Fire Engine visits the school

 Today the fire engine visited our school.  We each had a chance to hold the hose and spray some water. Johnny the fireman helped us out as the hose was quite heavy.

 We also tried on a fire protective helmet. It is very heavy.

 The pupils in room 7 stand in front of the fire engine for a photo. Cheese!

 The firemen tried to spray some water on us but we quickly jumped out of the way.

Here the firemen uncoil the hoses to get them ready for spraying water. Afterwards the engine had to refill the tanks with water incase they got called out to a fire in the city.

buying and selling

Today we set up a small shop in the classsroom.  Some of us were shopkeepers and the rest of us were customers.  The shopkeepers had to display their goods and prices and answer any questions the customers had. They also had to make sure they received the correct amount of money for their sales.

The customers had to decide what they wanted to buy with their money and count it out before giving it to the shopkeeper. We used 1c ,2c and 5c coins . We changed roles after all our money was spent so everyone got a chance to role play the shopkeeper and customer.

 We got really good at counting out our money!

Word bingo

Free writing

We often share our writing with our classmates and show them our beautiful pictures. It helps us to practise our reading and compliment the work of others.

Cress seeds

We got some cotton wool, sprinkeld some cress seeds on it, watered the seeds and left the plastic cup sitting on the window sill.  We watered our seeds daily and within two days our seeds had sprouted and began to grow. We learned that plants need water, sunlight and soil to grow but in the case of cress seeds we were able to use cotton wool instead of soil.