This Blog's Journey Has Come to An End

This blog has now finished it's journey. It will remain open for those students and families who wish to look back on 2008.

Note: The Teacher of this class is now teaching a new group of 10 year olds (Year 6 or Grade 5 students). You can find their new website at http://bethlehemcollege.ultranet.school.nz/ClassSpace/6/

"The Donkey's Christmas" by Alana

Christmas Time!

E3 this is a fun way to count down to Christmas. Click here to go and play the game on the Advent Calendar.

OR

You can click here to visit a Christmas Website setup by a Teacher (Mrs Vesper) in Wellington.

S.P.C.A

On Thursday the 27th of November the Year Three to Six classes went to the Chapel to listen to the S.P.C.A. They told boys and girls some of the heart breaking things that happen in Tauranga. For example: hurting your pet, starving your animals and lots more.

But there has been some lovely stories about generous people in the community who donate money or buy a pet from the S.P.C.A.

These are some of the things you need to do to make a pets life happier:
-love
-shelter
-food
-exercise
-medicines
-water

E3 donated a cheque of $73 and hopefully the S.P.C.A. can help out lots of animals with this money.

Brainer #7: Middle Age Catapults

E3 you have been saving iceblock sticks for sometime now. On Thursday we studied some Middle Age siege weapons.

Your Brainer for Week 7's Homework (no Maths or Spelling BUT you must complete your Reading log and memory verse) is to use your iceblock sticks to build one of the following Middle Age siege weapons:
1) Ballista (giant crossbow)














2) Mangonel (launches missiles from a bowl-shaped bucket at the end of the one giant arm)









3) Trebuchet (consists of a lever and a sling and is capable of hurling stones)

Note: your catapults will be presented on Friday 28th Nov at our Middle Age day. They will compete against one another on the netball courts to see which one can propel there missile the furthest.

Fundraising for Bluey

On the first week of Term 4 E3 did a bake sale again to raise money for our Blue Tongue Lizard.
When we got to school it started to rain so we had to take the food to the classes. We made $147.70 dollars and we are going to keep $25 for Bluey's food for the rest of the year and part of next year.
The other money is going to the SPCA because the SPCA need more food and litter boxers for the cats. They also came to our class to help us with our pet topic.


By Carla and Tegan!
SPCA Picture Author: http://www.petsonthenet.co.nz/spca.htm

What do wise people do?

On the 18th of November Mr Lietze asked 'What do wise people do?' and the results were...

- They don't just know but they do the right thing.
- They are humble servants.
- Quick to think, slow to speak.
- They do there homework.
- They fear God.
- They pray and fast.
- Think before they act/ speak.
- They listen and acknowledge others.
- They are not lazy.
- They acknowledge God as their provider.
- They do what God says.
- They ask for others opinions so they can can know what others think before they make a decision so they can include them.
- They are content with what they have.
- They know what to do and do it.
- Lead others on the better paths.
- They think about the best choices.
- They are considerate.
- They look out for others and do whats best.
- They think about their future.
- They ask God for wisdom.

God has given us a special promise. Read below:
James 1 v 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, they should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to them.

Sarah and Steph's Limerick poems

There once was a boy from Bidoyed.
Who ate his friend called Lloyd.
So he said "Ta ta for now."
And took a bow.
That was the story from Bidoyed.
By Steph.

There once was a bird from a nest.
Who decided to take a rest.
So she lay down her head,
and went to bed.
That bird from a nest.
By Sarah.

E3's Castles

This week we have made Middle Age Castles. We had three days to make them and brought the supplies in from our homes. We could either work individually, in pairs or in groups of three. The castle had to be smaller than the size of our desks and on it it had to have an outerwall, an inner wall, a keep, drawbridge, portcullis, a moat, courtyard, turrets, a battlement area, a flag, gatehouse and two moving parts.

We learnt a few things about safety:
1) When using hot glue guns be careful to watch what your doing, and don't glue near your hands to prevent burns.
2) When using Stanley knives we have to cut away from yourself and other people.

This is what the final results looked like:

Our Collaborative Dance Video!

Thanks to Mrs K in Nelson for putting together this very cool dance video. It was a combined effort of 11 or more different classes from Canada, Bangkok, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

Can you spot the different countries?