I Wanna Iguana and Cadbury Chocolate Company

We have had a funny day! We listened to our story from last week, I Wanna Iguana, and we talked about persuasive letters, and how they're meant to convince someone of something.  We wrote a persuasive letter together to the Cadbury Chocolate company, asking for some free Freddo's. Mr. F and Mrs. V thought it was a really good letter! Here is our letter, written entirely by the Blogging Bilbies and typed by Mr. F, and below, you can hear a recording of 4 of us reading parts of the letter.

Cadbury letter by The Blogging Bilbies

20/9/11

Dear Cadbury,

We know you don’t want to give us some chocolate for free, but here’s why you should.

We really love your chocolate; we think it’s the best chocolate in the world! If you send us some chocolate, we will tell everybody that we know that your chocolate is the BEST! Then, more people will buy your chocolate and then you will get more money.  

Would you please send us some Freddos?

Sincerely,

Your sensible, friendly, faithful customers, the year  1s


What do you think? Tell us in the comments!



New edit: the people at Cadbury responded to us!!! Here's what they said!

Dear Mr F, Thank you for contacting us regarding our Cadbury products. Trading laws prevent us from dealing directly with the public and we have found that in the past, when samples are sent through the mail, they will invariably arrive damaged.  This has a negative impact on the quality image of the company and as a result, our policy is not to send samples therefore we are unable to help on this occasion. We appreciate your feedback and trust you will continue to enjoy our fine range of products.

Kind regards

KRAFT FOODS LIMITED


We figured out that it means NO, but it's still exciting that they responded to us.

What a fun day! And it's not even over!


Sincerely,

Mr. F and the Blogging Bilbies

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Today we read a new story together - Harold and the Purple Crayon. It's about a boy who draws lots of things with his purple crayon. He creates a road, an apple tree, a dragon to guard the tree, a hot air balloon, and lots more. He uses his imagination to solve problems, and we practiced doing that too. We guessed what he would draw next, or what he could draw to save himself if he got in trouble. Then we started our own books! Check out our slideshow below. It's got some of our work. This is only the first part of the book - we have a bit more to go.




Also, we had music class today. We practiced Click go the Shears and all of our old songs as well. Also, we learned "Obwisana" which is an African rhythm game. We pass a bean bag every four beats, and if we mess up, it messes EVERYONE in the whole game up! It was really tough to play it perfectly. Maybe someday soon we can get a video up of us playing.

That's it for now. See ya!

From,
Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies

First post!

Hello, parents and family! We're in the middle of our third week, and our blog is now up and running! The first few posts will show you what our classroom looks like, and perhaps some of our recent work as well.

First off, let us explain our name. We are named the Blogging Bilbies because we have a class pet - Milo! Milo comes home with one of us every night, and we write about it in Milo's journal. Then, the next morning, we read our work to the class and share what we've done.

We've been so busy lately! Every day we spend quite a bit of time on reading, spelling and writing.  We also spend time on mental maths.  With all that work, sometimes it's hard to fit everything else in! We've been doing great lately, though. Mr. F is very proud of us.

We have to go soon, but first we'd like to tell you about some of our work, and our stoplight! We have an upside-down stoplight that helps us control our behavior. We have coloured clothes pins with our names written on them. Any time we misbehave or disrupt class we move our pin down to the next color. Have a look!

Here's some work from earlier this week.  We talked with Mr. F about the things we see around us, and if they're natural or man-made. We then made lists of the things we see around our own houses, and we drew out our lists.

Here's some work from last week.  We thought about what we did on our holidays, and we posed like we were doing it again. Mr. F took a picture and printed it, we cut it out, and then we drew in the rest of the scene! It was really fun to mix photographs and drawings.

We'll get some new work up here soon. Thanks for reading!

Heaps of love,

Mr. F and the Blogging Bilbies