre training bike wearing jandals, dressed in black, talking on his cellphone and NOT wearing a helmet.  We soon put him right with the things that we thought needed improving.  
He needed:

• a helmet
• high visability clothing
• covered shoes like sneakers or riding shoes

 

Constable Herrick also told us the 2-4-1 rule for wearing a helmet: 

2         The front of the helmet should sit 2 fingers (sideways) above your eyebrow
4         The side straps that sit either side of the ears should be a 'v' shape
1         Only one finger should fit in between the chin strap and the chin

Always tighten the chin strap first before adjusting the side straps otherwise this will affect where the helmet sits on your head. 

Next week the Tour of Southland starts and the cyclists will be riding past our school, twice.  We will be outside, no the matter the weather, shouting Share the Road to support Greg's team.

Measuring - length

Last week, as part of a measurement unit for length, we used to a range of ways to measure the height, width and length of different things around the classroom. We were introduced to the following language: length, distance, measure, tall, taller, tallest; short, shorter, shortest; long, longer, longest.

One person lay on the ground while their partner drew marks on the carpet using chalk.  Next we measured between the two marks using our hands.  We learned that we have different hand sizes so our results were not always the same.

 

Here is someone from our class measuring the height of a table.  We learned that horses are measured in 'hands' too.

Another form of measuring that we used was 'ladybird' steps or placing one foot in front of the other, touching toe to heel.  Again the results were varying according to the size of our feet.

 

Using a metre ruler to measure the door and a table.  We learned that when using a ruler we have to line up the thing we are measuring with the zero mark on the ruler.