"Ar" sounds

In room five we have been learning about the "Ar" sounds and so we have had to make a slideshow on it. The things we have had to put in our slideshow are sentences with some "Ar" words, along with some words that have the "Ar" spelling in them. Here is our spelling slide. Hope you enjoy. 

Plastic collage

The reasons why we made these collages was because we want to show people what plastic does to the environment and how it harms the creatures that live around us. The first thing that came into our head was the sea because the sea animals are suffering from the plastic that goes into the sea and are dying from it. We want to show people what we are doing to the creatures in the sea and why they are dying. We got to work on making our plastic collages. First of all we had to rip up magazines and stick them on a big piece of paper with pva glue. But we would have to make sure that we had a variety of the one colour so it was just the one colour. Then we made some sea animals and then put the plastic of our choice over our animals. Some of the problems we had with making the collage was ripping up the right colour and finding the colour we needed. Another problem was trying to get them done in time so we could show them to the whole school. Some easy parts for making the collage was making the sea animals and sticking down the ripped up paper.

 Haylee and Tahlia

Persuasive letter

At the moment in room five we have been learning  how to write a persuasive piece of writing  and about plastic. So, one day we looked around the classroom and saw that we had some plastic bin liners. We then  thought we shouldn't be having plastic bin liners because we are writing to encourage people to stop plastic and we even have some in our class.  We then decided to write a letter to Mrs Wallace the principal about the plastic  bin liners. So this is my persuasive  letter about why we shouldn't have plastic bin liners.


10th September 2018

Dear Mrs Wallace,

 I have to inform you about the plastic bin liners problem that is happening around the school because we are having to use two thousand a year. Isn’t that a lot of plastic bin liners? I strongly believe we should not be using plastic bin liners So here are my three good reasons why we shouldn’t be using them.

Firstly, I strongly believe we should not be using plastic bin liners because we are throwing them out every day so that is just some money washed down the drain that could be used for more valuable things in the school. For example we are using ten plastic bags a day, then we are using fifty bags a week, then in a term we are buying five hundred! If you were to add that all up together it would be two thousand a year! We could be doing it some other way, couldn’t we? We are going through a lot of money.

Secondly, I firmly believe we should not be using plastic bin liners because we are polluting the environment by throwing them out just after we use them. When we are finished with using our plastic bin liners we put them in another plastic bag, which might just end up in the landfill. It will be polluting the environment because it won’t break down and go into the ground, so it will just stay there for thousands of years.

Finally, I believe that if we do use plastic bin liners it will just be a waste of resources. All we put in them is dry rubbish like paper and fabric materials that we use in class which won’t stain the bin and make the bin smelly. For example, our bin in room five has only had dry rubbish put in it and nothing else because we don’t want our class to have a bad smell. So we don’t even need a plastic bin liner.

 In conclusion, this is why we don’t need plastic bags in our school because we are wasting money and are using too many each year. They are polluting the environment and we only put dry materials in them. So this is why we don’t need plastic bin liners in our school and hopefully we will never need them again.
 Yours sincerely,

 Tahlia

El Gregoe

Yesterday room five joined up with the rest of the school and we had a magician and ventriloquist come to our school called El Gregoe. He came to our school because he wanted to teach us about bullying and how to stop it. What he did was get out an eight foot ladder and start to put five words on it to show us how to get a bully to go away. The words he put on there were Respect, Responsible, Helpful, Trustworthy and Caring which are the words that can stop bullying at your school. Another thing he showed us was WITS, which stands for walk away, ignore, talk and stop.This is another way you can get away from a bully. The things I enjoyed when El Gregoe came were the bird tricks and when he put his hand through a thick piece of glass, that was amazing. Something I learned when El Gregoe came was how to stop bullying and move on. So here are some photos of when El Gregoe came.