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?

E3's Veggie People

On Friday 31st October our class made people from the Middle Ages out of Veggies. Some of the vege people were funny, some were cool and the rest were falling to pieces.
We found it fun making people out of food, it was our only excuse ever to not eat veggies.
After we shared our people we put them in front of the wall on a shelf we stapled the facts on the wall behind our creations.

Bluey's Sheading Skin

During the holidays Bluey has shead more skin.
We also found out that sand is not so good for him on the bottom of his tarrium so we changed it to wood shavings. We believe that the wood shavings are better than sand because wood shavings hold the heat better. Bluey is liking the wood shavings more because he can dig and hide under them.

Brainer #6: Vegetable People

Week 3 is upon us E3 and it is time to mix up the Homework with a creative Brainer! There is NO maths or spelling this week but you MUST continue with your Memory Verse and Reading Homework.

Your challenge for Homework this week is to bring to school on Friday 31st October:
1) A character made out of vegetables from the Middle Ages.
2) One page of notes about your character. Your notes must include their role in society, the challenges they may have faced and details about the typical clothing they wore.


Potato Man Author: http://www.tintern.org.uk/vpa2005.htm

Mr Bell's Birthday

On the 22nd of October it was our Principal's birthday. We had organised for 99 balloons to be put into his office but a few of them popped. When we opened the door of Mr Bell's office he had over 100 ballons. This was because other classes had celebrated his birthday too!

A Drama about Wisdom

We have been learning about what wisdom looks like. One group in our class performed a play from a story out of the bible. Check it out!

"The Warrior" by Francine River

Mr Lietze has decided to read E3 a book about a warrior in the bible called Caleb.
It all starts when Kelubai (who is also called for Caleb) and his family are stuck in a plaque of hail trying to find cover.
We feel that this story is a great influence to our lives. It's a great story to learn about bravery and perseverance. E3 are looking forward to seeing what happens in the next chapter.

Picture Author = http://tinyurl.com/3mp6sy

Our Second Bake Sale

On Friday the 17th of October we will have our bake sale. We will sell cakes, cookies, muffins and brownies. They will be homemade and delicious. It will be held where the BBQ lunches are cooked and the fundraising for it will go to our blue tongued lizard (Bluey). We need money for his food, equipment and the rest of the money will go to the S.P.C.A :)

My Trip To Fiji

On wednesday 24 september at 4.00pm I was flying out to Fiji, on the plane I got chicken for dinner with rice and vegies and when I got to the hotel (Raffels Hotel) that we were staying at for the night, as soon as we got unpacked I got on my togs and went down the slide. I was going really slow at first but when I found a way to go fast I was away time for bed mum said so of to bed we went.

The next day we whent to the wharf to catch our boat to go to Plantation Island resort when we got to the island I was guided around the resort and I thought that there would not be too many people there, then I went to the beach and swam with dad and we went to the drop off which was really deep, then we washed off in the pool.

The day after that I went on the boat to the reef in the middle of nowhere and it was about 7 metres deep, and as soon as we got off the boat we looked down to the bottom and saw that it was really deep, and we saw heaps of fish the next day. In the morning we went to the sand bank reef and it was much clearer than the last day and in the afternoon went wind-surfing and I dident get it for 30 minutes but then I got it.

The next day we we went snorkeling, and then after dinner we went to a movie; it was Agent Cody Banks. The next day we went snorkeling again and I had done too much and my ears were hurting really badly so I didn't go for very long. In the afternoon we had to pack and the next day we got up at 6am to have breakfast, then it was off to the boat to go home.

On the boat the captin was saying that there was sharks but he was just joking. He said that there was a whale but it was actually a light house that had been blown away in a storm. We hopped off the boat and our luggage was put on the bus and taken to the airport. We got off the bus and got on the plane (with a few stops on the way with customs)and when we landed we got our car and drove home.

Image Authors:
http://www.usdivetravel.com/MatangiResort-FijiSnorkeling.jpg
http://www.fijibeaches.com/mamanuca_islands/images/mamanucas_plantation_island_resort_01_lg.jpg

Making Chocolate!

On Wednesday 23rd September at the conclusion of our "Chocolate" unit we got into our Companies and made chocolate!! We used all different types of ingredients and had lots of fun making and eating chocolate. Some of us ate so much we got really sick. Chocolate has to be one of the best units we have done this year!

Bluey's Tail

Bluey (our blue tongue lizard) has finally dropped his tail. The tail had been attacked by his siblings and was slowly healing. We were praying that the dead part would drop off and the tail would heal up.
Here is a picture of what his tail is like now.