Road Safety Show

On Monday we had a surprise visitor arrive at school. Ronald McDonald came to talk to us about being safe around roads. Some things he reminded us about were;

• Always wear a seatbelt in the car - make it click!
• Remember to put a helmet on when you are biking, rollerblading or scootering.
• Stop! Look! and Listen! before you cross the road.
• Walk on the house side of the footpath.
• Watch out for sneaky driveways.
• Use the pedestrian crossings.

After morning tea we wrote a recount about the show. The purpose of a recount is to tell the reader about an event or experience. A recount has a beginning that tells the reader when, where, who and what. Then the middle has details about some of the things that happened. The ending tells the reader about how we felt about the show. 

We always try to use VCOP in our writing.

V = vocabulary (be ambitious - use interesting words and phrases that have pizzazz)

O = openings (use a variety of words to start sentences)

C = connectives (words like and, because, after that)

P = punctuation (capital letters in the correct places, full stops, exclamation marks and speech marks)

Afterwards we talked about healthy eating and advertising. We are working on advertising our stall at the fair and looked at the colours and patterns that McDonalds use. How could we make our own advertising as effective as McDonalds?