Fire Wise

Today we learnt how fire fighters get ready for fires. We learnt about what firefighters wear to protect themselves. They wear a mask that helps them breath because they can't breath the smoke. They have breathing gear like at the hospital you breath though a mask. They have zips on their boots and they have the boots on their pants to get to the fire quick. They also have jackets they put on. When they have put on all their clothes non of their skin is showing. They have a button they can press so that if they get hurt they press the button and other fire fighters come to help them. They have torches in their jackets to help them see through the smoke. They don't wear their thing that goes over their face so they don't have a crash when they're driving to the fire.

Run, Jump, Throw

We are going to start doing some athletics. We learnt some cool new things outside. We were jumping over a pole. It kept on getting higher and we had to try jumping over it without making the pole fall. We learnt how to do shot putt. You have a very heavy ball and you put it by your neck. The other hand you have like you are looking at a watch. Then you have to push the ball forward. We had to turn around and look at the other people and throw the ball behind us. We were learning to heave the ball. It was fun because we had to jump over skipping ropes. In the middle of the skipping ropes was water. We had to take off with one leg and then land with two legs. We ran out of time to do the hurdles.

We can't wait till we do some more athletics.

Term 4

Wow it's term 4 already! This year has been going so fast! We have all had great holidays but we are happy to be back at school. After the holidays we were excited to come back to school because Ngaire was engaged.

We have started learning about fire wise. We came up with some ideas about what is fire, like the blue parts of the flame are the hottest bit. We got books gave out to all of us about fire wise and it's got a disc in it so we can watch it at home. It would be great if families looked at the book and watched the DVD together. When we started learning about fire wise we looked at some pictures with children in it and some that were safe and some that weren't.

We are excited to hear about fire wise tomorrow.