Hot Air Balloon

Today the whole school and I went down to the field for a ride in the hot air balloon. The hot air balloon was called Wildfire and everyone was allowed to have a ride on it. The balloon was red, orange, yellow and there was a little word on the side. The hot air balloon was also very big. The hot air balloon sounded like flames. It also sounded like thunder.

Everyone lined up waiting for their turn.There was a squished penguin under the basket. Nearly everyone in the school went in the hot air balloon and some people looked excited and some people looked nervous. When some kids went in some of them were nervous and some of them were confident but they had a lot of fun. Some people held the ropes to keep the hot air balloon down. 

After it finished, they tried to get the hot air balloon down.

St Patrick's Day

St Patrick’s Day is celebrated on 17th  of March every year. It is celebrated all around the world.

In New York, in America, people drink green beer and they put  green lights on the Empire State Building.
St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Auckland. The Sky Tower will be lit up in green. There will be Irish things, like Irish music and dancing and also a parade.  
St Patrick’s Day is also celebrated in Australia, in Sydney. The parade starts at 12pm. Its also a family day.
St Patrick’s Day is also celebrated in Chicago in the USA. The river is dyed green at night.
St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Belgium. Everyone  wears green suits and there is a parade.
St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Munich, in Germany. They are bands  and there is Irish dancing.
St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in Tokyo, in Japan, and there is a parade.
St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in London,in England. There are colourful floats and marching bands.

Symbols of the Holy Spirit

The other symbols of the Holy Spirit are fire, water and oil. You can see some of the other Room 4 pictures of the symbols of the Holy Spirit on our class blog at stproom4.blogspot.co.nz

Honey Bees

What I found out: Bees put the nectar in the hexagon, then it dries up and wax goes all over it. The bees take the wax off and it has turned into honey.

Swimming

Xavier Front Crawl from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.
If you want to see what else we did, visit our class blog at stproom4.blogspot.co.nz

Jesse Tree

Xavier from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

Pictures in the Mind

I have been practising using words that give readers pictures in their minds.

Yesterday it was Athletics Day.

First, the Year 4s did the high jump and we had to sign ourselves up to do the event. 
Next, we had to line up in a straight line at the high jump and I felt nervous. First we did a practice jump. I jumped as high as a kangaroo jumping on a bouncing hippopotamus’ tummy. Some Year 4s didn’t jump properly because they didn’t scissors-kick and, after our jumps, I got nervous because the bar was black and orange and went up. The pole wasn’t that high though so I wasn’t that nervous then. All the eight year old boys made the bar fall off. It was only Joshua, Antony and me. Antony hit the bar. Now it was Joshua and me. I didn’t know who would win the high jump. I did my last jump over the black and orange bar then I Jumped as high as a frog jumping on lilypads but Joshua ran and jumped. He didn’t make it over the bar and he got another try but he didn’t make it again. I won but Antony and Joshua got another two tries and Joshua came 3rd, Antony came 2nd and I came 1st .