At the beginning of term three some of the children in Room 4 noticed that the sand in the sand pit was beginning to get a bit low. It was not as much fun to play in any more and it was a bit tricky when there were lots of people wanting to play.
Luckily Room 4 had just begun a unit of learning about 'persuasive writing' so the class decided to put their new powerful skills to use and they wrote a letter to Mr Auld and Mr Healy, explaining the troubles that they were having with the existing sand, and the benefits there would be if there was to be some new sand.
You can imagine the delight on the faces of all of the junior school when they arrived on Tuesday mornign to see that a large mountain of fresh sand had been dumped in the playground over night.
Unfortunately the delivery truck could not get close enough to the sand pit to actually deposit the sand in its true destination.
However, this did not phase the children of Room 4. They set about immediately to the task of shifting the sand to the sand pit.
They used ice-cream containers, lunch box lids, rubbish tin lids, plastic bags, handfuls....whatever they could find...to get the sand moved from one spot to the other, and what a lot of fun they had. (More-so, possibly, than if the sand had been put directly in the sandpit!!)
The children were thrilled to see that their letter had paid off, and it was terrific to see them work so well together as a team, even enlisting chidlren from other classes, to get the
sand-shifting job done!!!
You make us proud every single day Room 4!!!
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