Hot Air Balloon

Today a hot air balloon landed at our school and my gym teacher was helping the hot air balloon people. We got to hop in the balloon.

Mrs Thompson had a turn first in the  balloon and then Mr Keogh got to have a turn then Clare said, “How much are you gonna pay to make your principal go higher. After that, the children got to have a go at hopping in. When Keira, Brogen, Paige and I hopped in, we saw the enormous boiling hot air balloon but when we looked down at the ground we were up in the air and we got to have  another turn in the massive red yellow and orange hot air balloon.

The 2nd time, we struggled to climb in but we got in. After that, people started  to look like tiny little ants surrounding the hot air balloon and staring at us until we started to go down. It was so much fun. It was my best friend, Mackenzie’s turn.
Brogen and I were laughing. It was a fun day.

Ash Wednesday

Honey Bees

What I found out: Bees go to flowers and pick up pollen and nectar and, when they get to their hive, they spew it out and that's our honey.

Symbols of the Holy Spirit

Other symbols of the Holy Spirit are water, the dove and oil.

You can see other symbols, drawn by our class, on our class blog at stproom4.blogspot.co.nz

Swimming Sports

This year, our school had swimming lessons in the Ngaruawahia Town Pool, then we finished them by having our Swimming Sports Day.
We had to do freestyle, backstroke and heaps of other fun activities. I was really nervous and  impatient. I didn't know what to do at first then I knew what was happening. I had to jump in the freezing cold water with the rest of the eight year old girls, then Mr K said, “On your marks, get set.” He blew his whistle as hard as he could.

Off we swam, kicking as hard as we could, to the end of the pool, and I won the breaststroke race! 
Now it was time for the one width breaststroke. “7 year old boys, on your marks, get set.” Mr K blew his whistle really hard then they pushed off like rockets. There was a lot of splashing. They finally reached the end of the pool and it  was Hunter who won the race. Hooray! Everyone was cheering.
I was really proud of myself. “Yahoo,” I thought.